• emark4
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Topic: Hoth map?

Hello, new to the First Strike mod and I am loving the mod so far. But to my surprise there is no hoth map to be found in the game. I understand that it is supposed to be in  production but I don't know what happened to it.

Is there a 3rd party hoth map that could be downloaded instead? Particularly a map with snowspeeders, trenches, atsts and atats, kinda like the original star wars battlefront 2. Thanks.

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Re: Hoth map?

The mod development died before it could be finished.  Here is a little write up about it:
http://firststrikemod.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Hoth

All the models were completed, and everything except for the Echo base objects has been imported into First Strike.   The Model for the Hoth vehicles are all in game and playable.  The AT-AT still has issues that may be unsolvable due to it's size.   There was actually a third party Hoth map created from existing models and vehicles.  the mapper did an excellent job, but the gameplay was a bit lacking due to it's size.   It had all but working AT-ATs.  After the mod development died, I took that map and started playing around with the gameplay and created two singeplayer maps, one dedicated to dogfighting between snowspeeders and Ties, and another dedicated to the defense of the trenches from AT-STs and automated probe droids.    Currently, I have been working on an new version of the mod that is cleaned up a bit and includes all the past updates.   But, I have been busy with work and life demands and may not get to finish testing it for a few weeks.  Then,  I plan to do another mod update that will allow it to work with the new Hoth maps as well as some other maps that I have been polishing up, to included improved AI support.   Hopefully, I will have some free time to work on that this summer.

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Re: Hoth map?

Dnamro wrote:

The mod development died before it could be finished.  Here is a little write up about it:
http://firststrikemod.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_of_Hoth

All the models were completed, and everything except for the Echo base objects has been imported into First Strike.   The Model for the Hoth vehicles are all in game and playable.  The AT-AT still has issues that may be unsolvable due to it's size.   There was actually a third party Hoth map created from existing models and vehicles.  the mapper did an excellent job, but the gameplay was a bit lacking due to it's size.   It had all but working AT-ATs.  After the mod development died, I took that map and started playing around with the gameplay and created two singeplayer maps, one dedicated to dogfighting between snowspeeders and Ties, and another dedicated to the defense of the trenches from AT-STs and automated probe droids.    Currently, I have been working on an new version of the mod that is cleaned up a bit and includes all the past updates.   But, I have been busy with work and life demands and may not get to finish testing it for a few weeks.  Then,  I plan to do another mod update that will allow it to work with the new Hoth maps as well as some other maps that I have been polishing up, to included improved AI support.   Hopefully, I will have some free time to work on that this summer.

Really sorry to hear what happened. But still, you and the 1st strike team did a great job with the mod. Even with the current star wars craze goiung on right now (and EA battlefront 2 on the horizon), I sincerely hope development continues on the hoth map.

Also, would it be too much for a battle of jakku map?

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Re: Hoth map?

If someone wanted to do a new Jakku map,  we have the objects in the mod that could be repurposed.    The Trader area that Rey visited on a regular basis could be recreated with the market objects and tents used in the Tattoine maps.    The ISD from the battle of Hoth map could be retextured to make it look weathered as a a crash relic.   Unfortunately we don't have a flyable Falcon.   There are existing crashed vehicles that could be littered around the map.

Now for a quick Jakku like map, this 2142 map may be a good map conversion candidate.     Just add a some vehicle wrecks and a market/trader area
http://www.bf-games.net/downloads/1839/ … storm.html

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Re: Hoth map?

Dnamro wrote:

If someone wanted to do a new Jakku map,  we have the objects in the mod that could be repurposed.    The Trader area that Rey visited on a regular basis could be recreated with the market objects and tents used in the Tattoine maps.    The ISD from the battle of Hoth map could be retextured to make it look weathered as a a crash relic.   Unfortunately we don't have a flyable Falcon.   There are existing crashed vehicles that could be littered around the map.

Now for a quick Jakku like map, this 2142 map may be a good map conversion candidate.     Just add a some vehicle wrecks and a market/trader area
http://www.bf-games.net/downloads/1839/ … storm.html

Well, we are way off topic, but whatever...

It doesn't need to be the trader area from the force awakens movie. It could just take place during the battle of jakku that was shown in EA star wars battlefront and in the books. Ideally, modders might as well import that desert map, add that star destroyer and some crashed ships around to create something similar to the Graveyard of Giants map from EA battlefront.

This would also help avoid the need from having a flyable falcon.

Add some rebel tanks, x wings, tie fighters, and at st walkers for use and you got a first strike map.