Railroad Station One (4P)

Historically, the Central Station of Stalingrad was a scene of intense fighting, changing hands at least 14 times during the 5 months the battle raged, at one point it changed hands 4 times in a single day.

This map is loosely based on the campaign level from Call of Duty 2 of the same name.

It's still a WIP, I have some OOB stuff to shove down and some extra detailing to do, but it should be ready tomorrow  ;D

















Download is here -

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20501003/4p_railroad_station_one.rar

To install, place the SGA in the 'company of heroes\Eastern_Front\Archives' directory
Open the Eastern_Front module file in notepad (find it in the root CoH directory)
Where you see the line

[data:common:01]

, add to the bottom of the list underneath it -

archive.27 = Eastern_Front\Archives\4p_railroad_station_one.sga

... replace '27' with whatever the next number is in the sequence.
Save the module file and play!

Last edited July 1, 2011 at 2:18 AM by BurroDiablo

Great work Burro! :D

Great job!  :D

P.S. I love you're signature, and "I pity the fool" who doesn't.  ;)

Thumbs up *2,

its very nice!, but I hope you can also add a not snowing weather setting. Its sorta distracting :P

I have no idea how to add in pickable or variable Weather conditions, but i'll give it a shot... maybe Walki can help me out...? ;D

sure you need to create a .options file but I think Mystic-Car can do this as the Head Mapper :P. If you want a example unzip the .options file of Leningrad.

Here is a tutorial:
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index.php?showtopic=298638&mode=linearplus

Nice!

do i spot the Wolga in the last picture?

Last edited June 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM by Killar

awww shit, again snow  >:(


... just kidding  :P
map is great Burro, I've noticed that you are making Stalingrad maps recently....

Wow, that looks like a real shithole...

Looks great and well balanced, I just hope you'll remove that snowing ;)

What would you prefer? A bright sunny day? I like the snow...

Just some fog, really. It's sometimes quite annoying seeing loads of snow falling down in front of your ingame cam. I'd like some variety in winter maps, everyone who does them things "hell yeah, there has to be snow, otherwise it's not complete". You know what I mean.

I just think snow would be better on this map, because it helps the feeling that it is, indeed, a shithole.

Agreed. I'd just like variety in EFs winter maps. Maybe Mystic can take a look at that.

Nice map, moreover a COD2 based map!

Great work from what I see!

:D

What an awesome map! You devs really are muti talented. great work.

Map is done... it has been for a few days, just didn't get round to packing an SGA  :P

One problem... for whatever reason, the Victory Point ticker doesn't budge at all... I was hoping somebody might be able to take a look and fix/reupload as I'm going to be away for a few days and don't have time to look into the problem myself.

Download is here -

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20501003/4p_railroad_station_one.rar

Also added to my first post.

To install, place the SGA in the 'company of heroes\Eastern_Front\Archives' directory
Open the Eastern_Front module file in notepad (find it in the root CoH directory)
Where you see the line

[data:common:01]

, add to the bottom of the list underneath it -

archive.27 = Eastern_Front\Archives\4p_railroad_station_one.sga

... replace '27' with whatever the next number in the sequence is.
Save the module file and play!


Oh, and as an added incentive to download... I made a special loading screen that you'll only see by downloading :P

lol! nice loading screen!! ;D

OOOOOHHHH O.O NICE!!!

Eh Burro did you place sp_victorypoints? Probably

Don't think so, I used the Victory Point at the bottom of the Gameplay list. They only stopped working when I packed the SGA.

One file has the wrong filename...
It should be called "4p_railroad_station_one_ID.scar" instead of "4p_railroad_station_one.scar" ;-)

Mystic

Ah, thanks Mystic ;D

Can somebody change this and re-upload? Away from home for a week, so I can't do it.

Last edited July 2, 2011 at 12:49 PM by BurroDiablo

I'll do, wait a moment..

Edit: Here http://www.mediafire.com/?6o60unrqkffde69

In order to play, just place the file in

C:\Users\%username%\Documents\My Games\Company of Heroes\WW2\Scenarios

Last edited August 14, 2011 at 7:18 PM by MaxiKing6

And no other alterations have to be made to any files? Just plonk into the Scenarios folder?

I did it different, the normal way. Burro included the Map in the EF folder and .module file to be loaded.
Nothing special to add then. Mine is also playable with vCOH then, otherwise just with EF ;)

Last edited July 2, 2011 at 4:28 PM by MaxiKing6

Ah coolio. I did see it when i went on vCoH, so thats awesome

so tested the map and it looks pretty good
but i think its a bit to big for 2vs2

i think it would be better 3vs3

so i tested the map now a couple of times

a few things

1st) i think this map should replace the old stalingrad map :D
2nd) cpu has massiv problems to capture points

evilSpike wrote:
so i tested the map now a couple of times

a few things

1st) i think this map should replace the old stalingrad map :D
2nd) cpu has massiv problems to capture points

QFT. I think this is a good idea.

evilSpike wrote:
1st) i think this map should replace the old stalingrad map :D

+1. I suggest to change it's name to Stalingrad, player count to 6.
The old Stalingrad map is not needed anymore..

MaxiKing6 wrote:

evilSpike wrote:
1st) i think this map should replace the old stalingrad map :D

+1. I suggest to change it's name to Stalingrad, player count to 6.
The old Stalingrad map is not needed anymore..

somehow the map isnt displayed ingame. I downloaded your link.

Sadly the mapper of the old stlaingrad map put so much work in it. If he focused more on the gameplay that map would be awesome. I hope parts of it can be used in the campaign.

Then try Burros way to implement it. I checked the archive and everything is as it should be.

Hey Maxi, if you have the time would you be able to change this map to a 3v3 and maybe run some beta tests like with Kalach? I would do it myself but I'm not around my PC for the next couple of days.

Too many objects on this map for me, sorry I'll have to sit testing out on this one.

BurroDiablo wrote:
Hey Maxi, if you have the time would you be able to change this map to a 3v3 and maybe run some beta tests like with Kalach? I would do it myself but I'm not around my PC for the next couple of days.

Ah I see, you're refering to my personal text :P
It would be an honour to do so. If you have any concrete wishes for me of how to put the two additional HQs or any other stuff that you want me to do, just tell me in a PM.
I'm looking forward to some nice beta testing games. Should be done by tomorrow.

so like the other beta test games i would also test this map with you :D

Ditto

I took a closer look at Railroad Station One again. The map looks perfect, everything fits. The Action Marker placement is just great and I think it hits the Stalingrad atmosphere best.
Furthermore, I don't think that it should be made 3v3, it has just the perfect size for a good and balanced 2v2.
Good work, Burro.
I'm also in for testing.

of course i wont let you down either  ;)

So should we test it today?

Teams are:

Maxi & Dennis

vs.

Ape & me


06:00 forum time? thats about 3 hours from now

Last edited August 9, 2011 at 11:15 AM by Killar

Sure, why not. I think though that Burro has deserved a place rather than me because I'm neither a balancer nor did I do this map plus Dennis deserves a better player at his side than me :P

but can you take a look at the sectors? ai has mass problems to capture pionts. this must be fixed

human players has no real problem

but the ai starts capping and stops. starts and stops... its a bit funny the need ~3min to capture a vp :D

Investigations shall be done! Thanks for heads up, a new version (that for testing) should be there in 30 minutes.

Edit: http://www.mediafire.com/?6o60unrqkffde69

I had to move several points a little to make the AI act better and make the Soviets able to build outposts on them (one point was surrounded by wooden benches, I had to move them to the side) and the middle VP was blocked by brick rubble.
Additionally, I made the stairs to the train station in the middle walkable and adjusted the position of the arnhem_posts, because they blocked a big area in front of the stairs (now they just take space of 1*1.

Last edited August 14, 2011 at 7:18 PM by MaxiKing6

about 6pm forum time

im not sure if im back home then

i will come online asap
if it will be too late for you dennis we need a replacement player for me :(

I have to go at 6:30 forum time, so I'd be in for a game that starts not later than 5:30 forum time.

Anything 3pm forum time to about 10pm forum time is good for me. That's middle of the day here. Of course I'll be a day ahead of you guys so when you say tonight from your point of view you mean 14 odd hours away?

no only 8 hours away from here

Eight hours to Middle Europe (e.g. Killar, Ape, me), fourteen to Eastern Time Zone (e.g. Cranial).

Wait what now I'm being roped into this?

Be warned of the elephant in the room... lag lag lag

This map shouldt run fine on your PC  ;)

We will do a couple of games i guess changing teammates. Somehow i dont like the stugIII model of the loading screen. Its not the common one