Contest is now Live!

Original post:

Beginning tomorrow at 2:00 TF2Maps member Fr0z3n is hosting a mapping competition for a duration of 72 hours. Participants design, block out, and detail a new map completely from start to finish as the clock runs down and total exhaustion looms ahead! While many of the level designers taking place will be thinking of standard public play, I am certain that several will be designing their maps for competitive use instead. It's no secret that there's a shortage of custom competitive maps, so I would encourage everyone interested to watch these mappers' progress unfold over the next three days and get involved with the voting at the end. There will also be a need for play-testers to pug on these maps and give feedback while these maps are still being developed, so gather your friends and let's play some TF2!

I would also invite anyone with even a little experience with mapping to give the contest a shot, or contribute to the community in whatever way they can.

TF2Maps 72-Hour Competition thread: Here

TF2Maps Steam Group: Here

Streams:
---hooky
---nightwatch
---phi

If you're also taking part and would like me to include a link to your progress here in the first post so that others can see what you're doing, then reply in the thread below.

Thanks, and have fun!

Liam Neeson and Morgan Freeman doing voice acting for it - I'm excited.

At first I thought, "no hair on those legs" and suspected another 10 year old on the forums, and then I realized it was Kip.

Badlands is now missing half its textures and the trains aren't solid....? Please tell me this is a server error and not the real thing.

"why you heff to be mad, is only game"

What if there was a limit of 2 of each class per team and instead of banning weapons, each player is allowed one unlock at a time? It wouldn't help against some things (like jarate or GRU) but it would prevent things like gunboats + equalizer, or kritzkrieg + vitasaw, or FaN + atomizer/basher.

It wouldn't really make a difference for demoman though.

Look in your steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/bin for hammer.bat. Run that.

Just like the invisible players bug.

I wonder if he's seen Boink's recent spy plays on process... if that isn't a sudden creative shift in how 6s is played, I don't know what is.

I have a feeling that Sal added the "ever" to his post by himself (rather than quoting anyone from Valve directly), in the hopes that we wouldn't get too excited as a community and end up soiling our collective pants before that time has come. Even with this disclaimer, however, several of the posters in this thread came to the conclusion that we were getting a 6v6 lobbying interface added to the game, which is simply not the case, as Sal has put it so far. Goes to show how cautious you have to be when posting an abbreviated version of real conversations on behalf of other people.

Had a hobo yelling at me about the return of Genghis Khan outside of U of T the other day.... Canadian universities are weird.

http://www.teamfortress.com/roboticboogaloo/

"the first entirely community-created update"

This set a precedent. Now make that official pugging system you've always wanted, or Valve 6v6 Ladder, or whatever you think would make competitive TF2 a valid thing, and get it put in the game for the second entirely community-created update.

I'm guessing Sal asked them how kooky an idea they would buy?

I've got that one about 6 times on my phone, no problems in chrome on my pc.

Search for bspsrc on google, it's the map decompiler. It's a tool worth knowing about, and you probably already have the .bsp (playable map file) for ctf_ballin_sky in your own files. You can use bspsrc to decompile it into a .vmf, which is readable in hammer.

EDIT: Here you go. BSPSRC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiYbIyOYCG0