You do remember that ZTK Map Contest, correct? Recently, the winner of the said contest has been announced and it is none other than de_Plaka by pericolos. Congratulations to pericolos for creating a visually stunning map that has won it all! You may view the map here, or download directly and see for yourself.
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Holy shit that map looks good, birds and all. Was the contest winner based on how visually appealing the map was or how good it played? Almost looks like one of those beauty contests... hopefully the map plays as well as it looks. -
ughh didn't like it...Comment
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Link isn't responding quickly right now... CSN links tend to get hammered, though, so it's not surprising. Wonder how long it'll take for it to get bandwidth exceeded? :)Comment
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Pericolos0 is the best CS mapper there is
his map are always beautiful and full of great atmosphereComment
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how does it play?Comment
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Congrats Peri!
-Addicted to MorphineComment
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Awesome looking map, congratulations Pericolos0Comment
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Yah Peri! ^_^
Woot, I made a gate texture in the map even though you edited it :).
-LowComment
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haha its so weird to see counter-mappers here under different nicks.
-Addicted to MorphineComment
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Thats becuase Low was taken >.< , but to stay on topic Congrats to you again Peri :)!
-LowComment
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Yeah, "Nighthawk" was taken all those years ago. Go figure.
Oh yeah, nevermind, I'm not a mapper. :P
Um yeah, on topic... GJ!Comment
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on the official steam forums i commented that pericoloso (sp?) deliberately sharpened his screenshots of the map using some sort of filter (psp, photoshop, afterfx..etc) to fool people into thinking the map textures were clean and sharp.
to which he replied something along the lines of: "yeah, so what. it doesnt hurt anyone."
i wouldnt go down to the extreme of barneys screenshots where he doesnt use anti aliasing, trilinear filtering OR even the most basic anisotropic filtering for that matter.
and pericoloso, you could try using bicubic resizing if youre gonna photoshop to make the screenies nicer than the map is.Comment
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Bottom line is Percs map was well made and also played well. The basic setup is a great de map with plenty of detail.
We picked his map because its good. The judges did not pick it based on screenshots. We put 14-16 people on the map and played it.
Everytime the map was ready to end. We were asked by the people playing it to extend it.
Go play the map with 16+ players then come back and let me know what you think. Otherwise pat the guy on the back. He made an excellent map.Comment
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mottzaballz wrote..
interesting, i didnt know bots can ask for a map to be extended. must be a new version of PODbot out!
Everytime the map was ready to end. We were asked by the people playing it to extend it.
:OComment
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