I played on, its so fun. But i think more light can be good. 4/5

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I found this map to be quite creative, and I enjoyed the lighting; although, I often found myself stuck in a seemingly dead-end.but all in all, decent map

Keep up the good work

Great map.. love the detail and creativety. I also enjoyed the lighting in the map as its a little different.

I really wanted to congratulate you on your map, its really a great (and big) piece of work :) Allthough I have to say, you map definately needs some clipping!!! e.g. floor, wall cracks, balconys, etc. I guess this map would be nice for capture rather than insta or DM, since quiet a few areas are one ways or narrow spaced.

All in all I really liked the map though!! (especially liked the gates outside seeing the passage has been destroyed and fallen in the lava pit, gives the map a little story :) )

thanks for all your positive comments:) i am still new to this so ill try to learn more stuff and incorporate. any help would be apprecated thanx!

OMG the massive amount of details and artistic creativity is EVERYWHERE!! The metal tree symbol above the main gate was extremely well done and the fiery wings above and to the sides of the gate were beyond words! With all the richness of this I couldn't give it anything but a 5/5! Truly great, a rare gem!

Man, this is an awesome piece of art! I love the yellow lighting. Just for details alone it deserves 6/5. You did an excellent job on castle architecture. I enjoy every bit of it and outside part too. Just couple things: put some light in the underground tunnel that leads from the well. And also I found it kinda frustrating that you can't go across that bridge. I think you should unclip it. Other than that - great map!
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There is easy ways across the bridge in the middle, its from the top turrets on either side. You just jump off and down to the +10 health or to the only way out of the castle.... the front door! Just jump off the turrets to cross the board its made that way for a reason. (gameplay)

Other than that you jump across the low walls just above the lava.

I guess this map is a capture map but i never thought about it when i made it. Its the one i learned on and is my first

Next one will be better

Might take awile!!!!

This map is very well done. only thing i can say is that it needs clipping, also some parts were too narrow so yes i agree, it should be a capture map, its too big anyways. 4/5, fix clip and add bases and it will be 5/5

On an artictic level, I believe this map is beautiful. The wings and tree were very cool, but it seemed like the enire map blended together very well. The large tower looked awesome and the textures all worked together along with the yellow lighting. The skybox was perfect. The use of mapmodels was well done they matched the environment well and they werent in your way.

5/5 for the artistic part, but the gameplay was my biggest problem.

In some spots it became very narrow. I believe you should have clipped a lot of the areas of the map. I would sometimes get stuck on the stairs as I was going up them and also a few of the windows made you hop around in them while you were shooting. I didnt like that you could jump into the outside of a window and stand inside of it. I didnt like the way you have to get across the map. It wasnt a bad idea but one other way across the map would make it a little better. It seemed like depending on the side you spawned on you were stuck over there, and it being like that during a game would probably kill you while your trying to get to the other side. Also there seemed like there was a lot of dead ends, and I noticed that when you jump into the lava pit or well, there was no way out, which definately hurts the gameplay. You could probably make one way out at least. Also the one way in and out seems pointless when there is nothing outside the map. If there were a few ways in and out of the map it would seem like a better idea. I think there could have been more weapons around the map. They all seemed like they were placed around the outside of the map. You could have probably fixed that by placing a few weapons toward the middle of the map.

I give you a 3/5 for the gameplay part.

So all in all, i still believe this is a good map I can tell you paid a lot of attention to detail. This is a great map and you should definately keep up the hard work. All together i give you a 4/5. Mostly because of the gameplay issues. I agree that this would be a cool capture map and could compete with some of the best maps, but before that i think it needs a little work.

Everyone thinks there needs to be things fixed, so ill do it. Im here to please :)

I am trying to upload the new version (clrx) to quad but after doing it twice there is still no map there:(

Well this is great. i can't see why i bother to update and submit if its buried in another map. this is the last time i waste months on a map!

This map totaly a 5/5... deathbringer just get ready to loose to me when we play with ulitmus.

Looks really nice, very detailled and some great ideas. I like the yellowish colors and the overall atmosphere.

But just like Jake77777, I'm worried about the gameplay. Although the map itself is very big, some places are too narrow. From all these little towers there is no way out except go down the stairs again or weaponsjumps, which makes playing quite slow.
These were quite minor problems, but the amount of bases is a bigger one. There are simply too many of them. But I see your dilemma there: With less bases, there are more dead ends and more places which look good, but are useless in a match.

So I don't know how to rate this map, because I think a map of this size and this number of bases is actually not playable. 5/5 for the artistic part, no judgement on the gameplay yet, so no conclusive rating yet.