awk
L1: Registered
- Sep 28, 2014
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Hey guys, awk here. I finally did that "registering an account" thing; this community seems too awesome to not.
Arena: Respawn looks to be gathering attention (including a mention in the TF2 blog) and I think this could be a revival of Arena mode in general. We're also working with eXtine and PBL to get it a presence in the competitive TF2 community. (Here's a scrim played on arena_suijin_rc2 if you're interested to see how it plays.)
One of my biggest goals is to give arena maps that have been passed by or modded into oblivion another shot in the limelight, and sevin's been a huge help in that regard. Thanks in part to his efforts, over 50% of our official rotation is now made of custom maps. We're still looking for late beta/finished maps to add to the rotation. (The one exception to this criteria has been arena_recluse purely because it plays so well and doesn't have many visible devtextures.) I'll even take repurposed koth maps provided they're not too big, as a long walk to the action slows the pace a little.
Anyway, I'm excited for the future of A:R and everyone from TF2maps.net who's come on the servers to play has been pretty awesome. Don't stop tossing Arena maps our way - I want this rotation to be a veritable cornucopia of community-made custom content.
P.S. Byre's still on my to-do list, but adjusting the mod for multiple points and working out the win conditions is taking some time.
Arena: Respawn looks to be gathering attention (including a mention in the TF2 blog) and I think this could be a revival of Arena mode in general. We're also working with eXtine and PBL to get it a presence in the competitive TF2 community. (Here's a scrim played on arena_suijin_rc2 if you're interested to see how it plays.)
One of my biggest goals is to give arena maps that have been passed by or modded into oblivion another shot in the limelight, and sevin's been a huge help in that regard. Thanks in part to his efforts, over 50% of our official rotation is now made of custom maps. We're still looking for late beta/finished maps to add to the rotation. (The one exception to this criteria has been arena_recluse purely because it plays so well and doesn't have many visible devtextures.) I'll even take repurposed koth maps provided they're not too big, as a long walk to the action slows the pace a little.
Anyway, I'm excited for the future of A:R and everyone from TF2maps.net who's come on the servers to play has been pretty awesome. Don't stop tossing Arena maps our way - I want this rotation to be a veritable cornucopia of community-made custom content.
P.S. Byre's still on my to-do list, but adjusting the mod for multiple points and working out the win conditions is taking some time.