After one particularly gruesome arena session, a co-worker announced that playing net-Marathon is better than sex. Well I dunno about that, but I figgered a level designed the right way could come close enough...
THE CONCEPT.
Lots of people are making lots of really cool levels these days, pushing the Marathon engine and polygon counts to their limits (including me <G>). Pfhornication, however, is my concept of a good old-fashioned "Bungie-esque" net level; no crazy lights, 40,000 feet ceilings or wacky phased hallways.
With a host of 8100's on super-fast ethernet at work, my comerades and I get into some serious carnage sessions. Along the way we've learned a few things about what makes a good net level, and Pfhornication is the result. It's been tested and tweaked over and over for the past year and, IMHO, it's a well polished, delicous map to play.
THE LEVEL.
Pfhornication II, as stated above, is a basic network level in the Bungie tradition (although it's also checked for single player; set it to Total Carnage!). It has 4 entry points, a number of power-ups, and a few secret doors and teleports to make the action fun. I tried to keep the poly count to a minumum, for clean design and better playability on lesser systems. One hint (which the films might not show): you can get out of the closed-off fire pit...
THE FILMS.
I've included two films from recent 4-man sessions. Of course it's not the same as being there, hearing us hoot and holler, but trust me when I say it was a bloddy good time. BTW, I'm "Roli-Poli-Stoli" and "Steveville".; you might notice that I get killed a whole heckuvalot. Nothing more satisfying than getting creamed on your own level...
ANTI-FLAME ALERT.
Pfhornication II was written exclusively on the best durned Marathon level editor, Phorte PPC (up through v.18). Some folks seem to think that PPC written levels don't work on '040's, but this one works just peachy on our Q800's and 650's. If it doesn't work on your '040, I'm sorry. Please don't TOZT me.
