Title: Old Soledad remake & Unreal 97 mutator

Platform: 226

Authors:
Everything is by Yrex besides:
- Original resources by Epic Games
- Beta '98 DispersionPistol by Leo(T.C.K.)
- Original Soledad conversion by Leo(T.C.K.)
- Extracting some beta resources by Leo(T.C.K.)
- Some textures remapped to final UV maps by AlCapowned
- Some little fragments of code stolen from Shivaxi and .:..:

Screenshots:
https://sites.google.com/site/mojunreal/oldSoledadRemake.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/mojunreal/osr_guillotine.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/mojunreal/osr_krall.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/mojunreal/osr_lift.jpg
https://sites.google.com/site/mojunreal/osr_napalm.jpg

Description:
This consists of two things that should be used together for best effect. The first one is a remake of Soledad based on the old screenshots. The second one is a mutator that makes the game behave more like the mid-late 1997 builds (0.867-0.88). It's not a faithful conversion of a particular build, but rather best stuff taken from each. This mutator will give you:
- beta HUD
- modified versions of all weapons - in particular Automag, Eightball gun, Napalm gun and Rifle
- beta monster skins, projectiles (eg. purple Skaarj projectile, Cannon bolt for Kralls) and sounds
- some item modifications (eg. ammo pickup sound, flare skin)
There's no official multiplayer support.
Also, you should play this on a CRT monitor in 640x480.

Download (v. 16):
Old Soledad remake
Unreal 97 mutator
HUD fix for JCoopZ

There is a ton of scriptwarnings and such online and projectiles staying, not recommended to play with the mut online, but for some offline fine it's alright I guess. Though I wish it was tweaked a little more before release.

The map is all fine though except for a co-op stuck situation but otherwise the map works perfect.
EDIT: actually wasn't the case even. because I missed a dark corridor that was added in.

yrex . wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2016 at 12:41pm:


lol. 

Thanks for your work!

Leo T_C_K wrote on Oct 24^th, 2016 at 12:43pm:

Thanks for that, I wouldn't be developing it further anyway. I'm not that good at netcoding.

Okay here's the new release:
UpdatedSoledad
Readme file is included, now for the main thing, the mutator.

So many things are changed and fixed, lemme give a quick list:

- Automag works as it did in the betas, no animation scriptwarnings anymore.
- Rifle has now the bayonet visible on first person mesh and can stab if closeup, not only that, it has a 'charge' functionality with amplifier on and deals more damage. Like CattleProds. These ideas come from BayonetRifle mod which I never released though this was executed by CodeX. I once figured out when studying how Rifle changed across the developement versions that the original version was to have a bayonet melee attack too.
- Nali uses the Beta Nali mesh which fits better with the old skin.
- Eightball uses different sound for the altfire.
- DispersionPistol and ASMD now use their older meshes, with uv maps remapped to fit some firetextures better.
- DispersionPistol shakes again like in 1998 and some sounds were added back. Don't worry the charge-light is still there.
- Many animation playback fixes.
- A new ASMDPowerup secret item. Yes, asmd/tazer was upgradable at some point though we don't have a build of Unreal currently in which this is the case. It used to be weapon number 0 and the last weapon you'd get in a game like BFG so it made more sense back then. When it became ASMD in November, all of this was most likely removed.
- Tentacle uses the proper projectiles now. While the betas had impalerbolt meshes shooting out of tentacle, there was a proper projectile mesh that didn't get used and was mapped to the old skin uv maps.
- Of course tested to work online properly.
- Krall has masked issues fixed for 227i.
- Works under classic Unreal/UT as well (though in UT might conflict with other mutators, this is not for oldskool specirficly)

U97GameCX.rar

Also a small fix for use with jcoopz hud as the original hud isn't allowed in it.
U97HUDJCZ.rar

There is one problem when not running under 227 and that is the tentacle skin wont show being updated on the carcass, this could be only fixed with a replacement tentacle class or replacement carcass class (if people would want this). I did notice this before but it was forgotten about due to all the other fixes and problems and features.

Would be nice to have a list from all files need to run this map ad home or on a server

Greets,

Rubie

Well this really looks fine good job, I did also reworked once Soledad (My Fav ) map as the version we did run on Newbies in the past was so weird I could not believe this was created so as nothing was light up correctly. I have only 4 things to say about this one and this is:
1. a part from the first lift after start does conflict with the other mover as you can see in the screenshot.https://www.dropbox.com/s/s8ws6ejro6v284k/Schermafdruk%202016-11-21%2017.21.49.p...
2. the Creatorfactory after krallsquish34 wont work with pupeas from standard sizes as the hole they need to be spawned into is to small.
3. End teleporter should be a bit further  in the map so you can see the entry from next level.
4. at last I did started to play this map with 100Hp and no guns ended map with 100HP/Armor100/Shieldbelt and full ammo inventory so the level is for beginner or lower imo.

option to run this map on a server with monstermutators map should have Pathnodes hehe.

Greets,

Rubie

This is my opinion not want to say anything negative about the work that has been done !!!

I must say this topic has been treated really fair and I appreciate this a lot, this is the way I like it and maybe I should post more the jobs I'm occupied with  on the forum
I like discussion if it leads to a solution that is positive for everyone, I know everything depends on different taste from players but this is not realistic and I'm glad I did not seen this in this topic (you can't create a map that everyone loves!).
This remake from SOLEDAD is awesome good !
Thank You Guys!

Rubie