Maps

Any tips? If any other map builder has any tips on the process of building a map specifically for Reason 2 Die I would like any suggestions if possible.

Edit: Some info: The current plan for the map is to have hills, and some downward slopes, but still have flat parts. Medium structures will be spread around the map but no high buildings that are easily camping spots like Bloxcoast. There will be a medium sized bridge, a river, and some road.

I will attempt to make this map encourage the use of the Jetski and the Plane as there are going to be spots where the jetski will be useful and a few flat parts for plane takeoff.

Sometimes when we go into maps like Kingstreet in the night, it's painful to do stuff because of the brightness from the Sun. Maybe in Void, you would go on it, but it's pure white when you are planning to join during nighttime.

Maybe you want to see the maps have different skyboxes than it already has as of now. Well, worry no more! The Timezone following button thingy is here to help!

How does it work?

It can be activated in Settings and it won't affect other players, only you.

Once activated, the game will start to follow your current timezone, whether its PST or EST. For example, if it's 7:00 pm in a summer day, the timezone will act the same as the Sun, where in maps you can barely start to see the sun set. Another example, it's Midnight because you decided to stay up to continue playing the game, no worries! The timezone thingamajig will allow every map to be Midnight, following the moon.

It will also track down the weather for you too! If it's raining from where you are, it rains in the maps too. If its snowing, it snows there too.

Why would you want this?

1. It's a cool way to look at maps from different timezones, you never seen Portland when it's nighttime, correct? Of course you haven't, because Dusk to Dawn is the only skybox it has, well not anymore.

2. It can really match the atmosphere pretty well with what you are trying to make it be, like you and your team doing some sort of stealth mission in a rainy, silent night. Or you and your team going on a campaign during sunset or sunrise.

3. Why not?

Even though it is purely cosmetic, it can also help your eyes too when you plan to go on maps like Void or Dead Vacation.

The main idea about this suggestion is to make the game look more detailed and up-to-date. Some can not do anything at all except look better, while others actually change some mechanics about the game.

Let's start with the items.

Grenade: Animations showing the player is actually pulling the pin, takes up 0.3s to pull it.

Molotov: Animations showing the player grabbing a lighter, then setting the top of the molotov on fire. Takes 0.5s to finish animation.

Defibs: when equipped, the defibs that were resting dont dissapear, only the handles used to revive someone. When equipped, it shows your players heartbeat by a yellow line on the small screen. When equipping it, the heartbeat stops, going back to life when reviving somebody, the defibs then fall off your back and hands, not working anymore.

Jerry Can: You can now click/press and hold, then the jerry can will start dropping a trail of oil on the ground, slowly drying out in about 5 minutes, once dropping a certain amount of oil, a small button will appear saying "light up fire" once you press it, the player grabs a match, then tosses it toward the fire, following the trail. (You can still press backspace and drop it like normal)

Tomahawk: New Animations, (actually kills, costs less, and isn't allowed on bosses.)

Weapons:

[New equipping animations and idle animations to all weapons. Can be ignored if you immediately fire]

[More coming next suggestion]

Melees:

[New idle animations to all melees. Doesn't affect swing rates]

Maps:

[All maps now have an option to follow your current timezone, depending what device you are using and where it is. Example; It's 5:00 pm in autumn, in any map it shows the sun set, following your time. Example 2; it's Midnight, all maps have midnight skyboxes. Example 3; It's raining where you are, its also raining in all maps. This is to help your eyes incase you accidentally go into kingstreet in midnight, and its midday in the map. It also looks cool. Can be disabled in Settings and doesn't affect the rest of the server, only you]

This is all the current ideas I have to make the game seem overall more detailed and more satisfaction in what the maps look like, the weapon equipping animations, and that dang jerry can.

Hopefully we can get this in-game! What I like the most is the timezone idea!

Here is a peak (the sign is a free model its only there temporally)

Unpopular opinion warning (13 year olds who can't understand someone's opinion pls leave)

1.Shot em up town

2.Kingstreet

3.Victoria harbor/Newhaven port (cant decide)

4.Last harvest

5.Suburbs (Cuz my pc can handle it now)

Please give some sort of reason why

I love this map, and its confirmed that's it takes place in the survivors journey between Blackfield and new bloxcoast. here's the idea,

Step1. repair the bus! loot other buses around the map and bring wheels, gas, and engines back to your bus, each item is takes up your hands, equip = drop each bus has one of the parts so you only need to loot 3.

Step2. get supplies! go around the map and find crates, bring them to the roof (need 6) they all spawn next to each other

Step3.get armor! go into one of the buildings to find armor for the bus, the tunnel you escape through is blocked and will destroy your bus if you ram into it, armor is necessary! go to the front of the bus and apply it (armor looks like metal sheets in hands and looks like rusty metal plates on the front of the bus, then in 15 seconds the bus will move back ten studs and rapidly speed up forwards into the blockade and cars through it, thus escaping, the campaign gives 250 with minimal players, and 900 with a full server. btw the bus moves forward like 100 studs every step.

If you want, I have more campaign ideas for rescue maps!

Recently I've been seeing people say that coconut stadium is the worst map in the game. And in my opinion I strongly disagree, just because a map is dark and has a different feeling to it then usual doesn't mean you have to hate on it. First off press x to turn on the flashlight and boom you got lights so don't complain about it being dark. Second off the map is actually pretty huge and you can make a base in the side of the map and survive for almost over 20 minutes before zombies overrun you. In my opinion coconut stadium is one of the best maps in the game and just because it isn't what you are used to doesn't mean you have to hate it and vote no.

Note that there will be separate timelines as it's simply impossible to connect all maps together in one timeline.

Instead, I'm going to assume we're playing as different groups of survivors.

Group 1:

1. Mogadishu Transit

2. 1930's Kingstreet

3. S.S Boliviar

The survivors first were stranded at Mogadishu Transit. They planned to board it to safety but it broke down when they reached 1930's Kingstreet (broken tram can be seen on the rails below the bridge). The drove the truck onto the S.S Boliviar (truck can be seen on the boat). When the zombies did eventually board the boat, a distress call was made by the captain and a rescue team was sent to pick up the survivors.

Group 2:

1. Panama Beach

2. Cafe County

I couldn't find anything that suggests where the boat in Panama Beach came from. Though it is confirmed that the boat sailed to Cafe County. The boat probably sunk due to heavy damage from the fire. Whether the survivors died in Cafe County or not could depend.

Group 3:

1. The Complex

2. Porta Coeli II

3. M.S Antares

4. Bouri Rig 71

Survivors at The Complex managed to get on the Porta Coeli (It can be seen on the map). They received a distress call from the sinking M.S Antares (Confirmed in article). When they crashed into Bouri Rig 71 (literally where you spawn), a nearby helicopter managed to pick up the distress call from earlier from the M.S Antares. When they were just about to give up they got another call from the oil rig. The last survivors managed to get on the helicopter.

Note: The helicopter does appear in The Complex and M.S Antares, instead of some crazy explanation just simply pretend that they didn't exist.

Group 4:

1. Blackfield Station

2. Portland

3. New Bloxcoast II

Survivors at Blackfield Station boarded the bus that you escape on at the end. The bus went to Portland, where the survivors took a brief moment to admire the view (and memories). The road than took them to New Bloxcoast II where the bus ran out of fuel. A helicopter was called from the hospital where the survivors left.

Group 5:

1. Subway

2. Zero Kelvin Station

An expedition team was sent to the abandoned Subway while trying to find a vest that was immune to explosives (As stated in the Flakvest lore). When they entered the Subway, the entrance behind them just gave up and crumbled, blocking it. They managed to call in a Subway. The Subway went to Zero Kelvin Station, where sadly some more rubble came down and crushed it. The survivors walked down the tunnel and found the station. They called in a helicopter and managed to survive (rescue gamemode, not campaign). Also, they got that Flakvest they wanted.

The reason I'm gonna include the rescue gamemode only is probably because I would have to explain how more rubble fell in the tunnel. Plus, that group most likely wouldn't have known about the Stargate at the end.

Group 6:

1. District III

2. Peach N' Spills Resorts

A scouting team in District III was sent to find survivors. They either died or made it Peach N' Spills Resorts. If they did survive (not shown), they would make it to Peach N' Spills. Peach N' Spills itself is still secure and is an established quarantine zone.

Group 7:

1. Victoria Harbor

2. Newhaven Port

Years earlier, Victoria Harbor Quarantine zone was evacuated. Later, the virus managed to get into Newhaven Port. Lets just say the U.K isn't having the best time right now.

Group 8:

1. Last Harvest

2. Farmhouse

A group of survivors that are basically criminals ran through the fields into a land we know as Last Harvest. They robbed a Quarantine zone earlier. The military gave up when they saw the fog they had to go through. They knew that zombies roamed the area. The survivors ran through the wheat fields which were apart of the Farmhouse. Most of their numbers had been reduced. They ransacked the abandoned house. Calling one of their other members to pick them up. the truck was loaded with an extra amount of supplies. They made it out just in time before more zombies could come.

Group 9:

1. Caved In

2. Campfire Chaos

The small group of survivors in Caved In had to move fast. Zombies managed to chase a member back to the entrance. The loaded in the last of the supplies they had and got off the island. The boat, damaged with claw marks and running out of fuel, the survivors set a route to Campfire Chaos. They took refuge here for a day until they discovered the zombies in the camp. Luckily, they managed to call in a jet from the radio in the barn house. With that, they also got a hand on some S'mores.

Have you noticed how old maps from around 2017 to 2018 aren't that playable anymore. For instance ever since the addition of champ farmhouse is impossible to beat. To fix this, the dev team can make the maps more modern or add more to the map such as more buildings or just in general make a whole new version of a map such as newhaven port is of victoria harbor. Hopefully this can make more maps much more playable than the current state they are in where survivors are stuck in one area which gets them all killed as soon as champ spawns because there is no where to go.

If you ever looked at the modes in the vote map section you will realize that the modes are sometimes just straight trash. For starters some modes such as undead battleground can be deleted. Modes such as hot potato and ms can be added to more maps. Survival should also be added to every map "except sunny seaside because u cant live more then 30 seconds".

What is a better way of farming?

-Void farming

Pros:

Zombies spawn are far from where people usually camp, the middle, making it easy to kill zombies with them getting to close to you

Far ranged snipers like barret .50 can easily kill zombies from a distance

Skull champions can be slightly outran and killed relatively fast.

You can bring support items like grill because mobility doesn't really matter, except for horizontal movement

Cons:

You can spawn as a zombie, which wont allow you get as much money

You really do need far ranged guns to have a chance to get kills, since the zombie spawns are so far away

There are only 4 ammo stations, so if you use them all up, you are forced to buy extra ammo

Soon, zombies will pile up and destroy you, especially if you don't have a good crowd control gun.

-PvE (prison exclusively)

Pros:

Easy money and small map

Good with explosives and you don't have any real players trying to kill you

Lots of easy spawn points to spawn kill

The top of the prison is very good while using explosives.

You will always spawn as a survivor, not a zombie

Diggers can door farm

Cons:

Again, people are thirsty for kills and a lot of kill steals happen

There is a chance some loser will reset and try to kill you

Even though people won't kill you unless they die or reset, the ai brutes, and edgars can really destroy you.

-Campaign

Pros:

Objectives can give you easy money and sometimes fame

Campfire chaos gives you easy money for pushing the fuel tank, and it give A LOT

Old campaign maps are easy since you probably have knowledge of where the objectives

Certain campaigns are really easy, and give of lots of cash

Cons:

There is a chance you will be a zombie, and won't be able to get money from the objectives

Some objectives you must rely on teammates, which most will run off and kill zombies, leaving you out in the open

Sometimes, you spend 100 or more dollars when you are a survivor, and if you die right at the beginning, you can't earn the money back

Certain campaigns are stupidly hard so you won't be able to get AS much money if you can't even beat it.

Is there anything that i missed? do you have other suggestions? I'm an idiot so i won't be surprised if people get mad at me.

The spam of campfire chaos and victoria harbor is too much for this game, low ranks can't enjoy the game and leave because it get's boring playing the same map. A suggestion I have is that the server sees what maps are getting picked more often and for those maps instead of a 50 percent vote needed to get that map its an 80 percent or higher.