* The Horror * a Sven Co-op map for Egir.dk Mapping Contest by Hezus (c) 2006 =============================================================================== * Map info : ------------ Title : The Horror Filename : horror.zip Author : Michael "Hezus" Jansen E-mail : hezussupastar@hotmail.com Web Site : http://www.goannasvencoop.com/Hezus Description : A horror themed Sven Co-op map, entry for the egik.dk ambience mapping contest. =============================================================================== * Play Information : -------------------- Game : Half-Life / Sven Co-op 3.x Single Player : Yes Deathmatch : no Difficulty Settings : no New Sounds : Yes New Graphics : Yes Known bugs : None =============================================================================== * Construction : ---------------- Base : New maps from scratch Build Time : Over a month in total Editor used : Valve Hammer Editor v3.4 (by Valve ofcourse) Other utilities : Wally 1.55B (by Matthews and Neal White III) HL ModelViewer v1.24 (by Meta Ciragan) Pakscape v0.11 (by Peter Engstrom) Zoner's Tools Beta 3 (by Sean Cavanough, and Amerckn) ZHLT GUI Compiler (http://www.planethalflife/eddi) =============================================================================== * Credits : ----------- Ambulance prefab : Rouni (enhanched and optimised by Hezus) Lights prefab : C|oud [Mark Potnick] Textures by : - Neil Manke's "They Hunger" - cf_mansion.wad (- Crista "CD Warrior" Forest) - Playblocks with letters - Hezus =============================================================================== ***** HOW TO PLAY ****** !Read this! * The Story : ------------- You (and some friends if you are playing it co-operative) have found a nice campingsite in the countryside. The place is near an old castle ruin and a little lake. You've explored the neighbourhood a bit today and it seems you are camping near the an old mansion. A farmer came by this afternoon telling you a disturbing story that the Benston family who lived in that mansion was cursed with a terrible and untreatable disease. Story is that all members eventually killed eachother in cold blood because of their pain and grief. The farmer was telling you that ghosts and the living dead haunt that mansion nowadays and no-one dares to come near the mansion at night, some not even at daytime. After the farmer left with a warning to stay inside the tent at all times at night, you were looking at your friends. After a second of silence everyone started laughing histerically. "What an old fool, trying to scare us with his ghost stories !". The rest of the day was very enjoyable and as soon it was getting darker the friends gathered some wood to build a fire. They found themselfs sitting on a log of wood, sharing college stories with eachother and roasting marchmellows that night. At that time you see a light. A vehicle is driving on the nearby road, but suddenly the lights stop. While your friends are still enjoying themselfs with stories you hear a scream. As you jump up and your friends laughter turns into silence, you recall the story the old farmer told you... The undead have awoken... * General Tips while playing : ------------------------------ This is a horror map so for the best experience, do not play this on a sunny afternoon. DO PLAY AT NIGHT! Watch a scary movie first, start your PC, turn off the lights in the room and start playing. The maxspeed of the player is 200. The Half-life default is 270 so you can't run around like an idiot on this map. You can walk in a relativly fast pace. You can still jump around but there are no jumping puzzles and the map can be completed without a single jump all the time. So keep the realism and do not jump during the map. You are allowed to jump off your chair because you got scared though ;) You will not have a HUD ingame as for you do not have a HEV suit. You cannot see your health status, as you cannot see your health status IRL. This means you do not have a flashlight either. Do not worry, you will not need it to progress in the map. The map has been heavily clipnoded, so you are not able to climb on the rockwalls or many objects. To save on engine limits many faces that are not visible to the player have been NULL-ed (made invisible). You will not see any of those during regular playing unless you use the 3rd person camera or cheat with gravity settings. If you cannot progress any further in the map you can find a walkthrough at the end of this file. 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After the cinematic with the dead guy, go into the tunnel on the left and you'll see a big mansion. You can't enter the mansion yet because the gate is locked. As soon you pass by it, there will be another little cinematic. OMG ! SCARY ZOMBIE PASSING BY THE GATE !! Keep following the road and go to the next tunnel. Now on your left you will see a graveyard. There is a crack in the gate and if you duck in front of it you will be able to break it. Now follow the road till you reach a tunnel sealed by a double wooden door. Walk up to it and watch the cinematic. The tomb on the hill will open it's doors. Now enter the tomb that just got opened and you'll find a key. This old key is the key for the mansion's gate. Walk back to the big mansion and open the gate by walking against it. The front door of the mansion is locked, but you can open the small door to your right up the small stairs. Now move into the hallway and pick the first door at the right. The door to the left is locked and the big double door on the end of the corridor will open later on. After you go into the door on the right. There is another hallway. The door at the end is locked. Take the door on your right and you'll enter a childrens bedroom. In the middle of the room you'll see a bloodstained blanket with (probably a childrens body under it). Walk up the blanket and a camera sequence will start. The LP disc will start playing and you'll hear a disturbing record of a man laughing, a child crying and a mother saying "no please, don't" and crying. The camera now switches to the blocks with letters on them. They will move and form a message for you : "WE LIVE". As soon the sequences are over head back to the main corridor and you'll notice the double doors are open now. In this bigger room you must walk up to the next double door and the ending cinematic will start. Zombies will start bashing through the windows and closing in on you. The screen fades and you hear zombie moaning and your character screaming. The End... (Talking about a cruel ending, right ? ;) ) * Small fun things to note : ----------------------------- You can hear the zombie walk a few more steps after the cinimatic. At a point you will not hear any more steps and he has disappeared into the night. Another effect is the play horse in the childrens bedroom. After the record was played it will start to swing. The famous painting in the last room with the pitchfork-holding man and woman was made by Grant Wood in 1930 and is called "American Gothic". It is the second most-recognizable painting in the world, preceded only by the Mona Lisa.