Comrade Redone

[Delta|Cpt.Terran]

bwah bwah bwah! its like the forbidden fruit, look so damn good but you can't get it, lest you strangle narby and run off with his map on a floppy...>.

[daniel88c]

release it nowwwww

[gmad123]

how the hell did it get so much hype

No shit. There are dozens and dozens of decent maps out there right now that never get played and Narby's got everybody drooling over this one map like it's a long-lost Beatles album. Give me a break.



Narby, I certainly think you make some good maps (de_inferno is a personal favorite) and I appreciate that you share them with us freely, but I think marketing may be your true calling.

[pinwheel!]

Anything Narby comes out with will be publicized until the cows come home. He doesn't have to do any marketing, we do all of that for him.

[brock landers]

The hole in the roof in pic1 kinda sucks. I find it hard to believe that the factory would have a corrugated tin roof, and could shatter like glass (instead of bending in places) and be completly unsupported by anything.

[narby]

brock landers wrote..

The hole in the roof in pic1 kinda sucks. I find it hard to believe that the factory would have a corrugated tin roof, and could shatter like glass (instead of bending in places) and be completly unsupported by anything.

It's not flat like a glass "hole" would be, but the way the camera is angled, it looks like it.



http://csnation.counter-strike.net/imag...age_14716.jpg

[-:Nighthawk:-]

Paul Shuttle wrote..

Withold judgement until you've actually properly played it (apologies to anyone who HAS actually played it in some form).

Eh, you probably shouldn't apologize to the bulk of the people who have played it a beta of Comrade, seeing as most of us, er, um, I mean them probably didn't get a copy in any legitimate fashion. :)

|>SS<|BlackKnight wrote..

Hundrad?? Must be some sort of new number or somethin.

I dunno, those Brits seem to spell everything funny. Like Colour and Civilised and such... damn blimey freaks.

gmad123 wrote..

No shit. There are dozens and dozens of decent maps out there right now that never get played and Narby's got everybody drooling over this one map like it's a long-lost Beatles album. Give me a break.

The Beatles were English too. It's a damn conspiracy, I tell you!



Regardless, I'd have to actually get to look through the map to give a final impression. I have the feeling lightening it up will help some, but it doesn't change the essential feel and layout of the map, which is rather drab imho. Somebody needs to waypoint that map so I can play with bots and get a better feel for it. :)

[felixilka]

You know... most stuff isn't hard to find... I read all this, wanted to try it. Within 2 minutes I was playing the map already... Which I must say, is a VERY nice looking map. I'm sure the gameplay on it would be interesting.

[Obsidan]

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MikeJ, you from sweden?



Narby, you have clearly outdone yourself. The screenshots are mindblowing. Keep up the good work!

[Coolleroy]

What?!?!?!?! No chickens.

[David Johnston]

I am going to hold my hand up, admit I've never played Comrade, and therefore dismiss any opinion I have about it. I am neutral.



So there.

[doink]

It looks absolutely terrible compared to the likes of greenhouse, shogun, industrywest, laguna and morningstar.



People posting here sayign OMG ITS SO GOOD are ignorant as f**k. Wait till CSCentral pack 2 to see what real mapping is.....



Narby is the Linkin Park of the mapping world..... loved by the n00bs, despised by the people in the know

[narby]

It doesn't have photographed brush based cars if that's what you mean.

[doink]

you cannot honestly compare

http://csnation.counter-strike.net/image.php?id=14714

with



http://www.cscentral.com/image.php?img=...tle=de_laguna



or



http://www.cscentral.com/image.php?img=...tle=cs_shogun

[narby]

I'm not comparing them, you are. You can go down this childish LOL YOUR MAP SUCKS THESE OWN THE WORLD HOLY SHIT route all you like but it's not going to stop me working on maps. I'm not especially interested in these bullshit attitudes from people suggesting i'm trying to stifle others creativity, and frankly that view couldn't be more wrong. Nor will I be drawn into a pathetic slanging match with 3dmike and pals about the so called double standards in the CS level design community.



Have the authors of those maps actually bothered to email the submissions to Valve for consideration? Or did the psychic map fairy forget to visit again.



I am honestly sick to death of hearing about how I somehow have the CS map monopoly and all my maps are automatically in the game. I've spent 4 years working my ass off on this game and I've proven, however much people may debate this that the maps I've made have generally been popular and to this end new maps are usually considered because previous ones have been well recieved. It's exactly the same for any of the other known CS level designers.



I've never claimed my maps are the prettiest in the box but I sure as shit try and make them play well. In the last 4 months I've rebuilt 3 maps from scratch, built 2 new maps and made major changes to a competition map in the interest of bug fixing, exploit removal and aesthetic upgrades. I've tried to tackle problems with any layouts in the past with addition routes in maps such as inferno and the cpl maps purely because I do actually give a rats ass about whether the map plays well. GOOD LOOKS ARE NOT THE BE ALL AND END ALL OF A CS MAP, I've even rebuilt several maps to give them a facelift which still apparently doesn't mean dick to the hardcore cynics like yourself.



Having some pretty rocks and photocaptured textures don't really mean shit if the map plays like ass.