http://www.showziji.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/colorado-steam-train-wallpaper-nature-landscapes-images-colorado-hd-wallpaper.jpg

D&RGW K-28 #478 on a bridge off of the high line over the Animas river.

Fixing respawn times, cap times, ammo/health, and stairs is literally easier than beating off a horny 12 year old. You tell me what needs to get done and fuck it I'll make _pro version of any map you want. HOWEVER. If said map needs serious geometry changes, that's where shit sucks.

Also, as far as stairs go... Stairs are almost always playerclipped, so they act like ramps anyways, lol. I usually go so far as to bulletblock my stairs so that they literally are just ramps that look like stairs. Some aren't like that though. You can tell what isn't clipped by your head bobbing as you go up. You can tell what isn't block bulleted if you fire a pipe grenade and it gets deflected in any way other than the direction the stairs are going.

With the regards to these quotes... You know what would help me get community testing on my maps? Stop fucking beating off and saying "We should community test these maps" like I see so many people hop on soapboxes in these threads and do and actually fuckin' come help PUG and tell me what's wrong.

I ran a couple pugs on my maps and asked that people give me feedback afterwards. Only Benroads did in a joking manner about the number of healthkits.

I'm willing to get my maps where they need to be and edit existing maps if it's easy enough. I just need someone who's not a fucking immature assdick about everything to help me out a bit.

Mapping for competitive players is kinda like trying to build a custom motorcycle for a stupid person who only has one leg and likes to speak french.

A lot of times it is easier to start from a clean slate with some maps. For example cp_orange was not built to the grid at all and sucks to work with (I've had to make a couple special versions of it).

It also sucks really bad to take nicely detailed beta level stuff and undo it to change something because a lot of times it really opens up a can of worms.

It's possible to fix all the maps, it just sucks a lot. It's not so hard to learn a new layout; although coming up with new strategies and ways to fight on certain terrain can be hard.

tl;dr Fixing old maps sucks for mappers, is good for players; new maps are good for mappers, sucks for players.

If you help us out a little bit, we'd be more inclined to fix old maps. The poor bastard that was working on warmerfront just about got his balls chopped off by asshats. Be nice and you might get what you want.

This last page illustrates why mapping for a bunch of 12 year olds blows dick.

Show some respect.

this isn't intermodel

there's like no health at second

god dammit

hey dicklords that pugged this with me last night

remember the sentence "post what you think in the thread"

do that

thanks

love hyce

I can make it, I sent you a message. You're the best.

Okay. I looked around this a bit today.

For some reason my screenshots aren't working so no pictures, sorry.

That upper route coming in to last... It might work out, but you really need to make some way that the team defending can hold versus that. The highest spawn door is the height of the point, and that ramp is coming up from something like 196 or 256 units even higher. In comp, soldiers and demospam is going to absolutely wreck everything trying to defend from that upper entrance.

You can probably keep it, you just need to add some cover or high ground for the defenders. Probably both.

2nd and mid are both pretty sniper friendly. 2nd is probably okay, but mid is really long and there isn't a whole lot of cover in the center. Mid is probably a bit too sniper friendly.

Water... Water is usually hilarious, so we'll see how that works out. I do like the connections between points a lot, and the forward spawns all seem logical. The only real issue is that upper exit at last, and probably the lower spawn door too- no one will want to come out underneath the point.

Mappers unite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZMzuezP_i0

This is how I feel whenever I make a map release

If I'm in my dorm, 72 because the thermostat doesn't do jack shit.

At home, we don't have AC, but my room is in the basement so its cold. However we blocked off the heater for sound proofing reasons so to stay warm in the winter I jam out with my 100w tube amp on 10. It gets pretty warm after a little bit :)

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/TF2/Team_Fortress_2_Mapper's_Reference

See jump distances

ALPHA 5 IS HERE!

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xclgnk0mk2l7bw8/cp_uintah_a5.bsp

Changes:
Mid is different
2nd is different
Look at the fucking pictures
Love you all
HAHAHA MORE LOGS AIR DEAL WITH IT (they're condom'd with bulletblock so no worries ;D)

Screens:
MID:

http://i.imgur.com/LmnTwMG.jpg

MID-2ND TRANS:

http://i.imgur.com/TajR8AO.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HX5dilD.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/3RTo8m1.jpg

2ND:

http://i.imgur.com/jwd8dpV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/2AsK0bA.jpg

LOBBY:

http://i.imgur.com/Fiqrw5r.jpg

LAST:

http://i.imgur.com/ygPAWuR.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HF1T3K5.jpg

LAYOUT:

http://i.imgur.com/X9UNywk.jpg

We're going to run it friday. Remember to join my PUG group if you're interested!http://steamcommunity.com/groups/hycepugs

This man is correct. That's like making it impossible to push last without like, 2-3 picks because they can call a fuckin' train in.

If it involves shootable/use key buttons in TF2, it's a gimmicky.

fuck

I go to engineering school spelling is hard

HOW DID NO ONE NOTICE UNTIL RC2

un-hijacking this thread

Map looks good man

While I'm no one to hate on trains...

cp_intermodel (intermodel is the type of train that carries containers... containers transported by truck, train, boat... multiple modes... intermodel)
cp_uintah (narrow gauge railroad back in the day)

https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t31/q71/s720x720/1537922_756372137706185_699479589_o.jpg

(me driving D&RGW 2-8-0 #346)

Moving trains have no place in serious TF2 maps.

Edit: Well, maybe. But not comp, it's not a skill based element. It's a bit gimmicky for comp.
The rest of the map looks interesting. I'll download it and wander around. Mid might be a bit big and open from the looks of it, but it does look neat.