The Thing

No I'm not talking about that god Aweful Xbox/PC game...I'm talking about that game where you and 4 other people are trapped in an artic base trying to repair your helicopter to get out of there, but there is one problem one of these 5 people could be an Alien...

Would anyone be intrested in a map like this?
Basically There would be 2 main structures. The Facility, and the generator building. when you leave the building you loose HP to the cold. You can use TNT to blow up the vents in a room, you can shoot at cameras to make the security room useless. You will be able to pilot a tank (not at the facilities) to help your travel to find parts. While in the tank your fuel goes down if the tank is out of fuel you are ejected.
There are 4 parts you need to fix your helicopter (and fuel but well). Which will be at 10 or so random locations. You also will be fighting against snow wolves and bears.
when the helicopter is fixed you are given time to vote who you think the thing is. Whoever gets the most vote is left at the facility however, if you choose wrong you loose and some cinematic will show your helicopter crash into a cliff or something.

As the thing:
Your job is to be as incospiques as possbile. You can do this by changing the color of your suit (every player can do this at a special room). You can switch into the alien, you can blow up security cams, destroy heating vents. Blow up the helicoptor (not very incospiques), hoard fuel. And sluaghter your allies. Fake your body tempeture (the thing can naturally lower its body temperture by some amount to give the illusion that your outside (to help you with the No I don't know whos attacking you bit) but becareful if it is too low you will freeze to death).


Does this sound like a fun map?

Yeah there was a map like that for Starcraft, it was pretty fun map too. The new ideas you got sound good. With the new features you could add in WarCraft III it would be great fun.

That would be an amazing map.
It appeals to backstabbers. :)

Hehehe... backstabbers.... Yeah that's how it was sometimes in StarCraft. Since you couldn't know who the thing was you never knew who you wanted to kill. Most smart players know not to attack the others until they know for sure, but I guess the newbs who killed everyone in the game when they weren't the thing didn't realize that killing the thing does not cause him to lose :P Well anyway that just brought back some memories of that time I was the thing and I managed to convince all the other players to kill each other (well except one, I couldn't manage to make him kill himself). Yeah that was great fun :ggani:

The map sounds good. You have my vote!

I was considering making a similar map...

Remember to add in random attacks from nasty critters to keep the players on their toes, and you'll have to come up with a way to spread the players out. Otherwise, players will simply all agree to band together and whoever leaves the group first will be shot to pieces.

It's also complicated by the fact that The Thing would need to be visible at times - so you could click on it and see the player's name that was controlling it. That would tend to end the terror pretty quickly :(

You got ways to get around those? I'm definitely interested in a map like this though :)

Thats why I'm giving him ghost as in alien form. So you would only see him as he kills you and once your dead you can't say Hey its X&X who killed me as whoops your out of the game.

Yer, but then they have no chance to fight back against him... :\

They do have defenses They have mines (like in The SC version) and possibly infrared gogles (true sight gem)

I gotta better idea. Make the thing be controlled by a computer and have that computer ally/share units with the player who owns the thing, that way people can't see who owns the thing by the name tag...

And its not that hard for a person to whisper a person in the game and tell them who killed 'em

NH thats actually a good idea but I think i have a beter one Make everyone like that so you really can't tell whos who. (except if you decide to keep your color). That way you can be like Red did it but there is you Red and there REd the thing :) It seems very evil Thanks for teh suggestion,

Newhydra's idea kicks ***. Make sure you throw in some nice environment effects, lots of gratuitous blood and gore, and go to town :D

Hey this is a REALLY old post, and I'm assuming you havn't made any effort at making this map. Would it be a problem if I took these ideas and made the map? I'll give credit to you guys if you want