kz_xj_communityblock RELEASED

·22 Aug 2010, 21:41

Hey guys,

I know most of you who know about the history of this project never thought this day is going to come; I got to admit that I almost lost hope myself as well during the whole struggle. For those who donâ€™t know anything about this project and its past at all, Iâ€™ll try to recapitulate a bit:

The project was originally started back in 2007, when FragMcCracken, radon, Pf0llz0r, raver and Moxx had the idea about a block map containing a lot of blocks mapped by almost every mapper of the community, called kz_xj_communityblock. You can read the original newspost, posted on 12/08/07, here.

After 10 months of hard work, a lot of different mappers have worked on the project and finally came to an end: The map was released and removed on 10/28/08, because unfortunately the wrong version was posted and the .rmf files got lost.

After this release, 2 years later the map has beenâ€¦ awaitedâ€¦ forsakenâ€¦ and became a mythâ€¦ most people thought it will never be released again.

Without radon, who built the main architecture of the new design and added 40% of the blocks and without PsYxOpAt, who finished the maps, edited the architecture so more blocks will fit in and took the map to the engines maximum, it probably never would have made it. Big thanks for spending countless hours and dedication, working on the map and bringing it to a good end.

I also feel that I need to thank Chrizzy who re-made all of the block signs that were used in the map and hm^ who spent countless hours of work to come up with 2 complete designs as well; unfortunately they had design issues (bad balancing, architectural problems) and couldnâ€™t be released as well.

Thanks again to everyone involved, without you the project would have been impossible!

kz_xj_communityblock made by radon & PsYxOpAt

Here you go with blocks and their mappers in the order of their appearance in the map:

acidburn
s0liD
kewl
[-] Lee
maetz
Pieshels
Winkuz
DozhiO
raver
MAEGNUS
colix
DaMp
Moxx
h1m1
heiss
Malvin
LOLLY
Palmrot
puppetz
Sadpuppy & Shizuka
radon
Flibo
hybrid
PopiT
Licoti
Zim
StoneCold
mis7ake
PRopaaNS
Fact or Fiction
Sakto
perdo
Pf0llz0r
Apocal1pso
FLR aka flayer
MentaLo
JumbalaR
Murvelman
pLANE
Nekso
clair
BK#KL
tranCyfast
sllove
WyB
V0ls
Chrizzy
z1820

Unfortunately it was not possible to add every block in the current design/architecture, as the engine limit was reached; therefore some of the blocks that didnâ€™t fit into the design, or had other problems, had to be taken out. A big big sorry for the mappers that might be disappointed now.

Removed blocks:

ManiaC - Eating too much memory.
sjalt - Eating too much memory.
stasia - Eating too much memory.
sj - Impossible jump, didnâ€™t fit into the layout.
Simplexx - Architectural problems, didnâ€™t fit into the layout.
FragMcCracken - Architectural problems, didnâ€™t fit into the layout.
8ball1 - Architectural problems, didnâ€™t fit into the layout.
eiT â€“ Orlando - Architectural problems, didnâ€™t fit into the layout.
mmmcfly - Missing wad file, wad files are not allowed.
eiT- _#7 - Not high enough.
H.o.r.s.t - Too bad built.
xia - Too bad built, flying stones.

However, we decided to add all of them (except for the blocks of H.o.r.s.t and xia because they were built too bad) into a little outtake map, so every one of you who is curious about these blocks can check them out and play them:

communityblock_outtakes made by PsYxOpAt

Enough of the words, itâ€™s time for you guys to play the maps!

Have fun and good luck finishing the longest map in the history of kreedz maps! :)