CP gothic b9

[Ezekel]

a steel type map set in a castle/fortress that's in the process of being gutted to house some sort of device.

originally i wanted to have a dracula's castle sort of feel with a dr. frankenstein's lab for the final. things haven't turned out that way in the end, but i still like where this is going so far.

i hope to work on this more over the summer, and see where it goes.

 

[MangyCarface]

This is pretty sick looking actually

 

[tyler]

Yeah, I'm interested to see how this progresses

 

[honorum646]

I absolutely LOVE the idea of the graveyard capture point. To take it one further, I would suggest incorporating space inside those mausoleums for health/ammo.

EDIT: Now that I look at it a bit, that point looks a bit crowded. Maybe spacing it out a bit more would be a good idea.

 

[Psy]

If this map doesn't have Frankenheavy, I will be disappoint.

 

[Ezekel]

If this map doesn't have Frankenheavy, I will be disappoint.

I would love to, maybe i could borrow the entities controlling the headless horseless horsemann and replace the character model...
know any one up to the task of modelling a tf2 universe frankenstein's monster?

maybe i should go all out and give it the halloween paraphenalia treatment when i come to detailing?

 

[Ezekel]

I absolutely LOVE the idea of the graveyard capture point. To take it one further, I would suggest incorporating space inside those mausoleums for health/ammo.

EDIT: Now that I look at it a bit, that point looks a bit crowded. Maybe spacing it out a bit more would be a good idea.

i'm thinking of making the mausoleums open, but i'm not 100% on it, because i can see it turning into the garages in harvest, and i don't want that.

i may replace them with something else that's more open to address the cramping, but i don't think it's too cramped during gameplay because you can go around behind both of them. more testing is needed i think. TO THE MAP SERVER!

 

[Ezekel]

ok. so, long time no see.
Been busy hammering out my final project and then i had to work on finishing off something special, that you'll be seeing in the next month or so (so keep your eyes/ears open ).

anywho, back to gothic then:
so, i've done a re-build on B, and started to "pretty up" one of the walls on point E.
here's some screens of E:

gonna see about getting the map into a test day sometime soon to see how B plays now + to make sure the rest of the map is staying fun/balanced.

 

[Verumae]

this is purdy

 

[Ezekel]

ok a few more screens before bed:

(there's still a ton to do in just this room alone)

 

[tyler]

really glad this isn't dead

 

[Fruity Snacks]

really glad this isn't dead

I knew it wasn't dead for a while...

But I am very glad to see this again.

 

[combat619]

It would be awesome if this map was released on halloween. This map is amazing, and I have to say, much less of a maze than steel. Especially how the noise from the electricity guides you to E, that is awesome. Once you clean up the dev textures (the ramp and some of the ones you can see on the castle bridges in blu's spawn) this will be a great map.

Edit: Huge bug that needs to be fixed---> The match ends if you cap C.

 

[LeSwordfish]

really glad this isn't dead

What... are we all missing on the chance to say "It's ALIIIVE" or similar?

You have no idea how glad i am to see a wood floor with something to hold it up.

 

[Pocket]

What the.

 

[Ezekel]

ok, pictures are updated, and a5 is out and about

 

[Ezekel]

so been mucking around at CP A.
what do you think of it so far?

i personally still think the wall above the arches in the 2nd image looks a lil bare, but not really sure what to put there. any ideas?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I don't like that wood texture underneath the stairs.

 

[tyler]

Looks pretty awesome and I think that wall is fine, actually (don't over detail). The wood doesn't bug me, players won't look there. That chandelier is awesome. I don't like the computer dials sticking out of the metal block and I think that's probably a detail you could do without. Try two more (smaller) valves instead or something.

 

[Sergis]

it'd be nice i think if the control point was in The Important Location Of The Control Point, not just a humble wooden platform by the stairs. it just doesn't look like a centerpiece of the area that a control point should be. stairs look more important than the cp.