Your mission still throws syntax errors when we load it in console. Please fix the syntax errors and update the thread again; your position on the queue hasn't been moved, so once you fix the small errors you'll be a high-priority test.

Demo: https://demos.potato.tf/judging/mvm_condemned_b3_adv_horzine_hospitality_1561167610.dem

Wave 1:
- Wave ran very short (2 minutes). Needs some more stuff added
- Solid wave otherwise, if a bit bland
Wave 2:
- First tank should come earlier, they were too spaced together
Wave 3:
- Another solid but very short wave. Needs more added before the boss
Wave 4:
- Good wave, still a little on the short side. Bit of a difficulty spike near the middle, consider toning it down slightly
Wave 5:
- Giant bomber demomen might need to be toned down a little, but otherwise another solid wave
Wave 6:
- Enjoyable wave overall

Overall: the mission runs a bit short (total runtime: 21 min). It needs some more added to waves 1 and 3. The difficulty is in a good place in my opinion. It gets passes from myself and Erikku, but kratos would like to see it get a little more strength before it passes.

Demos:
Gameplay: https://demos.potato.tf/judging/mvm_coastrock_rc1_1_adv_pirate_domination_1561163664.dem
Post-game: https://demos.potato.tf/judging/mvm_coastrock_rc1_1_adv_pirate_domination_1561167214.dem

Hey everyone,

We've moved the Madness vs. Machines judging and testing queue onto Trello (making it easier for us to see at a glance who's been waiting long for us to run their mission).

You can find the queue here.[trello.com]

Here's a bit of a legend:

• The due dates on each card are the dates of the most recent test requests. Submissions with older requests (who have been waiting the longest) are at the top of the queue.
  
• Red due dates mean the submission is still waiting for a response for judging/testing. Green due dates mean the submission has been responded to.
  
• Label colors are as follows:
  • Yellow: Intermediate mission
    
  • Orange: Advanced mission
    
  • Red: Expert mission
    
  • Purple: Map submission
    
  • Grey: Disqualified

The column names and organization should be self-explanatory.

To be clear: we aren't changing the way missions are tested. Judges will still run your missions and leave feedback on each submission's thread, and pre-judges will still run the first couple of tests on your missions to ensure they're suitable for us to run. The Trello board only makes our lives easier and allows you to see exactly where you are in the queue.

If you have any questions, suggestions on how we can better lay out the queue, or don't see your submission anywhere on the queue, please let us know below.

Sorry it took us so long to get to this. The queue's been crowded, and it looks like you got lost in the cracks.

General feedback:
- Consider toning down some of the more major damage checks and difficulty spikes in the mission.
- Try lowering tank HP slightly in some places (watch demo for more info)

Wave 3:
- Consider reducing the pace these steel gauntlets come in, they were a bit too strong of a damage check this early in the mission

Wave 4:
- Tone down AI on the heavies (from hard to normal) or remove crits from them (they were a little too strong of a health check)

Wave 7:
- Icon for spammer demoman giant didn't show (consider using one of the icons from the accepted icons list[hydrogen-mvm.github.io] instead)

--- Missing Vgui material vgui/../hud/leaderboard_class_demo_rapid_giant

This mission is very close to passing, it just needs some minor adjustments to smooth out these difficulty spikes. Please watch the demos to see exactly where we struggled and where it could be toned down a little.

Gameplay: https://demos.potato.tf/prejudging/mvm_barren_final_adv_binary_breaker_1561081685.dem
Post-game discussion: https://demos.potato.tf/prejudging/mvm_barren_final_adv_binary_breaker_1561085618.dem

Fiefdom Fiasco Version 1.1.0 changelog:

- General & Templates:
- Bomb now resets after 60s.
- Template popfile has been passed over and most bots now have proper standard icons (Kritz medics, demoknights, samurai soldiers, etc.)
- Giant Demoknight charge cooldown extended by 4x, from 12s to 60s
- Shovel Soldiers replaced with Whip Soldiers to stay within standard icons

- Wave 1:
- Removed 8 demoknights from end of wave
- Wave 2:
- Kritz medics now have the proper icons
- Giant Samurai Soldiers have been replaced with Giant Equalizer Soldiers
- Increased tempo in beginning of wave
- Increased MaxActive of gauntlet heavies from 4 to 9
- Increased TotalCount to from 20ish to 27
- Increased SpawnCount from 2 to 3
- Reduced WaitBetweenSpawns from 12 to 8
- Increased TotalCount of demoknight champions from 3 to 5
- Rest of wave now continues once demoknight champ subwave is dead instead of waiting for all gauntlets to spawn
- Wave 3:
- Giant Warrior Heavy now only heals 1k HP per kill
- Decreased WaitBetweenSpawns for support demoknights from 7 to 5 seconds
- Removed TotalCount limit on support demoknights
- Giant Pyros are now accompanied by two Champion Powerjacks each
// Note: This part of the wave looked like it could use more activity, so the giant pyros now have more backup
- Increased TotalCount of Milk Scouts from 20 to 30
- Wave has been lengthened considerably; money in wave has been redistributed across new bots (no extra money was added)
- 25k tank spawns after last pyro giant is killed
- Two Giant Charge Demoknights spawn shortly after the tank spawns (20 seconds)
// Note: This should put the wave over the 5 minute mark

- Wave 4
- Increased tempo in beginning of wave
- New and improved angry mob to start off the wave (no extra money was added)

- Wave 5
- Increased tempo in beginning of wave
- Bots that used to spawn one at a time now spawn much more quickly
- Increased SpawnCount of Samurai Soldiers and Crit KGBs to 4 and 2, respectively
- Increased SpawnCount of Huntsmen and Crossbow Medics to 3
- Lowered their WaitBetweenSpawns to 6 and 4, respectively
- To compensate for now slower wave, threw a quick crit angry mob in there as well
- Lowered WaitBetweenSpawns for Giant Cannon Demos with Giant Kritz Medics from 25 to 20 sec
- Increased speed of Giant Escape Plan Soldiers

- Wave 6
- Bosses actually spawn now (don't ever set WaitForAllSpawned for a Support wave)
- Reduced heal on kill on demoknight boss from 2000 to 1000
- Added IgnoreFlag to demoknight boss

Feel free to test this with 2 or even 3 Demoknights. Enjoy.

Version 1.1.0: https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbp2l7h40rl1iia/fiefdom_fiasco.zip?dl=0

Tested. You can find our feedback in the demo file here: https://demos.potato.tf/judging/mvm_powerplant_rc1_adv_particle_protocol_1560644351.dem

10/10 on the mission name

My advice is import a stock Valve icon and follow the settings that they have. That's how I figured out the settings for my icons.

In this case, that means leaving mipmaps and level of detail enabled. Just to confirm, you might want to check other stock icons and make sure they have the same settings. If it's good enough for Valve to use in official missions, it's good enough for us.

In light of the desperate need of easy syntax highlighting support for popfile creation, I've created an extension for Visual Studio Code that adds syntax highlighting, with future support for auto-completion, IntelliSense, syntax validation, and prettification for popfiles.


- Case-insensitive syntax highlighting for all valid popfile field names (WaitForAllDead, Attributes, etc.) as well as for all valid item and character attributes (dmg taken from fire increased, reload speed increased, etc.) Never suffer misspelled attributes again, thanks to custom highlighting rules.

Future additions:

- Automatic format validator for popfiles
- Prettifier for completed popfiles
- Syntax validation for fields and WaveSpawn names


VSCode (short for Visual Studio Code) is a free and open-source source code editor developed by Microsoft for Windows, Linux and macOS. It includes support for debugging, embedded Git control, syntax highlighting, intelligent code completion, snippets, and code refactoring. It is also highly customizable, so users can change the editor's theme, keyboard shortcuts, and preferences. Also, it's pretty as hell, with a ton of awesome themes. You can download VSCode here.[code.visualstudio.com]


Notepad++ has been the standard for MvM popfile editing for a while. Unfortunately, it lacks convenient language support for popfiles, does not support auto brace/quote closing by default, and, most importantly, doesn't have a dark theme by default. While VSCode is slightly heavier on memory resources, it makes up for it by being much more feature-rich.


Please leave any comments or questions on the extension on this thread; it'll be updated regularly to incorporate feedback from the MvM community. Enjoy!

Version 1.0.0: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AtRyXGczDVAvqGbiFVrjULOaDlTj

Name: Facinorous Feud
Entry type: Mission
Contributors: Swordstone, signalmax
Map: Frostwynd
Difficulty: Intermediate

This is the stock intermediate mission accompanying Frostwynd's map submission. The map's intermediate mission, Fiefdom Fiasco, can be found here.

I made these missions for signalmax back in the CC days but, because of some miscommunication on both of our parts, we ended up not being able to submit them. Frostwynd is back from the dead, though, and here are the missions accompanying it.