Quote from Groxkiller585 on June 22, 2011, 11:07 am

Surprise panels that pop out and impeed progress? (like the bridge exept no portalling through so it forces you to go around)

Also with panels would be a tempting panel bridge across a seemingly harmeless pit, but halfway across the trap could be sprung and they all close and those grinders show up from the floor.

Something you need to do is have a logic_case and many func_brushes and element configurations, and a button chooses a random setup. (I would make at least ten. The elements added in could be done with each configuration being seperate from the map and a point_template spawns each one randomly from the entity_maker that would be triggered by the logic_case randomly. To shorten it up, 10 different configs, 10 point_templates, 10 entity spawners and 1 logic_case that randomly chooses one entity maker to spawn. The button that triggers this would also have to kill the current configuration setup. If you REALLY wanted it to sell you could make the geomtry move upon spawn to make it appear it actually is configuring and not just apearing out of thin air, but functionality over visuals.)

Quote from xdiesp on June 22, 2011, 11:19 am

Far fetched idea: have players manage an economy of traps, like being able to use only 5 out of 10. With 5 cubes and 10 buttons which activate the traps.

Quote from MasterLagger on June 22, 2011, 6:49 pm

I like the idea about the panels and the grinder trap. I'll include those after the Traps map is made. But it'll be about a month.

Quote from Another Bad Pun on June 23, 2011, 9:50 am

There is one problem I see with this game mode: My COOP partner likes to see what I'm seeing using tab, and It gets really annoying when I go to his side playing fair and he goes to his side and already know where the box is. There has to be a way to disable that feature...

Also, building from L Sunday's idea, the two cubes could be a cube covered with blue gel, (for blue,) and orange gel, (for orange.) That could add some challenge but it would be easy for one team without some traps designed for them. Maybe instead of a fizzler in the middle it could be water that would wash the gel off... (And then fizzle the cube too.) Also it would be interesting if you had to take the cube all the way back to your side, like in TF2's CTF mode.

About traps: pneumatic diversity vents that will pop out of nowhere and suck you in? Or a freaky moment where there are two buttons, if you press one, you pass, but if you press the other one, you EXPLODE! WITH THE LEMONS!

Quote from MasterLagger on June 23, 2011, 4:23 pm

I might include GLaDOS and a Copy GLaDOS in the map. She'll help you defend your cube. And she can help both bots at the same time.

Quote from RageCompeX on July 3, 2011, 5:16 pm

Another Bad Pun wrote:

There is one problem I see with this game mode: My COOP partner likes to see what I'm seeing using tab, and It gets really annoying when I go to his side playing fair and he goes to his side and already know where the box is. There has to be a way to disable that feature...

Also, building from L Sunday's idea, the two cubes could be a cube covered with blue gel, (for blue,) and orange gel, (for orange.) That could add some challenge but it would be easy for one team without some traps designed for them. Maybe instead of a fizzler in the middle it could be water that would wash the gel off... (And then fizzle the cube too.) Also it would be interesting if you had to take the cube all the way back to your side, like in TF2's CTF mode.

About traps: pneumatic diversity vents that will pop out of nowhere and suck you in? Or a freaky moment where there are two buttons, if you press one, you pass, but if you press the other one, you EXPLODE! WITH THE LEMONS!

yeah that Tab-button is annoying, I think it can't be turned off, I was more thinking of getting a -1 point if you press it, but that would be hard, because A: hammer doesn't have a relay for that as far as I know, so you need to make a script for it, and B, usually people open steam with shift+tab..

Quote from MasterLagger on July 5, 2011, 12:39 pm

Yeah, I tried a lot of things to prevent cheating with the tab button, oh well just have to go on trust. A new idea I had for a while to make traps more "customized" is to use the Ping Tool to activate and deactivate traps on the player's side of the map.

Quote from Djinndrache on July 12, 2011, 6:10 am

Wanna see me playing some rounds with the map creator? There you go:

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(Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkVHgqzmvyk)

Quote from MasterLagger on July 12, 2011, 10:31 am

Wow, that was fun. BTW the "Countdown" Trap only works once for the player. For those that saw this, I'm known as "NickNasty The Master Lagger" on Steam because of my unbelievable lag due to crappy ISP.