Here’s where the amazing part begins. I haven’t gotten a lot of mapping done recently due to the work I have put into converting models from Dawn of War 2 for use in Garry’s Mod. However this has it’s advantage, my friend “fury_161″ has been able to rig the 40k Space Marine models onto the HL2 skeleton and make replacement player models for Alien Swarm. Because of this the desire for Space Hulk like maps by both myself and from the community after seeing the player model replacements. So that’s what I’ve been working on for the better part of this past week. For randomness here’s some screenshots of my quick Space Hulk theme test TileGen map.

Here’s the link to the release thread.

Here’s the link to the facepunch thread and download link.

• More variety of enemy squads
• Enemies no longer spawn inside and on top of each other.
• Cooldown time between attack waves
• Dynamic weather conditions
• Dynamic mission time(based on computers system clock)
• System message stating where the next wave is attacking from.

A few thing I still need to work out are the AI gets stuck sometimes and spawned enemies will do nothing, this is obviously my biggest problem. Another random glitch in which the first wave doesn’t spawn and the game skips to wave 2 right away. I’m also finishing working out a bonus system. Currently the mounted guns that used to be in the buildings should appear after you kill a hundred enemies; but it is untested (I can’t stay alive that long).

Sorry for a lack of release for this update; it doesn’t work well with the AI problem I mentioned previously.

The big reason I’m happy the mission editor works is because it’s so easy, all placements are drag and drop, and LUA is a very easy language to program in. I put about 30 hours into a small mission which I plan on expanding into a very solid survival game play mode. As of current, I guess “Beta 1″ , you spawn in a building with some friendly troops, and enemies spawn on the outskirts of building and attack. Kill all the attacking units and more will spawn. As you progress, more better armed units will start attacking. The way it is programmed the game cannot end, enemies will continue to spawn; however due to a game engine limitation, the amount of attacking enemies will eventually cap out.

Well here’s the download if you want to checkout, supports single player and 4 player CO-OP
http://davidzd.com/survival2.rar

Planned changes are:

More variety of enemy squads
More enemy vehicles
Enemy helicopters
Wave bonus system providing extra friendly troops
Bonus weapons and ammo at the end of each wave

Known Bugs:
APCs don’t count as enemies when determining wave completion
Can get laggy on later waves due to the large amounts of NPCs

Problems / Questions?
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Well I have begun mapping it. The plan for map, since Left 4 Dead 2 has come out recently is to turn it into a scavenge map, since that new game mode is truly amazing. The map should work out quite well game play wise, since it will be similar in layout to the Motel map included in l4d2 with an open area in which the objective will be, with the gas cans scattered inside the stores off of 4th and Main streets. Good chance I’m going to head out with my camera get snaps of signs for the actual stores along the triangle will give it a more authentic look, and wont take up too much space to bspzip them in. Awesome part about the location is there actually is a gun store there, Golden Trigger Gun Shop, which will play nice into the game. Screenshots to follow after the map develops more.

I’d put it at about 80% done. I just need a little more work with the lighting and some detail props and decals.