KotH koth_castletower a1

[Budman]

Budman submitted a new resource:

koth_castletower - Medieval-THEMED KOTH map (standard koth game rules apply)

My first Team Fortress 2 map. I'm currently detailing, but all feedback regarding gameplay is still welcome.

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[Sonoma]

something went really wrong during your compile, see if you have any light entities inside a brush somewhere

 

[Sonoma]

For a first map this isn't half bad actually, there is plenty of verticality in the map which not a whole lot of new mappers understand when they first start, however while there is a good amount of height variation, there aren't a whole lot of sightline blockers, I would find a way to block some of these sightlines. This map is pretty big and wide with routes that completely bypass the point. From my experience of playtesting koth maps that have routes that completely bypass the point, it leads to a less focused map and prone to spawncamping.

this is the route in particular that I'm talking about, I think you could probably do away with it or find a way to condense it into the other routes.

 

[Sonoma]

try to put this up for playtesting when we finish rebooting the feedback website, if you want to see how this map plays

 

[Budman]

From my experience of playtesting koth maps that have routes that completely bypass the point, it leads to a less focused map and prone to spawncamping.

this is the route in particular that I'm talking about, I think you could probably do away with it or find a way to condense it into the other routes.

Two ideas I have would either be making access to this area one way that lets people come here from spawn OR scrapping the connection to spawn entirely and connecting to this cliff area via a tunnel from the lower watery area. Do either or those ideas seem like they'd have any problems that come to mind? Backup backup is to just turn this into an offshoot only accessible via the indoor area

I'm also going to be making this area less wide since its too big + I want the pickups to be riskier

something went really wrong during your compile, see if you have any light entities inside a brush somewhere

It's an issue with my lightings settings. I thought I'd figured it out but I guess not lol

Edit: Not my lighting settings, my environment light had some messed up values in it or something.

 

[Budman]

Budman updated koth_castletower with a new update entry:

Fixed the completely broken lighting and reworked cliffside area

plus some other tweaks

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[Budman]

Budman updated koth_castletower with a new update entry:

okay you're right it's not beta ready. here's a really rough looking redesign of the layouts

I apologize to anyone who didn't like that I called it "beta" before. I'd been using the versions really just for myself and didn't know there were community standards with them. I had been calling it beta as I had reached detailing and hadn't originally anticipated being able to get such a high quantity of feedback (I only realized my resource here with TF2 maps far into working on this).

I really appreciate the feedback I was able to get in my previous test and have made changes in an...

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