de_ali (working name)

Congrats, everything looks great, I do particularly like as well the long stairs area.

One only complaint: i'd get rid of the brick arch in the building in the bomb-area, doesn't feel right to me. First looks cramped in between the other arches and the roof (=no breathing space); it's also very peculiar, so imo feels repetitive, with another building having it, but using it more effectively (thanks to the balcony)

Quote from Squad

Redid the building with the arches, gave it a more uniform texture as well so it should fit better in the map now.

[Blocked Image: http://users.telenet.be/gus/csgo32.jpg]

Dont remove the little deck under the archway there, its just really cool for some reason.

The other arch however, replace it with three small windows all youre good to go

Nice progress

Two things that leap out at me. The main one is the brush based pillars, which could instead be meshes. The ones from safehouse I feel would be good solution.

Model path: models/props/de_house/stonepillar.mdl

The other thing is the tower in the background, which looks like it could use a bit more work so that it looked less blocky. Maybe open it up a bit so you can see the sky through it, and perhaps have a belltower in there.

[Blocked Image: http://www.skybex.com/home/ali_01.jpg]

I love it. I feel its still not finished though. Give it more detail!

Look at the new, officially made, de_mirage. It retains readability while still being very detailed by using similarly colored textures to detail the walls. (desaturated primary colors and lots of wood/organic colors) I feel as if your map could give so much more considering its small size.

This will be a master piece !!!

Also what is the thing on the red house in the last shot ? A painting ? I think this building needs more work.

Looks better and better man!

I just don't really like your post process. It adds a kind of filter which it turns all your map in brown and flat color. I think you should work on that to detach the elements and make them more interesting (green plants, true blue sky,...).

Here some screen to translate what I'm thinking :

[Blocked Image: http://asset.keldelice.com/attachments/photos/128414/original/DOMAINE_DE_PIQUEROQUE.jpg?1257308881]

[Blocked Image: http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/74944373.jpg]

[Blocked Image: http://www.cartesfrance.fr/carte-france-ville/photo-hotel.php?photo=http%3A%2F%2Faff.bstatic.com%2Fimages%2Fhotel%2Fmax500%2F163%2F16302328.jpg]

i thought for sure that starting a new subscription would give you a big, and deserved, boost, and hope it does, in the end.

it would be nice if there was a way that updates (or big updates, like your last one) could get some visibility through some sort of tab or dedicated space on the home page.

map looks great, those beams are still ridiculous

Quote from Squad

I also agree that this particular arch looks a bit squeezed in ... cause it is I wanted to put a bit more accent to the painting, but there should be a better way.

I think it achieved the opposite effect, and now the eye is caught more by it

The only negative that stands out to me at the moment is that the post-processing is a bit too strong. It makes it feel really flat and in a way a little blurry. Looking at the map with post-processing disabled, it looks really nice!

Man this really looks awesome, would be super sexy with a few buildings as pure colors! Also would help create landmarks for call outs.

I really do like your map.

EDIT: I saw a few pages back that you had color at one point. I still think you could add some of that back, just not as crazy as you had it before.

EDIT EDIT: ok, just played it for about an hour, prob don't need colors

really nice layout, that middle is going to be intense!

Lovelly, I'll finally be able to try it.

I'm curious because of the roadsigns in Italian, is this inspired by some Italian or Spanish town in particular? (name?)

Looks great, longing to play this!