Ugh. almost 20mb... good thing I downloaded at work.
It's symmetrical, & it's epic. I'll play a bot match & rate it later.

Okay I did an instactf bot match, ended up losing 2-1 because I couldn't find the two jumppads on the bottom floor & kept getting sniped running up the long-ass ramp. Add some smoke particles to the jumppads or something. Maybe an alpha & noclipped arrow pointing up, or move the jumppads to the glowy-wall near them.
I'd change the ambient to 15 15 15; it's dark as hell.
Also would get rid of the teamspawns near the teleporters; I get that they're for offense, but let the player chose if you're going to have multiple starting areas (like on Berlin_Wall)
Lastly, the lower floor feels pretty useless at the moment. I'd add a third walkway from the Cloning Rooms to the top platforms near the teleporters.
До свидания и заткнись
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I like the textures, but not the way you used them, they are perfect to molded walls, walls with more details, i used this textures in a detailed map and they are very awesome, and also very hard to use, the layout is okay, but is very open in the bases wich is very annoying for the gameplay, a good example of an annoying map with those charasteristics is mill, but the good of this map, that mill doesnt have, is that it is symmetric and because of that its balanced, the problem is that the map can be annoying for the guy who capture the enemy flag because of the playerstart, the players can spawn directly in front of the guy who captures the flag, and there are 22 playerstrat in the open zone, making the capturing of the flag something very hard to do, and the recovering very hard too.
The geometry is okay too, but there are some curved things that doesnt look natural for the buildings, these has the shape of terrain.
-the map lacks of detailing, there are details, but they are more marked for the texturing, that can be done too, but its more like for small maps, there are a lot of walls that could be more detailed, with more volume, you just can add some cubes to the wall and it would be done, some corners, or contours.

in general i like the map, the layout can be very good for effic, and not too much for insta, but it work anyway, i think you should work more in the geometry, detailing and texturing.
7/10 awesome.
greetings.

Seriously. 11/10.

Thanks for the feedback and votes, I have recently gotten some motivation to keep this map going :). I'll post a new version soon

Hallo Fatality!

This is from august? How come I didn't take a look yet? :(

I have just been walking around on this map for a few minutes, so I cannot focus on gameplay and layout, but the first impression on these two aspects is really good.

I will focus on the aesthetical side, especially on texture usage ans lighting:
You chose one of the best texture sets out there. Good! Still the usage of that set is really, really repetitive. Check, what the textures are meant for. They have names, which are (in most cases) very instructive. Using wall textures or small textures called "switch" as a ground texture for huge areas is not forbidden, but the result will normally look strange. The texture set also holds very interesting textures with coloured elements and terrain textures. Why not try to go for more variety. That would also help players to orientate, if there were "outisde" areas with mostly terrain and "inside" areas in tech buildings.

The lighting is good, because it creates a certain, cold atmosphere. It's almost black and white, almost reminds me of the movie sin city. But it is also bad, because the lights are placed in a strange way often. Some lights don't have sources, some ahve a huuuge radius and are placed directly next to the source textures, what produces strange shadows.
What the heck did you make that roof for? :) Just one boring texture almost all over the place with the result that you cannot use skylight or sunlight for the most parts of the map and have to playe a thousand light. What about making it more simple? Less is often more!

Hope to see you ingame, maybe we can do some small room together with these texture set?

Don't get me wrong, it's a good map, just in an earlier development stadium. Looking forward to the update.

Greetings
rabe

Looks like something i'll have to take a look at, hope it's not swiss cheese on the inside :)

just from the screenshot: avoid roundness, doesn't fit with the textures.

Perhaps time for me to check out the map also.

The texturepack isn't really meant to be repetitive like the roof or on walls (like the pk02_wall06a_c.jpgwhich is appearing a lot on the walls without any further depth in it). Although the textures look awesome, they rely heavily on some geometry which fits their shape. So just flat walls but also round shapes often aren't looking that great in combination of these textures (as the walls make it repetitive while the curved shapes makes it feel misplaced).
The lighting is as being said; pretty misplaced. Perhaps if you would open the huge dark ceiling, it would give a brighter aspect also. I know it wouldn't be necessary as skytexturelight 0 can be executed to let skylight and sunlight pass through geometry with a textureslot of 0, but I think it would improve the appearance of the map.

The other thing I've noticed about the map is that it lacks certain clipping. You bump against trimmings on the floors (like at the shallow pools) and get stuck against trimmings on the walls (like the trimming of the arch right above 2 boxes with some health spawning on it; the side walls of the map have this trouble also).

Furthermore, it's a nice attempt for one of your first maps published on Quadropolis; so good job.

Hey fata ^^ i remember this map of yours i also remember helping a bit on it . . It is infact a awesome map and you should keep it going . . Please let me know when you online again i would really like to help again ;-)

Yo Rudi! ;)

Well, I started working on the map again, I actually decided to start it from scratch. I haven't gotten too far, but I got the lighting, fog, texturing, and geometry to look much better I think. The layout of course will stay the same for the most part with just a few changes. Here's a preview of what I have already. I'm not so sure about the red lights, they're more of an idea. Let me know what you guys think, if you would. :)

http://i.imgur.com/YQ1GWxz.jpg

WoW man, how did U do this?! it is great. I didnt see any problem with lights or anything else... easy to reach the other base & have many places for camping.. it is great :) and awesome texturing :)