Welcome to the first ever Tank Team Map Contest!

The rules are simple, create a custom Steam Workshop map using the built in Map Editor based around the theme of the contest.

The theme for this contest is the newly added Portals.

This means I'll be rating maps based on how well they use the new portal object, as well as how the map works as a whole. This could be a futuristic sci-fi map using alien technology, a space map with interdimensional portals or anything else you can imagine. As long as the portals are the main feature.

You may only enter one map to the contest, and must include some reference to the contest in the description so I know which maps to review.

Submissions must be uploaded to the Steam Workshop and be publicly available.

The deadline for the contest is one week from now on the 17th July 2024. Then on the 20th July 2024, I will be livestreaming the reviewing process on my Twitch[www.twitch.tv] channel at 6pm GMT, getting viewers to join and play through the maps. Once all maps have been played, I will choose the winners.

The rewards for the contest are:

1st: £25 Steam Gift Card (~$32)

2nd: £10 Steam Gift Card (~$12)

3rd: £5 Steam Gift Card (~$6)

Winners should make sure to join the Discord to organise the gifting of the cards.

For those that don't win, the map may still be considered for becoming an official Tank Team map for free players to play (if you want)

Good luck, and may the best Tank Teamer win!

Note: You need to have the full version DLC to be able to create maps

Well it's been a little while, I took a well deserved break after the whole demo fiasco, but now I'm back with another update!

So what's new?

• Added health crates that will occasionally spawn around the map, similar to Worms, that will heal your tank for 25% of it's total base health. Tank health can now exceed the base maximum with these crates. Crates can also be shot and destroyed.
  
• Added projectile portals that will teleport any projectile that enters it to another portal of the same colour. Doesn't work on tanks (yet).
  
• Added more parallax backgrounds to the map editor
  
• Added the knockback shell, which will push tanks away from it when it lands. Has a 5 minute cooldown by default because it can be quite OP on maps with lots of areas to fall off.
  
• Reworked how projectiles are handled. Previously, they were all client side, which saved on networking costs, but also meant sometimes players would see two different things. Now, they're all synchronised over the network, but this might result in choppier movement. But hey, at least it'll be accurate.
  
• Fixed the captain assignment bug, no idea how the previous update has been out for so long and I only just discovered it recently. My bad.

So yeah, those are the new changes. But I'm back on the grind again, so expect more regular updates from now on. The next update will be improving the current tank station artwork, which will take a couple of weeks as I'm working with an artist instead of winging it myself, so stay tuned!

Finn