Achievement_all_v4

CaptSpiffy

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Three years ago today, I released a video on my youtube that caught the attention of the TF2 community and even Valve. What started as a map project I used to learn Valve Hammer Editor became an action sequence where everyone gets slaughtered by angry cats under the name of a generic achievement farming map.
For those who are unfamiliar with Team Fortress 2, the game slowly began to add achievements and item drops (such a weapons & cosmetics) with game updates. People then created these “achievement servers” with maps designed specifically to grind for these achievements and items.
When I was working on this map project around May 2010 I was testing out many different things such as custom sequences, particles, and soon made a small series of scripted events. I knew I was on to something really cool and had not seen stuff like this done much. When testing some sequences with a friend I was given the idea to do a fake achievement server to test on unsuspecting achievement grinders for fun. After all, achievement grinding servers are quite possibly the most uneventful servers to exist… it was a perfect fit. From there the sequences got more elaborate and crazy until I had a 1-minute long action sequence.

On June 19th 2010, I set up a 20 slot TF2 fake achievement server with my map project named “achievement_all_v4” and let it populate for several hours before jumping in game. I would then enable a hidden trigger and a keybind to activate the 1-minute apocalypse. I would then shut down the server to give everyone disconnection notices to make it look like a server crash. I did this once every day until June 23rd and then made a video on the best reactions from people:
At the time I only really expected the video to hit 30K views max and honestly had thoughts that it would be considered dumb and forgotten quickly. I had uploaded the video and had left for lunch… by the time I had gotten back there was around 200K views. Later on there were PMs from PC gamer and even a request from Valve to get in contact.
An interesting read is this thread on Facepunch where people reacted to the whole event. I make my response post here on page 6 with some additional info.
PC gamer made an article on the event here and even did their own attempt to slay the cats. Another article made it into one of their magazines. I sent an email to Robin who gave a community rocket launcher:
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I later put up a download for the map and tons of people played it just for fun; you can still see a lot of videos of it up on youtube. A while ago my download link was taken down by a DMCA because of the music track included in the map which was unfortunate. Now after going through my old backups I found all the source working files for the map and decided to release them as a package (everything with the exception of the “Flight of The Parrots” music track so I don’t get hit with another DMCA).
Achievement_All_V4 source files
There is the VMF file and even all the uncompiled textures included as well as some unused content.
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I'm reasonably sure that most of you have seen this video, and now Valve has made this awesomely ridiculous shit into an official community map.

Now, if only I could find a server in which to play it... *ahem*
 
That map looks like it might be srs bsns indeed. I shall have to investigate. For science!
 
Map installed, will test tonight.

I expect it may not be too popular though... it doesn't reset by itself when catmageddon is activated and would require a manual RTV to change maps or restart it... other than that seems like an ordinary achievement grind map... or is there something special I'm missing?
 
It is designed to be a troll map. You get people to join the server thinking they are going to farm achievements, then the cats start and kill you and throw bees in your face so you can't do anything. It's meant to troll achievement whores. I don't think it's a good idea to have the map. It will make people leave.
 

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