Mapcore FACEIT Hubs

[FMPONE]

39 matches played in the last week!

While it may be just a start, I want to commend FACEIT and everyone using the HUB for providing a new platform for community maps to be playtested. Personally, I'm optimistic that if we continue to work hard on this idea we will have a few matches being played everyday consistently. Thank you for playing games on the platform, let's keep it going, and tell your friends!

Mappers: don't forget that you can pull demos from the FACEIT platform and watch them back to study the gameplay.

[El_Exodus]

Yesterday, we had a productive discussion on Discord about the future of the Faceit Mapcore Hubs. This is a summary of said one:

Mapcore 5vs5 Hub concept:

We aim for a Map pool of 7. The maps in the pool rotate every month. The monthly 2 least played maps get removed from the pool at the end of a month and 2 new maps get added at the beginning of the following month. These new maps are being chosen through a poll which is prepared by Hub moderators and posted on reddit/Twitter/Hub webpage (More on that later). This poll should be under a week away from the next month to stay relevant for the voters.

The map pool should be managed by the Hub moderators through a specific Steam Workshop Collection (linked to the Hub via Hub settings) to enable some independent managing from the Faceit Staff. ( @fabE )

Leaderboard winners should receive Faceit points to help growing the Hub. This should be a win-win situation for every party involved. It draws more people towards Faceit as a community map run map pool is rare and players have an incentive to play more games and improve their skill on community maps.

Events are planned as well. Each event is aimed to be half a month long (starting either on the 1st or 15th of a month) to allow consistency in the time management so players are always able to assume when new events start/maps get added to the pool. An already thought through idea for events are past Operation events. These flashback events allow players to revisit maps from old Operations. These events could be advertised through a special site on the Hub webpage similar to the official Operation webpages (http://www.counter-strike.net/operationwildfire/) and maybe even small trailers which showcase the map pools. After events, the map pool returns to the usual rotation.

Hub design: The banner and Hub description (/Rules page) should be adjusted to every monthly map rotation/event.

Hub webpage: If possible we'd like to use a subdomain of Mapcore (Hub.Mapcore.org) to showcase information, statistics about the Hubs and more. ( @Thrik )
This webpage could contain the following content:

*Linked/embedded polls for new map pool maps
*Hype page for certain events
*Links to the hubs
*View current/past map pools (e.g. images and development graphs) -> link the workshop collection
*Infographs of played maps. If possible fully automated demo analyzing ( @Terri )
*Calendar of upcoming events
*Players of the month / Leaderboard

*Video Highlights

 

The map rotation should be in place prior to April so we have the first full month of map rotations running by then. (Current plan: Top4 Contest winners, Grind, Subzero, Breach)

The first poll to swap out maps will then be at the end of April.

 

Open questions:

Are there statistics coming for the Hubs to see e.g. the distribution of played maps?

Should single maps in the pool be time limited? Discussion allowed!

Who would be willing to work on a Hub webpage?

 

Mapcore 2vs2 Hub concept:

If possible we'd like to see a Wingman Hub as well. A Hub like this would be relatively easy to run right off the bat due to it being in need of less players to start a game. ( @FMPONE, @fabE )

This Hub could serve as a playtesting Hub of WIP maps at first, as the supply for these maps is still fairly low.

It could then later down the line transform into a Hub for finished maps only. Time will tell.

The map pool can also be larger than on 5vs5 as learning these maps is not as time consuming.

[Thrik]

Sounds exciting! I'm happy to work with someone to provide a MapCore subdomain. ?

[blackdog]

On 09/03/2018 at 9:53 AM, Thrik said:

Sounds exciting! I'm happy to work with someone to provide a MapCore subdomain. ?

Awesome plan @El_Exodus, sounds like a really smooth process for players (once you are in Faceit – I haven’t managed playing yet).

And I’d be happy to help building the page, I discussed a bit with @Thrik in the past about helping out, so I’d be happy to work with you guys to help make this successful.

 

[Nors3]

Finally I finished the stats of the maps/Hub! I know I'm not professional but I tried my best, I hope this data could be helpful for the mapmakers to improve. Sadly few matchs were played and the sample isn't very large, so the info is not 100% reliable.

I wait for feedback (more or other data, better design, etc), gg wp

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 23, 2018 by Nors3

[Ties]

I've worked on something a couple of weeks back (https://compassionate-bell-62f5f1.bitballoon.com/) after the topic was discussed in the discord hub chat.

The main issue to solve is with Face It atm. As @JimWood said in discord:

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We're allowed to choose the maps

We just can't change what the servers are running ourselves

I'm not sure if someone is in contact with Faceit about this, but it's something that needs to be resolved to make the whole plan work.

About my hub page itself:

• It is linked to these collections for displaying the maps
• Voting is done by signing in with Faceit, and when voting it checks if a user has joined a Mapcore hub

The page can use some content (text, images, structure), it's something I would like to handover to someone else or at least collaborate with someone with. For me it was just a fun experiment with the steam and faceit API's, and thus finished my personal goals for the project. That said, I'm open to work some more on it. 

So if @El_Exodus @Thrik or @blackdog need anything, feel free to contact me (discord is the fastest way)

[blackdog]

On 29/03/2018 at 1:52 PM, Ties said:

I've worked on something a couple of weeks back (https://compassionate-bell-62f5f1.bitballoon.com/) after the topic was discussed in the discord hub chat.

The main issue to solve is with Face It atm. As @JimWood said in discord:

I'm not sure if someone is in contact with Faceit about this, but it's something that needs to be resolved to make the whole plan work.

About my hub page itself:

• It is linked to these collections for displaying the maps
• Voting is done by signing in with Faceit, and when voting it checks if a user has joined a Mapcore hub

The page can use some content (text, images, structure), it's something I would like to handover to someone else or at least collaborate with someone with. For me it was just a fun experiment with the steam and faceit API's, and thus finished my personal goals for the project. That said, I'm open to work some more on it. 

So if @El_Exodus @Thrik or @blackdog need anything, feel free to contact me (discord is the fastest way)

Awesome work @Ties!

I have messaged regarding this and was going to contact you as well, I was wondering regarding the state of things and seems it's clear where you are at I'm happy to start something, I was just wondering if, being something in collaboration with Faceit, it should recall some of their design as well - I mean if that's a requirement.

[FMPONE]

https://www.faceit.com/en/organizers/948b5a8c-702e-4140-a4b3-1d0cbfeebd45/MapCore

Donations of faceit points are now enabled. We can use this points budget to create tournaments and events on Mapcore maps.

[Vaya]

 

our next mappool. Starting at the end of the month.

@Harry Poster@BubkeZ@Yanzl@Puddy@catfood@Squad@holiestcows@grapen thanks for the maps guys

@The Horse Strangler who seems to be the most unsearchable mofo on this forum

[blackdog]

Really need to get in there, never played any of these but Tuscan in particular, so many pros when asked about what map to add to the pool say this name…

[Vaya]

it's going to be a double edged sword for sure. We're going to get a lot of interest in the hubs but I'm still worried we're going to get lots of people *just* wanting that map.

[Vaya]

We're currently building up a new mappool for the next season. if you want to be considered PM myself or one of the other admins, or drop your map ws link here!

'Comp' maps obviously the focus.

[KingOfCorn]

I'm interested!

Golden, 5 vs 5 competitive defusal map for CS:GO.

Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1106669591

[Vaya]

Will have a look at your map soon

[Vaya]

On 12/11/2018 at 6:05 PM, KingOfCorn said:

I'm interested!

Golden, 5 vs 5 competitive defusal map for CS:GO.

Workshop link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1106669591

Hey had a look at this - needs little tightening up before we can run it for any length of time on faceit. review lighting and smoothness of paths. Can go more in depth later if needed