Archive for October 2022

The Hammer Cup 2022 Wrap-up

The Hammer Cup 2022 Overview

This year, the Map Labs folks had a great idea – bring back the Hammer Cup, but in mini format! So this Cup was another great partnership with Map Labs that consisted of three mapping challenges, each with a different theme.

Entrants received points for each challenge they entered. At the end of the event, the best 2 points totals from the challenges they entered were added together for each entrant. These totals decided who won the Grand Prizes.

This means that entrants did not have to enter every challenge to win the grand prize but they needed to have entered at least 2 to have a chance of winning the prizes.

29th October 2022 1 Comment

The Wraith 2: Conjuring

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

A ghost hunting horror map, the third place winner of the Hazardous Mapping Competition #4.

You play as a rookie ghost hunter, and you have got your first mission to clean a haunted house from a wraith.
There is a manual describing the conjuring process, which was left by an investigator, who has been to the house previously. Read it carefully and do exactly what it says, or there will be horrible consequences.

Total Downloads: 50820th October 2022
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Classic of the Month Stream – Cry of Fear – October 2022

The time has come at last. I didn’t ever expect to play this mod game. But you have spoken.

Cry of Fear is the October Classic of the Month. Watch me run. Watch me squeal. Watch me die.

The stream will start this weekend on Saturday October 15th, about 12pm (noon) Eastern US Time (5pm in the UK, 6pm Central Europe). I expect to continue it the following Saturday, same time. I’ll need the week in between to recover.

As usual, the stream will be on the RunThinkShootLive Twitch Channel, and the recording will later be uploaded to the Classic of the Month playlist on the RTSL YouTube channel.

12th October 2022 No Comments

Vote for the October 2022 Classic of the Month!

Update: there was a dead tie! Vote now in the run-off between Cry of Fear and Hazardous Course 2!

Poll only runs for 24 hours!

So it’s October already! This month I decided to put the next Classic of the Month to a vote. This time, you get to pick from a big list of mods that are all on the list for future streams, including a spooky choice!

Poll closes in just a few days on October 5th, so hurry up and get your vote in!

6th October 2022 1 Comment

Hypnagogia

for Half-Life 2: Episode Two

Please give way to oncoming traffic. Hypnagogia is an abstract map heavily inspired by shadgrimgrvy’s works. Continue your journey through Somnolence City. Fight, explore and puzzle your way through ever changing locales and try to make sense of things as you travel towards a looming, but unknown threat.

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Total Downloads: 7352nd October 2022
6 Comments and 5 recommendations with no significant bias