I changed this to 'release' because I played it fine on the main Sauer release. Plus the SVN tag discourages potential users.

This is a good map. Really good. It has good flow and balance. The jumppads are right where they should be for strategic purposes and everything looks nice. The textures are nearly perfect. One place you can do a quick edit on is one of the towers 'outside' the playable part of the map. The strip of lights needs to be rotated. Besides that I saw no errors.

The jumppads don't really look that genuine. That's one thing.. The gear in the middle looks okay but the surrounding ones, without being cut out into rounded edges, look strange.

The symbols you have hanging on the walls should be noclipped (unless you had a strategic purpose in mind for them) so people don't get caught on them.

The map feels a little small, like if I wanted to I could jump right out of it. Then, I look up and see the high ceilings and am proven wrong.. I'm not sure. More playtesting may break this illusion.

I say 5/5 for this map. You've got a good, fast flow, an interesting theme that's undervalued, and for the most part clipping/noclipping where necessary. The lights also look nice.

You know I never understood the purpose of the little jumppads that bump you up like 3 small blocks. They seem like a waste of time and make you vulnerable and slow. Frozen has these, so does Turbine. I just don't get it. I honestly see no need for a jumppad except to bounce you large distances.

it's great, but it lake of somethink special i think...

Really great job on the lightning and shadows.

The colors and textures are beautifull

Mapping is simple and efficient, with little nombers of polygone.

But for my point of view, it's a bit confusing and a little to big when you test it in duel. Difficult to know where you are in the map.

I don't test in instagib and ffa with lot of player so i can do an advice on this configuration of play.

Thanks for your comments. :)

Kretren, I did a quick edit just now and took care of the things you mentioned. You were right about the jumppads, they were strange looking. I just made them match the pickup indicators and also used some of makke's douze particles to distinguish them.

@ dairyking: I normally try to use stairs (or ramps) for height changes, but in this case I think they would make the map more cluttered (stairs take up more room than jumppads). Also, the jummpad by the health boost can be used to weapon jump up onto the next platform.

I love the new jumpad, but the particule on teleport is not great.

Map Retest on FFA and EFF:

Always a bit confusing after 6 match.

In ffa for my point of vieuw the yellow armor is not good place. When you have the first yellow cause of the rocket near and the central position, it's not really simple to the other player to have a chance to take the yellow. Perhaps change the yellow with the green could be a solution.

Whatever i hope your map will be selec in the next realese

I like very much this map, but I can't note this one 100/100. The yellow armor is really too badly placed...

Nice map, the work is currently, perfect!
But the map is a bit large and confusing, maybe need to know the map!
Really good job! 4/5

great map

Okay guys, I took your suggestions about the YA to heart; it is now placed where the HB was before, up in the corner of the map. HB now spawns in the center.

I know what you mean about the map being confusing. It took a couple matches against bots before I had a solid handle on how the layout plays and how the teleport affects it. Right now I think I'm happy with it and will leave it alone for the time being. Thanks for your critique. :)

nice design :)

8/10

Hehe didn't rate this map yet...always was hiding from it, lol...maybe it's because i get a bit of claustrophobia on small maps, dunno ;)

To be honest, it's very hard for me to give a proper rating this time. On one hand, all the content you created deserves a very high rating, on the other hand it's too small for my personal gamestyle (i'm more of a rusher and wannabe-rambo in fps games xD) and i can't really move on it - as soon as i manage to accelerate, a change of movement direction is needed again which slows me down, i have to consider that as well. Or i just suck in the meanwhile because i only play rarely, no clue really.

However, the atmosphere & lighting once again is just great, and i just love the mixture of textures, and all the fine details of course, which make it very unique. It's just full of good ideas and well-done stuff. Once again. Pickups should work fine too.

Considering all this i'll give you "only" 7/10 this time though i fear it might be a bit underrated in comparison to other small maps.

Btw, always was wondering why you named it "exit strategy"...could you explain, please ? :D

P.S: Believe it or not, i'm already trying to find the proper words for around an 3/4 hour already, previewing and editing my comment for the bazillionth time. LOL !

EDIT #43242: You really should just noclip the star-shaped details on the walls, and add clip to all deepenings just to make sure...if something in the sauer code gets changed in regards of the player hitboxes or collision query (or however it's called, you get my drift), it might lead to issues otherwise. Speaking of experience here ;)

Wait...

No Tactics?
:(

Very nice Map, which has to be in the Release!!

the qsclan.info site you gave us link to it is infected...