KotH Los Alamos Alpha 5a

[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 submitted a new resource:

Los Alamos - Legalize Nuclear Bombs

After much time and a graveyard of projects that'll never see the day of light, I present to you my first map.

Fight over a nuclear weapons facility overlooking the quaint town of Los Alamos

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

teeny weenie update

changed cap time from 12 seconds to 3.25
other smaller changes

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

A2 - The doors are gone ❗❗❗

-Shortened the width of the third courtyards by a 1/3 yard
-Lowed the hill by 2 feet
-Reduced attacking respawn time by a second (4 ->3)
-Sealed off anti-spawn camp area of the spawn rooms
-Put doors out of service

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Alpha 3 - Sniper buff?

-Added second story and high ground
-Removed lower area
-Added third route to point
-Removed anti-sniper fence
-Added crates to the hill
-Smaller changes

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Spawn Overhaul

• Reworked Spawn
• Reworked first transitional areas
• Widened the second courtyard by 4 feet
• Retracted the catwalk to underhill
• Removed computer room flank
• Made the high ground more accessable from second courtyard
• Shrunk mid crates by a foot
• Pissed around with some light entities
• Smaller changes

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Minor Update 2

• Added one-way window to the support pillars in the first courtyards
• shrunk two medium health packs to small
• removed a small wall

Wanting to get more data before making layout changes before A5

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[Average Tiddy Goth GF]

Hi, as per your request I gave your map a once-over.

Starting things off; It's a nice small-medium sized KotH map and the mutiple layers of map geometry work fairly well together in their current state. I was not able to spot/come across any major issues.

I did notice a few smaller gameplay-related hitches however;

1: The inside-area on both sides outside of the spawn area are completely over-saturated with medium health-packs. Just in this small area there are 5 of them, 2 or at the most 3 would suffice here and the others could just be turned into only medium ammo pick-ups.

2; The small out-crop "island" with the big healthkit on it is only accessible from jumping down and then walking the singular path back around for 7 out of the 9 classes. Adding another set of walk-ways to allow a more dynamic access to said big healthkit would eleviate traffic from the 1-way route.

3; Coming back to the spawns it is unfortunately VERY easy to completely spawn-trap the entire enemy team, especially if an engi sets up around the corners by the pillars. Adding 2 additional exit ways as to allow either team to wrap around the main entrance could help to curb this problem at least a little bit.

All in all; I like what you've done here, the map design is quite solid and the play areas feel mostly alright to fight in. A little bit more polish and you've got a perfectly serviceable map.

 

[NinjaB75]

Hi, as per your request I gave your map a once-over.

Starting things off; It's a nice small-medium sized KotH map and the mutiple layers of map geometry work fairly well together in their current state. I was not able to spot/come across any major issues.

I did notice a few smaller gameplay-related hitches however;

1: The inside-area on both sides outside of the spawn area are completely over-saturated with medium health-packs. Just in this small area there are 5 of them, 2 or at the most 3 would suffice here and the others could just be turned into only medium ammo pick-ups.

2; The small out-crop "island" with the big healthkit on it is only accessible from jumping down and then walking the singular path back around for 7 out of the 9 classes. Adding another set of walk-ways to allow a more dynamic access to said big healthkit would eleviate traffic from the 1-way route.

3; Coming back to the spawns it is unfortunately VERY easy to completely spawn-trap the entire enemy team, especially if an engi sets up around the corners by the pillars. Adding 2 additional exit ways as to allow either team to wrap around the main entrance could help to curb this problem at least a little bit.

All in all; I like what you've done here, the map design is quite solid and the play areas feel mostly alright to fight in. A little bit more polish and you've got a perfectly serviceable map.

Cool, Thanks for your help. I'll be looking into these for A5.

 

[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Alpha 4B - The Crate Disappearance

Just an experimental update, real layout updates coming soon

• Removed most of the crate textured brushes, including the anti-sniper walls at mid
• Decreased health and ammo pick ups
• smaller changes

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Alpha 5 - Certainly, Quite the Update

• Removed pillars in courtyard 1
• Removed dividers in second transitional
• Removed walls in first transitional
• Added highground to the side
• Added doors in second transitional
• Added fence to second transitional
• Repurposed computer room
• Reworked mid healthpack
• Widened the space around the silo on the hill
• Modified side route through first transitional to high ground
• Added player clips in the route to low ground in first transitional
• Added side exits to...

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[NinjaB75]

NinjaB75 updated Los Alamos with a new update entry:

Alpha 5a - Certainly, Quite the Minor Update

Last playtest, being on A5, went surprisingly well and I'm very glad to see that the point is finally reasonably retakeable (when the teams are balanced)! As such, this map should be reaching it's beta phase somewhat soon. Still want to improve the layout but I'm not really sure how.

Also the new high ground can still be cracked with a sentry on it and I'm still trying to figure out how to nerf that.

• Blocked off the main route to the Underhill
  • Replaced it with ramps...

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