Since I upload all my videos in 4K for finished UT4 levels, for pure nostalgia, I thought of revisiting the first one I made by upconverting it to 4K and reupload it 🙂 Stevelois UT3 levels was my first YouTube video ever 😀
CTF / Greed maps
Which of my levels you like the most? And why?
Years are passing and since, I’ve release 30 levels for UT4, excluding the variants! I was wondering which of my levels you like the most? And why?
I’m curious to hear from you at my new survey right here if you don’t want to answer in this post 🙂
My levels are (released order which the first is the more recent) :
DM-Triad
DM-Oblevia Part 4 (Remake of UT99 DM-Fractal)
DM-Oblevia Part 3 (Remake of UT99 DM-Morpheus)
DM-Lost In Time
DM-S.M.C. 65
DM-Kyron GrP.
DM-Alpu 2050
DM-Trivial
DM-Oblevia Part 2, Terra (a variant of the initial space version)
DM-Y z e n
DM-CyberPunk
CTF-Ahead
DM-Future Mine
DM-FonDuality
DM-Fondation
DM-Akar CE
DM-Dystopia
DM-Oblevia Part 2 (Remake of UT99 DM-Stalwart XL)
DM-Oblevia Part 1 (Remake of UT99 DM-Oblivion)
DM-Sarr
DM-Qu0
DM-Cruel
DM-Valas
DM-Thaq
DM-Coda
DM-Chroma FPS
DM-Chroma
DM-Dakylian
DM-Elik
DM-Akar
DM-Aryth
DM-Aly
CTF-Infiltrate
DM-Delta
Your opinion plz!
I’m running a little survey at my YouTube channel asking YOU, my dear followers, if ; you prefer watching a gameplay video OR a environment video when I show a new level?
You can add your vote by clicking right here 😀
My levels, in HD please!
After the availability of DM-S.M.C. 65 I decided to modify all my previous levels prior DM-Kyron GrP. so that they look their best visually and the most effective way to achieve this is to uncompress the BC texture so that the texture is original quality. Briefly, I reset the diffuse textures to LOD 0 because that’s where it will make the most impact visually, leaving other textures like bump, mask, metallic, normal, occlusion, roughness, etc. to their LODs that I defined for them at the time. Setting them to LOD 0 would make the levels look even better, but the benefits are substantial over diffuse texture and the files would be 4x larger, so not worth it.
Now that the community is almost gone, most online players are happy to play shell or low detail levels, only me and a few friends play my levels, so there’s no reason to lower the visual quality and we can enjoy them to the fullest, so in HD 😀 When editing them, I also made improvements to AI, lighting, post-processing and then many other improvements, so not only they are prettier, but the bots make better use of the playing field and some issues have been fixed in some of them 🙂 In short, all levels are better!
I will not upload these new HD versions to UTCC, even if they are less than 500 MB as explained here. I will leave previous releases on UTCC, I consider them as SD, SD means Standard quality. If you want to get these HD versions let me know by emailing me or subscribing to my Facebook page, then PM me and I’ll share my MEGA link where all my HD levels and readme are.
Comparisons
Level / UTCC SD size / HD size / UTCC SD version / HD version
CTF-Ahead / 296 MB / 303 MB / 1.0 / 1.1
CTF-Infiltrate / 356 / 420 MB / 1.3.1 / 1.4
DM-Akar / 405 MB / 561 MB / 1.4.1 / 1.5
DM-Akar CE / 405 MB / 562 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
DM-Alpu 2050 / 369 MB / 811 MB / 1.0 / 1.1
DM-Aly / 1.22 GB / HD only / 1.5
DM-Aryth / 123 MB / 153 MB / 1.4 / 1.5
DM-Chroma / 135 MB / 308 MB / 1.1.1 / 1.2
DM-Chroma FPS / 132 MB / 304 MB / 1.1.1 / 1.2
DM-Coda / 246 MB / 496 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
DM-Cruel / 379 MB / 394 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
DM-CyberPunk / 649 MB / HD only / 1.1
DM-Dakylian / 438 MB / 564 MB / 1.3 / 1.4
DM-Delta / 417 MB / 506 MB / 1.4.1 / 1.5
DM-Dystopia / 1.01 GB / HD only / 1.2
DM-Elik / 287 MB / 452 MB / 1.6 / 1.7
DM-Fondation / 420 MB / 486 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
DM-FonDuality / 373 MB / 426 MB / 1.1.1 / 1.2
DM-FutureMine / 374 MB / 472 MB / 1.0 / 1.1
DM-Kyron GrP. / 1.11 GB / HD only / 1.0
DM-Lost In Time / 1.36 GB / HD only / 1.0
DM-Oblevia Part 1 / 166 MB / 178 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
DM-Oblevia Part 2 / 306 MB / 315 MB / 1.1.1 / 1.2
DM-Oblevia Part 2, Terra / 401 MB / 464 MB / 1.0 / 1.1
DM-Oblevia Part 3 / 374 MB / HD only / 1.0
DM-Oblevia Part 4 / 320 MB / HD only / 1.1
DM-Qu0 / 338 MB / 359 MB / 1.2 / 1.3
DM-S.M.C. 65 / 793 MB / HD only / 1.0
DM-Sarr / 325 MB / 414 MB / 1.2 / 1.3
DM-Thaq / 360 MB / 401 MB / 1.2 / 1.3
DM-Trivial / 487 MB / 618 MB / 1.0 / 1.1
DM-Valas / 478 MB / 641 MB / 1.1.1 / 1.2
DM-Y z e n / 452 MB / 897 MB / 1.1 / 1.2
Enjoy my UT4 levels
My last map for UT4 is DM-Alpu 2050. I now stop sharing any new maps automatically as I always have, not because UT4 is officially discontinued but rather due to the lack of feedback, appreciation and recognition from the part of the UT4 community towards them. I still create maps for my own fun and share them on demand only for those who kindly ask for them and appreciate my UT4 dedication.
Until DM-Alpu 2050, I shared any new map automatically with everyone so that way, others can play something else than stock maps. Yep, I was very generous because many maps I created cost me real money by buying packs on Epic Marketplace! It seems that even if I dedicated myself to creating awesome maps from scratch, on top of costing me $$$, doing it all on my own time and for free above that, players didn’t care. My maps was almost completely ignored and feedback was very poor on all forums combined. It’s quite the opposite, players should encourage the few creator that remains by giving their feedback, add their likes on videos, commenting them, sharing them, etc.
For a quick download, all maps are available on UTCC, under the ‘Stevelois maps’ collection.
For those of you who took the time to comment my maps, you will recognize yourself. Thank you, because it is thanks to you alone who encouraged me to continue sharing these. Thanks for all the support by commenting in the map pages, or on Facebook, or on YouTube, it’s a good way of showing your appreciation for high quality free content.
Enjoy them, have fun 😀
My YouTube channel updated
Hi everyone,
I’ve many updated to my YouTube channel since my first post. There is a link in the main right side bar that will lead you there.
All my levels have now a video of them. It can be tricks, matches or simply me browsing the environment alone. As I said before, these videos are a supplement. Those could help give older players a taste for replaying UT4 on levels other than those offered by default. Even new players will be able to appreciate the diversified and unique side that all these levels offer them for free even if on my side, many of them cost me real money 😮
I already received many comments, all positive so it make me happy 🙂 Adding a “like” and writing a comment are always the best way of showing appreciation and support for content creator 😉
My YouTube channel
Hello everyone,
Since october 2011, I have a YouTube channel, which I didn’t really put into use. I decided to record a video for each of my levels, nothing too complicated to then send them to YouTube. Which will allow me to effectively use my long-neglected YouTube account 🙂 There is a link in the main right side bar that will lead you there.
Although each level, in its page, already has images as well as all the description, these videos are a supplement and can be simply a short presentation of my levels, or tricks to draw strategic advantages from them or a game played, just where you can see some tricks in action 😀
In fact I do these uploads so that the game and my levels get more visibility. I’m ±60% done. This could help give older players a taste for replaying UT4 on levels other than those offered by default. Even new players will be able to appreciate the diversified and unique side that all these levels offer them for free even if on my side, many of them cost me real money 😮
CTF-Ahead, final available!
There you are, the final version of CTF-Ahead 😀
The map as been in the wild for an entire month. Players had well enough the time to test it out and provide feedback. Therefore, since the complete indifference or extremely poor feedback I received on Discord, Facebook and my website, if there is a problem, to bad, you had your chances.
I special thank to Alphaeridani, Dsmoke, Mic, Narayana and Wulfgar 63 🙂
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