Lukin

“Devil’s Waitin’” videos

Lukin — Thu, 24 May 2007 10:26:29 +0000

For those of you who don’t have “Quake 4″, or who have troubles with the game (fortunately the 1.4.2 patch premiere is close), or who don’t know how to deal with the final boss - a clips from “Devil’s Waitin’”, my single player level. Unfortunately I had some problems with recording a sound on my rig and was forced to use another, slower PC to make these videos. That is why the frame rate is terrible in some scenes.
Spoiler alert: if you are going to download the map and play it by yourself - better do not watch these clips.

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Ruiner CTF - beta 3

Lukin — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:47:05 +0000

“Ruiner CTF”, a gothic themed level for “Quake 4″ Capture The Flag. As mentioned in the previous post I had to put this map aside for awhile. After a weeks of waiting here it is - better late than never, isn’ it? Hopefully everything will go smoothly from now.

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Changelog:

Beta3:
- added more green textures for better side’s identification screenshot
- added RL and SG in the middle
- changed the doors behaviour
- removed two pairs of a doors

Beta2:
- redesigned middle area
- added doors to improve the performance
- redistributed weapons and powerups
- added Arena CTF support
- fixed some bugs, added new ones ;)

To do:
- PK styled teleporters will be back in the final version, I’m too lazy to make them for every beta
- maybe some changes in the bases
- deadzone support

Known bugs:
- you can slide into the wall when crouchsliding over the bridge

A devil awaits you…

Lukin — Tue, 15 May 2007 00:14:08 +0000

Few weeks ago I decided I will make a single player level. At last. It supposed to be a long term side project, which will not stop me from doing other levels (like “Ruiner CTF”). Due to some circumstances I had to rush with the release and sacrifice all the other things. All in all it took me way longer than I had planned, the end result is half smaller than I had planned, but it is quite fine anyway. In my opinion.

Well, of course it could be done ten times better, twice bigger, etc. If only I had more time… Yet I doubt much more could be done within 20 days.

Anyway, here’s the thing: Devil’s Waitin’.

What you’ve got to know is that you will need ”Quake 4″ 1.3 or higher to run the map. There’s a catch: the newst patch (1.4.1 Beta) has some problems with a single player mode.
My advice? Uninstall it.

Other requirement is a quite good video card. Tested the map on two systems:

GeForce 6600 + 512 MB RAM + Athlon64 4000+ = no problems (except that it runs on Windows Vista, wich eats half of the memory);
GeForce 5500 + 512 MB RAM + some old proc (something around 2GHz) = problems.

The map itself is nothing revolutionary, yet it’s enjoyable. It contains snow, and that’s a new thing for “Q4″. It also contains: open areas in mountains, dark corridors, big halls, a lot of explosions, easy to beat enemies, annoying enemies, nice architecture, ugly architecture, not so many guns, big dumb boss, a nonsense story cut at the end, a few cinematics, a lot of action, team mates (well, almost), one alternative route, low poly rocks (they had to be, the snow takes too much polys), some scripting magic, some bugs (probably).

I hope that at least once your jaw will drop, or you’ll think “OMG”, or at least you will say: “that is nice”.

You can finish the entire map within ten minutes. Probably something more, depends on your playing style. Yes, I know it’s not much, but I had found some smaller stock levels in “Quake 4″ so it’s not that bad as it seems either. Obviously, it could (or should) be a lot more - if only I had more time…

Ok, enough talking! Screenshots:

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Hello world!

Lukin — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 11:14:28 +0000

Enjoy my new website - I hope you’ll find it useful.

P.S. Oh, how I hate to write welcoming posts…