DG2 Free Maps

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Festive – Pumpkin
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So here it is, a Halloween map. In June…

As I mentioned when I released the Snowman map back in January, its a bit late.

Well, to be accurate its very late, so late in fact you could justifiably describe it as early.

Oh well.

Explanation.
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To cut a long story short, it would seem that the save file in DG2 is limited to about 10MB in size and that in certain circumstances it is possible to exceed that limit in such a way that the save file does not reload properly. (Large map, lots of towers, lots of aliens & lots of checkpoints.)

When you reload, rather than continuing your game, you get a mission where the towers and aliens etc have all disappeared, the wave counter says 9999 and basically looks like the fourth screenshot on this page.

Sometimes, but not always, pressing backspace a couple of times will get you back to a valid checkpoint, allowing you to continue, other times it wont.

The delay therefore is due to the extra testing and balancing of various attempts to work around this problem.

Hopefully none of you will run into this problem, but as its impossible to say for sure, I thought I ought to mention it, so you can at least try the backspace workaround if it does.

So far as I can tell, the problem is only likely to occur during the last few waves of one of the longer missions (ie MiniGrinder or SuperGrinder,) so my advice would be that once you get close to the end of the mission, keep going until you finish if at all possible.

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Scoreboost is not available for any mission.
There are options available to buy on the Command Shuttle on all missions.

Including a ‘No Fire’ option that costs nothing and removes the fire & particle effects in case you find them distracting. (Like all command shuttle options, this will also start the mission.)

The following missions are included:
Story, Story Leaderboard, Story TI, Baseless, Baseless TI, MiniGrinder, MiniGrinder TI, Hvy 5, Hvy5 TI, SuperGrinder and SuperGrinder TI.

All normal missions have been beaten on Competitive Hard. Any TI missions have been beaten on Open Elite by OCD. (Formerly FCP1969.)
When I say beaten, I mean gold medal scores with no cores lost.

Thanks must go to OCD, Sir Mien, TNTFTB & Arthurs Foot who have helped with testing this map. All errors, bugs and balance issues are of course my responsibility not theirs. Also thanks to John Daud for being willing to answer questions.

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All modes, (ie open, comp no sell etc,) are available for the basic story mission. As scores are not posted to a leaderboard I consider it to be effectively a practice mode.

Missions with a TI added after the name can only be played in open modes and the aliens have a lot more health, it is ex