Author: Zoltán "LaCr0" Sághy (
https://steamcommunity.com/id/LaCr0)
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2724043761A remake of bb7 map from Blood. Released in 2022!
Atmospheric colored lighting, episode1 styled creative design... Everything captures the spirit of original game perfectly. Inspired and extremely creative usage of assets that ROTT2013 amazes with is here. Just look at colored pipes at 0:38, laser beams trap at 0:58... And that's only two examples. Attention to detail and knowledge of what the game has to offer is top notch: "smokeEmitterBase_Dup" as a pipe base near the room with lasers, placing decals in corners to make the arrows turn, usage of "MAT_Bunkerwall_2XTiling" texture that I don't remember seeing very often, stripes of "elevator_floor_Mat" with healing cereal placed in the middle of corridors leading up...
Small details are unique and impressive, and so is the overall composition with concrete bunker that has the elevator and the bridge stand out in the center of the middle open area. Just like in the original classic bloodbath level, there are switches that move the construction up and down, opening paths to secrets and fueling curiosity to explore what could be there in that corner you didn't think of checking. Heat-seeker is a reliable cleaner in the open area.
One criticism I have is that catching the rhytm of GADs that move up and down is pretty difficult in the heat of battle, and once I fell under the bridge I couldn't get out because of that. Original location has useable elevators on their place, maybe it's worth thinking of introducing something similarly more controllable.
Overall it's a great remaster of a classic location and LaCr0's great comeback to ROTT level design. Good to see that today, in 2022, the game still gets new amazing content that explores new possibilities of its assets. Long live Rise of the Triad!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvjQwdiInQk