Thanks for your kind words 
I agree and I'll take some time adjusting the lighting. I did test out your suggestion and it sure looks way better as it now gives some contrast to the routes seen from T-spawn.
Finally some progress with B site. Long B or what ever you wanna call it is inspired by the LA river. Suggestions welcome!
Almost finished with the first greybox version. Both bombsites are shaping up pretty fast while I continue to adjust other areas based on feedback. Some examples include reworking the sniper nest, long A and A connector.
Sniper nest
Long A. Connector entrance has been removed to make gaining the control as t a bit harder.
View from top-mid. Connector has now an entrance to mid instead of short A.
And finally some tweaked B-routes
I like the feel of the lighting, but you've got a lot of areas in the latest screenshots look way too dark for game play.
I think you need to boost your ambient lighting as there are still quite a few spots that seem oddly dark in contrast to the bright lighting falling next to it.
This map looks very fun, can't wait for the Workshop release!
Quote from jackophantI think you need to boost your ambient lighting as there are still quite a few spots that seem oddly dark in contrast to the bright lighting falling next to it.
Taken care of, mostly. I'll be tweaking the lighting in near future.
Workshop version will be released soon 
In the meanwhile here's some latest screens.
Added connector to B with a one-way drop (unless boosted)
Remade B site. Can't be sure how it plays, but it's definitely better than the last one.
Adjusted lighting in long A.
These corridors still require some lighting :v
I love the theme, and I respect the layout. With that said, you need to have both bombsites designed in pre-process before doing all this model work, I bet your SDK is full of big yellow blocks or you have to Hide everything to work around them. The lighting issues that everyone is talking about are true, when I'm designing a map, I'll typically leave roofs or anything blocking my sun until after major playtests have been completed and I'm in my detailing phase. Just some food for thought!! Good job and keep up the good work.
Quote from REzI love the theme, and I respect the layout. With that said, you need to have both bombsites designed in pre-process before doing all this model work, I bet your SDK is full of big yellow blocks or you have to Hide everything to work around them. The lighting issues that everyone is talking about are true, when I'm designing a map, I'll typically leave roofs or anything blocking my sun until after major playtests have been completed and I'm in my detailing phase. Just some food for thought!! Good job and keep up the good work.
Thank you!
I agree it would be easier to work without models, but I find it more motivating to have some details around the map so I can see how it would look later on. I have the props-visgroup hidden when I do any brushwork, so they don't really mess up the grid view when need to work on the brushwork. I didn't have roofs in some version before this, but found out having roofs is better as the map has become much more vertical. There's quite many places where players could unintentionally see through nodrawed surfaces if there was no roofs. 
I've mostly detailed areas where there's no firefights such as spawns and their vicinity. Key areas such as bombsites are quite empty of models and too complicated brushwork until I see how they play.
Quote from REzI bet your SDK is full of big yellow blocks or you have to Hide everything to work around them.
You can actually change the prop render distance to avoid the big yellow blocks.
Go to Tools > Options > 3D views > Model render distance
Then use the slider to change the render distance to a larger number than the size of the map (or just more than before) and the yellow blocks will no longer be a problem
Hi all! Workshop version has been released and it can be found here.
The map has some issues including:
Update!
However it should be adequate for playtesting on your own or maybe with a couple of friends. Any feedback (disregarding issues mentioned above) you might have can be posted on this topic or on the workshop page.
Do have to say beautiful layout and extremely unique in love with the diversity it breaths.. And as a overview the map in certain areas is are over complicated my main gripe is ct mid side having window, a vent and the corridor just to much. To simplify it you can get rid of vent but keep the route from mid to short it's good for fast fakes setups for t's ect ect and t's can use it to get to window so the vents islands just their like a mirage thing. And I think corridor is to much because having window I think I'll run into the same problem pone did with santorini to many accessible routes to mid May over complicate certain areas because you still could go throw window to split the site but that'll go for testing to see great map
Ran around the map and found some things.
When standing in T spawn and looking here:
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Then walking forward, a lot of stuff stops rendering in this area:
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You also have some props fading in and out when the player can see them (the foliage):
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Keep up the good work!
Just spit balling what if u connected alt mid to corridor made it a underground route thus utilizing the idea with out The mid cludder of doorways , but making it a a singular tunnel that would come out instead of at ct at b near that little cut
You know I was just thinkingg of something, that came from thinking and recall some of the old grandfathered in maps formular isn't howit is today it was very unconventional, so this idea is drilled in my head say u took that drain pipe near a mid stairs opened it up and lead to b as a drop down on that cuts may or may not be able to boost from and add a kink and maybe even have it have a ladder to mid under window idk if it'd be needed but it would be a perfect area for a clean break for a fast b execute for people playing at b trains get good info then players A mid ca swoop throw the pipe its a very unconventional method because if you think of mill or Tuscan contra no one nowadays would even think to throw in that risky unconventional route but i think it would fit perfectly because you would either have to smoke mid go throw window or under window to get to b this way is a direct line and obviously don't make it be a straight line of sight.! Make it have a elbow
Some before-after images to demonstrate the slow but steady progress
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Looks very original and refreshing to me! Very cool Layout and setting. Would participate in a playtest in EU when its finished
It's coming together, down in LA California there is jus some beautiful landscape clips that would fit your map to a T have u been working on the layout and any changes?
Any news???
Quote from Fa GuAnAny news???
Not too much for now. I've basically spent all my time in army, so no progress on the map unfortunately. I redesigned the other side of the map around b bombsite for better chokepoints and timings. I'll update this thread when I manage to get something actually done in the editor.
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