JoshuaC's Arena Map goes official!

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With today's new 'scout pack' info, it was revealed that a TF2Maps.net member JoshuaC's arena map arena_watchtower will be made official.

Congrats from the entire TF2 mapping community!
 

Bonafide

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Its a great map, but Arena is a dead game mode. Also I have never heard of Junction. Seriously, do valve pay any attention to what maps people want included? The only one they have got right is cp_steel.
 

Bonafide

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I would like to edit my last post because it sounds too negative. Plus I will reserve judgement on Junction until I get a good play around on it. I cant seem to find the edit button though.
 

Ezekel

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personally i'd prefer to have seen hoodoo appear in the official community maps... instead it's an arena map (a good one, true, but still arena...), and a map that neither me nor most people i know have ever even heard of before (but probably plays and looks good)...
 

PMAvers

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Junction has been around quite a while.

Yeah, it's pretty ancient.

I'd like to say it was one of the first solid custom Gravel-pitesque maps released... but it's been a *long* time since it came out. At least a year.
 

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Junction is supposedly a favourite among the competitive scene...

Quite the opposite. Junction was played for under a month, roughly six months ago. After playing it for a bit people realized how bad the map is.

It is a terrible map with extremely narrow and tight choke point (even chockier then goldrush) that 1 soldi and 1 demo could completely block in a 6v6. I cannot even imagine how purely this play in a 24 or 32 man server.

But hey! It looks nice /sarcasm/.
 

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I think Watchtower is pretty good, definitely one of the better arena maps. I've had some fun times on it. Congratulations on having it included as an official map, JoshuaC.

Still, I have to be honest and say that I think it's an odd choice by Valve, since the large open areas clearly go against their design philosophy and all that. I also wonder if the breakable glass is still there...

Junction is an ever stranger choice, considering all the times I've played it, Demomen ruled the entire map in the ultra-tight chokepoints. I don't even think Snipers will have anything to do on this map at all.
 
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Nineaxis

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Well, based on what has been chosen, it'll probably be something else I don't like...
 

Ida

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I said that too, but then I read that they tried it out 6v6, and it was such a spamfest it was deleted from the league rotation almost immediately.

Btw, have you all seen this?:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=805156

Chilly reckons there'll be another community map :O

Oh, that would be awesome! I hope you're right, Chilly. I really do.

...But on the other hand, I kind of hope not. This will fill up another of the six "slots" for the update, leaving only three more open. I expect the last three to be a weapon, a weapon + achievements and the last one to be either a Meet the Team video or a new map/mode...but logically, we'd only get one of those, which would be sort of sad.