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"Community update". So either Valve promised to incorporate whatever map they develop into the game without having any idea what it would be like... again... or it's going to be nothing but hats and cosmetic reskin weapons... again.
For those of you asking how the MvA and Invasion update are linked: it's a long story, and one we'll be fully explaining after the update hits.
So we will be getting the invasion maps? Probed is the only map in the invasion collection that I could see in map rotation, and even then it's a little weird. Are they going to use the Gun Mettle servers for Invasion servers which include RD_asteroid? This is weird.
I didnt say that.
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Don't forget the doves.
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What about mudwater? It is a good map too.
I hope I don't come across as too critical here. That's not my intention.
Byre is excellent, I had a lot of fun on that one. Unfortunately it's arena, and I think they don't want to promote arena anymore. Converting it to koth might create similar issues to the original version of suijin.
Probed would be good, but personally I think it's gone way overboard with the gimmicks. It's difficult to focus on actually playing with so much stuff going on around you... seems more like a Halloween map honestly (as an aside, would really love to see Crash going back to making more high quality maps like Stoneyridge and less reddit-fodder like trainsawlaser wubwub).
Watergate has a lot of potential and doesn't go overboard on the gimmicks (it's easy to tell when the ship is coming through, and there aren't any distracting aliens popping up all over the place), but one side of the map is super confusing and it requires a plugin to make the mode work. I keep meaning to run through the map and get Egan some feedback, but I've been super busy lately... might be too late now if invasion is as close as it seems.
Of these three listed in the invasion group, I'm hoping to see a koth version of Byre.
The other map I really liked from the contest was pl_inari, but I think Aly removed all the invasion content from it. I don't think I ever actually played mudwater. The others I just don't remember.
Byre is excellent, I had a lot of fun on that one. Unfortunately it's arena, and I think they don't want to promote arena anymore. Converting it to koth might create similar issues to the original version of suijin.
Probed would be good, but personally I think it's gone way overboard with the gimmicks. It's difficult to focus on actually playing with so much stuff going on around you... seems more like a Halloween map honestly (as an aside, would really love to see Crash going back to making more high quality maps like Stoneyridge and less reddit-fodder like trainsawlaser wubwub).
Watergate has a lot of potential and doesn't go overboard on the gimmicks (it's easy to tell when the ship is coming through, and there aren't any distracting aliens popping up all over the place), but one side of the map is super confusing and it requires a plugin to make the mode work. I keep meaning to run through the map and get Egan some feedback, but I've been super busy lately... might be too late now if invasion is as close as it seems.
Of these three listed in the invasion group, I'm hoping to see a koth version of Byre.
The other map I really liked from the contest was pl_inari, but I think Aly removed all the invasion content from it. I don't think I ever actually played mudwater. The others I just don't remember.
Mudwater is not happening. As much as I love the map, when Valve gave me feedback at the end of MvA I basically dropped it because I wasn't willing to make such drastic changes (I also didn't have as good a grasp on flow/general layout theory then)
Glassworks? Overgrown? Subzero? Split? Literally working on Stoneyridge... I haven't worked on either of my major joke maps since the April Fools update, and even then I only did like a couple weeks of work before that.
Probed is a bridge between my joke map stuff and serious, I will admit, but that's because people enjoy it. One of the major goals was to take some of that joke map fun and apply it to a serious project. I think a lot of people take this stuff TOO seriously around here and could benefit from goofing around a bit more. Valve is experimenting with new modes and concepts, things you'd never imagine in TF2 at the start, why shouldn't we?
No one should ever assume anything until the update launches.
This is what got people in trouble with EotL and various other things.
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I was thinking the exact same thing: 2015's Halloween update will be aliens, with Probed as the map. I doubt there's another major update between now and Halloween, and after that would mean this is being teased for two months or more.
One of these days I will make something worthy of being added to the game, is what I keep telling myself. There where some fun maps for the MVA contest, would be cool to see them added. Would also be neat to see Area 52 added. While it's a MVM map it's a pretty good one and uses a lot of stuff from MVA.