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OMG gys, Im sorry for not being here for you Some one asked how we are doing? well not bad srsly, kinda still a lot of work, tho @Minos for taging me so I could jump in here Im super happy you guys like the screenshots - a lot of hard work went into it, and I gotta say those are not bullshots - if you have decent machine this is exactly how the game looks in my editor Just be paitient, its almots there ;)

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9mwWOO

Wanted to buy Mirrors Edge today. Turns out I already have it

One user, @Tynnyri, was banned for flooding a lot of map threads with criticism aimed at proving how much better his map was than any others. If a map had good visuals he would call the layout unoriginal, if it had an original layout he would say the visuals were poorly made and not deserving of praise. He never gave positive or even neutral feedback, and when someone pointed out his criticism was wrong or gave him feedback he would reply dismissing that person. For two months it was hard to post because you knew your thread would be flooded with pointless argument. I think a lot of people saw him as a troll, since his replies would come in within minutes. He clearly was just sitting on the site waiting to argue rather than interpreting any of the criticism that was made against OR by him. I think people debating on the forum is great, but @Tynnyri just made a lot of people be toxic towards each other. On the map feedback side: I think that the core mapcore judges should be required to release their feedback publicly rather than to personal request. I understand that guest judges have other occupations, but the main judges are part of the community and should be invested in helping it grow. The 2018 csmapmakers wingman contest did this for every map, and helped me develop my knowledge as a mapper a lot.

I was a judge in a map contest for Forgehub.com along with three others, not nearly as high a prize pool mapcore has but the barrier to entree was also alot lower due to the tool being installed with the game (halo 5) so that made up for it. Anyways, we made all of our scores across all categories public, as well as a short summery of our thoughts on each. All the judges agreed to be transparent before hand and on top of that, if anybody wanted to know more they could ask any one of us and we would walk and talk with them on their map. Why is this valuable? 2 main reasons, accountability and growth. Being a "judge" implies that you have some merit in the eyes of your peers to look at another map and determine it's quality. Scores are NOT arbitrary but instead are reflections of an individuals thoughts and conclusions. Conclusions which could very well be fallacious, and could be objectively identified as such if they are held accountable for those scores by giving reasons. The words that come out of your mouth are similar to mathematical statements, they can be tested. However because we are all flawed humans and because we are not all on equal footing when it comes to education on critical thinking or the laws of logic, yes you will get different scores and conclutions, but some will most definitely be more justified than others. I rated this map x/x because i feels too hard to contest x bomb site or x lane Vs I rated this map x/x because the enemy team has too many corners to hide in as I round this corner which forces me to make too broad an assumption which leaves me at WORST immobilized by the risk that comes with going through or at BEST getting lucky by guessing the correct corner. Leaving encounters up to luck undermines the competitive nature of the game and is therefore inferior ...one of those is very obviously better feedback, and i'd even say it's an objective truth that encounters should not come down to luck. Thats why people love CS gunplay to begin with, the consistency and control. By making judges and their reasons transparent, even if the results are shown after the contest, you will be able to weed out the weak ones and keep them from attaining authoritative positions in the future. And just the fact that they know they will have to be transparent will put pressure on them to make sure they aren't careless on any one map they may be unenthusiastic about from the start for whatever reason This brings me to my final point, good feedback leads to growth in the community. And i mean REAL growth. Finding areas where you can improve is invaluable information, and when it comes to a contest where judges are already playing your maps and JUDGING THEM, feedback should be mandatory

Recently I spend a year to create a map Ambush. I figured why stop there. So I spent additional 2,5 months doing Erebus, a haunted version of Ambush for Halloween 2020. Now at Steam Workshop: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2140326607

Bump for exposure!

I think this applies to a lot of folks here

That's also a good point, beggars can't be choosers right? I've seen War owls content and i think he is more credible than others when it comes to looking at maps objectively. Losing him would be a loss, i don't know about the other judges. I mainly brought this up after going through the thread and saw people being condemned for making the very reasonable request for feedback. And was someone actually banned for making arguments across the forum? Has he ever actually said anything rude to individuals on a personal level? Or was he just being a critic? I don't know how you guys do things here, but my experience here is that the culture is not balanced. There is a healthy amount of positivity and support for others, which is good. But you also need to welcome and even encourage a healthy amount of debate, else the community and therefore their content become stagnant and never grow

Good points brougth up by @Soldat Du Christ Congrats on the Halo 5 contest and setting an example! However, doing what you suggest would imply more time and effort, especially from the guest judges. Who would want to put in more time than necessary? Imagine having to find a replacement for, I don't know - Warowl.

Yeah totally, it also feels soooo stupid that you keep killing baddies and this guy just gives you one opportunity after the other to get you on his side. Same in FC5, I destroyed his statues and he radios in some blabber that he'll convert me? I'd say map size is not necessarily the big problem, you can address this aspect with traversing capabilities, narration and mission importance. So for example make a more linear story and teleport the player with some cutscenes (a-la Just Cause) and sort of "fence" the map with narration. Then, instead of having these "dynamic" events of liberating prisoners from vans or raiding supply trucks, promote them to almost full blown missions and have a setup-execution to say a supply truck raid (same way they had escort missions in FC3 and FC4). But I guess the problem is that these games are not really for us adults but youngsters, who only care to get lot of value out of their purchase and are probably not that bothered by the story aspects and just need the endorphin drip. When I think of these games and their problems my mind goes back to one of my young teammates... one evening after training we were talking videogames and another mate of my age asked "so why you like this Assassin's Creed game" and the answer was "Cos you kill everybody!!11" which is clearly not the way the game is intended to be played

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmP9EKH3

I just uploaded version 2.0 of my first map de_tomb to the workshop. It's been exactly a month since the first version went up. I've completely revamped the map based on playtest feedback. I fixed how dark it was, the narrow paths, and added more routes around the map among other things. Steam page here. Imgur album here. Flythrough video here. Hope you like it!

Fucking freaky Jeff !!!!!

5 year old thread? No worries, i got this. There are currently 2 merch stores: The old one: https://shop.spreadshirt.co.uk/mapcore/ and the new one: https://teespring.com/stores/mapcore 1. The old one should be nuked to avoid confusion. Also: Old logo. 2. The new one got cut down for some reason. Can't buy a mug no more? GUYS! MURGS - WE NEED THEM MURGS!! 3. The store isn't really linked to around here. Gotta fix that. ? Edit: Tagging some cause otherwise nobody will find this comment ever. @FMPONE @Thrik @Yanzl

Just finished a wallpaper for (android, probaby other) phones On the phone: Download version: http://arthurdepadua.com/downs/mapcore_wallpaper.png and some insight of the concept and process to make it: