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[Idolon]

And what are memorials?

Not always huge?

 

[HQDefault]

Not always huge?

A lot of the time though

 

[ProselyteCanti]

 

[Moonfixer]

Alert! The ants are capturing the control point!

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

Ok - here's my new skybox - it rotates like the one in facing worlds - really gives me vertigo - lol

 

[takabuschik]

Here's a layout of an idea I had that will probably never hit a1 in the next 2-3 months.

Blue- Blu's side. Yellow- rocket courtyard. Brown- australium room (underground), Red- duplicated & mirrored Blu side.

It's and sd map, meant to be very similar to doomsday, or, if you would- fix doomsday!
Here's what I thought of:
In doomsday, it's really hard to get on the elevator once it started accending.
My idea for the elevator design of moving diagonally- up and forward will offer a better chance of participating in killing or protecting the australium carrier on the elevator, or joining him on his way up after the elevator started accending.
Really short elevator path ensures no more hightower/doomsday-esque stalemates.
Spawn location closer to the australium than to the rocket hopefully helps to make the near-spawn areas (like the one on doomsday) more useful.

^^ these areas.

The traditional sniper balcony from doomsday just got even more separated from the world, being on the other side of the deathpit, only accessible by teammates, or explosive jumps. I planned this feature as a joke, but it might actually work...

I will be happy to hear some opinions!

 

[Bull]

Sounds really interesting. I think SD really deserves some better maps, and this idea seems worthy enough! I'd say give it a shot!

 

[Berry]

I'm not crazy about your sniper balcony though, the #1 counter to snipers is when people get in close range and when there's a big deathpit between you and your enemies you're kind of at a big advantage as a sniper, especially when you have views over one of the main areas.

 

[Zed]

I'd say add some sort of jump for the enemy team to make it up there.

And perhaps a route the enemy spawn area outside of the gates.

 

[Izotope]

I thought about the same elevator thing to fix my map sd_haleharbor lel

 

[UKCS-Alias]

I'm not crazy about your sniper balcony though, the #1 counter to snipers is when people get in close range and when there's a big deathpit between you and your enemies you're kind of at a big advantage as a sniper, especially when you have views over one of the main areas.

While in this case at the same time you create a 2fort situation. Sniper vs sniper is constantly relevant and will be quite distracting.

But yes, 2fort isnt a good example for balancing snipers. So in this case it will probably end the same. Sniper spam meaning the lift still gets alot of shots.

If snipers need a specific focus area i would recommend the australium area more for it. When placed well you can even prevent the snipers from directly aiming at the lift and promote fighting each other even more.

 

[Berry]

Check if pigs are flying cos Berry is finishing a map :thumbup1: I'm making a pact with myself to not releasing any more alphas until I have a map finished.

 

[radarhead]

You map sooo fast.

 

[Requiem]

Check if pigs are flying cos Berry is finishing a map :thumbup1: I'm making a pact with myself to not releasing any more alphas until I have a map finished.

Uh oh, Heck just froze over, not sure about the pigs though.

 

[Pocket]

In doomsday, it's really hard to get on the elevator once it started accending.

I'm not convinced this is a bad thing; it's already often hard enough to get all the way up without being killed or knocked off or something, which leads to drawn-out stalemates. Making it easier to reset progress would only make this worse.

 

[wareya]

It's a bad thing because of the layout of the elevator. Attackers will be coming from the elevator area, and attacks going from other places will split the attack up into small units that are easy to manage without ignoring the elevator. Defenders will already be set up on all the highground. Being hard to get on the elevator just makes it hard to keep the cap going.

 

[wareya]

 

[Bull]

Wrapping up Alpha2:

 

[Muddy]

I'm doing a thing

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

Ok - my moon base themed map is coming along - slowly

Here is the final payload model:

The start of the bio-dome where the payload starts on the right (goes left) there will be a roof. I also got the rotating skybox working:

Same reverse angle:

The Mid section battleground:

Alt route tunnel close-up: