Jigen
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You could try emulating Standin where all 3 points can be captured at any time until one team holds all of them.
WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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You could try emulating Standin where all 3 points can be captured at any time until one team holds all of them.
As long as there are random Teemo shrooms scattered about the map as hazards I'm sure you can't go wrong.
As someone who [breifly] worked with Unity I had no idea just how much I would miss being able to play test things live. Personally I could give a rats ass about the next Half-Life game I am more interested in seeing what they've done Hammer, and other development tools.
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If someone could tell me how to get propper working it would be appreciated - tried five tive now can't seem to get the config to work right!
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Wanting to get this upto a standard where i'm happy for it to be play tested (a lot of the rooms felt really small and pretty boring, so i've been doing massive rebuilds) The added detail is just to keep me motivated (naughty me for detailing a pre-alpha map, but its fun and i'm not so attached to it that I wouldn't scrap and change large portions post feedback 
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Wanting to get this upto a standard where i'm happy for it to be play tested (a lot of the rooms felt really small and pretty boring, so i've been doing massive rebuilds) The added detail is just to keep me motivated (naughty me for detailing a pre-alpha map, but its fun and i'm not so attached to it that I wouldn't scrap and change large portions post feedback
Wow! That looks much improved from the first screenshot! However, I noticed you have an HL2 metal texture by those stairs in the foreground of the second image, you'll want to replace that with a TF2 texture.
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Not to mention the HL2 concrete barriers on Badwater
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I want to say those windows look familiar too, but I think they were made originally for TF2. As for little things like railings they probably said screw it nobody is going to notice, or care if this texture gets reused.
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They think no one will notice but the DO!
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Damn, son.
Here they are. About 6 or 7 in total, and I didn't want to make my post look too huge.
I'm working on something of an office building where both red, and blu enter, and go at it. I'm eventaully going to put in some windows that will be open so that smart enough soldiers, scouts, engineers, demos, or etc can skip a floor or two, but it will be high enough so that they'll take a lot of damage.
Also eventually I will figure out the skybox so I won't have to stare at brick walls everywhere, or dev. textures.
Ultimately I decided to use teleports to make an elevator I guess I'll put down something better than arrow decals later on. I was going to do an actual elevator, but they seem to be problematic, and generally are a pain in the butt. Teleports aren't perfect either, but it's better than nothing.
I'm working on something of an office building where both red, and blu enter, and go at it. I'm eventaully going to put in some windows that will be open so that smart enough soldiers, scouts, engineers, demos, or etc can skip a floor or two, but it will be high enough so that they'll take a lot of damage.
Also eventually I will figure out the skybox so I won't have to stare at brick walls everywhere, or dev. textures.
Ultimately I decided to use teleports to make an elevator I guess I'll put down something better than arrow decals later on. I was going to do an actual elevator, but they seem to be problematic, and generally are a pain in the butt. Teleports aren't perfect either, but it's better than nothing.
one thing to be careful about is making sure each floors are very distinct so the players can easily orient themselves. (I understand it's very early but your last screenshot suggests a lot of copypasting) you may find it difficult to make every area have a strong sense of purpose if they all offer similar/repetitive gameplay. it's part of what makes buildings tricky in level design.
as for teleports/elevators/ladders, I find they're all uninteresting ways to traverse vertical space gameplay-wise as they usually constrain player movement. it's good that you are planning a couple alternatives (windows and such) but you need to make sure to not divide the team too much by funneling different classes into different paths (or at least you'll need to figure out areas where teams can regroup). If the lower areas only get used by medics and heavies, you may have messed up as class diversity is part of what makes tf2 fun.
it's a lot of things to consider, but no one said making tf2 maps would be easy.
Ya. I plan on trying to make the floors individualized so that it doesn't feel like the same thing over, and over again.
I'm trying to make it so that the elevator is an option, but not the only one. I plan on adding some windows in for jumping classes. Possibly some sort of fire escape for non-jumping characters. I've thought about putting maybe a small set of stairs as an alternate route within the building. Scaling this has been kind of weird.
The main goal of the map is to sort of force players to use the upper floors to defend, and also to push through it. One thing I never really liked about KOTH maps is that it kind of just forces them into a blender, and it just becomes brainless spam fest after some point. I'm trying to make it so that the team who can push, or defend the best will win not just who can spam the most rockets/stickies/etc.
All in all though this is still pre-alpha so I'm sure I'll change things around a lot. I've though about doing something like this, but with control points instead, but I feel like that'd be far too similar to what s/he did.