(9) ICARUS

Overview:
ICARUS is a custom map of the zombie survival genre for WC3: The Frozen Throne created by Rising_Dusk. The map is set in the Northrend tileset and is only a zombie survival map by association - there actually isn't a single zombie in the map. In ICARUS, you are the Terran, and you fight the Zerg. This is a map I have started and restarted at least a dozen times since I first started making maps. I have always wanted to make this map, but I wanted to wait until I was talented enough to do it justice. Face it, the zombie survival genre is awful right now and needs something to raise the bar. I'm making it my personal goal to do just that. Welcome to ICARUS, enjoy your stay.

Features:

• Fight zombies Zerg!
• Complete challenging missions on 3 different difficulties that task your team to achieve certain objectives while under constant attack from the Zerg!
• Features 6 classes inspired by Starcraft unit roles that you can play as, each fitting into a unique niche and none of them the cliché heroes you've seen in every other zombie survival map!
• Earn achievements killing Zerg in random, obscene ways! Show the achievements off to your friends and grow your e-peen to elephantine sizes!
• Weapon ammunition system that doesn't suck! No, it doesn't use your gold and lumber for ammunition and clips, it uses the little number on the item icons! (I am amazed so few other maps do this)
• Uses (with permission and even endorsement) a horde of awesome Starcraft models for WC3 from the Acathla Campaigns!
• Features even more gorgeous custom texture art to make the environment fit the Starcraft world as best as possible!
• Takes after Starcraft in some of the best ways! All enemies explode violently upon death and play the appropriate Starcraft sounds (Within legal limits)!
• Has one of the better-looking terrains of any zombie survival map ever made! No bias at all here, I swear!
• Save your rank experience status and gain actually useful bonuses for going up in the ranks, such as calling any number of different kinds of bombardments from a Battlecruiser in orbit!

Comments:
The map features art made originally for Acathla by abriko and ICARUS-exclusive artwork made by unwirklich. Special thanks go out to WILL_THE_ALMIGHTY for his lovely special effects that I have put to great use in the map. I've got to thank all of those guys because without them, this map just wouldn't look quite right.

Screenshots:

Change Log:
This doesn't exist yet.

Download:
I have a nearly-done and playable beta for the map, but I really don't want the public to see it until it is more playable. If you happen to know me on BNet, feel free to send me a buzz and I am sure I can arrange a playtest. This thread is mostly right now to generate interest in the map before its release sometime later this year.

First!

Mega congrats on getting ICARUS to this stage Mr. Dusk :D


Just one thing:
gastronomical is referring to the stomach, if your peen (of any description) is in your stomach, you've done something horribly, horribly wrong :P

Don't mind me, just my inner sub-editor coming out :P

Or so big it goes straight to the stomach? ;D

EDIT: S'pose I should make this at least slightly non-spam.

Looks awesome, haven't played in a while. I'll have to hit you up next time you're on.

So this is what you've been up to. Looks tasty indeed.

Wow!! just from the screenshots.

Just hope the classes come out just as damn awesome as well.

Does the title have anything to do with the greek icarus myth?

Anyway, it looks pretty good

I specifically picked a really ridiculous word just to draw attention to the e-peen remark. You know how TV advertisements are these days, they use big words no one understands but that sound cool so that people want to buy the product! I do really like Fled's interpretation, though. :p
Have no fear, Dusky is here! :)
Icarus and Daedalus? Not intentionally, ICARUS is just an acronym for something in the game and is a really ominous name. It's actually interesting that Icarus in the story was given wings and fell from the sky, which is incredibly similar to what happens in the map. I'm almost 101% sure I will mention that story somewhere in the map as tribute, though. :p

I like the name, though, because it's not like "ZOMBIE ONSLAUGHT v6.66" or whatever; it's curious and makes you go "Wonder why it's called that."

"Humongous" or "Extroadinary" would sound better than "Gastronomical" imo.

The project looks promising though.

Too much emphasis is being put on gastronomical, so I changed it.

Have the 6 class types been confirmed yet? I think a lot of us (including me) would love to see them in the screenshots :D Also, is there a predetermined objective or the map, or as of right now all you do is kill onslaughts of the zerg?

The map will consist of "missions" that task your team to accomplish different objectives while under constant attack by different Zerg strains. Also, yes, the 6 classes have been 'confirmed' at this stage in development.

Guess I should update the first post.

I <3 you Dusk. So I guess at this stage the classes actually have skills this time around?

-Av3n

You're fucking crazy.
Churning out 4 awesome maps at once.

Keep up the good work, of course =P

mhmmoooooo...

WINNAR.

Looks great still and I hope it's even more fun than the beta tests when completed xP. Like Av3n said, I hope they have skills now :3!

moooooooo...!

I hope the terrans don't get shredded in two hits this time round :P, glad to see that the map has progressed nicely.