General Information: Title : cs_assault_christmas2021 Version : Final Author : Rain E-mail : apache17031992@gmail.com How to Install: place this folder inside your Half-Life/cstrike folder. Description: An imaginary situation in an imaginary place. USA, New York, NYC, December 25th, 2021. Approximately at 18:57 a group of heavily armed suspects approached the Blargo Corp. warehouse at 72th street on a black van, kicked the back door open and started an armed raid, looking for what appears to be large sum of money, secretly smuggled by the warehouse owners. One of the security team members pushed alarm button and what was supposed to be a quick hit-and-run job for the criminals, turned into a barricaded hostage situation. Calls and negotiations didn't succeed. After securing the perimeter and escorting all of the civillians away from the dangerous area, CT unit is ready to start the operation on releasing the hostages. Little do they know, however, is that local intellegence seriously miscalculated the amount of criminals barricaded inside the warehouse and their military experience, so that operation risks to turn into a cursed bloodbath. From the developer: Average wpoly on the map revolves around 1000, although there are multiple moments where it goes higher. I think max. wpoly count was around 1500-1700, mostly on the building roofs, but there's literally nothing I could do about these spots, as level detalization would just have to be cut. Average epoly count is around 3-6k, with top moment around 8k or so. Overall, the map should work just fine on more-or-less modern PCs. Older laptops, however, might experience some problems. Sorry guys, but I did as much as my experience allowed to ease up this situation. p.s.This level remix was initially made for STALKEROS' server with beta, cut & interesting maps for the upcoming Christmas event. Feel free to join our server: 62.122.215.44:27018 (although, keep in mind that it is Russian-speaking community). Credits: -Valve company, for creating such wonderful games as Half-Life and Counter-Strike. Some of the textures & models were used from these base games. -Turtle Rock Studios, for creating Counter-Strike: Condition Zero and, specifically, cs_miami_cz map (made by Thearrel "Kiltron" McKinney), as some of the textures were used from this map. -Gearbox Software, for creating Half-Life: Opposing Force, as some of the textures were used from their OPFOR.WAD file. -Lari Muuriaisniemi (a.k.a CryptR), for creating original cs_assault map (one of my favourites!) -Alexander Manilov (a.k.a. Hobbit), Sphinx and George_Pooshoes for creating cs_office map, as some of the textures were used from this map. -Michael Visser (3DMike) for creating de_survivor map, as some of the textures were used from this map. -Author of the original cars.wad (apologies, I haven't found their name), as some of the textures were used from this wad file. -gtwalq, for their christmas tree brush-based model and textures, and Natko for sharing that prefab with everyone. -Spay, for creating de_newyork map. Without his truck, flags and Christmas kranz textures it'd be really difficult for me to finish the map. -Nonamecat, link and ATmega for their valuable help with this map. -MistaX88, for his genius idea that helped me with creating a breaching charge that works only once per round (his posts can be found here: https://twhl.info/thread/view/19516 and I urge you to read full thread if you want something similar, as there were some complications) -Mariah Carey, Wham!, José Feliciano, Melanie Thornton artists for their original songs. -authors of the mixes of the original songs that were used in my map. Links on the playlists used are below: 1) Michael Bublé - Mis Deseos / Feliz Navidad (Karaoke Instrumental Version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD8NQ33M5NA 2) All I want for Christmas is you (Jazz ver.) female singers [Sing along JAZZ KARAOKE] Holiday song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3ZghJGsxCw 3) Jingle Bells song was taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tXht-NGmc0 4) Last Chritmas song was taken from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tXht-NGmc0 All of the models and prefabs were taken from http://gamer-lab.com/ and gamebanana.com sites. Unfortunately I haven't found original authors' names, so if you happen to be model/prefab author, please let me know and I'll gladly include your name in credits, or remove your model/prefab from the map if you wish so. Easiest way to contact me is by sending me a steam message ( https://steamcommunity.com/id/Rain17031992/ ), or an e-mail. Apologies for inconvenience in advance. Map by Rain. Thank you for downloading & playing! Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! With love, from 2021! ♥❄