Update: MapTap has been replaced by Gauge.

I am very pleased to announce that MapTap version 2.3.0 is now available.

In case you don’t know, MapTap is a free application I have built with Alex, the coder, that manages your SP maps for all Half-Life games.

This new version has some fixes and new features. The complete list is below:

After making his way through warehouses filled with Race X creatures and Black Ops fighting, Adrian Shephard arrives at an old industrial area of Black Mesa where an enormous Gene Worm is attempting to come through a portal from the Race X homeworld.

Shephard uses mounted laser weapons to blind and kill it; in its death throes, an enormous teleportation portal spreads outwards and envelops him.

This chapter details Adrian Shephard’s discovery of the mysterious Black Ops’ plan for Black Mesa.

He finds them in an underground parking garage, activating the thermonuclear warhead from the fourth chapter, apparently with the intent of destroying the facility.

I tweeted that the beginning of Hatch 18 (coming to PP soon) was really good, Darren Weekes replied saying he thinks it is his Mod of the Year.

That got me thinking about MotY. I’m not going to run anything like previous years, because the Rec. Image system basically does that, but I’ll certainly try and write a year in summary.

Sorry, I digress.

Details the fierce battle raging between the Race X creatures, the Black Ops contingent, including several snipers, and the remnants of the HECU in the last hours of the Black Mesa Incident.

Adrian Shephard makes his way through the underground canals and sewers of Black Mesa, fighting through a Voltigore nest, and arrives at the hydroelectric dam featured in the first game.

Oh My Gosh! I woke up this morning and though “What happened to the general chat posts?”

As soon as I could, I created this post. So, sorry for being 22 days late!

Anyway, this month you are not allowed to talk about Cats wearing costumes!

The chapter details Adrian Shephard’s battle with the monstrous Pit Worm which is blocking his progress through Waste Processing Area 3.

Working his way through the surrounding area (littered with the corpses of the Marines who sent the distress signal in the previous chapter), Shephard manages to dump toxic waste on the Pit Worm, killing it and allowing him to access the next area.

Alphabetville is the sixth and final competition in the 6×10 Mapping Competition series.

Each entry must use letters as the layout or basis for the map

There are 4 entries to play.

Adrian Shephard is travelling between various biosphere chambers and laboratories featuring massive terrariums used to house Xen fauna being studied by the scientists deep within the Sector E Biodome Complex.

Eventually he reaches an older industrial area, and picks up a radio transmission from a group of marines fighting some kind of massive creature.