[size=22]BetaMapFest[/size]

Starts Saturday, August 26th at Midnight CST and will run for 24 hours!

[size=16]Please take note - Recent Change to Map Rotation[/size]

Battlezone_b2 has been replaced by Battlezone_final  !!
Update your maps!
http://www.zergrushgogo.com/index.php?page=tremulous.html

The planned map rotation is:

  marsbase
  UTCSb2
  dark
  derelictb-beta03
  gloom2beta2
  gloom3t
  meepb2
  powergrid_b25
  highrise1
  battlezone_final
  gloom_b1
  procyon-preview1
  pulse-beta3

Please Note: this includes the Highrise map which is NOT listed in the download section on tremulous.info, but instead in the articles section http://tremulous.info/index.php?module=news&action=comment&id=159

Suggestions as to order of rotation are encouraged.  I don't want 4 really small maps followed by 4 super huge maps
That just gets painful.


For a couple weeks now, I've been wanting to do a BetaMapFest, where the MG server goes into an all beta map rotation. NO default maps! I have a couple of reasons for wanting to do this:

1. To get everyone out of the patterns that we all get into when playing the standard maps. We all think of our own special places to attack, or build bases, etc. Many times I've noticed that people get stuck in habits, not experimenting like they should, myself included. Trying different maps will get you to look at things from a different perspective. It will help to get us to play on the fly, as opposed to playing to a maps strengths and weaknesses.

2. To get everyone trying out these maps, and familiar with them! The more people that try them out, the more problems will be located and cleaned up before they go into standard release. Some of these maps you may never see in common rotation on the popular servers, but some will in one form or another. Who better to test these maps out than the devoted fans of tremulous?

3. New maps are challenging. I can run around the walls of Niveus very quickly with great precision cause I know em like the back of my hand! Not true of the beta maps, I'll bet the same is true of you.

4. Because they are FUN! If you like atcs, you will love UTCSb2! marsbase is huge, and looks like a great battleground. And the marsbase colors are different from any map I've seen, it's a nice change. If you haven't tried pulse, you really should. It is as unique as marsbase, and might be equally as large if not larger, and the video/button room is very cool, as are the double level elevators!

Granted, the #dbderelict server has most, if not all of these maps in rotation, and other servers have a beta map or two (or three) in rotation, but my ping to those servers is not so good, and I'll bet that the same is true of other tremulous fans.  It's fun to check out the maps, but serious gameplay is difficult.

You can play these maps and more on the }MG{ Clan server right now by voting for them. BUT, anyone who does not already have them downloaded WILL BE KICKED BY THE SERVER! I haven't set up autodownload yet, so if YOU don't have the map, YOU WILL BE KICKED! Sorry for the caps, I just don't want any surprises.

Where can you get these great maps? In the downloads section of http://tremulous.info
Some are pretty big, so get them ahead of time!

Also, some inteligent tremulous fans have created tools and scripts to automatically download most of these maps, information on these tools can also be found at tremulous.info and tremulous.net.  

For Linux, go to http://tremulous.info/index.php?module=feature&action=show&id=14
For Windows. go to http://tremulous.info/index.php?module=download&action=show&id=28

HAVE FUN!