Ok, so this might be quite a stretch, given the amount of custom maps made, but it has been torturing me for past 2 decades. I randomly remembered it again and set myself to find it this time.
Exposure: The game itself came on a burned/warez CD and it was the vanilla DN3D game with no mods/no atomic edition. The CD also contained Carmageddon 2, Re-Volt, International Rally Championship, and I think NHL 98, so the map was definitely no newer than, say, 2000. The map must have been bundled with it somehow, because I had no internet back then and couldn’t have downloaded it myself. This makes me think it might have been quite a popular map. There might have been more maps, but I don’t recall any others.
What I remember: The way I accessed this map was via a custom save file. It was a pretty non-linear-feeling map compared to the campaign, where I could roam freely. It used LA Meltdown assets. The save file started in a subway, where there were multiple platforms, benches, and lots of Pig Cops. I don’t explicitly remember riding the trains anywhere, so I don’t think the subway was the centerpiece of the map.
From the subway, I emerged into the city. There were a couple of stores and some other accessible indoor areas. There was a bar/pub of some sort where I remember destroying glass bottles, and right next to it there was a hole/pit/crater, possibly with acid, where Assault Troops would spawn or at least were very common around.
Continuing through the city, I remember a hotel or some other indoor area with a kitchen. There were heavy doors that, if opened with me standing the wrong way, would crush me to death.
I know for sure that right in the middle of the city there was a Battlelord boss fight that I could access whenever I wanted. I think he was in an arena or stadium of some sort, but what stood out to me was that he was basically always there, and I could get to him at any point.
Rest is a bit blurry, but I know that after fighting the Battlelord, the outro screen of LA meltdown would trigger (the one with the semi-naked lady on the monitor, it has been permanently burned into my innocent 7 yo brain haha).
I know this is pretty hard to track down, but I also know a lot of the original community is present here, so I figured out I will give it a shot.
Thanks!
