Furnace

[csWaldo]

@esspho and I are teaming up for a new defuse map.

Welcome to Norilsk, a soviet mining city in the arctic circle shaped by freezing temperatures, high pollution and 45 days of night in winter.

 

Some of the mood and references we are going for:

Spoiler

 

Concept art I made of how this could look in source:

 

3d concept for the layout, developed by esspho:
https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/3d130ab7-062e-48e3-88f7-7d255d7aae88/defurnace-concept

Concept overview with pathing:

Greybox is in the works. Let us know what you think

[NikiOo]

I really like the theme. It's not something you see very often. I believe you guys will know how to romanticize this cold industrial city.

The layout looks a bit on the large side with a lot of narrow pathways, but you'll get a better sense for it when you build it in hammer.

If you're still looking for references, there's this Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/SocModernism/

It was one of the sources of inspiration for a current project of mine with a similar theme.

Good luck with the project and I'd love to see where you take it.

[csWaldo]

@esspho doing some greybox work

[csWaldo]

Thinking about making some interactive frozen puddles. Of course the effect would be somewhat limited. Think this would be fun or annoying?

[Radu]

It would be a novelty element, cool to see the first time and never looked at again afterwards. Idk, I guess it could have some strategic gimmick potential? If you make large puddles towards some corners or areas that you have to avoid as to not give your position away. I doubt it's worth the time investment.

[csWaldo]

Yeah makes sense. Guess I'll come back to this idea later. In the meantime, some bomb site impressions:

[Lizard]

12 hours ago, Radu said:

It would be a novelty element, cool to see the first time and never looked at again afterwards. Idk, I guess it could have some strategic gimmick potential? If you make large puddles towards some corners or areas that you have to avoid as to not give your position away. I doubt it's worth the time investment.

Swamp flashbacks

[csWaldo]

[esspho]

You can check out an early version of Furnace on the workshop:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2326921664

Any feedback is well appreciated!

We'll be doing some playtesting in the next days and weeks as well.

 

Here are some WIPs:

 

The central canal divides the map's residential and industrial parts.

 

CTs spawn below bombsite A - an electric arc furnace.

 

The Terrorist's plan B is to bomb the nearby gas silos located by the canal.

 

For now we went with a layered radar. We're propably going to try an overlayed version in the future.

Top level radar

Bottom level radar

Edited December 20, 2020 by esspho
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[csWaldo]

[esspho]

We've had a first playtest and got some valuable feedback from that. With that in mind we are fleshing out the individual areas some more.

Hopefully we'll have a map update soon.

[csWaldo]

another idea we want to try out on our next playtest...

[blackdog]

You plant the bomb in there @csWaldo?

[csWaldo]

1 hour ago, blackdog said:

You plant the bomb in there @csWaldo?

The inside is not accessible, so it's basically a sightlines through the cover.

We will need to see how that plays in the next playtest, but we thought the idea was neat.

[blackdog]

Yeah definitely looks interesting from the screens, I like the idea.