Any feedback is welcome! If you find any texture or geometry errors, let me know!

Hey, as i already told you i like this map pretty much.
It was fun the first time i played it vs star. for effic/insta there are some holes and stuff (e.g. the jumppad in the stair area, which seem to be unescessary. All in all a great map 9/10

Fix the zip: You forgot accidently an "s" for the packages directory.
Nevertheless: Pure beauty. 9/10.

First of all; Pick a license please.

Second; I've noticed the map hasn't made that much progress after the last time I saw it. I'll post a comment about it later.

The map is okay, there are several things that you have to improve in the map that are essential:
1) The walls are boring and black with no variation: A thing that a few mappers do and is very important, molding the walls is the best way to make the map something beautiful and finished, when the walls have form they dont look like a box.
2)The map have to be more detailed: especially if its small, i feel it a bit empty, the only thing that make it not very empty are those lights and lines with two colours and some pipes and vents, here i repeat the same in the previous point.
3) the background is a good opportunity to make a nice ambient: the background in this map is barely visible, there are no lights that help to see the windows or buildings outside the map, so if you dont want your map to look like a box, better make a good background with lights.
4)The geometry in a map have to be consistent: if you make a map with doors with arches, all the other buildings have to be round, this is a rule that not always meets, in this case the map dont have aesthetic problems with the arches and the squares, but the weird form in the two places that looks like something exploded, make the map inconsistent, maybe you can find a better idea to add in the hanging things and in the place exploded add a texture that shows what it is.
5)the layout dont have to be open: the layout is mostly open.

The map is good and have a good aspect but some details have to be fixed (to me all those points are just details, details that make a map great) the map is great but it still needs a lot of work.

5/10

compelling.

Thanks a lot Walker for your kind feedback! Much appreciated.

Nyne: Thank you for picking up on that packaging error, I always seem to make a mistake here or there, thanks for picking it up so quickly. :) Also thanks for the vote! Much appreciated.

Suicizer: I was under the impression I didn't need a license because I made everything inside of Sauer and I don't care if someone copies my work.

Doko: Thanks for the depth of your evaluation!
I'll be sure to improve on these aspects and upload a more satisfactory outcome sometime soon! If you have any ideas yourself that you'd be willing to share, I'm all ears.

Thanks guys,
Death14.

Long time ago since I've used my little comment template. That long that I had to copy-paste it again instead of just typing out.

Content
Nice to have some background information about the name, although I'll leave a note about it further in the comment.

Theme
The theme is obviously futuristic, but the name doesn't fit at all. As the name says so; it should be a Scientific Testing Area for Robots; where's the scientific and robotic part of the area?? I couldn't find it anywhere. So perhaps; pick a better name or add more details which make the theme fit more towards the map.

Texturing
The texturing is as Doko tried to state; flat. There are just a few darkened textures with the contrast of a lightblue trim (and some light-source textures to make it at least a bit less boring). The 1st screenshot shows that quite well.
Although Doko stated a lot about it already; he forgot to mention that the broken artifacts (like walls, trimmings, etc) have just the very same textures as the walls. This makes it feel like the whole map has been molded from 1 single chunk of rock (while the meaning of broken details is actually to get the feeling like it isn't). You can see this pretty clear on the 2nd screenshot provided in this comment.
I still dislike the overscaled textured used on those thrusts (see the 3th screenshot). It feels very unnatural.
The shaft of the broken vent is quite original but not that great; there is always a certain ambient in the shadows.

Geometry
The geometry seems to be okay, nothing to mention about.

Lighting
The light entities of the crack in the right of the screenshot doesn't seem to be working (while the light entities of the crack at the left of the screenshot are).

Detailing
As I already mentioned before; the theme is futuristic but that's it. The forklift looks nice, but feels pretty out of place in a testing area for robots (especially due the fact the map has stairs all over the place while a forklift couldn't reach other places than the current platform). So add stuff which make it really feel like a robot testing area. Put some metal panels on walls, add different layers of trimmings in ceilings (like within the ceiling of the 1st screenshot), etc.

Clipping/Noclipping
There are a lot of clipping bugs out there. I've made some screenshots which say it all.

Flow
The flow is one of the stronger points of the map, although not that great at certain points. I'm not a huge fan of using jumppads for gaining small heights as it makes you an easy target (especially if it leads to some stairs which you jump on if you keep holding the forward key; awkward).

Gameplay
Only 12 playerstart in such open map doesn't feel right. Add some more of them. The pickups seem to be focused more on the centre of the map, which is just fine. However, the YA and 2 of 3 health just a quick hop away from that also; so perhaps it could cool down a little and put the YA in the room of the forklift instead (while giving that health which spawns there another place, like near the teledest).

Overall
It's a good map which contains pretty much quality so far. But there still needs a lot to be done. I would currently rate it 6/10.

P.S.
If you don't care about the licensing, just make it public domain so everyone has benefits from it. The OtherLicense tag is meant if content really has an other license; not just no license.

Thanks for your big feedback Suicizer, I'll be sure to work hard and produce a more suitable outcome.

yo! this is not bad mate. without taking care of technical/suicizerish aspects, the look is quite nice. I like the clean light blue frames, well completed by those "light-lines". For sure I'd go for an even cleaner look, by ereasing lot of elements around and re-designing things like cranes, boxes etc with the same style of the rest.
Dunno precisely what's your intent, but imo, you have the great opportunity to create an unique style all across the map. try to evolve your little design to something a bit more complex and complete. Would be great, trust me :3
Anyway good job, keep it up

Thanks a lot IgC! It means a lot to get such kind feedback! :)
I'll take into consideration what you said and I'll try produce something better :)

Hello Death14!

The first thing I noticed is that you have changed a lot in this map, since I have seen it for the last time - layout, items, crates etc.

I will focus on two points for now, since I think, these two points have to be handled, before going further in to detail.

1. Cleaning up layout & architecture
It seems like you wanted to put everything together into this map. Just take a look at this screenshot.
There are all kinds of angles, corners and round shapes, that one can think of. And it all does not fit together. Make a decision, what kind of shape should be the core of the architecture of your map. And the use it consistently. It's often a good idea to make prefabs for arches, round shapes, doors etc.

Also try to keep things simple. There are way too many and small levels in the center now. What are those stairs in the middle meant for? They do not provide cover or lead you to a significantly higher or lower level. They could also be deleted.
Another area, which should imho be cleaned up, is the area at the bottom right of the screen (jumppad, rockets & stairs). Why not push the stairs back and align them to the wall behind the rockets? Why not make one (square or rounded) platform of the rocket-area & the area, where the jumppad pushes you to?
(Crates are something that should be added to a layout as a very last step, just like teleports, ladders and jumppads. A good layout should work pretty well without them in the most parts, I think. They should also have a function.)

2. Deciding, what theme to use
As people stated above, it seems to be a mix of a tech/futuristic theme and a very clean/abstract theme. I like both, just not in the same map. Make a clear decision! If you want to go robot/tech/futuristic, go and get some insiration from science fiction movies. I am thinking of the robot-factory and "the fall" in the movie "Total Recall" (the newer one with Colin Farrell, not the old one with Schwarzenegger). And then go for realistic details and broken stuff, but try to keep it consistent.
If you want to go for an abstract theme, keep it really abstract and get rid of those "realistic" details like pipes, crates or vehicles and focus on some (contrasting) core textures, those really nice glowing trims and and an efficient lightning. You don't have to show off your detailing skills in every map. Also the difficulty of making something is not correlated to the beauty of the result: A difficult to make detail can look like crap, while simple things can look awesome also.

Nevertheless, I think, this will be a very nice map, once finished. Keep it up. I will rate it 6/10 for now.

Greetings
rabe

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Rabe's Map Storage

As at least 2 people pushed you towards the aspect of simplicity. But I warn you for the concequences; everything has to be really tight (not just in looks, but also in feels). There's nothing which you can hide while you rely way more on texturing but especially geometry and lighting. So unless you perfectly know what you want and how to do so; choose that style.
If you choose the more common aspect, (add enough fitting textures and details into the map, make them be lighted, etc), you won't have such struggles but the different ones; make all shit fit (the theme, gameplay and flow).
Nevertheless, both styles take about the same amount of time and effort.

gj on the exterior :D, map came out nice man, nice to see it finished :D

but

you took this out

http://i.imgur.com/1qsu71N.png?1

LOL

nice one Fatality ;)

Hi Death14!

I liked the clear layout, great light borders, the clowing light/teal/black contrast, although the black elements are a bit too bright in the center, imo.

Great details in many places, however the 180k cubes are a little much for such a small map in my taste but yeah. I like ranting about that (and the 30-40 fps i got on it :D)

keep up the great work!

love, meow! =)