Beached

[csWaldo]

"All along the coast decommissioned vessels are being scrapped for metal - a vital resource for arms production worldwide. A recent increase in heavy weapons exports forces a terrorist group to wreak havoc at the ship breaking yard."

It's us again, @esspho and I. Crude came together rather quickly and we knew it would be a safe and reliable submission for the contest. The theme for Beached on the other hand had been on our minds for a long while but early attempts at it failed. The layout we attempted is also a bit more risky than Crude and we weren't sure we could pull it off. We think this map came together very well though and so we are putting it forward to see where it can go.

Beached takes you to a ship breaking yard somewhere in South Asia. We were really interested in the unique shapes and angles created by the half broken down ship skeletons laying on the beach. To add more variety and separate the different parts of the map more clearly, we decided that one bombsite would be close to the beach while another should be inside, where it ended up as the theater of a cruise ship. In between sit two closely connected middles, each offering their own additional path to one bomb site. We are hoping that the Ts can either choose to split up and take either site from two angles or quickly switch up their target through here. Though not initially planned the map ended up with a decent amount of verticality and we made sure that basically all sections of that can be reached indirectly through jumping.
We're hoping the map plays as fun and dynamically as we intended it to

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3302965335

Radar:

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More screenshots:
 

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Edited August 4, 2024 by csWaldo

[Freaky_Banana]

This looks incredible! I loved the theme when mr.P did it for graveyard already, was very surprised not many others seemed stoked with it.

Just looking at the overview, the timings seem certainly fast paced, should be fun!

Best of luck, I hope the originality and quirks get rewarded!

[HelMap]

Hey, had a look at the map, the map is cool, but I'm a little sick of the map, too many beveled corners.

I think if you flatten the map it would be better

[csWaldo]

Beached is on the hub right now and so far the reception has been mixed, but good. I think the map does a good job selling the fantasy we want it sell, but as was expected, some people really don't like or can not handle the slant.
We don't want to give up on that core theme of the map completely and so that number of people will never go down to zero, but we want to try and make the map accessible to as many players as possible. That's why we've been working on an update that tunes down the slant a bit in both A and Mid and we've also added visual elements that align with gravity and hopefully help ground our motion sickness prone friends
The update should go live in a couple of hours. Here's a sneak peek:

[esspho]

We are hard at work to shape up the map for the nearing end of phase 2.

Since we haven't posted our progress for a while, here are some before and after work-in-progress images:

 

T-Spawn

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CT-Spawn

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Mid

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A-Site

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B-Site

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Beached will be playable again on the Mapcore Faceit Hub during the next days. Any feedback is welcome here or on the workshop:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3302965335

[esspho]

 

 

We’ve updated our map just in time for the end of stage 2. Although there’s still a lot to do, we are very happy with what we have accomplished so far - which is a solid base for a fun and unique map. The recent matches on the mapcore faceit hub echoed this in our view and we’d like to thank everyone for playing and giving feedback.

Edited February 12, 2025 by esspho