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Subject: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 18 Aug 2012, 23:28

I'd be grateful if someone could help me remembering an Unreal custom map that I played many years ago... I've looked through the campaigns, but nothing rings a bell...

It's part of a mid to longer campaign (probaby 4-6 maps). The story, IIRC, was about retrieving a Nali artifact or a Nali priest thet the Skaarj had captured.

The particular map consisted of one or more Maya-like temples surrounded by water. In the middle of the map is a high rocky island with jungle vegetation, and the main temple is on a flat island behind it. The temple was surrounded by a wall. The artifact or priest was in the upper floor of the temple, which IIRC took some puzzle-solving to reach.

This particular map is at night.

At one point, while outside of that wall, you have to fight two translucent/glowing blue or maybe ice (?) skaarj.

I remember the review here on Unrealsp.org praised the excellent sound design, which was particularly evident in those swamps and jungle vegetation full of croaking frogs and other sounds.

That's all I remember, hope my memory doesn't play tricks...

Ring a bell? Thanks in advance...

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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 00:35

Hmm... you know it's been reviewed? Some details ring a bell, like I thought it may have been One Day, but the glowing Skaarj rule that out, and then I thought maybe The Elder, but I don't recall any water-surrounded temples. Rescue of Panunu seems too simple and it was a single map, I think.

Could it have been one of the Skaarj Tower maps?
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 00:55

Maybe you're thinking of the Palace of Chizra from Déjà Vu?

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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 01:47

Haha, man, I'm gonna laugh if it turns out to have been my map. It's true that there is at least one glowing Skaarj Lord as an easteregg... :lol:
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 02:33

I'd agree that in general that sounds closest to Palace of Chizra.
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 04:57

Waffnuffly wrote:Haha, man, I'm gonna laugh if it turns out to have been my map. It's true that there is at least one glowing Skaarj Lord as an easteregg... :lol:


Thanks for making that map! I'm a fan of battling Skraajs and it took me three replays of your map to satisfy my...strange hobby.
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 05:04

Levelworm wrote:Thanks for making that map! I'm a fan of battling Skraajs and it took me three replays of your map to satisfy my...strange hobby.


You're welcome! If you liked the combat in that level, you should try out The Last Fortress. There's like 10 times as much resistance :P

And then there's EXU2, which is an entirely different experience altogether, and has probably a few hundred times as many enemies, but I digress... ;)
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 05:10

Waffnuffly wrote:Haha, man, I'm gonna laugh if it turns out to have been my map. It's true that there is at least one glowing Skaarj Lord as an easteregg... :lol:

:lol: I was laughing as I read your previous post for this reason
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 12:04

I'm doing something special with Palace of Chizra right now.
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Subject: Re: Looking for a particular map... Maya-style temple(s) surrounded by water, night.

Post Posted: 19 Aug 2012, 22:06

Waffnuffly wrote:Haha, man, I'm gonna laugh if it turns out to have been my map. It's true that there is at least one glowing Skaarj Lord as an easteregg... :lol:

YES, I just redownloaded Deja-vu and it's definitely Palace of Chizra! \o/

thanks everybody for helping out! I have I think six or seven Unreal/UT installations spread across three computers, and one of them actually has these maps.


A bit different from what I remembered, but the islands, the foilage, the water - all there!

The two Skaarj Assassins I meant aren't glowing, sorry. My bad. :D

Thank you all!


Time for a bit of Deja-Vu...


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