W.I.P. ES's CTF map

I'm just gonna warn you that maps with a lot of water cause lots of lag. Other than that, I'm glad another player has picked up mapmaking. Good luck!

 

I always wanted a good underwater ctf map but honestly, this isn't one. The overall gameplay seems terrible and the aesthetics could use improvement. Here's the problems I found through the screenshots and video:

1. Anything ranged would dominate. The map mostly consists of long, narrow tunnels which is a big no no. Mage, Elf, Archer, and Engineer will have a field day on this. This also makes pvp very difficult and allows classes like chemist which have an AOF that applies knockback to escape a lot easier.
2. As @Shawn_ said, the mix of large amounts of water and glass will cause people with lower-end computers to lag. This was the major issue with Atlantis, apart from all it's other flaws.
3. Mobility classes such as Soldier (and on a lower scale, Elf and Ninja) would be quite useless. The map is so confined and has no ledges or elevations to allow these classes to be fully effective.
4. Ninjas can pearl through the glass into the water. This was also another issue with Atlantis. This would make recovering off a ninja that clipped impossible unless you had a ninja on your team that can clip through the glass and kill him.
5. Very flat. Pvp-centered classes such and Heavy and Chemist will dominate. Mage will also be very difficult to fight against aswell.
6. Flagroom has entrances on all 4 sides which would make defending quite complicated. The mixture of the very-open flagroom along with the tiny entrances around it would make capping a nightmare. The ledges in the flagroom above the entrances are unreachable by anything except Soldier, Elf, and Ninja which would allow easy camping.
7. There doesn't seem to be any restriction blocks so Enginner would be more of a nuisance than normal. There's no way you're gonna kill an engi in a 3x3 tunnel with the turret and 20 teammates guarding it.
8. The flag has to be just 1 oak fence.

The feedback I can give is pretty limited since all I have to work with is 3 screenshots and a video, so take it as you will.
The map has to be on McBuild for it to be accepted so you'll need to get a developer to import it in for you if you want it to have a chance of acceptance, but after the whole Sidewalk incident I doubt they'd be too thrilled about that.

Glad you're taking up map making. Don't let this one get you down, by building more maps you'll just naturally improve.

 

Okay so I was the first one to comment, as I said "first"but I see that has been removed by Roke for being "off topic", so ill be more on topic now.
I have to agree with Gala, the map doesn't seem playable enough to the point where I would enjoy it. It needs to be more open and without narrow passage ways. I play assassin so the open area would be very op, as I can move around without having to jump anything. Id like to see it more open and with more structures. Maybe making it larger with more tunnels would help. You should also make the tunnels a lot larger, seeing how it's very range op.

I hope to see new faces in the building community.

Thank you, Nimbo