[penguinmessiah]

Hey folks. A long, long time ago I forged a map on foundry called Fail Valley International Speedway. It was a simple oval, fun to race, but too short to make use of the Racetracks gametype.

Anyway, with Sandbox released and an entire new palette of forge features available I thought I'd have a second crack at an oval racetrack. Thus, Fail Sands Speedway was born :



My good friend Puppy was kind enough to make this short introductory video to Fail Sands International Speedway. Thanks puppy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTcohpxYRu8

Fail Sands features four right angle corners on a banked, perfectly smooth racetrack. The inside of each corner features aggressive curbing to make cutting the corner more difficult.



All eight mongooses (mongeese) spawn in their own 'pit box' with staggered spawns - meaning the person starting in first place takes the longest time to get to their goose and out onto the track. The track also features four spectator boxes accessible via a teleporter near the pits. These allow for anyone not participating in the racing to watch the action from 'camera-like' positions.





Fails Sands comes in two versions - one with the customary teleporter/grav lift arrangement at the finish line (Special version) and one without (Speed version). I personally found that the 'gate' is very detrimental to the overall feeling of speed especially on such a short map. Of course, it is up to you to decide which one to use but both will be made available for download.





Myself and everyone who I have played it with have found it to be an extremely enjoyable map to race on. It may not be difficult, technical of challenging but it's riot to play this with a full party of eight - everyone of whom thinks it is their right to lead into the first corner!

Fail Sands Stats :

Lap Length : 265 metres (approx)
Lap Time - Ungated (mongoose) : 12 seconds (approx)
Lap Time - Gated (mongoose) : 13 seconds (approx)
Suggested gametype : Racetracks
Suggested number of laps : 10 (sprint - approx 2 minutes), 50 (endurance - approx 10 minutes)
Suggested players : 1-8 (the more the merrier!)

Download Links :

Fail Sands Speed (Ungated)
Fail Sands Special (Gated)

Thanks to Puppy and Papa Cap X for a large amount of advice and assistance and thank you to the (too many to name) racers who helped me perfect it.

Go out there and race, and keep on forging!!

A very brief sidenote : I am well aware that this track is 'easy' and 'boring' in your opinion. Commenting as such in not welcome!

Thanks for checking out my map and I hope you enjoy it.

Penguin.

[STEClash96]

That is absolutely amazing in design and architecture! This map looks pretty good for a race, even though its oval! Most maps are'nt even close to the design of this thing! This map looks extremely fun to play on dude, I'm gonna download it and see how it is when it comes gameplay!

[l ABlindGuy l]

Pros:

Unbelievable forging skills. The nice merging of the track, the aesthetics of it, jus wow. The nice oval shape of it gives it an awesome feeling that you are in a championship race or something. The spectators boxes are also nice touches. Looking forward to seeing more race maps from you in the future.

Cons:

None.

[thumtac]

This is extremely nice. I like how it takes aesthetic design and racetracks and smashes them together. The interlocking looks great. No complaints. Its wide enough that you won't smash into eachother at ever corner. No complaints 5/5.

[Rho Fs]

Quote:

Originally Posted by STEClash96

That is absolutely amazing in design and architecture! This map looks pretty good for a race, even though its oval! Most maps are'nt even close to the design of this thing! This map looks extremely fun to play on dude, I'm gonna download it and see how it is when it comes gameplay!

I totally agree with this guy here. Looks like a fantastic map. Even something as simple as an oval and you managed to turn it into something worth downloading? INsane-sick-nasty. Good work, dling right now!

[chung_wii]

WOW!!!! I saw this and my first thought was "indianapolis speedway"???? It looks just like it. It also looks like a horse racing track as well as design goes. I can see many hours of fun in this map. I will be downloading because this map is just insane!!! Feature now!! 5/5 no cons whatsoever! Thanks for taking something simple and making it strategic! I will see how well this works as well as (IRL) racing goes, And see if you take the inside of a turn, It will make you round the corner quicker than roundig the outide... Thank you for this map And Keep making more!

[GUINEAPIGMONSTR]

CWL this looks like one of them olympic bike racetracks and the wooden floor suits it

OWMG WTF BBQ first person on forgehub with a brain

finaly a map worth the scred honor of my harddrive grats dude hope it gets fetured

[last_chaos_7]

pretty good for a race map but very well done for an oval racetrack... I have seen many oval racetracks by now becuase ANF knight makes alot of them although he doesn't post them here lol. The interlocking looks really nice and it looks smooth and fun... although since it is only an oval I can't really give you anything on creativity lol other than the boxed although I like stands better =) 4/5

[Apple s4uc3]

This is a very good racetrack. It looks smooth and it lokks like a actual racetrack in real life. I like it that u made the racetrack be slanted and the interlocking is awesome. This is a very nice map. Nice job. But one thing I don't really like where u get your mongoose but the mongooses can't be in the way so nice job.

[IDave the Rave]

The layout isn't exactly completely original, but god this map is sweet, I was planning on doing an oval shaped track, but decided it would be shit, you've just proved me wrong, the aesthetics on this map are awesome, it looks like you payed alot of attention to detail here.