DM Challenge #5 - Map Trivia

I have recently looked through many maps in Sauer to find things people may have never noticed. For this challenge, you will be given a series of questions/mini-challenges and your goal is to solve as many questions/mini-challenges as you possibly can. You will receive points for solving each one correctly, and since some are harder than others, you will receive more points for solving them. There are a possible 200 points that you can receive, but I don't expect anyone to get a perfect score

The solution to some questions only requires a text response, so you can PM Ace your answers in IRC or send an email with your answers to [email protected]

Other solutions require you to show that you have found something in a map, so you can record a demo of yourself playing to show that you have found those solutions, or you can show Ace in person.

You will not be told which answers are correct/incorrect until the end of the month, except for the three questions which require you to show me something. You can change your answers as many times as you would like before April 28th, but nothing can be submitted after that.

As always, here is the link to help on how to find and save demos from the Sauerbraten client http://sauerbraten.org/docs/game.html#demo_recording.

If you plan on uploading a demo to a file sever, we suggest that you try http://fileuploadx.de/ or www.rapidshare.com/.

The badge award system has not been figured out yet for this challenge.

A final note: All the questions are about maps in the current sauerbraten release (Trooper Edition) except for the concept maps (spiralz, ladder, canyon, firstevermap and secondevermap). Also, please don't ruin the fun for others by posting possible answers on IRC, telling others answers, etc.

Finally, here are the questions and mini-challenges and the points you will receive for solving each one.

1. Name the capture map with the least number of capture bases - 3 Points

2. Name the capture map with the most number of capture bases - 3 Points

3. Name 3 maps that do not contain any "materials" (water, glass, lava, death, noclip, clip, aiclip or gameclip) - 3 Points Each

4. Name the map that contains the most teleports - 3 Points

5. Name the non-ctf/non-capture map that contains no armor - 3 Points

6. Name the map with the most power items (quads and healthboosts) - 3 Points

7. Name 2 maps that have an unobtainable quad - 3 Points Each

8. Name the map that has exactly 1 weapon pickup - 3 Points

9. Name the map with the most jumppads - 3 Points

10. Name the map with the strongest jumppad (the jumppad that sends you up the highest) - 3 Points

11. Name the non-ctf/non-capture map with the most yellow armor pickups - 3 Points

12. Find and briefly describe the mistakes in the screenshots of the following maps: wdcd, capture_night, reissen, berlin_wall and ph-capture - 3 Points Each

13. Name the 5 maps playable in ctf that are not in the ctf list - 3 Points Each

14. Name 5 maps that contain a church - 3 Points Each

15. Name the "actual names" of metl2, metl3 and metl4 - 3 Points Each

16. Name 4 maps with green water - 3 Points Each

17. Name the only map included in the release of Sauerbraten that is not listed in the maplist - 5 Points

18. Name the mapmaker that has created/worked on the most maps that have made it to the current Sauerbraten release - 5 Points

19. Name the floatspeed (/floatspeed # ) that the sand on turbine travels at (round to the nearest whole number) - 5 Points

20.* Find the teledests on wdcd - 5 Points

21. Name the map that has a minecart containing grenades - 5 Points

22. Name 2 maps that have a satellite - 5 Points Each

23. Name 2 maps that contain a flag where half of the flag is red and the other half is blue - 5 Points Each

24. Name 2 maps that have a jumppad inside a chimney - 5 Points Each

25.* Find the "ghost barrel" on ogrosupply (the barrel cannot be seen unless you are in edit mode) - 10 Points

26. Name the map with a sign that has Sauerbraten's official game storyline written on it - 10 Points

27.* Find the hidden water on tartech (the water cannot be seen unless you are in edit mode) - 15 Points

A * by the question number means you need to either record a demo of you completing these challenges or find Ace and show him the challenges in person.

Good luck and have fun!

Edited by Ace__ - 5/4/2010, 01:22

bandandit: come on irc so we can talk about the badge system

Here are the solutions!

1. phosgene - contains 1 capture base

2. ogrosupply - contains 8 capture bases

3. fanatic_quake, darkdeath and nmp10

4. berlin_wall - contains 32 teleports

5. island

6. killfactory - contains 2 quads and 3 healthboosts

7. duomo and kffa

8. nevil_c - contains one rifle pickup

9. recovery - contains over 100 jumppads

10. nmp9

11. kmap5 - contains 4 yellow armor pickups

12.

wdcd



If you look carefully in the top left corner of the screenshot, you'll see the teleport that used to be in wdcd before it was converted into a CTF map.

capture_night



Similar to wdcd, this map had a teleport at the spot you can see in the screenshot before capture_night was converted into a CTF map.

reissen



This screenshot shows the old version of reissen, where you could jump on the small slanted walls on either side of the flag.

berlin_wall



This screenshot shows the old version of berlin_wall, where the wall had a bunker-like area that you could walk in.

ph-capture



This screenshot shows the old mapmodels for the trees.

13. duomo, frostbyte, ogrosupply, konkuri-to, fc4 and killcore3

14. hallo, nevil_c, ph-capture, monastery, venice, fc4 and cwcastle

15. metl2 - Elsinore, metl3 - Cyclops, metl4 - Mining Station

16. neondevestation, deathtek, hades, river_c

17. sauerbraten - this map is one of the only easter eggs of sauer

18. Nieb - created/worked on 14 maps in the current sauerbraten release

19. /floatspeed 32

20.

-located on both sides, the teledests remained while the teleports were deleted

21. europium

22. complex and dock

23. cwcastle and fc3

24. ph-capture and cwcastle

25.

26. fc4 - the sign is in the middle of the map (Sauerbraten's official game storyline is "You kill stuff. The end.")

27.

this water can be explained by traveling back to Sauerbraten's Spring Edition...



On a side note, I won't be making any more DM challenges so I can focus on a new project. Thanks to all who participated in the DM challenges!

Edited by Ace__ - 8/5/2010, 03:50

Hey.

Thanks Ace for these interesting challenges! I've certainly learned a lot from this quiz!