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I know you're not asking for crits so I'm sorry in advance but the water seems odd to me. It looks neither like water nor ice.

and it reminds me of goldsrc era liquid scrolling textures(no offense). I think you can do better.

my suggestion would be to make the vessel stuck in a layer of ice and maybe keep the water/waves in a distance.

I think that would be neat.

just a rough draft

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I know this is no joke with source, but I think it would make the map much more interesting.

Now this is awesome and original! I also agree about the ice comment. Who cares if it makes sense? I understand the concern regarding performance, but aren't there ways to 'fake' it?

Holy ducking divinities from all the major religions

Around a week ago I too had the thought of a cargo-ship theme. I'm happy I didn't think of it sooner, as this would have blown me out of the water

Good job

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22 minutes ago, catfood said: I know a few of you are releasing a map this week so I want to give you guys a headsup that i'm pretty sure someone is downvoting maps so he can get his maps on top of the workshop spotlight. I released shipped yesterday and had two downvotes until two hours ago then all of a sudden the map has 40 downvotes and now JeffCSBETS.NET has his 6 maps aim maps full with CSbetting advertisment and all with a 4 star rating and no comments on top of the workshop page. he released the maps today. I know I cant know for sure its his doing but this feels real shady. Pls don't get me wrong I can handle downvotes Im also pretty sure i can sleep tonite but this is getting out of hand and I just wanted to spread the word.

It's about time Valve only allows one IP per map to vote + a Steam lvl 5 requirement or smth. like that. I'm so annoyed to see 10 minute maps in the Workshop spotlight :<

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13 minutes ago, El_Exodus said: It's about time Valve only allows one IP per map to vote + a Steam lvl 5 requirement or smth. like that. I'm so annoyed to see 10 minute maps in the Workshop spotlight :<

I think there should be a staff pick spotlight, for operation standard maps that need the attention.

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37 minutes ago, catfood said: I know a few of you are releasing a map this week so I want to give you guys a headsup that i'm pretty sure someone is downvoting maps so he can get his maps on top of the workshop spotlight. I released shipped yesterday and had two downvotes until two hours ago then all of a sudden the map has 40 downvotes and now JeffCSBETS.NET has his 6 maps aim maps full with CSbetting advertisment and all with a 4 star rating and no comments on top of the workshop page. he released the maps today. I know I cant know for sure its his doing but this feels real shady. Pls don't get me wrong I can handle downvotes Im also pretty sure i can sleep tonite but this is getting out of hand and I just wanted to spread the word.

I am totally seeing this, I wouldn't doubt that its him doing it. I see more than 6 climbing the most popular (week) and shipped isn't even on the first page of it.

Vote manipulation has been going on for a while now unfortunately, some of my maps were hit by it as well but lucky only small scale to knock me off the top spot. If you released at the same time as certain skin authors or other maps even, you could expect quite a few downs by them. But with these gambling sites now using the workshop as a means to spam their ads, you can expect a downvote from each of their bots which can result in downvotes in the hundreds.

Doubt valve will do anything to address the issue as its pretty clear they don't hold the voting system in high regard. The workshop has been a mess for a long time now.

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38 minutes ago, El_Exodus said: It's about time Valve only allows one IP per map to vote + a Steam lvl 5 requirement or smth. like that. I'm so annoyed to see 10 minute maps in the Workshop spotlight :<

I think its time for a second workshop page / category. I think this because actual good maps are reaching the front page for a little while and then just buried under piles and piles of aim maps just renamed for different guns, take this one for instance; what makes it Glock and AWP specific?

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Its almost if they see making an aim_map as an opportunity to make some money by people donating. Also around 80% of comments on my older maps are all just "check out this skin" or "nice skin check out my one".

I wouldn't worry about votes guys, valve doesn't really use them to filter. If a map is good they'll notice. Besides, they probably skip all the pages with aim maps anyways, so votes def don't matter in that regard.

Onto the map, looks pretty killer dude, I remember seeing a dev version a few months ago, seeing it progress into this final version is pretty rad, tons of work went into it for sure. On the note about the Ocean I partially agree, mostly because I've been there and done that, achieving an ocean in source doesn't come with many options that are performance sensitive. I think applying some specularity to the ocean will help drive it's realism a long way tho, maybe try giving it a normal as well?

As for the rest of the map there's a lot of really nice touches to both the atmosphere and narrative of the environment. I think the only thing I think is a concern in the art department is that you might want to try and push the fidelity a bit more on a lot of your custom assets. Almost everything seems to have a consistent envmap intensity (especially in the dark areas), applying phong to a bunch of stuff will really help give those assets some more life.

Catfood, your map and your work impressed me...again Well done man !

Just played it... damn it looks good! It felt like I was walking on a guided tour... I kicked all the bots and just walked around looking at details, amazing and well optimized!

Map looks fantastic! (as always)

There are some minor issues like too intense reflectivity on some props and some 'overlay under thin object flickering'. But I'm sure you're aware of these things and will fix this.

It's a pity that this fantastic map got downvoted by those idiots.

Same happened to my Austria map. It already disappeared in the workshop nirvana with ridiculous 172 ratings and 6k downloads after one week in the workshop, which is pretty poor for a game with 10 mio. players.

The whole workshop is completely messed up for more than a year (or longer?). On the first page of 'top rated all time' there are 2(!) actual maps (pripyat and zoo), the rest is aim/training/dust2copy/etc bullshit.

The comments are >90% advertisement spam.

And now those 10 minute map spam + downvote bots.

Nothing happens.

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4 hours ago, MrTwoVideoCards said: I wouldn't worry about votes guys, valve doesn't really use them to filter. If a map is good they'll notice. Besides, they probably skip all the pages with aim maps anyways, so votes def don't matter in that regard.

It's not only about getting into the next operation.

There are also small guys like me who just want to get some feedback or just play the map they have made online. But this won't happen when good maps disappear behind that mass of spam.

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7 hours ago, catfood said: I know a few of you are releasing a map this week so I want to give you guys a headsup that i'm pretty sure someone is downvoting maps so he can get his maps on top of the workshop spotlight. I released shipped yesterday and had two downvotes until two hours ago then all of a sudden the map has 40 downvotes and now JeffCSBETS.NET has his 6 maps aim maps full with CSbetting advertisment and all with a 4 star rating and no comments on top of the workshop page. he released the maps today. I know I cant know for sure its his doing but this feels real shady. Pls don't get me wrong I can handle downvotes Im also pretty sure i can sleep tonite but this is getting out of hand and I just wanted to spread the word.

Nope, your are defiantly not wrong. I made Ramis, also experienced the same thing, was at around 40 dislikes yesterday, now today (within 30 mins) im on 140. Yesterday and Today Bit of a difference today since now "Jeff" has been called out on it. Shame the workshops come to this point.