Half-Cab v3

Fusing two distinct styles of gameplay, Half-Cab creates an experience unique to its brand of exhilarating, arcade-style action.

Defenders

The VIP team (defenders) must taxi their VIP to the destinations on their mongeese, but there's a problem: the VIP only has enough money for three minutes of travel. Oh, and there's also an elite team of snipers attempting to keep him from reaching these important destinations, and they will do anything in their power to slow him down until time runs out.

Only the driver of the VIP can be killed; everyone else is invulnerable. This is made possible by the VIP Proximity Traits, which affect any drivers within 10 meters of the VIP.

One of the best aspects of Half-Cab is the elaborate decoy system that the VIP team can set up to confuse the snipers. To name a few of the multitude of strategies they can employ, they can run different patterns, switch the VIP's driver when behind cover, or even drive their mongeese straight into the sniper box to distract their fire. There are four bubble shields spread throughout the map for the VIP team to use to create cover to assist in their recovery of the VIP. The bubble shields have a 30 second respawn time.
New: The 3 bubble shields inside the main-area of the map are inside Custom Powerups. These allow the non-VIP's to pick up bubble shields. This makes the bubble shields a much larger part in Half-Cab, and it is a good strategy for one of the non-VIP's to always be carrying a bubble shield so he can use it as soon as the VIP's driver is killed.

Attackers

The non-VIP team (attackers) are trapped inside a double box, they cannot escape from it, but they can shoot through it. They must snipe the driver of the VIP (2 body shots or 1 head shot) and anyone attempting to pick up the VIP once they enter his influential radius in order to slow down the VIP team and keep them from scoring points. (NOTE: VIP Destinations are the only way to score points. Each team has 2 rounds as the VIP team.)The snipers have one other weapon at their disposal: a missile pod. Use it carefully! It only has 8 shots. Don't waste them. It is a good strategy to wait to fire until you are sure that you a firing at the VIP's mongoose, otherwise, the missiles will be wasted.
New: A second missile pod spawns half-way through each round, at 1:30 (90 seconds). It allows the snipers a second chance to rain fiery explosive death upon the VIP. Watch out! It only has 8 shots.

The Gametype

Changes:
- The Custom Powerup allowed the VIP 150% speed, which ruined the game. This has been changed as of 4/12/09 7:21 PM PST. If you have an earlier version, please update it.

Even teams: 8+ players recommended
Single VIP Enabled
4 rounds - 3 minute time limit.
Score to Win: 50
Goal Arrival Points 1, everything else 0
Goals: Enabled - Move on Arrival - Movement Order Random
Respawn Time: 5 seconds

VIP:- invulnerable
- immune to head shots
- 0% damage
- primary weapon magnum
- weapon pickup enabled (for bubble shields only)
- 50% speed
- vehicle use: passenger only
- good camo
- way point visible to allies

VIP Proximity:- influence radius 10 meters
- 100% damage resistance
- normal shields
- shield recharge rate 90%
- not immune to head shots
- 125% speed
- nothing else changed

VIP Team:- invulnerable
- immune to headshots
- 0% damage
- primary weapon magnum
- weapon pickup disabled
- 200% speed
- 150% gravity
- vehicle use: full

Custom Powerup:- duration 5 seconds
- run time minimum 3/3 (instant respawn)
- weapon pickup enabled

Sniper Team:- invulnerable (no suicides with missile pod)
- 100% damage
- primary weapon sniper rifle
- infinite ammo
- weapon pickup enabled (for the missile pod)
- vehicle use none

The Map

An overview of the map.
Note: A teleporter takes the VIP team from the VIP Spawn to the Mongoose Spawn.

An overview of the map from above the cliff.

An overview from above the sniper base.

...from the eyes of a sniper.

An overview from the right of the sniper base.

A close-up of the cave.

The Sniper Base. Notice the sniper barrels poking out of it...

...That is the sniper team. They are trapped inside the double box, but can still shoot out of it.

This is what it looks like from the inside of the double box. The first missile pod spawns at start and doesn't respawn.

The VIP Spawn. The teleporter takes them...

...to the Mongoose Spawn. The receiver node is located directly under the bubble shield, making it so that the VIP automatically picks it up.
New: The VIP team spawn is set up this way to ease initial confusion when one spawns, smooth the flow of the spawn area by changing the horizontal movement and setup of Half-Cab v2 to a forward setup, and allow the VIP to pick up to bubble shield without having waste the time walking to it or skip it all together.

The VIP team is ready to go within the first 5 seconds of the game.

The VIP

Watch out! Although the VIP is invulnerable, when sniped, he can sometimes give away which mongoose he's on.

No Spartans were harmed in the making of this screen shot.
That is because the VIP makes a great meat-shield when being driven away from the snipers. This often times keeps the snipers from realizing the VIP is on that mongoose.

Remember than anyone near the VIP can be killed, which can be used to make the snipers believe they killed the real driver, but they actually didn't.

The VIP, though invisible most of the time, can easily seen by the snipers when on an ice lake.

If the VIP's driver is killed, the rest of his team must attempt to recover him.

When this happens, the snipers must attempt to snipe anyone attempting to pick up their VIP when they get withing 10 meters of him. They slow down from 200% speed to 125% speed, allowing the snipers to kill them more easily...

...which can turn a few dead drivers into many dead drivers. It's too bad they never thought of using a bubble shield.

Links

Map: Half-Cab v3

Gametype: Taxi Me