[mapping] mp_backyard

perfect for campers ;X

just played it, enjoyed it but no nades n smokes wont give teh full picture, + colours need to be brighter. No cover for bomb sites and it takes a long time to load, need to get rid of pointless buildings that lead nowhere and too many camping spots next to bomb sites.

smokes and nades added

I'm assuming that by the [mapping] tag this is for potential future promod maps, so...

<jackass alert>
Sorry, the map is terrible. It's an uninspired layout which is basically four streets with a little uh... backyard in between them. There's a shitload of way-too-tiny buildings that don't do anything whatsoever except make it so that if someone doesn't want to be found, you're not going to find him. It's a little more complex than fy_iceworld in terms of layout and gameplay, but only a very little bit.

Seems like someone wanted to practice working on building architecture more than anything. :/ Protip: Make buildings bigger, limit the amount of single-person chokepoints there are. Crash has chokes in A-site building but that's for a reason.


edit:
A little more about internal building scale: There's a reason that all the good mp maps in FPS games from 'realistic' settings are a little on the large side. It's a consideration of gameplay > scale. Even Crash A-site which is supposed to be some sort of diner has the tables/chairs propped up against the sides of 2nd floor to make room.

I guess you could arguably get away with more compact single-person choke points in an SP map - MW2's office areas do this pretty well, but in mp it's a huge problem.


2nd edit:
Just so I feel a little less guilty, there -are- a lot of good/great architectural ideas in the map if you ignore the choke area problems... it just sorta doesn't come together as a whole all that well. :(

edited 2010-03-13 22:12:47

It's a real shame none of you could comment somewhere that I could see it, otherwise I could've fixed/changed it. Now I'm working on a different project and have no motivation to fix up this old map.

wp bumping an 14month old thread.

just put the good custom maps on the pickup servers.. More people will play the maps -> custom maps will be put on pubservers -> more teams will play the map in PCWs -> more cups will support the maps = profit