it doesn't work when i press join game it crashes

+ rep W map

One of the best custom maps available! Loved the helicopter sequence, was so cool to see going in blind to the map. Only gripe was the optimization when you are outside the research facility, lots of things are loaded at the same time and tanks the framerate outside, but relatively minor complaint compared to how fantastic the map itself is.

Immediately coming to play this after seeing the Gmod version

厉害

Great map, enjoyed it a lot, Heres my run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FMZ46dkKtk

great map, the only negative point its the otimization. if you are a singleplayer and casual player, this map is for you. a lot of ammo, balanced amount of runners and awesome mechanics

It actually took me 2 hours to beat this map with like 800+ kills solo

Good map would recommend with friends because holy hell IT IS NOT 30 MINUTES LONG

I played through this with my friends. Most of my friends died early on, I got infected and eventually succumbed at the tunnel explosion bit. I had to guide my friend through doing the objective. Then I had to ghost and tell him where to go because the objective locations are so hard to find with the compass and billions of wrong turns. Finally, I guided my friend to the radio and he repaired it, he called the helicopter. He joked about the helicopter crashing. Then it did crash. He didn't have the will to go on and blew his brains out. The ending of this map is dookie, you have to fuel up a snowcat. Why didn't we just do that in the first place?

all of my friends died early on, i finally made it to the helipad after 1:30 hour of gameplay and made the joking remark the heli would crash, it crashed and I lost the will to go on and blew my brains out

Best map!

Great map but i feel like there might be an issue with the spawn points? We just played it on the server but no one spawned at the first spawn point, and only serveral guys spawned at the second one.

Gave it a shot. Optimization is fine, had minor FPS drops but that's due to my old video card. Gameplay was perfect, loved the generosity with ammo. Just the right amount of difficulty, would be lying if I said I didn't sweat my hands off during the tunnel segment with the valves. 10/10.

Keep on mapping!!!

Thanks to everyone for the bug reports and your patience with the various issues. This new updated version includes the proper cubemaps for both HDR & SDR as well as a range of other bug fixes and improvements.

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Breaking the ice to drop down the ladder for others doesnt seem to work. Ladder is blocked and youre unable to climb up it. If you try to climb down youll climb for a second, fall off and take fall damage.

Amazing update. Optimizations made map playable for everyone though some players still complain about lag, but they really play on ultra potato computers. You could try disable the shadows for all small and irrelevant props and for all npc_nmrih_ entities, I'm positive it will add a small improvement for 5-10 fps. Also, we noticed that, while playing on casual (respawn mode), players would respawn nearby one of their alive teammate and still have the snowy env_screenoverlay and, then they are stuck with it with no means of cleaning their screen. I suggest killing the env_screenoverlay_multiplayer entity after a while, for example, after third objective is completed, kill this entity.

Outstanding map! Good job.
As people already mentioned, cubemaps need fixing but except for that, I didn't encounter any serious issues

All metal surfaces have purple or pure white lightning. Console keeps spamming "Too many vertex format changes in frame, whole world not rendered" Also "Couldn't get HDR 'maps/nmo_blizzard/c758_-6377_-933.hdr' -- Trying non HDR 'maps/nmo_blizzard/c758_-6377_-933'
Failed, using default cubemap 'engine/defaultcubemap'
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Optimization is almost nonexistent.

No comments about the gameplay yet. I can't play when my eyes hurt looking at those reflections.

Thank you for crafting this near perfect map. The detail, difficulty and backtracking was flawless!

Good to hear HACKFRAUD, thanks for giving it another try.

Runs much better now, even unpatched version ran ok once you walk 200m and get out of the spawn area.

Just beat it solo. The framerate was definitely better, and I appreciated the dorm keycard tweak (curse my psychological need to break every box I see...). It really is a solid, fun map with gorgeous visuals. Thanks for updating it!

Performance issues seem to be completely fixed, had a solid 60FPS the entire play through, really excellent map, high level of attention to detail, really in a league of it's own.

Just uploaded a new version which should hopefully improve performance a good deal. We are looking to make further improvements in this area but this should be a good first step

havent play it properly yet but its looking great, really nice atmosphere

Thanks for making this map, it cured my crippling fear of people being stuck in snow.

Spawned turned around and got 10 FPS
https://youtu.be/l2gEK64fc6c?t=5
I'll check it out later, I loved nmo_ghostport and nmo_extra.

Sorry for the poor performance, working on optimization now.

As for the func_precipitation particle snow Dysphie, that sadly is not an option because those snow particles contribute to a hard map particle limit of around 4000 that will just straight up close your game with no error message when exceeded and we already use a lot of other particle systems, hence the snowfall being props in the first place.

Really cool design, the snowy zombies are very cute. The problem is, even with ultra fps config + everything on ultra low I have no more than 30-50 fps which is not what I would call playable fps range. You have to consider that the vast majority of nmrih players are playing on potato computers and they have even less than 30 fps.

The map could use a lot of optimization techniques. If everything fails, consider using fog with small far z distance. Looking forward for the next version.

New map🔥🔥

Great ambience and the custom snowy models are a really nice touch. Performance is really bad for most players though (<30 FPS) making it nearly unplayable in some areas. I checked with r_drawothermodels 2 and the whole map is visible from spawn, consider revising visclusters or adding occluders. You could also reduce snowfall prop_statics and use func_precipitation with "Particle Snow" instead

I can tell a lot from the screenshots alone that a lot of love and thought went into this map. Amazing feats of work, i'll try the map out when i'm back from my holiday break

Outstanding! Truly! I've yet to finish the map, is it is quite difficult (this is a good thing). But from what I've played it is definitely up there as one of the best custom maps made for this game. The snowy texture for the zombies, zombies stuck in the floor, and the blizzard it'self adds so much to the atmosphere. The lighting inside the actual base itself is superb. Been a long time since I was afraid to turn a corner in this game.

And the multiple references to The Thing were awesome, I recognized them instantly. Only problem I've had is the blizzard in the beginning tanked my fps a bit. Was rocking 15-20 until I made it to the ladder to the camp outskirts. But Idk if that's because it's too much or because my computer is ass (My computer is ass), so I'm not docking points for that. You 2 are quickly becoming my favorite map makers. 10/10 would recommend.

Thanks for the response! For the kennel, I think I broke the crates before realizing the keycard was above me and that props would be necessary to reach it. I noticed that the crates in the tunnel by the valve/dynamite objective were made sturdy so they couldn't easily be broken - perhaps the ones in the kennel should be changed to be the same way?

Thanks for your feedback Qwazzy, glad you enjoyed it. Agree completely with your points and will see if we can work on the sticking points. Unfortunately, we weren't able to get the flare gun to work for lighting the gas - if anybody has any ideas on that front please message me. A molotov should do the trick though, if you can find one.

There should be a few props lying about in the kennels for climbing - it's possible they were broken or lost somehow. I'll see if we can make that section work a little better. Cheers!

(Forgot to add, but if you're reading these comments right now trying to decide whether or not to try this one - DEFINITELY try it. Even if you don't complete it, the map's atmosphere and ambience is phenomenal and worth seeing for yourself.)

It's obvious a lot of attention and care went into this map. The whole snow aesthetic is very cool, from the hills to the zombie skins to the falling snow in the air. The effects of zombies breaking through things, rising from the snow, and more were great ways to keep things tense. It definitely felt on the tougher side of maps, especially playing solo, but not unfairly so. And I also appreciate the use of the newer features like carrying keycards in your inventory and having an on-screen timer for "hold out for X minutes" objectives.

I do have three minor feedbacks/nitpicks (depending on how you view them) if it helps.

1) The "use flare to light the gas on fire" objective was somewhat confusing - I was thinking of the flares received at the start of the game, and died trying to shoot the gas can with the flare gun. Only on my second try did I notice there was a very specific mission-tagged flare prop I was supposed to use instead.
2) Zombies spawning on the curved snow sometimes glitched, being half-inside the snow and walking in place, unable to move. I even had a crawler zombie that was completely hidden under the ground (only seen by their shadow) who could still grab and bite me. I had to smack at the ground several times before I got a lucky angle that struck a part of their body instead of the floor and killed it.
3) I might be dumb, but I never did manage to figure out how to reach the dorm keycard in the kennel. I tried looking for props to stand on or move, I tried shooting the boards holding the arm up, but nothing seemed to have any effect. I ended up just noclipping to it.