CTF Maps Formula

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Ehh. No.

Seriously? Theese aren't good maps.
@Tenshirox

 

Hm, great tips, but I do agree with the theme of Castles being repetitive, and flat land is just bad...

 

Blackout: Decent, Elf Friendly.
Whiteout: Not nearly as cool. But Still elf friendly. :|
Forest Of Rivals: No. I mean have you seen the Trees?! #SoldierOP

 

Blackout is archer OP and soldier OP
So is whiteout

 

I agree with blackout but whiteout just has too much detail that it gets in the way of game-play and Forest of Rival's tree spam is a tired concept that's op for soldiers while annoying for everyone else.

 

Slate and Soul are pretty good maps?

 

Hey MineIsTheFury!
I'm the Map Maker of Soul, Subzero, and Divergent Strike :l

So to being, I would like to politely counter your argument:

• Slate is a really good map, built by one of very own- Birdgirl. It poses no problems in the CTF community, and so far, has no negative feedback.
• Soul, was much worse when it was first released. Since then, Soul has been updated- and has been receiving positive results since then. Both Slate and Soul use Stairs and Slabs accordingly- not just exclusive to sponges.
• Whiteout and Blackout have positive ratings- but aren't considered the best.
• Forest of Rivals (V2) has more of a neutral rating in the rotation.

If you want to make arguments about the maps, I'd rather you have factual evidence to back it up.
I like that you have provided input on how CTF maps should be regulated, but I don't think they really contribute much to CTF map making.

The Official Guide(s) to CTF Map making be found Here and Here.

 

If a pyro manages to ignite the solider, they can spam climb over the trees and run to the centre pool of water which makes recovering even more annoying.

 

Slate:
It's kind of subpar. I'm not the best at analyzing maps, so I'll call in @Lugia_ who is an expert reviewer and map maker to comment.
Soul:
It's been improved, but still on the lower-grade end of maps due to it still being quite but not extremely soldier OP and ninja OP.
Agreed on the rest.

 

Blackout is a great map, I agree with you on that. I, personally, like Forest of Rivals. Whiteout though, no. It's too laggy. I really enjoy Slate too.

 

As one of the creators of both Castle Villages, I think it's time for me to step in and defend not only the maps but myself.

I will admit, the original Castle Village was quite a mess and overall wasn't a good map. However, calling out all castle maps is truly unfair. In my opinion, Castle Village II is actually quite enjoyable due to the underground passage, the improved flag room, more structures to prevent Archer opness, and other neat features that improves gameplay drastically.

Not every castle map is the map Castle, that's just not fair at all to make a statement like that. Castle Village and Medieval Siege are nothing like the map Castle except that they both have a castle as the main building.

 

Lmao, just no.

 

Really? I haven't played Whiteout in a couple weeks. I always switch servers when it comes on xD

 

Blackout is still the best. It's like Dust 2 of cs:go. It's fun to play, I mean every map is "good" and lot's of people have different maps (mostly map creators) but Blackout and Whiteout(I suppose) and another favorite of mine: Desert Strike III are just good maps to kill wimps with archer.

BTW Unholy Faith is impossible to get the flag from.

 

Great Tips, very informative.

 

Blackout is and whiteout is except for lag

 

as a pyro you shouldn't really be recovering imo, just go ninja

 

But when the other team has capped 4 times whatcha gonna do