Observations from Saturday’s GameDay
I heard several people complain that the map was too big or felt big, which I don’t understand as for a KotH map, the distance from the spawns to the point was probably smaller than Viaduct and comparable to Sawmill.
The area with the point feels big to some people I think because of the fact that its inside a tomb and therefore has a roof which is quite high, making the map feel large, that together with the high walls is I believe what is causing it.
I’m not sure how the roof is at the moment, but if its not slanting downwards from the centre, pyramid style, that may be a consideration as it only needs to be higher around the point due to the points height, compared to the rest of the map, this would lower the walls around the edge.
I think the point needs another way to access it other than the current two ways up the stairs.
In the pit around the bottom, the stones that act as stairs aren’t immediately obvious to people as being able to be used, perhaps they could be wider.
During the game there were offensive engineers spawn camping one of the teams, which is not very fun in KotH. This will need to be looked into.
One of my observations is that (from memory) the spawn room has one exit out, which goes to the stairs which then split in two, right and left, to get into the tomb with the CP. I would suggest giving the actual spawn room more than one exit, exits, with cover, left and right of the spawn room.
I’d also suggest changing the stairs, at the moment it gives those attempting to spawncamp the height advantage on the team coming out of their spawn, this will need to be changed.
Another suggestion would be have exits left and right lead to the stairs or changed exit and have a third exit from the room go into a tunnel that emerges in the pit around the point.
This offers a third way of reaching the point and exiting spawn and should hopefully reduce the spawncamping.
The point itself changed hands several times in the first round, but the next couple of rounds were won by the team that first capped it with the other team unable to even get control once during the round (again from memory).
I like the map, and I think it looks nice, I think it just needs some layout and balance changes as it is in its current state.
