Hey Mania-exchange,
wtf bas returns after 4 years lol
It's been a while, four years to be exact.. I started building this map back then, but decided to take a huge break from Trackmania and focus on different things. Then in 2017 I started slowly building a bit on it. Having talked to Ozon, he motivated me to start playing TM a little bit again. Then later on someone in the RPG community hit me up about a mapping contest for the RPG titlepack and I thought fuck it, lets finish this shit! And really went full mapping mode, the deadline just motivated me, as well as seeing (most) of the same people still playing RPG.
The story and the ideas always stuck with me even after 4 years. I remember I used to be a huge Godspeed You! Black emperor fan back then and wanted to make a crazy apocalyptic styled map. This is how I originally started this map.
The map & Story
If you're not into pathfinding don't play this map; this is for sure my most pathfinding/story heavy map. You will have to explore certain areas and cam 7 won't always be able to help you.
So like I said, this map was heavily inspired by the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, most notably their song "Dead Flag Blues." The song feels like you're being thrown into a story of a world that's been destroyed, chewed up and spit out, haunted by I don't know what. That's exactly what I tried to achieve with this map; You are too being thrown in the map not knowing where to go or what to do, but slowly you start finding more information which all adds up. Don't worry about missing a cp at the start, it's not possible to progress having missed a cp, nor does the order matter.
Shoutouts
- Skyslide, for helping me with making some objects and general technical TM stuff. <3
- Maxi, helped me with manialink. <3
- Choco, helped me an insane amount with cuts, fixes and tips for my map. <3
- Ozon, big motivation to get back to TM. <3
- Eyebo, I remember him years ago saying he was going to quit tm.. Now I still see him do a huge amount of work for the tm community everyday, tm really wouldn't be what it is without him. <3
- The whole RPG community, thanks for playing in general. <3
CYBER HELL 2K18
Also want to give a big shoutout to 2 of my real life friends, who helped me with some visual art and photoshop some pictures for me, FROGGYMANE & Txllieboi.
"CYBER HELL" originates from an art idea founded by a member of my music collective. If you want to check out some of their art to really form a better idea of the concept "CYBER HELL" I suggest checking their insta's:
froggymane
Txllieboi
Big s/o to froggymane for the screenshot also.
EASTER EGGS
YES I ADDED EASTER EGGS THERE ARE 5 IN TOTAL GOOD LUCK.
<3
Basbaas
p.s shameless selfplug, if you want to check out my music click here.