Valve Acceptance vs. Community Acceptance

[LeSwordfish]

Acheivement_idle and 2fort_cloudy_with_scattered_showers or whatever will get a lot of attention at first- but do they have a fanbase? More people may be playing Acheivement_idle than, say, cashworks, but can you imagine any of them posting a screenshot from it every week, or sending valve an email to get it officialised?

 

[Fish 2.0]

Acheivement_idle and 2fort_cloudy_with_scattered_showers or whatever will get a lot of attention at first- but do they have a fanbase? More people may be playing Acheivement_idle than, say, cashworks, but can you imagine any of them posting a screenshot from it every week, or sending valve an email to get it officialised?

No, but they still play it and that's the issue. I guess we could kinda compare it to the Portal 2 workshop. Now I know they are completely different was tf2 maps implemented into it, but good portal maps take limelight for about long as the bad ones do.

I think it would be an interesting thing to have as an alpha or beta. Just run it for a few months. See what people submit, see how the community reacts. Have downloads so people can put it in their own servers and play it.

I really can't even make a solid guess as to what might happen because... it's TF2. People in this community are so unpredictable with that they like.

 

[Bloodhound]

Guys...

I just saw this some days ago:
Nuclear Dawn Map Workshop
So it looks like the system is done.
(I also can remember Valve wanted create a L4D2 Map Workshop 1 year ago, or such)

L4D2 Blog - The Workshop is Live!

Looks like we are getting a TF2 Map Workshop, really soon.

 

[Cayle]

Which community maps do you feel have been overlooked?

So far I only have one map in the list. Any others besides cp_zinkenite?

 

[Prestige]

cp_process

also cp_snakewater, koth_arctic, and pl_volcanic are cool and mostly finished.

i dare you to try ctf_retreat

 

[Bloodhound]

cp_stoneyridge
pl_cashworks (at least be so kind and fix tf2, so the community can play the map again)

 

[Janeator]

Click here my list, my fault

 

[Cayle]

Click here my list, my fault

Thank you

 

[LeSwordfish]

I completely agree with all of those except since when was hella triangular, and since when was Manngrove not shit?


EDIT: PLR could use that one by TomHoen, too. Frostfall?

 

[Janeator]

That list is made with maps which aesthetics are cool, at least inmy opinion. I have only played pl_cashworks, as i cannot find any of them in any server. maybe we shall make a community gameday to play the best community non-official maps, not just a testing gameday?

PS: fixed hella, i thought i saw it was triangular somewhere... seeking frostfall.

 

[Wilson]

Just because map looks cool doesn't mean it will play well.
Manngrove for example might look really cool, but it is plagued by gameplay issues.

Also: You can find frostfell from here.

Also, why hasn't anyone mention Evergreen?

 

[Janeator]

as i said on the previous post, that list is about maps with awesome aesthetics, ffrom what i can tell from the images. I only played a round of cashworks with another 2 guys, to fly around. So i'm not saying they got a good gameplay. And that leads me to suggest a playing (not testing) gameday. :/ exactly what i said.

Thx for the link and i'll look at evergreen.

 

[ics]

Which community maps do you feel have been overlooked?

This comes a little late but if the powers at be do not know which maps have not been getting the attention they deserve, it's time to dig in to servers that run the maps for more than couple of hours, instead of randomly peeking once in six months for some map to eye on and take on.

A good place to start is Showcase and a good tool to see which maps are played and how many servers is tf2stats.net map search.

This was also intentional liftoff for this topic.