Harvester

As a fan of metroid prime "though never played hunters" I had to check it out. I can atleast say that it would probably make for pretty fun gameplay. The use of vertical gameplay is pretty nice. And it was an overall nice composition.

As for complaints fisrt of all in such a small map texturing should be better alligned. As for the grate cat walks it looks odd with the grating continuing around the edges. As a personal taste I really can't stand the metal walk sound and for such large surface such as the floor I would probably remove the sound by renaming the texture. It just sounds hollow and fake. The ladder was also strange how it dead ended and you have to jump from it to reach the highest area.

The map had some wind ambience but could have used some more. The two seperate areas were close enough to see eachother and should have been placed further away in the void to avoid this. The overall map was pretty blocky and could have been a little more appealing. You could add more trims and texture variations to edges. Windows could use trims. The direct metal to glass connections looked somewhat odd and fake. And the entire thickness of some of the glass looked somewhat odd.

Lots of things could have been done to make this map look a lot nicer. But it would be pretty fun and overall its a pretty neat small map.

Thanks, This was my first DM map I actually tried to make work better gameplay wise but I guess I left some details out doing so. The original had the metal to glass like that and I also found it odd but when trying to think of ways to fix it while maintaining the same feel I ran short. I noticed that I was able to see though the skybox to the next portion of map too late and I couldn't move either part of the map without risking messing something up.

All you do is highlight everything in a 2d hammer window and move it. Or turn the max viewable distance down.

This is pretty good for your first dm map but to "finish" a map takes a great deal of time figuring out every detail because imo one error affects the entire map.

oh, i didn't know I could do that, I thought I'd have to click and hold down ctrl for every brush, entity, etc. then move it. I'll fix it and while I'm at it fix the annoying metal floor.

EDIT: updated

i agree with zeeba on most all points. Vertical gameplay seems like it would be a lot of fun. I've also NOT played Hunters, so i don't really know how good your recreation is compared to it.

A couple notes/nitpicks:

-one of the ladders in the "harvest" area(by the big green capsule" doesn't work. (i really like that area btw)
-might be a funny salute to cs_assault if you make those monitor banks by the health chargers (harvest area) trigger_cameras. =)
-i would avoid using the stock HL glass texture in most cases, becasue personally, i just don't like the way it looks. remember you can make ANY texture look transparent..(sure you know that just saying, another texture might look better)
-I would add lots more small detail items pretty much everywhere in the map, since it also seems you have room in your wpoly budget. For example, i'd add all kinds of wires and stuff attached to the green capsule/tank, and get creative with floor/ceiling/wall trims.

Nice stuff1 would like to play it on a server! =)

Hopefully getting it up on Ooks Private Beach Opposing Force Server sometime soon. Technically the "harvest" area is the larger portion without the tall spike thing, the one with the green capsule is based off Incubation Vault. What do trigger_camera's do? I've never used them before. Fixing the ladder, thanks for pointing that out. Details are still my weak point I guess, I need to work on that more.

EDIT: Fixed the ladder, and also fixed a broken spawn.