Piranesi Updated

[CSN NewsBot]

It appears that Aztec and Inferno aren't the only maps being spiced up in the CS 1.6 BETA. There have apparantly been a few changes to made to de_piranesi. Here is a little comparison:

OLD Piranesi ------> NEW Piranesi

In addition to added trees and plants throughout the map (which use the new masked skin technology) there are supposed to be a few layout changes as well. Thanks to Sander Stricker, aka Zonik of Inside Gamer, for letting us know.

[esky]

Hey! it still looks like ass cuz of those ugly crates and random HLish textures here and there.

[HoMiCyDe]

i still think it'll be too big

[AceR]

the bomb sites are miles apart..

[cheetarah654]

i love piranesi, in terms of the talent it took to make it. its probably the best eye candy map. i do agree that it is just way to big to be played for a match, although it hink its fun with 20 people

[esky]

He's getting 84fps, that scares me

[Mr. Lugosi]

Edited by [user="2199"] @ [time="1043017943"]

He's getting 84fps, that scares me

I took those screens. My V-Sync is on, so my highest is 85fps - to match my monitor's refresh rate. Sometimes, like when I take a snapshot, it drops that whole frame/sec.

[ja]2ev]

I mentioned these changes in the forums days ago...I really like the map, a bit smaller and one less level and it could be good for matches, WAY too spread out and complex for 5v5 now tho :[ .

The T's dont have a direct route to the top level anymore so the CT's can have a chance to get set up. Also, all the halls inside the building are redesigned - MUCH more simpler and less confusing. People are still gonna moan and gripe about it tho...sigh.

Mr. Lugosi wrote..

I took those screens. My V-Sync is on, so my highest is 85fps - to match my monitor's refresh rate. Sometimes, like when I take a snapshot, it drops that whole frame/sec.

Try a program called power strip...it overrides windows control over your refresh rate. If your monitor supports higher refresh rates than 85Hz you can set it so that windows doesnt always change it when HL starts up. I'm running 1024 res with 99 fps and vsync ON, but without powerstrip I can only get 60fps with vsync on. You can also tune your graphics card easily with it



Does anyone have a clue when the new mapping tools are going to be released so we can start messing around with this masked skin stuff ourselves????

[StealthMonkey]

Can you climb the tree?

[ja]2ev]

OMG....don't click on the Inside Gamer link - they are evil software providers >:-[ !!!!!

[Hiro]

I think if the mapper just shrunk the map by about 35% it would be a solid map. As it was, even with 32 on the server, it seemed a bit large.

[MikeJ]

Edited by [user="1457"] @ [time="1043019257"]

yes



(i was replying to stealth monkey)

[[CyW]-=BigBear=-]

Nice.. I really like Piranesi, it's a good tactical CS map..



I disagree with people who say the BSs are to far apart, they are not further apart then on maps like Dust2 or Inferno for example..



I agree though that it is a little bit to "big" for 5v5 matches.. Big meaning it has 3 levels..

[ment0x]

[bLaCKaT]

those trees are ALOT better than the ones on airstrip imo.



I think that aztec should get rid of those UGLY plants and atleast use the ones from Airstrip (or ones similar)