Okay I get it! Drainage (Powerhouse KOTH basically if you didn't know some how) has some problems! But the good news is that I have been working on those issues that have been found while having the map be played on the testing server. From watching the demo and reading feedback lines, the problems I and others found in practice were respawn rooms, map scaling and sniper sightlines. There were a few other problems though, but I decided to just tackle it one at a time. So here is a change that are so far planned for the 2nd playtest that should happen within 2 weeks I would say.
Respawn Rooms
Yeah I agree with people, having to turn about 90 degrees to see the second exit is not that good. It just feels weird to do that! Combined with the room being too small already when there is literally nothing in there in terms of props would be a massive problem later on in development. So I decided to double the size of the spawn room and make some changes to them on RED and BLU sides.
- Made the second half of the spawn room on a different elevation level.
- Added a 3rd resupply locker towards the back of spawn.
- Adjusted Player Spawns to be more spread out with half of them being on a different elevation.
- Added a one way window to garage like how powerhouse spawn rooms have one.
- Added prop detail that would more closely resemble the final version.
The idea of these changes was to fix the problem of space and door location without reworking the map layout too much. Half of the player spawn points being on the elevated section of the spawnroom is supposed to alert to players that there is another door, while also fixing the sharp turn problem for players who spawn on the top half. You can jump over the railing in the image here, and with the player spawns facing the door, it seems like an okay fix for this problem. There has been more changes to this map though! So hopefully the changes I make for this 2nd play-test will improve the map!
