the walker did you lost your sanity?

hey i got this, the map for gmod was a building patheon like prison for 2D and 3D nextbots until at night time when the nextbots made a scream so loud, that the doors explode on fire, in 4829 b.c in gm infinite town the players did some stuff to make the gmod clean 2000 players stormed the buildings in then 4830 a.d during the very first valvepunch festival, a festival where saxxies and sfms are made to enjoy both players and admins but then, the nextbots both 2d and 3d stormed in angry to kill player and admins, the mayor, costof5 shut down the server, and the server closed forever and ever... the end.

*claps hands* i love this this is a master peice thank you for this.

funny ween refrence

ah yes I love it when all of my npcs fall off the edge all the time constantly neverending falling AAAAAAAAAH

this is a really awesome map

there's a qr code in the pit that destroys everything, it leads to this video
https://youtu.be/boD7SxCxRdA

ive spent countless hours in this map, its such a good sandbox map to do whatever, great work!

Really good map lost of cool secrets and very enjoyable with friends

Thank you

I wasn't reading the map description and I found out how the altar works in game, so I was quite scared. Nice map.

@Zeitghost You kill an npc or player on the little stone platform that has blood on it, one of the 4 corners, next to the arena, the one with the red concrete and the triangular arches.

how would one find how to get the "eye encounter" everyone's talking about? and what is it?

↓ A map, you idiot

bruh what am I looking at

good map for my star wars battles

@OnTheMatter ho do i check the file integrity and what is a file integrity?

@librik wait, no, that button only disables the eye teleportation, I forgot. So you probably have something jank preventing the lua hook from running correctly or otherwise at all.

@librik Are you playing in Sandbox mode? The sacrifice area is based on lua code, so the only thing that could be stopping it from running is either the lua hook not being able to run, or the button in the room beneath where the eye altar is has been pressed (or activated in some way) and so the eye is toggled as disabled. I'd try messing with the buttons down there and then trying the altar again, or maybe check if you have any jank addons that could be disabling the lua script from starting up.

@OnTheMatter nothing changed. it just kicked me off of gmod again. :(

@OnTheMatter thanks for the tip and i like you're profile!

i tried that but it did nothing

okay.

@librik Kill an npc or player on the small altar with the blood on it

but how do you get the eye to appear?

@Plane The map seems to be working fine on my end, I'd try unsubscribing and then resubscribing to the map, and if it's crashing your game then I'd check the file integrity of gmod as well.

when ever i try to go on this map it just kicks me off of gmod please fix this.

how do you get the eye to appear tell me.

Just so you know, that longer cypher was actually 2 keywords in sequence, one applied after another, and that's why it probably appears to be gibberish. Since you got it anyways, and it's a bit ridiculous to expect getting the original keywords, it was "meetwhentheeasthitsthewest", followed by "youreyesmeetingminegoodbye", not sure if the order really matters, in fact it might be backwards. The keywords themselves are indeed related to themes of the map, largely stuff like how the map is mirrored between nature and conflict, a nihilistic void surrounding a pagan altar, etc. Lots of bits involving culture, albeit the keywords themselves are fairly artsy and rambly. The QR codes are related, although there is an intentional split between the in-game story, and the motivations driving the creation of the map. That one was more blunt than the rest to my knowledge, not really the main motivation behind the map, more just upset ramblings. It's cheesy, but it fits with the main idea.

thank you for responding though, didnt think id get much out of a comment asking you about it lol

i will however note that at first, i thought they were two-square ciphers, and i thought i needed to find themes and parts of the map that would give me the decryption key. however, i was a bit disappointed that they werent that in-depth. maybe thats an idea for your next map..?

if its any consolation, i found that one of the longer ciphers decoded easier than the others as it was a cipher method i wont discuss if people wanna find it themselves. but i had a tool that told me the cipher type and had a brute force decoding method based on AI. thats quite a vent you had there lol. but i thought the QR codes were just random. did they have any tie-in with the ciphers or were they their own separate thing?

@xXFurrySlayer420Xx (Florian) The keywords are mostly related to culture , east and west, and meloncholic expressions of...romantic feelings, from what I remember, although one of them (and its paired cypher) is in Romanized Mandarin Chinese as well. The cyphers were largely just meant to be used as a means to vent and to express my thoughts into text, and so I did not make them easily solveable, which is definitely not what I should have done looking back. The cyphers and keys should all be legible, just without spaces and all in lowercase, short phrases or words. The cyphers are more personal and blunt than the QR codes. I really was unhappy, and mostly found solace in making a map in this manner, the house , or rather, room, seemed very small. It was a similar case with gm_construct_bay as well.

@xXFurrySlayer420Xx (Florian) I appreciate your interest, sorry that I didn't see your discussion until now, I just started college. When I made this map, I was feeling very depressed. The cyphers and their keys (I used a very basic "keyword" cypher generator website, I believe the braingle com one) are largely as a result of that, largely being related to the map's main theme of nihilism consuming everything, involving Culture. I was unwell at the time, and felt very nostalgic to time I spent in China, the cyphers are a romantic feverdream relating to this and to the map's main theme. The cyphers should be solvable, I made sure to check them, but I really should have put actual hints for what the keys are, aside from some vague connections to QR code messages.

@OnTheMatter ive been trying for about a week now trying to crack these ciphers youve placed all over the map. are there any hints that you can give me to point me in the right direction to get a start on unravelling the mysteries of your creation?

Map is great, but I have one slight problem, can you make the floating islands look more floating? It looks really weird when they just have one or two spikes to show that they were picked up off of the ground. Overall, the map is a 11/10.

@MasterEscapist935 The video in the gallery section here showcases it, you just need to sacrifice an NPC or player on it and based on its Max HP it will teleport you somewhere different, the theme being that the stronger the NPC is, the better the destination will be.

How do I use the altar?

OK, thanks.

@The Middle East My steam notifications have been acting a little strange lately, sorry for the late reply. You're free to do as you wish, if you found an easter egg, you are free to share it, I would just suggest doing that "spoiler" tag thing, spoiler , just as a courtesy. Thanks for playing on the map!

@OnTheMatter I found an easter-egg, I don't know if you're fine with me sharing it though. Asking permission before I do

the center area has a super nostalgic vibe, but i can't quite put my finger on why

@NotKevinBacon I just am unsure what would cause lag in this map aside from the large skybox size, which itself is mostly empty space and so isn't adding to any over-drawing issues; the GM.RenderScene hook at the top should cover most map lag but it seems about how it consistently does in most maps. I'm curious about this as well since for the most part I really have not had nearly the same issues with performance with this map personally as I have with some others, notably maps with a lot of water like gm_construct_bay. I maintained relatively good performance, especially for a "box" map like this. Although it doesn't catch everything, I just wanted to recommend that addon since I have had some truly strange things eat up performance in the background, like the terraria bosses and the infinity gauntlet swep from what I recall. Do let me know if you still have lag without the addons.

I've tried using the tool you posted, and pasted the results in pastebin: https://pastebin.com/tiux8Cps

I'll try running it without any addons, but... I have no idea what would cause it. I run maps that *should* cause more lag than this, but this map is almost unplayable to me. Severe FPS lag every two-three seconds

@NotKevinBacon This map is optimized more than most maps you'll see on here, and it seems to run well enough on my potato of a laptop (especially since the map doesn't have fancy water), perhaps you just have some addons causing lag in the background. I'd check this laggy hook finder addon out to make sure, a lot of addons run and eat up performance when they shouldn't be, it can get ridiculous at times :

https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=682765484

lag

Fun map!

bro these qr codes are funny and a bit scary

holy crap i found an floating eye on this map

Day by day, we add more to our concrete jungle, but what good is to come of it? We all heard the same cries as the sky split into two.