10th Anniverary - Highlighting a BM Map from 2009 Aussie PC Mag Giving KP For Free 10th Anniverary - Highlighting a DM Map from 2008 Ten Years Old Today 2007's Highlighted Map Is DM Backstreets Single Player Mappacks - Gulag

There have only been a few new maps released this year so far so I am choosing In the Cold Light of Day as the map to highlight from 2009.
This is a map I started in 2008 and worked on for several months before finaly releasing it in April of this year. I think I put more effort into this map than any others I have worked on.

It is a medium/large size, urban style, DM map for Kingpin. The map is set in an urban city environment so there are many buildings, streets and intersecting passageways.
Most of the action takes place out in the streets but the are fire escapes on some of the buildings and all drainpipes can be climbed up to access some higher areas.A few of the buildings can be entered but as I said before most of the action is focused on the outside areas.
I have done my best to present a feeling of urban decay by having rubbish strewn around the place, a burnt out police car in the street, rubble in some areas from crumbling walls and ceilings, graffiti on many of the buildings, broken walls and bricked up windows etc.
The map uses mostly standard textures but there are a few custom textures featured. There are also two custom sounds included.
There are plenty of player spawns and ample weapons and other items.
You can download In the Cold Light of Day from here.

There is also a larger version of the map included in the zipfile. In the Cold Light of Day (large version) is primarlity the same map except that it includes a train station area as well.

In this month's edition of the PC games magazine PC Powerplay they have a special offer where you can download one of three games from GoG.com for free. The way it works is they have put a code on the cover disk DVD and you input that unique code at GoG.com and then you can download the free game. I'm only mentioning this because one of the games is Kingpin.
In this section where they explain their offer this is what they say about KP:-

Want violence and coarse language and lead pipes you can beat people to death with? Seek proffessional help. Or let off some steam with this: the classic thug-shooter-beater-whatever - multiplayer is a real eye-opener-and-gouger-outer-too!

Let's hope at some stage GoG.com will team up with other PC games mags to offer the same deal again =)

I couldn't go past Hypov8's Hypoville North when looking for a map to highlight from 2008.
Hypoville North is a remake of one of his earlier maps called Hypo Urb. It's a cut down version of Hypo Urb but is still medium to large in size. It's set in an decaying urban environment so fits in well with the KP theme and is, I would say, similar in style to KPDM3 and KPDM4. It has ample weapons and items, 17 player spawns and one or two surprises.
It's a Hypo map so you know the quality is going to be high.
You can download Hypoville North from here.

There were not a great deal of maps released in 2008 but the ones that were released were generally of good quality. Two others I would like to mention from that year are:-

Wasted City
Kingpin Board Level

Today , Tuesday 30th June, is the 10th anniversary of the release of Kingpin. I hope you will all help celebrate this occassion by jumping into your favourite server for a few games.
We have a game planned on our Legacy server where you could start your Kingpin night of fragging =)

Date : Tuesday 30th of June
Name : Kingpin Legacy Server
Time : 7.30pm Chicago time
IP : 216.234.116.11:31532

Anyways just try and make time to have a few maps at any of the 20 or so Kingpin servers that re currently running.

Not that many PC games are still being played after ten years, especially one that was considered controversial at the time and banned from many large retail chains. A game where the company who created it dissolved on the day it was released and a game that has not been readily available, at least until recently via GoG.com, for many years. It just shows what a great game it is to survive such adversity and still have a few people celebrating it's Decennial (lol I looked that word up in Wiki).

Tuesday Night Game

2007's highlighted map is DM Backstreets by Creamator.

This one is a medium sized/large map with an urban street setting. Much of the action takes place in the street or on the roofs but some buildings can be entered as well. There are ample weapons and items and Crem included a custom sky which suits the map very well.
One of the reasons I like this map is because he was able to include some single player props in the map which show up in DM. I never worked out how to do that.
You can download DM Backstreets from here.

Gulag was the third episode of the five pack series by Wheelbarrow. It's probably my favourite one of all five. It continues the player's story in his fight against the big crime gangs...
The Story:
There is a big meeting of gang members from all over the country planned in an old dis-used internment camp (gulag) in one of the Eastern Block countries. The gangs figure this is the only way to have such a meeting and not get interrupted by the free world authorities.
You have followed the gang members over there (because you're psychotic), to this 'gulag' on the outskirts of a large Eastern BLock city, where you're determined to take out as many as you can. Airport security removed all you're weaponry prior to boarding the plane, so all you got is your trusty pipe to start with, and a bill for the removal van needed to take your weaponry from the airport to a local storage facility:)
The gang members have been made aware of a possible attack on their meetings, but they don't know who or how many, so an all-out effort has been made to get ready for the assault. Everyone is on guard, all the power has been brought back on-line, and even some of the original facilities (read: gas chambers etc.) are back in working order, so keep your eyes open, and be aware of possible traps. Some of their weapons are stored on the other side of these "facilities". You will also find the ever-present 'crates', but hey, come on, they ain't eating any of that 'foreign commie crap',and there was no way they were leaving their own 'hardware' behind.
You can download Gulag from here.

A few notes on the pack from Wheelbarrow:
You start the unit hanging on a grappling hook, so when the level begins, look around before moving.
When it's snowing, even though the r_speeds are ok, you may find it runs a bit slower than normal in places.(Non Ninja PC's only). There's not a lot of color in these maps, and a LOT of lights; it's an old prison camp, remember.
As you begin each map, you'll get a short message telling you what part of the old prison camp you're entering, to give you an idea of what's ahead; maybe...
I've tried using dynamite in this pak. Unfortunately you can't pick it up, but if you see some laying around, you can shoot it, and it will explode. You may also come across trip wires in the level; the dynamite attached to these is not shootable, it is set off by the wire. Watch where you walk!
In one of the levels you will have to get power to an exit door in order to move on; once you have found the "power distribution center" level, you will NOT be able to leave it until you route the power to the door. You can then exit the same way you got in.
Last note..one of the maps has 2 exits to the following map...1 exit is survivable, the other is not....heheh...you gotta find out which one....Good luck!

The map I am highlighting that was released in 2006 is 10th Street by Sonik. This one is a definite crowd pleaser in the servers.
This is a small, multi level, classic urban style city map. It has enough weapons'n'stuff and a high level of detail. It's a classic little custom made map.
You can download 10th Street from here.

There were many good maps released in 2006 but two others I thought I would mention as well are Base Command by DooDaa which is a map set in an army camp and Frag Arena by AB|Jones. It's a small arena style map and with a few ppl the action is intense :)

Base Command
Frag Arena

As part of the 10th Anniversary weekend there is a Sunday night game planned for the Detropolis Custom Maps Server starting around 7.30pm New York time.

Sunday Night At Detropolis

Name : Detropolis Custom Masp Server
Date : Sunday June 29th
Time : 7.30pm EST (New York)
IP : 216.234.116.11:31510
[VG]FlashyDave will hopefully be on hand to get the game going.

Friday and Saturday Night Games

Hope you can make it for a game =)

The map I am highlighting from 2005 is a Bagman map called Team Bloodcity. This map was originally made for the King of the Streets mod by Turbo and has in 2005 was converted to a BM map by me.

This is a medium sized Bagman map but looks a lot larger than it actually is with some long and short ways to get between the two bases. The two bases are a disused Police station and a Casino and the money drop is in a fountain. There are several routes between the bases, lots of weapons and items, a crashed Police car,custom sounds, a custom sky, pinball machines and poker machines :)

You can download Team Bloodcity from here.

There is another map from 2005 that I also want to make mention of. I want to hihlight this map also becasue of its uniqueness.
The map is Kingpin Pinball by Fredz. As the name suggests it's a deathmatch map set inside a pinball machine. It's the pinball machine from the Kingpin's office.
The map actually starts with a small cutscene and then you are launched into the pinball machine. You get bounced around the table hitting the bumpers and the flippers just like a real pinball. There are a heap of weapons in between the bumbers and in the centre of the table. You can also run around on top of the machine where there is a grenade launcher and some armour.
You can download Kingpin Pinball from here.

Early in 2004 DirtyDog released a DM map which was tribute to one of our servers called Detropolis. The idea for the map came from Dantzer, one of the people here at KP4Ever and who is basically the person who pays to have KP4Ever hosted each year. From the Readme by DD:-

As a request by Dantzer I thought I would make a map tributing the long time running server, Detropolis. It's a small to medium sized urban themed map and alot of the layout were based ideas from Dantzer. It has a bar that although is not ripped is heavily influenced by the bar in the single player episode, Club Swank. Lots of spawns and weapons, hope you enjoy :)

Other than my local servers, which are long gone, Detropolis is my favourtie KP server and I like the fact it has a good map named after it.
You can download the Detropolis map from here.

In October of 2003 CAT released a fantastic deathmatch map called Industial Circuit. I have to say that it is one of my favourite urban style maps. It is a medium to large sized map with 18 spawn points set in an industrial landscape. There are many hideout spots in the map and its filled to the brim with weapons and ammo.
Whenever a mapper adds his own comments on a map I also like to post those and here is what CAT had to say about Industrial Circuit at the time:-

After finishing my last map, I have been franticly working on the next one. I had a sudden idea and off I went. This map is the final production of this idea I had. The map is called 'Industrial Circuit'. It's small map with an industrial theme. It should handle up to 16 players, it is filled to the brim with weapons and ammo and the R_speeds are reasonable.
There are also many hideout spots for thoses monkey spamming lovers, but beware, keep on your toes as they aren't always the safest spot to camp.

You can download this map from here

There were so many good maps released in 2003. If you want to have a look back for yourself then check out our Archive.
On the bottom left hand side of this page you will see News Archive. Just click on it and it taks you to our News Archive by Month page. Just select the month you want to look at and all he news posts for tha month will be displayed.

For 2002 I decided to highlight a Bagman map. The map is Team LowRideR and was created by Sonik.
As we are highlighting the past here is the original review by DirtyDog.

This is an urban style map that has some really nice effects and a custom sound that inspired the map's name. As usual from any map by SoniK you can expect some really sharp lighting techniques and excellent detail.

This is a fun map and top shelf quality.
You can download Team LowRideR here.