Obsidian Tangle

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Obsidian Tangle

Author	Fourth Letter
Date of release	Final - May 1, 2006
.bsp filename	sc_obstangle

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Description

You must find your way out of this entangled place. It is said a tram ride is waiting on the far side towards freedom, towards the surface.

Additional info

This map contains several random events. Also weapons are hard to find, some are random, some are unlocked through shortcuts or found hiding somewhere. Good luck!

Additional credits

Raptor65 (shark model)

Nih (recovering this lost map)
Garompa (ripent fix: fixing a game_counter not triggering softlocking the map)

Changelog

Community edits:

+ Community edit v1 - Dec 25, 2024 (by Garompa, Reuniclus and Wayne)

– Community edit v1 - Dec 25, 2024 (by Garompa, Reuniclus and Wayne)

GENERIC FIXES

Used the original maps as a base to ripent the .ent through import, bypassing the version mismatch errors in the maps ripented by newbspguy's current bug that the ripents of other people are having due to copy pasting brushes. Checked for errors and the maps work fine without version mismatch on servers.
Changed some env_messages to game_text
Changed env_model to item_generic
Changed monstermakers into squadmakers, with proper translated spawnflags
Fixed squadmakers without spawnflags or missing spawnflags, to have proper spawnflags
Changed info_player_start to info_player_deathmatch
Changed env_beam's negative StrikeTime value, to positive values (this could've caused crashes due to overflows)
Changed env_xenmakers that were spawning monsters, into squadmakers with proper external xenmaker entity
Replaced some of the Wayne's models that were identical to default (hwgrunt and hwgrunt_ld) with some other of the default custom hwgrunt models
Removed Wayne's missing soundlist files references in maps, and .gmr and .gsr as well
Gave many alien monsters spawned through squadmakers, a properly colored xenmaker effect
Replaced item_security and brush based item collectibles, with item_inventory
Used Wayne's ripents as a base. His guide arrows and wrong way signs have been replaced with more immersive things like lights, props, breakables with hud displaynames, enemies, etc… Except in maps that have a theme where it would be plausible to have direction signs.
Enemies with humongous amounts of health have been toned down a lot
Maps with low ammo at start have now extra weapons and ammo at spawn
game_text messages have been tweaked to be less intrusive, away from the crosshair, indicating the character name that speaks if intended, and sometimes giving them proper color that indicates ally or enemy.
Typos in game_texts and displaynames have been fixed. Usage of "\n" (new lines) in displaynames has been abolished
Fixed typos on entities making them not recognizable by the game
Fixed netnames when intended to be used as displaynames on old maps. Now you can see those npcs true names!
Regenerated .res files
Repacked with missing files into a .zip using resguy

sc_obstangle

Used Wayne's ripent as a base with trigger fixes, and guide arrows
Modified the guide arrows into more immersive props and effects to blend in with the environment
Removed Reuniclus' ripent func_mirrors, they were creating tons of lag and version mismatch errors. I tried doing it without the version mismatch, by just using a copy of the brush, but in both versions (Reuniclus mismatch and mine without mismatch) the mirror took control of all the brush copies, so there could be no ceiling overlay texture, and the lag was too much. So this was removed and kept as it originally was. A shame, but at least the mapper included a similar effect by duplicating the rooms, which in this version will not go to waste.
The boombox at spawn can be destroyed and music disabled
Added lip to all doors
Added damage to all doors, and crushing damaget to doors that stay open
Added sound to all doors that didn't have sounds
Gas in the hall following the dead vortigaunt has now fixed scales to look more like a spray (from small to big, instead from big to small which made visually no sense)
The hotcrate pushable is now breakable, so if it falls to the elevator pit, it eventually will explode due to the fire