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Content Type: Addon
Addon Type: Map
Addon Tags: Movie, Scenic, Realism
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16 Oct @ 4:52pm
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Gm_Cortex_Overlap

Description
Cortex Overlap is a open-world adventure type of map with many secrets. And is related (in setting) to Gm_Cortex_Interloper. The map started off as a project to pay homage to the early 2000s, but evolved into a neat story map. We even had original music made for the map.

CAUTION:
This map is designed for single-player play only! Multiple people may break map events!

Intro Plot
The sun is gone. You and many others are either bandits or scavengers living in a land of giant superstructures and destroyed cities. In all of the death and destruction, you hear rumors of a place where the sun still shines, just beyond the ocean.
On your way to the docks you and your crew are ambushed. Luckily everyone made it out, but not without injury.
Arriving at the entrance to the docks, giant gates block your path. There is no way around, under, or over the blockage. The only through, is in.

Special thanks to:
Warkin, Maple, Cudler (music)
Sheriffdoggo (models)
Many others for their shared memories.

Warkin's OST Tracks[soundcloud.com]
Cudlers's OST Tracks[soundcloud.com]

Tags:
cortex,adventure,scav,wasteland,story,matrix,simulation,2000s,aught,characters
Popular Discussions View All (3)
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12 hours ago
Bugs
Grey The Raptor
6
2 hours ago
This Map Is Goated
Bann
3
21 Oct @ 12:41am
SPOILERS AHEAD - Painting?
Ruthenium
83 Comments
charalinedreemurr 4 hours ago 
I have to say, by far, this is one of the best ever story driven maps I've seen out on the workshop, people like you are what keep the Gmod community alive.

Love the map and love the soundtrack, kind wondering what they mean by the last sunset though, fairly interesting lore.
gran mapa y muy creativo, me gusto que tenga personajes con los símbolos del hammer xd
40 Above Summer 7 hours ago 
Played through,, I originally spawned some lambda players just for fun,, but they ended up being part of the story,, I'll list them out

There was Russell Emmenecker (Early exploration), Harvey Collingson (Did most of the exploration, basically a main character), Ryan Ware (Stuck around to help with the mailbox), Quenton Solomon (Used the question/memory cube things), Oswald Liburd (Found near the door to the truck stop. Relays stuff around, and is friends with the war dudes), Devan Cazarez (Found in the suburb. Obsessed with Portal), Tristian Speicher (Found before the portal to Stoic opens up. Info guy), Nicholas Micucci (Found where the floor is breakable. Helps break the floor, but falls to his death), Tory Slater (Found in the same room as Stoic. Comedic relief), Bill Jung (Works at Blockbuster. Dies after attempting to walk into the void), Duncan Cerro (Found in the lower areas. Explored, and assembled Lily), and Gavin Severs (No plot relevance, appears last second lol)
Grey The Raptor  [author] 11 hours ago 
also holy shit 20000 visitors?! In like 5 days?! Insane!
Grey The Raptor  [author] 11 hours ago 
I've never played a Voidplaces map
Remastered Carl Johnson 14 hours ago 
Cool map pls more. (painting part was sad) :lunar2019deadpanpig:
ambleeins door 15 hours ago 
grey at it again with the bangers :bricktherat:
Gordon Freeman 16 hours ago 
@Sackyboy
I mean, it's not exactly like the idea of the sun (the beating heart of our solar system, almost always visible in some sense) vanishing suddenly is all that unique. Tons of stories use that basic concept.

If anything, this universe seems to borrow more from The Matrix, what with common themes of personified programs/routines, large portions of mankind being inside a simulation, a (former) human settlement called "Zion", and the dire nature of the outside world (plus, even if The Matrix didn't show the sun vanishing, the pollution of the outside world also leaves it shrouded in darkness, so that's cool). Not to mention, while ubiquitous in the science fiction genre today, the "hypervisor" is a nearly 1:1 stand-in for the titular Matrix. But it's all done very tastefully, and playing with the same concepts isn't plagiarism in a case as transformative as this.

Also, Voidplaces is at least partly AI slop. Can't really compare to real memories and real music by real people.
lyzstart2002 17 hours ago 
VERY PROFOUND
Console 18 hours ago 
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