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is that paranoia mario madness v2

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This was one of the first maps I ever downloaded maybe around 2011-12 ish. Some good nostalgia from that time.

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I'd love to play another one of these maps if you ever feel like making one again.

That is strange but does make a little sense. I compiled this map in a much older version of the HL2 engine, from before the Steampipe update. I'm surprised it's still mostly stable especially since I was still an unexperienced mapper back then.

Fun fact: this map seems to hard-freeze in hl2:ep2 just past the "That door's locked from the other side..." part. Seems to be caused by some assault_assaultpoints having themselves as the next point (specifically unit_00_assaultpoint_2 and unit_01_assaultpoint_2). Wonder why it doesn't crash in gmod...

would love more I love these maps

Probably someday but I'm lazy and distracted by life. Especially this month. I've been doing other creative things lately. If you enjoy reading I have a novel for free on my profile and its story does wrap around back to Paranoia in a vague, abstract way.

I remember this map for Toybox are we ever going to get more of these maps?

@bucketHatVonta Try unsubbing and resubbing to redownload the map. If still having missing textures then, you might need to get HL2 Ep 1 & 2, I don't think this map needs any of the CSS textures.

everything pink and black

Alright, cool! I've just now uploaded them and made sure to give credit. They're not publicly visible yet but it shouldn't take long. I wanted to add you as a contributor, but apparently I could only list people on my friend's list.

Oh! That sounds cool. I'd like to see what that looks like. Sure, I would prefer to upload it myself but I don't have any VR gear so I can't really. If I see Paranoia or the others on VR in the future I don't think I'll complain too badly.

Would you be ok with this and the other two maps in the series being uploaded this to the Half Life 2 VR mod workshop? I've played through all three in HL2VR and they all work and play perfectly.

Sandbox works fine, you don't need a specific game mode. You can uncheck Give Weapons on Spawn when selecting the map in the menu if you just want to use whatever the map gives you but Sandbox is all you need.

hey guys, what gamemode do I need to use?

i want to warn you your map got reuploaded by unreal squad

Got to introduce my friend who is new to Gmod to this map tonight. It blew his mind and we intend to go through the other two. Nostalgia + Still a Unique experience!!!! Wonderful!!

@someone Paranoia, Insomnia and then Hypnophobia if you wanna follow the logical order.

do I need to play The Grimvy Experience in order?

Played this all the time back when this first came out on the workshop. The memories of me exploring this map all the time when I was little brings back so much nostalgia. Thank you for making this!

Well, there's a couple theories I've thought of.

One is of course the dream sequence, where this is all a dream with the dreamer going through, trying to get through the end and wake up, whether that's just to escape the dream or because in life he's in a coma and trying to find his way to wake back up.

Another one could be that the player is an avatar in a cyber world or a rebel user that's jacked into it, and the player's goal is to wander through the broken maze of the Combine primary computer network to break their grip on something important on earth so the rebels can fight back.

A third is that the player is simply wandering their way through a broken jumble of dimensions or is a rebel trying to navigate it to fight the combine and all the different pieces are spliced together bits of worlds lost into dimensional rifts.

Those are the three that come to mind for me anyway.

Thank you all. You're so kind.

Hey, I miss hearing people's theories about what's happening in the maps. Who has one they want to share?

Paranoia (the idea if not the locations you've seen so far) are going to feature very heavily in my book. Hopefully that'll clear up a few things about what it "is".

@liq You absolutely wanna play the others, they're fantastic

This trilogy is the gold standard for abstract maps for me.

I found this map from NecrosVideos. I didn't watch the full video, only looking for the name.
I go in with a friend, attaching it to part of our little story, and fully expecting an acid trip. We instead get an insane asylum lookin' thing that ends up being very serious.

I would put "playing the Garry's Mod custom map Paranoia by Shadgrimgrvy" as a candidate for one of the best decisions I've ever made.
Gonna eventually play the other two with him, maybe bring others.

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The G-man scared the shit out of me

how the hell are we getting out of this one -Kirby

Ahhh the smell of old maps so lovely.
Coming back to this is like going back the the very first version of Minecraft so weird but I love it.

Hey everyone, I wanted to pop in to say I still read all the comments people write even if I don't respond to, like, any of them. I'm so happy you enjoy the maps! Making them was the best decision I made as a teenager, haha

Jumpscares dont scare, they shock, Scary is when you have a droning feeling of dread, or isolation, something that sets off your fight or flight responce in your body. a jumpscare startles you, thats not being scared. thats being startled

ok, my mistake, i didnt notice who the creator is

@wlodek This map isn't really supposed to be scary, the trilogy of maps this one is a part of are really just supposed to be mind bendy, trippy, fun maps to explore and fight your way through.

this is 8 years old! Dont think this will be something verry good, a lot of thing changes during those 8 years. Jumpscares maybe arent scary anymore, well for some people, but back then they were scary, damn...

Me over here waiting for a new Shadgrimgrvy map

Jumpscares are the sign of a creator that doesn't know how to do things actually scary. Jumpscares aren't even scary, they're surprising, they should be called just "jumps" for how much they make you want to jump off a bridge after the seeing the six thousandth one that was just as mediocre as the first.

no, jumpscares in these maps would completely f""king ruin them. the atmosphere is good enough as it is, no need for s""tty jumpscares.

there are a lot of missed oppurtinities here, at least you could have made the zombies in the swamp a jumpscare or something! i feel like it's kinda bland.

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Old, but gold!

Nah it´s fine.

i dident want to sleep tonight anyway.

Great map! ;D

Old map, i played this map in past. Good work and interesting concept.

Just came back after all these years to play the map with the VR Mod. I can say that these work great in VR and it's a pretty wild experience

Thank you, both Kitty and Grimgvrvy! That aside, excellent set of maps. I'll definitely recommend further. 😁👍

I only used Half-Life 2 textures. If there's missing textures most likely you don't have Half-Life 2 installed or your version of Garry's Mod is corrupt.

@GDSpectra do you have HL2:E2 mounted to your GMod? I just have that and the CSS textures and that area is usually fine.

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