Posts by Stranger

Hey misutow0lf,

Couple of tips for you:

Generating waypoints for the bots is as easy as typing nav_generate into the console. You can also turn their difficulty up by typing bot_difficulty 10.

What happens is, CSGO only generates a nav mesh automatically if you don't have one for that file name. So if you change your map name, it will create a new one automatically if there are bots in your game. Otherwise, if you move walls or structures around and don't change the name, bots will run into walls unless you generate a new mesh.

Bots aren't that useful for playtesting a map but they may sometimes use routes or areas in the map in an unexpected way, which can give you a new way to look at your map.

Also, the radar needs to be packed into the BSP file for other players to see it when they join the server. This can be done in a number of ways. You cna download PakRat, and try that out. But that doesn't work for me for some reason. So the other way to pack it into your BSP is to upload the map to the workshop, which will do all the packing for you if your radar is in the overview folder and named properly. Then you can download your own map from the workshop and upload it elsewhere for RZL to host during the playtest. And your radar should work fine.

I've downloaded your map, and I'm gonna go have a run around in it.

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Thanks. I'll go back to dev textures. I'm not really worried about the map making sense architecturally right now. But I agree that many places will need some work to be believable.

I've made some massive changes and I'd love if it could be playtested on this Sunday if there's still room. If not, tuesday works too.

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I never had anything wrong with negative feedback. I want that. But calling it poop, or saying that it sucks, and that I should delete it and start over isn't helpful in any way. Thanks for attempting to give me some specific problems with the map though.

Download link to my map de_workingtitleV5.

No radar for now. If anything isn't working, let me know.

Alternate download link

Thanks so much!

If there's any room on Sunday, I would love to have my map tested.

esspho, I like the map. It seems like an interesting layout, and I had a little run around in it. I really think you should turn the contrast of those textures way down, and brighten the place up some more before playtesting. It's going to be impossible to see anyone the way it is now.

Roger. Thanks!

No playtest today?

de_dispatch_v2:

• Bombsites can no longer see eachother or into mid.
• Connector from mid to A is now a ladder leading to a raised platform.
• New supply room between Tspawn and A; may work out or just give CTs even more of an advantage.

I mostly haven't dealt with the rotation times yet. The bridge is still far too quick and safe of a route between bombsites. I want to see how today's testing goes before making anymore big changes.

Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1906363/Game…dispatch_v2.rar

Hahaha, alright. I'll try to expand the map around the bombsites. And yes I'm going to remove the bombsite to bombsite vision. Thanks for the thoughts.

May I have a slot on the Thursday playtest?

Thanks for the feedback!

As for your map, here are my thoughts:

Outer bombsite

• Too easy to defend once the bomb is planted
• Maybe a bit too simple or there was too much cover
• T's can bounce grenades off the silos to pretty much anywhere in that area, which is fine, but combined with how defensible it was already, made it even easier

(Just and idea) maybe there could be a window or two inside that had narrow sightlines to a few places in the outer bombsite. That way you could have snipers provide covering fire and make the T's have to hide more while you have some rifles push into the site

Inner bombsite

• Very complex layout / hard to understand where people will be coming from
• Too open / too many places to check all at once
• No clear indication of where the entrances are
• Bombsite itself is very open and dangerous unless the whole room is clear
• Difficult to defend

(Also just an idea) maybe you could change the main routes in and out of the site to a different texture, to give it some more obvious flow.

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The concept for this map will prove to be somewhat unique or just plain broken.

The idea is that both bombsites can see into each other and into mid. This is offset by the bombsites being large container crates that provide plenty of cover. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.

(slightly outdated overview)

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Download link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1906363/Game…dispatch_v1.rar

I'm certainly no architect, but I ran around in your map last night and thought is geometry was pretty interesting. Definitely a lot of open space, but lots of great cs maps make open spaces feel safe just by strategic placement of cover. Looking forward to seeing how it plays.

Thanks! Hope I didn't seem rude. Thanks for putting in all the work to make these playtests happen.

Damn. So no playtest today? I hope I can get in on Tuesday then.

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I want to say Stranger thanks for his notice about this tread!

Also, I want to put into playtesting today (Sundays at 21:00).

Sure thing. I hope you get some helpful feedback.

I also have a map ready, so if no one else had resquested a Sunday slot. I'll have a download link up soon.

I played it for a bit just by myself, and I think it's an interesting map! I thought the triangle bombsite was a bit odd. The cover around it was pretty good, but the triangle was disorienting, and I felt it kind of consumed the room and made me unsure where was safe from retaking CTs. I think the overall map is a bit hard to find your way around, but definitely has potential! I would recommend adding in some decals pointing the way to each bombsite first, and then posting it in the CSGO playtesting thread, which can be found in the Gaming Discussion forum. There is a playtest coming up tomorrow, at 12 noon, and I believe I'm the only one requesting my map be tested. So you could get in aswell

Looks interesting! I'll have to check it out soon.