de_terminus2

I'll start with the positive side of your map. You have good lighting, it looks very deserted and lonesome. You've learned to use curved walls and know not every curve is a perfect 90 degrees. Beyond that you're lacking alot.

I think everyone will agree with this - You lack content. You have these boring open hallways with nothing in them. Like screenshot 2 and 3, just dull open hallways. You could of added so many things! Pipes, props, trash, crates, stains, decals, graffiti, lights on the walls, trash cans, vents, ANYTHING! Your map has potentional but you need to involve more props.

Quote from Ph3nyx

Oh i think you didn't notice that is an early work in progress.

Course he did, that's why he gave you those tips!

Where death is most alive.

follow the curved roof around the long curve ;D

it's cheap to just end it because you can't be bothered to manually chop brushes up!

You need to verterx the brushes into position then split them down the middle so they're triangles. Thus they don't split.

The lighting is great

The hallway doesn't look right in the first picture, don't remember seeing anything like that in a subway, looks more fitting for a 'topside' trainstation though.

Good be a good map for a Zombie mod

i kind of like the atmosphere it breathes in the last picture..

the white railings stand out too much...

and you could improve the lighting a bit

still looks amazingly empty. the props you have added (like the soda machines) seem complete out of context with the concrete surface. i honestly dont think you lack content since you could probably add whatever is in your reach from within the sdk; what i think you lack is purpose.

it seems you have a series of hallways or other just connected. sure people use them for escalators etc, but would they really build a public service station like that? wouldnt they make it more effective by compressing everything to the smallest space neccesary?

i think-- no, i know they would. instead of having blank walls try to do something with the space around them - make storage rooms with grates and put cardboard boxes inside or something similar. add the feeling that the place was in obvious use before it simply became a cs map. you will probably have to rearrange some of the map layout to compensate for reality, but in the end, you'll have a map that not only looks nicer, but feels more real.

the lightbeams look weird

apart from that, it looks empty indeed. the lighting in the hallways looks cool tho!

tbh i really like what you did with your latest addition

screenshot 3: looks weird, those machine's are just having no purpose at all. what sort of room is it?

screenshot 4: gameplay wise this hallway is stupid, snipers will own this hallway. Lightning could be colder (blueish) and try to get some doors in it, so it looks like its not just another hallway.

screenshot 5: get some benches against the wall, basically same as screenshot 4. Lightning looks sweet though, maybe a more volumetric light beam (like in de_dust2, with light/dust particles in it).

Benches, pay phones, garbage decals, garbage cans, locked maintenance doors, pipes (in moderation), Clocks, train schedules, plants, et all. Think of things you might see at a train station and try to add them to your map. I think with this map you should also focus on the lighting after you nail down the prop placement. fluorescent lighting isn't all you'll see in a train station, you know?