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congrats to the top 3.i guess we about to have a flood of good maps now that tay can be released.woohoo.ill get some screenies together and a dl link soon as i can.ty wt and all the judges for your effort it was fun.

can we have a draft night of the new maps? or somene *cough valar* would be so kind as to cycle all the new maps on a server?

thanks
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The winner of the last contest was caverns. Over here caverns is very popular and is heavily played in scrims by the competitive community. My team runs organized matches in it regularly, as well as lost arena.

Gutted I didn't make it but having seen the quality of 1 finalist map i know it was a tough room to get in to.
thanks to all who helped with the judging and well done to all who entered the competition, 20+ maps is a fantastic turn out

I would be very grateful to an feedback you guys can provide, i'm gonna release dm_wardon in rc format as its pretty much the most complete of my 2 maps, so please drop me a mail or hit me up in steam or whatever, I'd very much like to hear your input

Thanks Pp | Justin

>>Link<< dm_wardon Thread

I'd say caverns is more popular as a competitive map in Europe too. lostarena is on the small side even for a 3on3, has fewer tactical possibilities and also sports two versions with the same name, meaning you sometimes have the version without rpg although it was supposed to be available.

I'll try to send you some feedback soon piggy!

Well done guys...

maybe it would be best to separate the non winners and move them to a thread of their own (admin)

sure and will pleasure. releases please post LD links or PM me and i'll run everything on my HL2DM IS ALIVE server in NY.

Constructive criticism and what you liked will be good feedback.
I will make good use of any feedback to help and improve my map thanks.

One thread to rule them all!

All contestants can post here, it's on topic.

The finalists will get maximum exposure in their own thread once the contest is over and the map pack is released.

i would be more than happy to run the cycle of maps on my server!

My map Dm_Stockade, don't know when or If I'll release it, do want to make some fixes to it though. Congrats to those that won though

oops .:EDIT:.

The brush work looks good not blocky, I say release it.

Well I want to add more to it, and i need to figure out how to use visleafs better as some areas, namely the middle of the map can get framerate dips.

I would use "func_occluder" if I were you.
Add them in the walls, behind the wall models will not be drawn for players,
useful as players can't see through walls anyway. I have used func_occluders in dm_lost_base cause there are lots of weapon models. In a old map version there was one part of the map where I got 30fps then I added func_occluders in the walls and I got 100fps. (when I did have a old ati 128MB g card)

Thats one way that can help you improve frame rate.

very nice map, you've made good use of the combine theme. It does look spartan from the images but imo feels completely natural when in game.
Also i didn't experience any fps issues (nvidia 8800 320), and love the effect the env_fog_controller is giving, feels so right wd..

Visually I would only consider displacing a little more in some areas just to add that extra detail
as for playability i think this will run great as a pub map and 4v4 tdm but i would try playing with teleports or maybe trigger push in certain places to speed up connectivity for when there are fewer players

great submission mate, im gonna run this in one of our tdm server if there's no objections

i personally dont like caverns but ive played it in "gathers" in europe and i guess it plays ok and a lot of people like it. so in that sense, the first map contest was successfull.

lostarena is more of a map for public servers here, but it is also used competitively by lower division clans. meaning its not popular among the "elite".

another fine popper map, nice

Theres a missing texture in your map Popper in that big drop, just to let you know.

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thanks mike, i seem to remember trying out a lava texture at the bottom of that pit of hell