I hate this site.
Anyways, looks like you've made a pretty decent sniper map (besides the errors pointed out by previous posters). However, this is also the biggest problem of the map. TF2 is a classbased game, and as a mapper you'll want to make sure everybody can play any calss and have fun. That is the goal your trying to achieve when making a map, and it takes a lot but is definitely worth it in the end. Making a sniper map might satisfy some players, but personally I can't call it a real TF2 map.
/init rage
Ban me for this or whatever, but I can't stand people posting FINAL maps made for ONE class, expecting (and receiving) feedback. It is your first map, sure, and you'll need feedback, but don't come here to advertise your final map, come here to get help improving the map you're working on right now! Seeing all these maps being posted here makes me wonder why I'm still on this site, cause it's turning into fpsbanana.
/end rage
xyzjace, I'm truthfully sorry for writing this in your map thread, but I felt I had to say something.
cheers
tovilovan
And my biggest problem with this site is people like you who pick on new comers posting their first attempt at mapping. Everyone who is posting one of those "fpsbanana maps" you hate seeing so much has the potential to become a great mapper. But those who just insult them and put them down for their first attempt, are doing nothing but stifling their growth.
Sure their first attempt could have been something more grandiose and designed with all the established tf2 criteria, but it's not like they are demanding you to put their map into rotation.
I assume it was posted as final because the person was done working on it, ready to move on, but first wanted to show off the hard work they had done, to a creditable mapping community. To learn more for their next map, based on critiques from other more knowledgeable mappers. To just smack them down on their first attempt is not only petty, but down right mean spirited.
What I think is turning this site into FPSBanana is people slamming anyone who doesn't post an amazing map. People who are stuck in their own heads, and can't remember what it was like to post their first map. People who are, self described,
raging over the fact that someone ticked Final on their first stab at a map submission.
On one hand you say you don't think a map should be based around a single class, and on the other you are saying they should only post their map to get feedback to work on it more. So, this map shouldn't be made, but should be continued to be worked on, otherwise no feedback is permitted.
Not to jump down your throat over this or anything, but you sound like you want a site that only caters to experienced mappers, while the site is pretty much advertised to be a place to learn mapping.
I would also like to apologize for crapping up your map thread, xyzjace. But who knows, maybe some good can come out of it?