After the nerve-breaking tie it was time for the next map : Abbey.
Denmark had some trouble getting warmed up on the first coupple of rounds, we were down 2 to 5, but after some bitch talking, whining and some teamkills. We started to take control of the map. Mentor defianently saved the day with something I've never seen him do before. While 4 DK players and 1 NL player were down, Mentor was lurking around by himself on Abbey. Mentor vs 4 NL players. He took them all down and it was just an incredible sight. We won the map 7-4.

All in all, it was a fucking great game, it was exciting and very different from just any game on a pub. I think the Player of the game award goes to Mentor for his great move taking down 4 NL players. Laugh of the game probably goes to Spectar for making a Lemming by jumping out of the window from the Central room on abbey, I'm sorry Spactar, but that was just too funny.

Uptown was up to begin with and first thing that happened was 4 abjects getting legdamage from a fall trying to grab the ledge on the apartment. C54 showed great teamplay on this map by using eachother for some sweet jump boosts which lead them to a nice position, cornering in the Abjects. The Abjects rode the elevator. We won the first round, but C54 came strong and took the lead by 2 points. Abjects ultra-super-duper sharpshooter LegoManser came in a killing spree last on the map and we came to a 6-6 tie.

The second map in the match was Casa, chosen by C54, which was showed to us as early as the first round of the map, 4 Abjects got slaughtered while C54 almost didn't get a scratch. LegoManser started off by shooting his own teamate, Starfox, directly to his head with his Assault Rifle. "I swear it wasn't on purpose, the rifle sort of aimed itself." - frustrated LegoManser said, though he still pulled a team-win home by taking down 4 C54. 5 kills total !!.. Jimmy The Saint showed good sportsmanship by waiting when LegoManser told him he was lagging ( We always take fair players in mind ). Abjects took 6 wins in a row and simply felt unstopable at that point. "FFS I'm playing like a dick" - Freak, new member of the Abjects screamed. Abjects started to get shaky nerves and tried to hold back on the offensive to keep the good score. That was obviously a very bad move because all of a sudden, C54 started rumbling us down round by round. Not only they scared the shit out of A+, but they also made a solid comeback.. 5-6. C54 came with some nice ambush attempts which seemed to split the Abjects up around on the map. Yet, the Abjects stood tall and won the map with a 8-6 victory.

I can't make a player of the match award for this one because I felt that we were truly the fantastic four. Bandages were on everytime, covering eachother, staying together, backing eachother up. It was probably one of the Abjects best games and I'm sure it was fun for C54 too. Total score was 14-12 to the Abjects. GG.

Again, welcome to our new member, Freak - we couldn't have done this without you !!!

Fourdee writes:
I keep saying "one week" and that's probably how much time it would take working all day for a week, but I'm not really sure how much longer - definitely not more than a month, maybe as little as a week...
Players expect a map to be essentially perfect or it seems sloppy. I want to ensure that it looks reasonably "authentic", or as authentic as a fantasy environment which depicts noplace in particular should be, and that there are enough interesting paths between places, and generally make the map coherent in texturing and space.
There's a way to make the terrain textures blend much more smoothly than they are, so I will post new screenshots when that's working. It should look much better with fine tuning.
The town will be filled out even more with decorative buildings (which you can't enter) to give it that narrow, steep alley feeling.

I think it's quite unnecessary to point out that community expectations towards this release are tremendeous. I can't remember a map so awaited since the releases of Ut_Rommel2 and Ut_Laneway2.

To quote UTZ|LordOfDoom:

Fourdee stop with this
Let me do a preview on UTZ ok..... and you release the map ok????? deal..... I can't stand this much longer...... need, kill, have....... need, kill, have.....

Unfortunately Fourdee is a god damn perfectionist, and I'm quite sure he's not going to release this map until it's absolutely perfect or someone steals it from him.

Japan Garden 2:

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Chicago:

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[IQS] versus [dW]
[HV] versus UP*

Since I don't know much about [dW] I strongly think that [IQS] will win that match, but [dW] has fought bravely and showed they have what it takes, since they have come so far already. I think they'll be a tough opponent for [IQS] but I do not think they got what it takes to win the match. Especially after [IQS] has beaten Valour| and should have a really high confidence.

Second match is more open. UP* is generally a good team, they know how to win in this game. But then again [HV] has shown us some really good gaming since they've come so far. Now we know that [HV] is able to fight in all kinds of circumstances. They have shown us they can rush, and I know they can camp, they showed us (Abjects) in our latest official war that they were able to do so, I'm still aggravated about that match, where [HV]Mentor spend half the time of ut_streets under the staircase in NRG Residential and they manage to win the war with 1 round! Anyway, it will be a close match. UP* will defently camp the best they can, and I'm sure [HV] will do everything it takes to get the UP* force crushed.

No doubt the community has high expectations to a new map from Sweetnutz after his tremendous success with his last map Casa. It’ll be interesting to follow the progress of this map.

Abbey 4-12
It started with chaos for the Abjects. IQS were everywhere. When you walked around a corner, either you felt a G36 shot to the head, or a SR-8 shot to the waist. It was painful for us. Grenades were flying, we were blinded at least half the time of that map. We were just sitting there, waiting to get slaughtered. Never the less we finally pulled our self together with the score being 11-0 in favor of IQS. Our teamplay started to work, our communication started to kick in, suddenly we seemed invincible. We took 3 rounds in a row, lost a close one, and took one more round. If the timelimit had been higher I’m sure we would have started to gain in on them.

Through Abbey several players showed incredible skill. From IQS: Itchy and RedKiller really knew how to aim and throw grenades. I especially remember one round were Itchy slaughtered 4 players within 5 seconds. A grenade was thrown towards the fountain, blinded everyone surrounding that area. Itchy managed to shoot down an Abject standing on the balcony, shoot down an Abject standing behind the fountain, shoot down a teammate who were running into the crossfire and finally shoot down an Abject standing on the stairs. That move was incredible, and will not be forgotten for a while.
Our Hjorten shouldn't remain unnoticed. Many of the rounds we won were because of his fearless and cold hearted aiming. He was able to finish of many players from IQS. He jumped fearless towards them, and with his trustee UMP slaughtered them like he was a madman.

Uptown 5-7
As everybody knows Uptown and Abbey are two totally different maps, so was the way they were played. We certainly prefer maps with more levels, like Uptown or Streets. As the score can tell we did play better, even though' we didn't start well. Our usual tactic: "Quick! Everybody in the elevator" didn't seem to work. One well timed grenade took out Fumle and LegoManser and wounded the rest of the Abjects. Then it was just pure mayhem in the apartment. IQS won that round easily. It took us some time, but we did manage to lure their tactics. And did counter it with success. We played very even, most round ended with 1on1's. But it remains a fact that IQS still were skilled enough to take home the victory on that map also.

The player of that map was without doubt Proba. I've never in my life seen such skilled use of the SR-8 before. It was incredible. Everything that was moving would eventually end up in Proba's scope.
LegoManser also showed some great skill, mostly jumping though'. He did end up beating a couple of IQS with nothing than his Beretta. Quite incredible stunts he dared to do.

Quote [HV]Mentor:
"It was very tense and all that mattered was victory. The fight was about ending 3rd in clanbase q3ut cup which we did. The first map on uptown was amazing. We won with 9 rounds (10-1) with our l33t team play :). On abbey, which we hadn’t played much in cw´s, they owned us 11-3, but the last and third map (casa) we managed to win with some margin. It all ended 2-1. One bad thing was the admin stating that ping/lag was equal on the clanbase server. Well it wasn´t!! But at least it didn’t cost us the victory. GG HV and GG dW."

Next "final" map presented to the drooling audience was UT_Saloon. A map based on a western theme and again with a very high level of detail and a apparently great layout.

But there was yet more eye candy to come. The third "final" map apparently contained a true ut_rommel like atmosphere, and at a first glance it looked at least as detailed and of a equally well thought out layout.

But "Iop" was unstoppable. He just had to show the community yet 3 more maps which he labelled "beta" maps in development.
They all seemed to be of very high quality and looked very well thought out. First beta map was UT_Blackbridge:

Next beta was something parts of the community has been craving for ages. A true two base sniper map. "Iop" showed us his suggestion for such a map: UT_sniperParadise.

But "Iop" still had more to come. Last he showed us UT_Shotin:

All maps were available for download, and getting my sweaty hands on them could only be too late. I rushed over to the download site and grabbed the maps.

What a disappointment!

All maps were just as beautiful as the screenshots suggested and all looked as they could provide really great gameplay, but my FPS on my really high end pc dropped to below 30 FPS and in most cases around 15 FPS running around on the maps alone with no bots or players. There were overlapping brushes in many places, there were no player clips and you could get stuck in the brushes even at spawn, a lot of Z-fighting was going on and some textures was missing. The mapper had not used hint brushes on any of the maps.
The maps was very bad received by the community, and "Iop" decided immediately to reclassify all maps as "beta", but he seems very eager to work on all the maps to all above mentioned issues are eliminated.

Personally I hope "Iop" succeed in releasing at least a few of those maps, since both the ideas and the atmosphere/theme of some of them are simply awesome. I wish him best of luck and sincerely hope that he’ll run a betatest before his next "release", and damn I wish most of the maps will pass it.

There’s nothing to do for breaking wood, except doing it like glass, cause UT didn’t allow anything else to break (Q3 engine problem I think).
We authorize servers admins to use our map, and SID to make it an official one.
Please be nice to us, it’s our first map :).

Downloads available at:
The Files section on this page and:
http://www.terroristz.net
http://www.l0unge.com/ut/ut_druglord2.zip
http://www.proscreed.co.uk/ut/ut_druglord2.zip
http://www.s8s.info/maps/ut_druglord2.zip

Thanks for the help making this goes to /Remerciments pour l'aide apportŽ ˆ tous ceux citŽ dessous...

- Ze Charlots [charlo]
- FragRobbers[FR]
- Blemish
- SgtPerry
- Fist of love
- Freak
- Legomanser
- ect......
- a tous les anciens [ZFC] :)

Download it here >>>

According to Invis from www.s8s.net (and the lad who made ut_pointblank) he discussed this problem with Oswald. Let me quote him:

"After a great amount of discussion we decided to come up with a new map depot that has not just every map to dowload from a fat pipe, but reviews and screenshots of each of them. This way mappers can submit thier maps to one location that all community players can go to find it. This will be a portal style site with information for mappers as well, a place where they can store and find resources for mapping for urban terror. like Models/prefabs/mapobjects etc."

This is great news and especially for the mappers. The map depot is already under construction. And from this pic you can see it already is coming together:

You can read the war report here

The map is in general very well constructed my fps were at a steady 125 in some open parts of the map it dropped to around 100.

" Well, after a sh*tload of peoples emails, DCC's, PM's and ICQ harrasments, I have decided to finish airport at my own pace. My brother may help a bit if he gets time. For those that are buggin out about it, let your heart not be troubled.

I wont be participating in the URT Community after the patch is released, Im moving onto something else...so Im not promising any kind of release date....just that I will finish it.

When it is done Ill email it to Dragonne to have QA test it. If they want it fine, If not then thats fine too. For those fans that appreciate the work Im doing this, I hope you dont get your hopes up too high. "

Screenshots can be found here: http://www.s8s.info/ut_airport.html

It's still in its beta stages but I can see that this man has talent. The map really has a south Europian feeling to it like ut_sliema and it also feels a bit ut_abbish (prolly because of the roof textures he used). The textures the lad used are great he made a lot of new textures which fit perfectly in this map. Also he thought about vis_blocking and that's why my fps were at a steady 125.

In the meantime please welcome our new fearless members.

NinjaDude
PureRutine
Death From Below
TheDrunkMonk

[A+]Blaster