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Lunar Darkness

Future Editor's Note: A goofy but kind of bad map overall.

The year is, uh, well, vaguely in the future I guess LIGAF

Anyways, NASA is rebooting the Apollo missions in hopes of mining it out and "earning more cash moneys than the crook from Garry's '015 Thuglife incident", says the top director. However, in the time between when we last sent something to the moon and now, there's an atmosphere for some reason, so the directors at NASA decided to build a base on the dark side of the moon and send a research team there (you) because "If this stuff was done by aliens, we would have seen the little guys running around on the light side by now".

Hastily and desperately improvised in 2 days.

A little FAQ:
Q: Is this a horror map?
A: Horror is subjective. That said, this isn't an "Adventure map" with a linear path, and there are no explicit, intentional jump scares designed into the map.

Q: What is the mapname in the menu?
A: It's gm_moon_invasion and should be in the sandbox catagory

Q: How big is this map?
A: Not very.

Q: Is the gravity reduced on the map to reflect the real moon?
A: Yes. The map takes your default sv_gravity value and divides it by 6, because the moon has 1/6th of the gravitational acceleration on the surface that Earth does. The default earth gravity is 600. If you're having gravity issues when you loaded up the map, check your sv_gravity value. If it's anything other than 600, change it back to 600 and reload the map to be sure.

Q: Why is this map so bad?
A: I made this map several years ago and didn't know what I was doing. There was a point during which I used Entity spawners to spawn antlions, then I learned afterwards that you're supposed to use NPC spawners to do that sort of thing instead. I thought "Eh, can't be bothered", and uploaded it as is. This results in spontaneously dying antlions and performance drops every five or so minutes, or however long it takes the antlion timer to make them respawn.

Q: Will you ever improve this map?
A: I don't think I have a backup of the .map file for this map anywhere on hand, so it may never receive an update. The only way I could improve this without the original .map file would be to scrap it and make a new one altogether. I haven't finished a map in several years. I have a much more recent (think months old, not years old) but unfinished map on my laptop's hard drive that I could finish, just waiting for me to dig it up and add more to it as inspiration strikes, but I have a lot I'm doing in my life right now and my attention is split. If I return to Garry's Mod mapping, that unfinished map (a liminal space style one) takes priority over a Lunar Darkness remake.