there is not a cfg? i cant see the textures.

The map is pretty good, it has good textures, okay lightning, good details and geometry, the map counts with everything that a map needs to be a good map, but lacks of some aesthetics elements like the impression of being closed in a square map with no background, i understand that the map and his original layout could not have a background, but when we transfer a map from other game we have to adapt it to the differente kind of gameplay or appearence of the game, in this case i would recommend to you to add more buildings outside of the map in the places when you can note there is nothing more behind (example: the bases)

i would like to see more colours in that monotonous grey textures, like -for example- that yellow in the towers or that red carpet colour in the ropes (maybe adding some flags to also remark even more wich side is wich)

sadly i cant give you the credits for the layout, i can give you just the half of the points that i normally give to the effort and the hard work of recreate a layout from other game
so ill give you a 7/10
awesome

good work!
greetings

I really like the map. A few things I have to say about it:

I like the layout. There are enough obstacles and cover to make moving through the map not so boring. Only thing I personally might add are some more open spots, or maybe just a large open center or something so It's not so tight all through the map. But that's just an insta-player talking. Also the fact that you can climb onto the roofs is nice, gives it a sort of different gameplay from a normal "dust2" style.

There are a few bugs and things I noticed throughout, but they're all just visual.

I really like the the little cracked out hole in the wall of the base which seems to be for nade spams. Awesome idea for defending that alleyway.

The textures do seem a bit repetitive, though only for learning the navigation of the map. Maybe adding more of those two solid gray buildings or some flags and things like Doko mentioned, to match the awnings.

I think the blend-map could be a bit better, maybe using a thicker brush. But that's just my opinion.

Overall I don't like judging maps until I've played them how they're meant to be played, but it seems like it would be a lot of fun. Would definitely love to try it out some time.

Nice map in my eyes :). 8/10 for me

Looks very promising, and if you do things just right this will get even better. For now, my rating shall be 6/10 :)

GET RID OF THIS THING!!!
http://i.imgur.com/PGmBmn6.jpg

edit:
linked the link :3

Why?

Nice screenshot, but they aren't really showing a lot off a lot (the red base is displayed twice of the 3 pictures).

lazyman! 233k of screenshot saved in png! 400x400.. shouldn't they be 256x256? [sui enlight me on this pls] boh, anyway in jpg 100% becomes 100kb, without see-able aberrations :P
anyway the flow is a bit stucky to me, too narrow and labyrinthic, it doesn't allow the usual jump-in-circles arena-style sauer fights.. mmh.. need some tests.
The overall gameplay is anyway fine and oc, balanced, with a good rate of camp spots, covers, tricks ect; I'd personally add more depth by linking some of the upper levels to make some ways there too, as it is the upper places looks just some random spots..
I'd even add not small but big details, like a central building, a square with, oc close, town-gates.. something wich adds elements to the theme too..

About the lighting.. mmmmh.. old omnilight instead of cool /sunlight.. bad bad bad thing. But you said you're going to improve it so I'll wait :3

this reminds me of assault cube.. idk if thats a good thing or a bad thing :) also you have an error in your terrain.. middle map under the over hang building going up a small hill theres some miss aligned cubes. (i think right side if your facing the blue base), im sure you'll see it, its pretty obvious :)

chasester

Hello!

I like the layout a lot. Flagrun-paths, accesses to the flags, it's all there. It's neither too open nor to cramped. Looks very promising.

Since you are a very experienced mapper, you won't need much advice. But you stated, that you are going to overwork lightning. Maybe it would be an option for you to switch to some nightly skybox, and put some lightsources like torches, lamps or lit up windows in the map (some yellow orange tone). That would also create more contrast.

In this state of the map, orientation is not very intuitive, since textures are very repetitive. It would look a little more defined/clear, if you would create different floors, maybe sand on the lowest level, sand-blended stones/pavement on the middle levels and unblended stones/pavement on the higher ledges and levels.

Do you know the Wolfenstein Enemy Territory classic map "Goldrush"? If not, google some screenshots. That atmosphere would fit the map very well.

Very nice work so far.

Greetings
rabe

Immediate first thought: From one of the playerstarts you can see a skytextured wall immediately to your right. It's not far enough back to be out of view.

This map looks like a mix of forgotten, caribbean, arabic, tortuga, and haste. Not particularly original.
Unlike most of the examples I just cited, the map is symmetrical, which makes it less interesting. It keeps it balanced, but just makes the basic rectangle that much more noticeable.

I got caught on a couple details like a tiny wire running up the side of a wall to a speaker-box(?)

There really isn't much that makes this map stand out.

"most of the people playing sauer using texreduce 12 anyway." ~ t-chen

did you make the with that setting enabled? 'cause if a map is ugly, i ain't gonna play it. and this looks pretty harsh.

I only took a quick glance, but I have to say I like it.

I'm not sure yet wether some of the paths are too narrow maybe, like on tortuga for example, but knowing haste, I think you wouldn't make that mistake. Still, some of the places on that map might get very crowded when it's played in public with 8 players per team, simply due to the general "closeness" of the map.
Oh, also happy to see it's not as confusing as mbt8 and 12...

BTW, I have only played AC once or twice, but I think there's an AC map that this map reminded me off. I don't believe it's the same, just the theme looked similar I guess.

Content
The ingame screenshot fails to load (as .png format still isn't supported; at least not on Windows 7).
I've already mentioned the screenshot displayed on the node could use some more dimensions...

Texturing
The g_pack texture (g-concrete05) on some building could use some less specular light (it feels pretty wet while the atmosphere is showing the opposite).
The floor texture (nieb/garden/stone09) doesn't feel right next to the nice shader-rendered textures on the wall. It feels too flat if you ask me. I'm quite sure there are way better textures included in the official Sauerbraten than using that one.
You've used some nice texture blending on the wall. However, it still could be a little better. You can use blendmaps on walls just like on the floors (as not just 1 long stroke) by using the texlayer command more advanced. Some good examples of that are river_c (although not used vertical) and Mystic Farm (look at the bottom of the well). I've got to warn, it works quite tricky (specify the textureslot of the blending texture, then specify the mask instead of the texture as layer, 1st parameter is blendmode, 2nd parameter is blendbrush).

Lighting
Why are you still using an intern light entity to represent the light of the sun? Ever heard of the sunlight commands?
The atmosphere itself feels fine.

Detailing
Although there are a lot of vents assembled on buildings and a lot of wires are running from one house to another; there is no source of electricity at all. It doesn't feel very right in such broken and dirty (according to the textures) environment (especially when they are textured with the lunaran/glue2 texture). The same counts a bit for the ladders (although they do fit in the environment, they feel like they need a different texture). The vents are also missing sounds and particles.
There could be some more dust/sand around (like on stairs, which some of them are quite poorly textured as well).
I like that wooden bridge. It still could use some broken planks at the floor below.

Clipping
As a lot of people forget, the clipping material isn't only present to avoid players getting at some place where they shouldn't be; but also for the rendering system. Everything which is surrounded by clipping material is considered as "not important" to pre-render so will ignored at that stage (as in generating viewcubes for PVS culling, but also for calclighting). So surrounding the outside with clipping material can be very beneficial (as well as the ceiling).
Some windows and doors could use some clipping as well. There's a wall of clip sticking out at each side of the map for no actual reason (not even for PVS culling).

Flow
There seems to be a lot of layers of areas, platforms and paths, but that's a weak point right now. It all looks quite the same. What about some more banners or even different painted doors, windows or marks around the map?
I miss crates on certain places. I know you've added the cheap ass palm trees so you can rifle-jump, but the other aspects of gameplay has been forgotten totally.

Gameplay
Too bad there are no pickups neither waypoints yet.
I think this map could work better as a capture map (not mirrored of course).

Overall
The map is about half way done and had a good start. Let's see how it ends. I'll rate 7/10 so far.

update 1: 04/06/2014 finalversion