What's the current state of Snowplow? Is ...rc3 the final version? Is ...rc4 in the works? Is ..._final in the works? RC 3 had a lot of little things that needed to be ironed out in order to make it a great map, both gameplay and performance wise. I thought I posted some pretty valuable feedback on the current version of Snowplow which is seen here, seeing how a couple of respected and well-known TF2 mappers posted there agreeing with the a lot of stuff and/or giving a thanks to the post.
To Frozen/YM: don't let one dumb Valve employee ruin all the hopes and dreams. If anything, show them how badly we (as a community) want the map (and how badly the game needs it) and how wrong they were on cutting the map from the update with the well-known lame excuse of 'it's too complicated'. Giving up makes doesn't make Valve rethink their obvious bad choice, hell, it makes it very possible for them to make more bad choices in the future since they didn't get slapped in the face for their previous failures.
Seriously, I've never seen the TF2 community (or any other community in general) have one unanimous opinion on anything related to the game which is AWESOME. The only other occasion I can recall in the 4 years I've been playing this game was when the Stickybomb Launcher got nerfed to death in the Love & War update and that's about it. And we all knew how that decision got reverted really fast (which was one of Valve's greatest decisions of all time) and how it got a proper nerf with 2014's Smissmass update. I see no reason for the cp_snowplow story not to have a part 2 which, unlike part 1 which is out now, has a happy ending which includes this Snowlpow going official and Valve taking their idiotic statement back and admitting they were wrong on that part.
To Frozen/YM: don't let one dumb Valve employee ruin all the hopes and dreams. If anything, show them how badly we (as a community) want the map (and how badly the game needs it) and how wrong they were on cutting the map from the update with the well-known lame excuse of 'it's too complicated'. Giving up makes doesn't make Valve rethink their obvious bad choice, hell, it makes it very possible for them to make more bad choices in the future since they didn't get slapped in the face for their previous failures.
Seriously, I've never seen the TF2 community (or any other community in general) have one unanimous opinion on anything related to the game which is AWESOME. The only other occasion I can recall in the 4 years I've been playing this game was when the Stickybomb Launcher got nerfed to death in the Love & War update and that's about it. And we all knew how that decision got reverted really fast (which was one of Valve's greatest decisions of all time) and how it got a proper nerf with 2014's Smissmass update. I see no reason for the cp_snowplow story not to have a part 2 which, unlike part 1 which is out now, has a happy ending which includes this Snowlpow going official and Valve taking their idiotic statement back and admitting they were wrong on that part.