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Quoted from Vince

You tweak a bit? I have to do those tedious edits :D. It’s a bit overscaled though anyway.

I’m sure it is tedious, given the level of detail that is already in the map for the playtesting phase. Valve’s approach when making a map is to first build it almost BSP only, just a handful of props, then very simple texturing using ‘dev’ textures, and keep it that way until it’s been playtested to a huge extent and they’re certain gameplay is as satisfactory as they’ll get it. It’s only after that point that proper textures and detailing is done.

I’ve seen this excessive detail for playtest vesrions with a lot of TF2 maps being tested for competitive play and it makes little sense to me. It just means we’re more likely to get an inferior map in the end, since major changes are less likely to be made, given the difficulty of shifting so much complex geometry.

Quoted from Kritzonite

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I’m sure it is tedious, given the level of detail that is already in the map for the playtesting phase. Valve’s approach when making a map is to first build it almost BSP only, just a handful of props, then very simple texturing using ‘dev’ textures, and keep it that way until it’s been playtested to a huge extent and they’re certain gameplay is as satisfactory as they’ll get it. It’s only after that point that proper textures and detailing is done.

I’ve seen this excessive detail for playtest vesrions with a lot of TF2 maps being tested for competitive play and it makes little sense to me. It just means we’re more likely to get an inferior map in the end, since major changes are less likely to be made, given the difficulty of shifting so much complex geometry.

Difference is Valve pays their testers.

Played cp_obscure_remake_b1a last night and it went fairly well had no real complaints other than the ones I already mentioned which Vince is on the case.

As for game play it went really smoothly and not even koeitje could deny (I KNOW RIGHT OMG?!) :P however that invisible wall is staying Koe just for u XD

Anyway will post an announcement when Vince manages to do the changes, glongas if you want the b1a version contact me 2night.

Cheers

Byte

Is the distance needed to travel from last to second longer? Don’t know if it was just me but it felt quite big. Making the point since it took like half a dozen fail pushes because of that blasted sentry before we managed to cap last and we still managed to keep cp2 after each failed attempt. More than likely just to be only cause we were playing a ‘loldoublemix’.

I was on your team Vince :P. Was just an observation, but it was during a pretty shit game I guess.

Quoted from Vaskie

Would someone be able to upload the latest version so more people can try it ? Am sure we at the Portuguese community could do quite a few mixes, we usually do atleast 3-4 a day.

Best case scenario, next version is out tonight. And that one will be public for testing. You can find the current one on my dropbox, but since the next version is almost out, not much point in distributing the current one, since there are quite some changes.

can you upload it to multiplay servers? would try it then :]