CSGO Map Submissions open for the next operation!

If anyone from here has any maps that are potentially operation-viable post them in this thread. More favourites and upvotes the better

Well, Zoo is already released. And every candidate for the Operation will receive additional feedback by Valve. So im pretty confident, that we'll see it in it. I think Resort will also be ready, but this is up to RZL and Yanzl

Zoo and Resort are good candidates, I agree !

There was a couple complaints about optimisation for DE_resort during the playtest this week.

Not sure how quickly this could get resolved (bsp is like 100mb +)

I think there's a number of good contenders from here but it depends on valves theming and own intentions. They well be considering bringing back a couple successful past maps again .

bsp has to be lower than 150mb

Is that a requirement by Valve, ted?

I'm interested in the process after valve chooses the maps. Do they make you sign an NDA then ask you apply a number of changes to the map? or do they ask you to send an upto date bsp/vmf/radar etc for inspection and apply any 'required' changes themselves?

I know someone from here had valve apply a number of changes to a map's lighting before it got added it an operation.

It would be cool if you got invited to a playtest with CSGO's team and discussed the design with them but that's probably wishful thinking

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Is that a requirement by Valve, ted?

Yes, because it causes issues on servers. It also got us reducing and optimizing things we didn't need so it was a benefit.

150mb is terribly heavy for a map.

blackgold is 180, workout is 150, season ditto. Probably keep it under 200?

Custom assets are always going to make the map huge. If you want an original theme you'll either need to use existing assets in a really creative way or take a hit in file size

Valve seem to have gotten around it with the new DE_train by adding all the assets to the stock VPK? Does anyone know if this improves performance..?

I think de_overpass used a lot of existing models too so no issues there....

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blackgold is 180, workout is 150, season ditto. Probably keep it under 200?

ted said it's a requirement by Valve. Blackgold was in an earlier operation than workout and season, so I guess the requirement was probably set (or changed) after Blackgold.

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ted said it's a requirement by Valve. Blackgold was in an earlier operation than workout and season, so I guess the requirement was probably set (or changed) after Blackgold.

I thought the limit was still 200 MB...

We were told 150. That's all I know.

Maybe they look at each map and decide what they think a realistic target size would be. I imagine Black Gold had more custom props than Season.

or they've been reducing the limit since users were complaining about bad performance during op breakout.

Is the size that shows on workshop the 'true size'?

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Maybe they look at each map and decide what they think a realistic target size would be. I imagine Black Gold had more custom props than Season.

BlackGold had few custom made props, most of our content came from textures. Im sure Season had a lot more content made for it.