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Are you going to keep the Floor and wall textures as it is?.
Or you going to actually put some textures down?

I hope he will leave it w/o textures!!1!

Looks interesting so far. :)

looks interesting enough!

cp_flanklands

Long post coming through with some of my thoughts of maps in general, and of course this one. I really liked this map though from what I see so far (and had to turn down a double mix opportunity on it, doh)

A big problem with a lot of custom maps that try to cater to the competitive community isn’t necessarily that they’re bad maps, they just don’t offer anything new.

Coldfront has that problem. It’s definitely a viable map to play, but middle is pretty uninteresting (a house on a hill pretty much), second is very reminiscent to granary without really being any better and last is some sort of badlands-esque cp1 but a lot larger and without the interesting height differences. Follower is the same, but much more of a blatant copy, and it’s not actually better in any way. Granary and badlands are both much more fun and well designed, respectively.

A map that doesn’t really have those problems (at least not to such a degree) is Gullywash. It has a unique middle and a layout that ensures it’s never too far to go anywhere on the map. It doesn’t feel linear and you can play the map in many different ways with it rarely feeling tedious. As with any new map it took some time for people really getting to learn it but few people can imagine a map pool without it these days.

As for this map in particular, you really do have some really good ideas and you’ve really taken to heart the concept of height advantage and vertical gameplay, where as many authors that supposedly did the same just took a flat map and spread various obstacles around on it.

Middle point seems interesting. It looks unique enough and seems sniper friendly, but not to the point of freight (which is good). I haven’t played it in a real game, so it’s hard to say how it would play, but it looks good at the very least. I have no clue what the fastest ways to mid are or so, but I found some very interesting routes that were a lot of fun to use. Jumping to middle should be fun and a bit acrobatic as well, as long as it doesn’t make it too hard for heavies or other classes to get there.

Second looks really cool and offers very varied terrain. There seems to be a couple of fun rocket jumps you can do to attack the point and it seems pretty balanced.

Last I’ve barely taken a look at so no comments there, but again it looks decent enough.

Keep it up and invite me to play on it sometime :3

Quoted from iQue

A big problem with a lot of custom maps that try to cater to the competitive community isn’t necessarily that they’re bad maps, they just don’t offer anything new.

Coldfront has that problem. It’s definitely a viable map to play, but middle is pretty uninteresting (a house on a hill pretty much), second is very reminiscent to granary without really being any better and last is some sort of badlands-esque cp1 but a lot larger and without the interesting height differences. Follower is the same, but much more of a blatant copy, and it’s not actually better in any way. Granary and badlands are both much more fun and well designed, respectively.

Like obscure :D. Do agree about Gullywash. I think its way better designed than pretty much any other custom map.

Quoted from Hunt3r

did you fix also the third spawn? there was the same problem.

i think the spawns are too wide. as a solly, you can get to the resupply if you have a good spawning point, the demo cant jump foreward because he wont be able to get some heal…
also i think the “hidden” path on last is too long (in the valley on the right) if somebody pushes there, they’re almost instantly on the last point.
and yeah, it is maybe too wide in general (cp1/5).

Yes, third respawn is fixed as of a3c, and the first spawnroom will be resized until a4. About it being too wide, I’m thinking of making it smaller, but I’m afraid it will be too much of a badlands copy. this open area makes for a bit different pushes, similar to granary where you can push out and wait with uber until you’re approaching the cap point. I will need some more playtesting though until I can decide.