Momma Mesa

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Overview

Author	G.Ballblue
Date of release	v39 - August 12, 2008 v38 - August 2, 2008 v37 - August 1, 2008 v36 - August 1, 2008
.bsp filename	mommamesa

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Description

The government thought Black Mesa was destroyed — a nuclear explosion in the heart of the deceased military base caused catostrophic damage, but it wasn't enough. Years later, the survivors of the horrors and destruction of the resonance cascade rebuild what remains of Black Mesa.

Being an isolated base in New Mexico, Black Mesa slowly began to rebuild into smaller "partitioned" bases; all of which being privately owned. Black Mesa had become real estate — any area that wasn't destroyed was snatched up and fought after by the surviving science, security, and even military factions. The strongest leader of these factions, the notorious "Mr. Breeden", quickly took control and stamped out any resistance. His sector of Black Mesa, due to its staggering size, resources, and fire power, became known as Momma Mesa — the mother of all privately owned Black Mesa sectors.

You, the Sven Co-op mercenary team, have been employed by Mr. Breeden himself — to do his dirty work and contain any security breaches in the base. Who knows — do a good enough job, and you might just see the light of day again.

Additional info

• Currently resides in the Best of Map Showcase.
• Unlike Incoming, which is entirely random, the map focuses on a failure/completion system — completing a mission will send you to mission A, while failing a mission will send you to mission B, and so forth. It is the first map of its kind to focus mainly on a win/lose system to choose the path of the players.
• The map contains three endings, so technically, players could complete the map with no deaths at all and still completely fail the map.
• There have been 35 beta versions of Momma Mesa thus far — if you dig around in the bored and the Momma Mesa WIP threads, you can find a nice hunk of material that never made the final cut. This map has undergone many, many changes.
• The 'Best' ending displays screenshots of features and previous areas that never made the final release.
• It is recommended that four or more players play this map.
• Maxplayers MUST be set to 32 or the server will undoubtedly crash due to the level being on the very edge of the entity limit.
• Server mods that display lots of text MUST be disabled, such as SCXP Mod or AMX mod when lots of messages are set to be displayed. Otherwise, important objectives will not be seen by the players.

Additional credits

JPolito - (Testing)
RothGelen - (Testing)
Textures from Opposing Force, TFC, DMC, CS, and custom textures by G.Ballblue.
Models hacked, created, and animated by Tuesday's Avenger and G.Ballblue.

Changelog

+ v39

– v39

• Added another fail-safe entity which will hopefully prevent two endings activating at once in the Tunnel mission. [Tunnel]
• Lowered uplink computer HP to 200 (was 250.) [Uplink]
• Manta Ray HP raised to 8000 (was 6500.) [Uplink]

+ v38

– v38

• Fixed a bug in which the ending to the Tunnel mission could go haywire. [Tunnel]
• Added a light to the second teleport. [Arena]
• Reset 9mm ammo damage to 14. [Global]

+ v37

– v37

• Fixed a bug in the sewers in which the "debris" would remove itself, allowing players to activate the bomb again. [Sewers]
• Fixed the "explody sewers" bug, in which the battle tank would shoot through the entire level right into the sewers. [Sewers]
• Super Houndeyes now spawn in the tunnels as a punishment for getting too close to alien spawn points. [Tunnel]
• Grunt HP lowered to 100 (was 200.) [Tunnel]
• Raised the length of wave 3 from 20 kills to 30. [Tunnel]
• Removed the mounted gun turret. [Uplink]
• Gonome and Alien Slave HP raised in the uplink mission. [Uplink]
• Manta Ray HP raised to 6000. [Uplink]
• Radar Dish HP lowered to 6000. [Uplink]
• Uplink computer HP lowered to 250. [Uplink]
• The visual artifact in the Arena's sky has reappeared, due to the bug fix for the explody sewers. [Arena]
• Lowered the amount of HP and energy med chargers and HEV chargers would give. [Global]
• Removed a few HEV chargers. [Global]
• 9mm Ammo damage lowered to 10 on medium difficulty. [Global]

Comments

Too heavy

Anonymous (190.20.53.x) 1219871404|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Any way to get the BSP under the 10mbs?

Re: Too heavy

JPolito 1219964998|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

It is 10mb because the WAD file is included in the BSP, plus the map is simply massive. You wouldn't be able to play without the WAD file, so either way there really isn't much you can do about it.

Brilliant

BMT 1219970936|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

If this was around when Creepsworld did the Top 50 it'd definitely top the list, FACT. A well planned and executed map with a very high replayability factor.

AWSOMES

Xenman 1220032829|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

it's GREAT how did you do it all and why does the gman-like person remind me of Captain Jean Luc Picard?

JPolito 1220311964|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

He IS Jean Luc Picard. He is credited as Patrick Stewart in the 'Best' ending.

Split into a BSP and a WAD?

Gabre Ladders 1221595491|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

Is there a way to get the WAD separately from the BSP?

PhazerWulf 1222770780|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

How many years later?
I thought the Xen invasion completed with the 7hour war and the Combine take over.
Maybe we dont care for Halflife timelines which is good because I never went for the whole combine thing anyhow.

ಠ_ಠ

Anonymous (83.22.51.x) 1223232364|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

bad maps i find 3 bugs 2/5

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