My only criticism is the cliffs which ring around the entirety of the map. It looks repetitive and breaking them up would definitely bring the visual quality up a notch.
i agree with psycho, and another thing, what is the red-white tower doing on that wooden house 
looks weird
i like it 
ofc you could split up the cliffs a bit and maybe rethink the tower on the house but it's nice as it is already!
I don't think you need to worry about optimisation considering how small the map.
YA THE TOWER ON TOP OF THE HOUSE SEEMS A LITTLE WIERD..
Looks good judging by the screens but if you are releasing another version make those trees in a different height/angle so it doesn't look so artificial, that tree lines are killing me xD
Good job ^_-
Quote from JoshuaCDoes anyone have any tips for optimizing a open map like this? I've done the usual nodraw everything that isn't seen and func_detail alot of the details but you can still see quite a bit of the static models when they're covered up by certain things.
Tweak the fade distances on the models und use some func_occluder entities. Not much else you can do on a map this open, neither areaportals nor hints will get you much more performance.
How deep is that water? can it put out ignited players?
Quote from #1 DuckHow deep is that water? can it put out ignited players?
Nope
WoW, GRATZ dude!! in getting your/this map in the TF2 Scout Release pack!
Cool, congratz 
Congrats!
nice job mate
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I don't think he'll be back to see the congratulations 
Congrats nevertheless!
See, it's because he posted it on Mapcore that it got selected. We have a lot of pull 
Congrats!
Kudos to Josh. Valve really needs to include more community content in their other games. Funny thing though no one here really gave this much of a second look, someone at valve must have took a real shining to it. Guy comes here, makes 2 posts and has his map go official.
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