de_outpost (wip)

Hiya, welcome back and it's nice to see someone trying a demolition map, it's a really underrated game mode!

It looks like you might want to increase the light of your light_environment and maybe use a few more lights indoors! I would suggest light_spot to cast light at areas rather than the standard light which emits in all directions (which you may have placed a bit too close to the walls)

Aside from the lighting, and a scale on the slightly large size, the setting looks nice for demolition! It looks a little too much like lake/safehouse atm, maybe make it a mini version of compound from source?! (but with bomb ofc) You'd definitely get my subscription to that map!

Looks pretty squarey if you ask me, break those angles dude.

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Something like that, make some nice buildings aligned to the 45° grid and it will looks way more natural and nice and beautiful and...

That lighting looks so much better! But I think you still need to increase the ambient level of light, to avoid too many dark corners.

Keep it up

Starting to look so much better. Good job.

looking very nice!

looks great!

interior is too dark atm, you should spend some more time on that.

It's looking amazing keep it up!

To be honest, I'm liking your warehouse much more than the wood house you have in front of it. It looks like it's nicely proportioned and that there are multiple routes to get to a fairly tight fighting area which speaks well to the gameplay in Demolition.

Personally, this map looks like it is caught between De_Lake and De_Safehouse in terms of idea and scope and it would probably be better if you chose one style or the other since right now it looks a bit "formless" Demolition maps are generally very reliant on choke-points that place people at the same spot at the same time, with lots of sightlines and a moderate amount of cover.

Take a look at how Valve structures de_lake for example: there is plenty of space to move around and duel players perfect for mid range rights and close range, but the action is constrained around a very tight knot that is the Boathouse, where the objective is also located. Same goes for Safehouse. The front and back yards are reasonably spacious in and of themselves but are cut off from one another by a fence and the house itself, drawing the action into a close range brawl.

In each case and even pointing to something like de_bank; extraneous structures are both small and uncomplicated. This makes it harder for players to get lost, and again focuses combat into a short 30-45 second burst.

EDIT: Oh, and I see that you are using the security console prop from cs_office: Heads up; the collision model on that prop is all jacked up. For a reason known to me Valve has a part of the collision model that randomly juts out of the desk, so players trying to get close to it or jump on the desk proper may get knocked away without knowing why.