This is my map Safeguard. It has gone through extensive testing for both Team Slayer and Team Snipers, and so far, no one has been spawned killed (yet, I guess, and when there is a maximum of eight players). Anymore than that will probably become an issue. Download Safeguard! The map is located on Pillar, where Pinnacle is located. Its design is similar to Pinnacle's towers, but there are more towers, cover and stuff. Long sight lines are still kept so that Sniping is just as good (if not better than) Team Snipers on Pinnacle, without the spawn killing at all. Weapons List: -Sniper Rifle x2 || 180 || 2 extra clips -Rocket Launcher x1 || 180 || 1 extra clip -Concussion Rifle x1 || 120 || 2 extra clips -Shotgun x1 || 120 || 1 extra clip -Magnum x3 || 30 || 2 extra clips -DMR x4 || 30 || 2 extra clips -Needle Rifle x4 || 30 || 2 extra clips -Plasma Rifle x2 || 60 -Plasma Repeater x1 || 60 -Needler x2 || 90 || 2 extra clips -Plasma Grenade x4 || 30 -Frag Grenade x6 || 30 -Plasma Pistol x2 || 90 -Health Pack x4 || 30 -Fusion Coil x4 || 120 Screenshots Spoiler The map is mostly balanced, no imbalances have been found so far. Download Safeguard! Feedback is greatly appreciated! This map will be submitted to the Community Cartographers next month, so your feedback is very important to the progression of the map. Thanks!
I suggest adding more to the middle. You've got amazing structures outside the middle, but when I see the middle, it just doesn't look like part of the map at all. I'll still check it out though.
Haven't seen it in action, but it looks like a bunch of bridges connecting a few buildings for the most part. It looks very narrow in some sections, and the Sniper Rifle has a ton of ammo in it. I could almost see a neutral sniper with two spare clips, but it feels kind of ridiculous with two of them on the map. I see what you were attempting, but in some of the areas I just don't see an incentive to go out of my way to visit them, like some of the lower floors of the bridges.
The Sniper Rifles could use less ammo but they didn't force players to camp during test games. Sometimes one team would get both Snipers, and then that would be overpowered and way too much ammo, so decreasing it one clip size might be in order. The most underused floor would be bottom Blue, everywhere else gets frequent attention. Bottom Blue still gets some intention, but not as much. I'll consider that if I wish to redesign that area, thank for for putting that out. In other news, I can't add a thumbnail. I think I have the wrong link and am doing it wrong, but I don't know. [br][/br]Edited by merge: The middle functions better than the middle on Pinnacle. The middle tower grants sight to all of the other bases and is thus an important location to control. The rocks in the middle allow jumps up onto the middle tower as well, making the gameplay very dynamic. Tell me what you think after you play a game on it. [br][/br]Edited by merge: Fixed the thumbnail image.