4-8 Players Dystopia

I got to play this last night with some of the TCOJ folks. I'll just jump right into what I thought of the map, I suppose.

Refuge started poorly for me. The initial spawns are within sight of one another and personally, I cannot stand that sort of initial spawning. Later in the game, I spawned facing a short wall, and because I couldn't see the wall upon spawning, I ran right into it. These were the only problem spots for spawning though, and each are very easy fixes should you go about to edit them.

The height variation was interesting. At one point I almost had a crazy assassination when I dropped down to kill an enemy, unfortunately we weren't playing horseshoes. However, as interesting as some of the connections were (most notably the odd yet strangely fun top mid), it was often too much. I don't remember seeing (definately not using) any hard routes (ramps) from bottom to top. I would suggest lowering the top and adding more hard routes. The teleporters often brought me too close to the enemy, resulting in either them or myself dead. I hated using them. The lifts were better, but again, most traffic was on the outer circle and sometimes I'd just end up in the enemy's face and melee'd to death.

This brings me to my next point. There was no reason (other than oversheild) to leave the upper ring. My teammate and I could control it rather well. Even railguns spawned up there. The movement on Refuge just felt rather poor in my opinion, and you can do a lot to improve this (such as shortening the map, putting power weapons at the bottom and adding more hard routes).

Other than all that, it was an alright map. I had fun, I just think it can be made better. I definately liked the center top, it was interesting (though at times I sprinted and accidentally jumped into the hole. Maybe lessen the angle).

 

Hey I enjoyed this map- but somehow the weapons didn't spawn on the version we played- perhaps something went wrong with the gt, or something I did. I must echo audience's points- the only routes up to the top ring were jumps, teleporters and lifts- which were working okay but often have more good looks than functionality. Like another map we played last night, the level of verticality was good but served to push the teams repeatedly up top, so perhaps if you trim back that height a little then that will equal out the balance of the map and help movement. Good in general, but a few tweaks needed to alter the weight of the various positions.

 

Played Tuesday Night 7/16/13 at TCOJ Testing Lobby.

This map has a unique center area that was fun to play, it took a little getting used to, but after you know what to expect it was a blast. I thought that the raised outside ring worked pretty good, I liked that there were easily accessible jumps that also looked nice too. I agree that the 'artifact' pieces look alittle outta place, but that is mostly H4's fault with the textures, not much you can do about it. Hope to play this again soon.