de_Xuhsh's Crossing

So the two bombsites are on top of each other?

It is unclear how you can rotate between bombsites, but if you just have to jump down, rotation is too short and people always will want to be at the top bombsite since they can scope out the two courtyards and it appears they can fall down real quick and with some cover to low bombsite courtyard entries. In my opinion, that could be misused. What I'd do would be to make sure that either it is too risky to jump down and retake the site, or to make sure the easiest way in the lower bombsite is the entry indoors.

I'll get back to you when I'll have the time to test it!

Some Critic:

> The size of the map isnt very big and most of it is very open, so there isnt really any choke points. You basically just need to sit at the upper site and have free control of most of the map.

> The site's being so close together isn't a good idea. Rotation times are basically one second jumps, and there isnt really any advantage for choosing one site over the other. I would look at moving the lower site under the ground or at a different location all together. Overpass and Nuke is probably the closest examples to your layout idea, but even those suffer in rotation times in my opinion.

> Pretty simple building forms, not too much brushwork on the outsides of them, again I understand you mentioned you would be adding detail later so I'll leave that with you.

> Lighting seems a bit strong in certain areas, or bleeds to much. Try to add more subtle lighting in areas and make use of other lighting props over the site.

Goodluck.

what do the terrorists have against the bridge when there's a scientific laboratory all around waiting to be blown up?

As everyone already suggested, the bombsites are far too close together for this system, if you made it tall enough that falling off it would kill you then that's more interesting (but falling on a player's head or into shallow water will always prevent that).

imo, it looks more like a TF2 arena map, crossed with a shooting gallery. The layout needs some revising.

Detail looks OK, if a bit simple, but the lights are way too overpowering. Couple the lights with light_spot and use the light_spot to provide the majority of targeted light and have a low ambient glow with the light entity (intensity of about <50 should work)

EDIT: Oh, and the name. It's your name, but typically there aren't spaces in the name (replace with underscores) and one word names are a bit more snappy and memorable, and it helps even more if they're easy to pronounce.

The concept is novel, but having too much overlapping playable space can be a bad thing -- but only because of CS's horrible audio system, especially when it comes to Z-axis sound separation. For comparison's sake, Mist was a great map (I thought, at least!), but it really suffered because of this.

Faking plants and resulting (premature?) rotates would be really frustrating on this map because of the overlapping sites, IMO. I think being able to jump down to B from A also really breaks the general rule of CS bombsites having 2-3 entrances.

I think that if you were to remove one of the bombsites and reduce the outer bounds (move the spawns in, essentially), this could make for a fantastic Demolition mode map.

Mist was pretty good, not sure how I felt about the tower, but the bombsite were opposite ends of the map:

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not quite the same as something more like nuke.

ayyyy! I remember you from the Insurgency map contest! Anyway, pretty much what everyone's mentioning regarding suggestions.

Dont remember if deathmatch game mode is allowed for the competition but if so, it'd definitely be more conducive to the map. It's too open and packed together to be viable as a defusal map.

Good luck!