Pre-Post Notes:
The map is called 'First' as it is my first custom map.
This is only V1. Please post any bugs you find in the comments.

Actual Post:

This is a little idea I had a few days ago, and as I couldn't find it anywhere, I made one! This Is a small, box map with all OG perks, the mystery box, and two wall weapons. The zombies flood through one massive window, so be very careful.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1x333bakbfxbwua/No_Barricade_Challenge_V1.1.exe

Perks on map:

-Juggernog
-Speed Cola
-Double Tap Root Beer
-Quick Revive (DON'T BUY, IT'S CO-OP ONLY, WILL BE FIXED SOON)

Screenshots:










Please leave any tips and requests below, as well as bugs. I'll update this map whenever I can!

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Double Post Merge: January 20, 2016, 09:49:47 am

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Quick update: I fixed the dog round, and will release the map when I get home (at school right now).

Look forward to it! 

New Update! http://www.mediafire.com/download/1x333bakbfxbwua/No_Barricade_Challenge_V1.1.exe

The 'Dog round' on R7 is bugged, and shouldn't even be a dog round. Either use a command to skip these or finish playing.

Fuck me...

The 'Dog round' on R7 is bugged, and shouldn't even be a dog round. Either use a command to skip these or finish playing.
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This Is a small, box map with all OG perks, the mystery box, and two wall weapons. The zombies flood through one massive window, so be very careful.
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-Quick Revive (DON'T BUY, IT'S CO-OP ONLY, WILL BE FIXED SOON)

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Yeah, I'm not playing this.

Hey guys, there is a new update to the map, and it fixes all bugs I know of as of right now. Try it out!

Link: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1x333bakbfxbwua/No_Barricade_Challenge_V1.1.exe

"Please leave any tips and requests below, as well as bugs. I'll update this map whenever I can!"


Yea here's a tip, take your time..... no one likes box maps.

"Please leave any tips and requests below, as well as bugs. I'll update this map whenever I can!"


Yea here's a tip, take your time..... no one likes box maps.

Yeah.. hehe.. I'm going to slowly extend this map over time, so the next release hopefully will add a new room as well as fixed Revive and a PaP more obvious than the one I put in V1.1. I plan to add an extra room, that you buy into for ~1250, fixed QR and, as I said, a more obvious Pack a Punch machine.

Yep, there's a PaP in V1.1 

Yeah.. hehe.. I'm going to slowly extend this map over time, so the next release hopefully will add a new room as well as fixed Revive and a PaP more obvious than the one I put in V1.1. I plan to add an extra room, that you buy into for ~1250, fixed QR and, as I said, a more obvious Pack a Punch machine.

Yep, there's a PaP in V1.1 

I suggest making bigger and better map rather than releasing something you used to test mod tools with. We have hundreds of maps like this map, yet we rarely get good releases nowadays. The more time put, the merrier

Yeah.. hehe.. I'm going to slowly extend this map over time, so the next release hopefully will add a new room as well as fixed Revive and a PaP more obvious than the one I put in V1.1. I plan to add an extra room, that you buy into for ~1250, fixed QR and, as I said, a more obvious Pack a Punch machine.

Yep, there's a PaP in V1.1 

This is the sort of thing you'd put in the Work-In-Progress section. It's fine if you want to work on this, but this is by no means a release-worthy map as it stands.

Add your own flair to it, learn how to customise the shit out of it. )

Add your own flair to it, learn how to customise the shit out of it. )

Customizing? In Custom Zombies? What you on about? What year is this!?

- sobs -

I don't want bash too hard since it's your first map but ja' got to put some more effort into it Map's like this are rarely played by the community and are commonly bashed out of existence. Even something as simple as the UGX mod (1.0 or 1.1), and 5 or more rooms would make this map a WHOLE lot better. I think you can make a lot better maps but you just got to try a little more and spend a LOT more time on it.

Yeah, I plan to make many more rooms. This'd help spread the perks, box, and PaP. Also, I will be making a new map that will take much longer after I've gotten this map to a standard I feel comfortable with. This map is nowhere near done, so please be patient as I update it. 

Add your own flair to it, learn how to customise the shit out of it. )

Quick note as well, hell yeah I'll customize. I still have a few prefabs to find at the moment but despite that it will be as customized as I can possibly make it (for how simple the map really is in retrospect).

Decided why not, let's test this. I don't want to come off as a huge complaining "asshole" here, so keep in mind all I say is to let you know how you can improve upon your work.

First off, lighting. You had an incredibly bright light in the room. Way too bright, made some guns look weird, so make sure you don't have lighting too high, remember you can always have multiple lights if one doesn't cover the whole room. You can increase the radius without upping the intensity too, which won't make it look so intense. Secondly, where is the light coming from? I understand this is a Challenge Map, and isn't focused too much on the aestethics, but adding a small lamp in the ceiling/on the wall/similar makes more sense than to have light coming off nowhere.

Secondly, the spawners for zombies were not a sight to behold. You could see them spawn in. If you want the spawners this close, visible, then I suggest you make them into a riser, so they come up from the ground. It doesn't look right when zombies come in from thin air.


Thirdly, the hellhounds spawned way too high up in the air, you would see the dogs fall to the floor when they spawned in. Lower the spawners closer to the floor, much like your zombie spawns. It makes it look better, plus you won't have the dogs spend time falling down from the air, instead they'll be able to run directly at the player.

Lastly, add a solo button. Had to run the map by opening console, and type "map First", which isn't ideal. Making a solo button isn't too hard, and makes it easier for the player to start a game.

UGX has provided us with nice tutorials to get started, here is one for making a Solo Button, if you need it.
http://ugx-mods.com/wiki/index.php?title=Adding_a_Solo_Button

I understand it's your first map, and you want to share it with the community. But Making another "One Room Challenge map" is not something alot of people in the community is too fond of. Make it more personalized. You don't have to release everything you make. If this was the project you worked on to learn modtools, use your knowledge from here to make maps that are more unique, instead of the same type we see all the time

You can get far, the only thing stopping you is yourself. Imagination my friend, imagination.