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Edit: Never mind.

It's going to be in the high thousands at least, I agree.

Le fixes are nice.

Look into texture lighting for the future. They look much better than point lights in most cases.
Tutorial here: http://twhl.co.za/tutorial.php?id=54

Well, there's a dumbass.

Not much more to say.

Well, it's functional but there is plenty of room for improvement. To be honest, it's very underwhelming.

+Warehouse boxes looked nice
+Very large map
-No sounds
-No interactivity
Incredibly boxy and empty in most areas- Try working on your corridor architecture for the future.
-Awful choice of textures
-All lights were white
-All lights were point lights

Welcome back, whoever you are.

Just played it with a bot and Potatis.
I think its good fun, but those pulsing lights are really a problem. They made dm_cliff lag, and they make dm_falls lag too. If it weren't for those lights, I'd 4star it.

Big headphones are great
I can't stand buds.

I'm pretty sure they make a powder for that.

Should be fun.

I tested this map on completely vanilla HL2DM, and I never saw the pink checkerboard that I'm assuming you're talking about when you say the "AAA texture". You must have not been running it in HL2DM.

Copyright infringement.
Laughed my ass off.

Ropes were the only thing I could use that made sense given the theme. Any kind of door, wall, or gate was out of the question for most clipped off areas. I think it's a bit harsh saying "raped in the face by invisible walls", because they are, in fact, very clearly marked as places you can't go.

As for no physics props, it's because the map wasn't really built with gameplay in mind to begin with. The competition is supposedly based on visuals with "gameplay being nice but optional".
You're right, though. Had I built it with gameplay in mind, all those motion-disabled physics props WOULD be grabbable. But I put them there for visual aesthetics, and as such, I didn't want them to go anywhere.
It would be a real shame if it cost me any award because I neglected gameflow in a competition about eye candy.

Edit: What I'm trying to say is that I wanted to build a very clean map with a clean theme. And I guess that makes it feel barren from a gameplay point of view, but heavy physics props littering the ground everywhere would only hurt the "peaceful" feel that I wanted from the beginning.
And that reminds me that I forgot to put the pipes on the last two buildings that are missing them.

Couldn't open puzzle.wad.

Reupload with puzzle.wad in your zip. I'm telling you this for the judges, not for myself.

Anyway, it's a very cool map! Nice work, especially on the cavern!
Twas a bit confusing at first, but really fun. And I accidentally crowbared barney when he got too close to a grunt

I really want to give you 5 stars for this, but I just can't.
The intro map blew me away, and I thought I was in for something incredible. The front yard and front of the mansion look ASTOUNDING. But when I walked inside, I got pretty annoyed.
SPOILERS AHEAD! WATCH OUT!
This minimod has some SERIOUS navigation issues. It's annoyingly confusing. The only indicators I could find in the whole mod were the obvious camera to the dining room, and the subtle broken beam in the dining room(which wasn't clear enough at all, really). "You got the East Tower key" That's cool, now where the hell is it? You see what I mean?

I found myself wandering around, checking and rechecking doors time and time again until I ran into doors that wouldn't open the last time I checked. I also kept running back to places that I thought might be important later, but turned out to be nothing (especially those 5 statues in the corner). Yeah, places like that tree painting looked cool and everything, but you made them look too important and they ended up wasting my time.
Another example was when I finally got into that middle room. After seeing the Gman disappear, I thought I was supposed to find something in that big room. I probably spend 5 minutes looking for some kind of trigger, when I was really just supposed to backtrack. How was I supposed to know that?
There was just too much "where do I go?" and not enough "oh that's cool".

Everything else, I really loved. The arcitecture was very well constructed for the dreamy setting, and the textures, albeit pretty strange, fit the theme. The scripting was also excellent, especially for that zombie that falls out of the window and breaks the floor.
It's a great minimod, visually. But really, it's so guideless that I just wanted to quit on more than one occasion.

And if I was supposed to get the smg, I never did. All those ammo crates make me think I somehow missed something after passing through the mansion for the 40th time.

Habboi just got out of the pool.

8===========D

This is why I can't have nice things

It looks a lot like COD4's map, especially for sticking to default textures. But it needs ambience. Just because COD4 skimped out on ambient sounds doesn't mean you can't throw in a few soundscapes.

I have to stop saying I'll do things in the early hours of the morning when i can't think straight.
The map looks great but feels dull.

+Choice of textures
+Brushwork gets the job done, though the terrain was noticably flat. I also would have liked to see a hollow fountain instead of water falling on a flat surface.
+Use of model props
--No ambient sounds other than a a short bird loop every 10 seconds or so. The lack of ambience kills the feel of the map.

4 stars because of how good it looks.

Never seen a mini crit before?
They were introduced in the spy/sniper update.

Beer companies have been doing things like this for years.

God dammit.

I like how he sings.

Good luck, Livewire!

What exactly am I listening to, here?

Import textures into a new wad in Wally and you won't get that frankenstien thing. There's other ways, but that's a quick and easy way.

Play games? I'm amazed that you have the strength to get out of bed, much less focus on a computer screen.
When I had the flu, I was bedridden for most of a week.

Godspeed on your recovery.

Pretty cool, but nothing that we haven't already seen.

I laughed out loud when I read #3

For one reason or another, that guy makes me think of Fez from That 70s Show.

Words like "yall" and "darn tootin" make me hard.

I thought it was funny.