Pendant

Your forging is very pleasing to the eye and the CPU spawn was quite nice

Maybe show us a picture of where the teleporter leads? It's kind of hard to get a feel for the map without seeing the pathing outside of that one central room.

 

Ah.. thanks. Downloading right now. Will get back to you.

 

Okay, so I checked out the map and, first thing I noticed, is you need to move that camo. This map is suffering for the same reason your recent maps have been suffering. You make this beautiful atrium but then the map falls apart in the surrounding rooms. I don't mean to belittle your map but if you want to get more in-depth about this, get on and invite me sometime.

 

It's really not a problem. Really, it's the sniper side that comes short. You can leave the camo side untouched except for the camo itself.

 

I noticed that too. The connections on the sniper side of the map are alright, but the placement of the sniper is awful. It's so out of the way for anyone who hasn't just come through the teleporter.

 

1. Agree with what's been said about snipeside.
2. Camoside feels sorta cramped.
3. There are two really shallow deathpits that bother me. The one under camo is especially bad, it looks playable..

 

Agreed.

As for a better sniper spawn, I would suggest swapping camo and sniper. At least you wouldn't be grabbing camo right after custom. Sniper may be near a lift to the top but not without the audible cue of the lift. The highest place in the map is not even overpowering so it shouldn't be a problem. However, camo is still in a bad spot. You may have to come up with a different design for the current sniper spawn but nothing to drastic. Hope that helps and I really want to see another map from you posted.

 

(Note: the following is on the assumption that you will go with the recommended weapon layout I suggested.)

In addition to the weapon layout changes I recommended, move the GL to the staircase next to current sniper spawn. If you don't, sniper and GL would be too close. Also, moving GL to that area would encourage the already established clockwise movement so it shouldn't change much of the intended gameplay you were going for. This also means both custom and camo are tethered to sniper and GL: Custom and sniper, Camo and GL.

As for layout, I feel the spiker room connection takes away from the rest of the map. Fret not for the current, and my recommended, weapon layout give enough of an incentive to traverse the map rather than going straight to the top. My only pet peeve is that since the map is small, there is little consequence when choosing the wrong strategy. For example, going to custom spawn in it's absence may deter most, but a teleporter will bring you to top that, in turn, bleeds into the rest of the map. This could also be a brilliant way of giving areas multiple purposes, it depends on how you look at it. That is, however, only an issue of preference and you shouldn't care much for it.

 

It's not just lack of dancefloor that makes camoside feel cramped for me. The lift room just feels awkward. It feels like you want people to drop down to camo, but it's such an awkward drop because of the height and the size of the ledge. The entire room just feels to small.