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Metastasis
Created by FelFox and Clan Sirs ; Uploaded by: FelFox
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| Uploaded: | 22:34, 28th Jul 2009 |
| Last Updated: | 05:22, 9th Jan 2012 |
| Type: | Miscellanous / Other |
| Category: | Space & Aliens |
| Map Size: | 0x0 |
| Playable Map Size: | 0x0 |
| Suggested Players: | 1.8.1 |
| Tileset: | |
| Rating by users: | 4.32 (50 votes) |
| Hits: | 77181 |
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Metastasis
In a research sector of the United Security Initiative known only as 198X2, a group of scientists and station personnel are assaulted by an unknown threat. As their colleagues die one by one, they must fight to survive and figure out who is doing this to them, and how to stop it.
The Game
Metastasis is best described as a survival game. At the start, one or several players will be secretly selected as your opponents. You will be placed within a space station in the sector 198X2 and must figure out who is the enemy, and kill him before he kills you and your fellow humans.
Depending on the number of players in the game, there will be one or several enemies.
1-4 players: A lone enemy, who will either be a former researcher mutating rapidly into a cunning adversary, or an alien organism killing off station workers for unknown reasons.
5-9 players: Both the mutant and the alien work to kill your team as well as each other. Only one side can stand victorious.
10-12 players: The mutant and the alien are once again your adversaries, but rumors abound of a cold, metallic killer waiting to rise and annihilate every living thing in the sector.
Humans
To aid you in your fight, you have a myriad of station resources and your own education to assist you.
Being a research group in a theoretically dangerous sector, stations are equipped with state of the art military supplies, including many types of combat suits of varying abilities. You have been trained to use these suits, albeit only against the organisms on the local planet. No doubt you can adapt them to perform other, more murderous tasks. There is also an assortment of defensive and offensive weaponry, from stationary turrets and force shield generators to grenades and mighty fusion bombs.
You also carry your life experience and career with you. There are nine possible careers assigned to you at the beginning of the game, from researchers with various doctorates to a visiting captain of the battlecruiser Swagger to the lowly local janitor. Each career provides a unique benefit and alters your initial equipment and monetary income.
Enemies
The mutant and alien both have strong physical capabilities. Each is capable of overpowering an unequipped human easily. However, they are alone, and hate each other as much as they hate humans. The mutant and the alien both sport an ever changing genetic code- within the span of mere hours they can change their physical and mental makeup drastically. As the game goes on, each will slowly evolve into more powerful forms. Eliminating them early will prevent them from overpowering you with massive strength, dominant mental abilities, or swarms of minion-like organisms.
Infection
The mutant has the ability to evolve a infectious called a prion. By weakening the human body, the prion eventually forces a genetic change in the host, altering it to serve the original mutant and take its form.
The alien also has a similar parasitic microorganism it launches into humans, slowly weakening them and eventually eating them away. By doing so, the parasite grows into a facsimile of the original alien, while retaining traces of the infectee's personality, though twisted into serving the alien leader.
Stations
Featured in the sector are four space stations and a planet situated around a single star. Each station has unique capabilities and can be visited at any time by using one of several types of spaceships or escape pods. The largest station is the U.S.I. Queen Niffy, which boasts a large infrastructure and fleet of spaceships, as well as many curious research labs dedicated to the sector. Other stations include the Arbitress, an advanced sensors station, the Kyo Station, which is a container for the experimental Kyo Cannon spatial artillery platform, an old unused station now scheduled for demolition. These are all situated around the orbit of the local planet Minertha, a terraformed but as yet uncolonized planet. A small military station was set up some time ago, but no one currently occupies it.
A battlecruiser from the U.S.I. fleet is also currently visiting the sector.
Credits
An extensive list of credits for the artwork featured in the game can be found within the F9 menu of the game. Special thanks needs to be given to to Clan Sirs, Catar, DarkLink_Rper, EnragedBullfrog, OmeedESF, Mooglefrooglian, mrzwach, lorg, Aenir, Scruffymurphy, Jarkill, InfernoInfernal, and especially Kodua.
UPDATE (1.8.1):
-See changelog at http://thegoodsirs.net
A pretty large changelog!
| Moderator Comments (Not Rated) |
00:56, 30th Jul 2009
Linaze: Lacks a proper description.
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This map is approved and works properly.
Download Metastasis 1.8.1.w3x
(5 MB, 19903 Downloads)
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07-28-2009, 11:07 PM
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#2 (permalink)
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they make a chip sound
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 702
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Made of epic win.
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07-28-2009, 11:11 PM
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#3 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3
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I can't download this...
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07-28-2009, 11:28 PM
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#4 (permalink)
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Rainbow
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 102
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403-Forbidden.
Last edited by Mr.Wafflez; 07-29-2009 at 12:33 AM.
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07-28-2009, 11:36 PM
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P.G.G
Join Date: May 2009
Posts: 59
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403 forbidden fix it it hapened to me too!
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07-28-2009, 11:39 PM
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User
Join Date: Oct 2007
Posts: 598
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Everyone has 403 forbidden errors right now, for every resource. Stop posting on this poor guy's map about it, it's a hive workshop problem.
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07-28-2009, 11:39 PM
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#7 (permalink)
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Metastasis
Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 78
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On topic, I think this is an excellent, mostly bugless map. 5/5, Mr. Fel.
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07-28-2009, 11:45 PM
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User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 3
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I got to play this with a kind host and I think it's brilliant! It's a FRESH take on the "parasite" genre. I wouldn't say this is a Parasite-clone, rather it has taken the "parasite" genre to a whole another level! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT to any Parasite fans.
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07-29-2009, 12:03 AM
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they make a chip sound
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 702
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If I am allowed to give a link while the Hive won't let anyone download, I humbly submit:
Edit: Hive dl's fixed.
Last edited by Mooglefrooglian; 07-30-2009 at 01:13 AM.
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07-29-2009, 02:37 AM
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User
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 1
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The only real good things it that there's a lot of exploration, the "board explorer ship" feature is awesome, and the terrain, doodads, and unit skins look spectacular. But the good things end there.
The rest suffers the same glaring problems as Parasite 2. It's too spaced out, making it incredibly difficult to find other players. There's still almost no pressure on the alien to do anything, so there's a high likelihood that everyone will just move from station randomly without being able to fight at all. An hour long game of that (or a tking fest) is unacceptable. Also, you can still teleport dance by going off and on explorer ships, and when I tried to evolve, one of the buttons was blank and didn't do anything.
All in all, 2/5, sure some things can be fixed but the general premise is still too boring, and great skins and terrains don't make a good game by themselves. I definitely won't be playing it anytime soon.
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07-29-2009, 03:44 AM
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Felz
Join Date: Jul 2006
Posts: 50
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@RushSecond: I'm sorry you feel that way.
@moogle: Thanks for the help moogle. The link that he gave has been updated to 1.0.1, which removes some stupid testing units.
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07-29-2009, 04:09 PM
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Sweet donor award :3
Join Date: Feb 2008
Posts: 719
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Im going to try this and then rate it.
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07-29-2009, 05:35 PM
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Bucketz0rz
Join Date: Dec 2007
Posts: 6
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This is a realy nice map, i liked it but the map is still empty i know, its the first version of it, i think its good for RP in it and i cant wait for next version.
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07-29-2009, 08:50 PM
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User
Join Date: Jun 2008
Posts: 139
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when i tried to DL this i got a 404, and was rick rolled...
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07-29-2009, 11:15 PM
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#15 (permalink)
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they make a chip sound
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 702
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Quote:
Originally Posted by RushSecond
Also, you can still teleport dance by going off and on explorer ships, and when I tried to evolve, one of the buttons was blank and didn't do anything.
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Couple things on here:
The blank button? Intentional. Havent you ever been annoyed when you push a button in WC3 and the dialog auto chooses the top thing? In this case, it is to prevent that. Perhaps Fel could rename it to "-Does Nothing-".
Teleport dance on ships? Not anywhere near as bad as P2. You can actually *gasp* launch the ship and no more dancing occurs.Not to mention bombs being much more avialable.
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