Large outdoor areas with underground tunnels, plenty of traps, mounted weapons and camp-spots.

A combination of open space and close quarter combat is the best type of deathmatch map, in my opinion. They each has its merit, and a map containing only one type of environment is not as versatile as an all-inclusive one.

But I believe some railings are meant to block the player. I have a few of them in my current map, but there is always another way to get to the other side. It makes navigating the map more interesting (instead of just hopping fences).

I'd like a medium sized very atmospheric heavy brush area with loads of trees and bushes, something to be sneaky in. Then this is connected to a cool indoor environment kinda Quake 2 style.

Trying to make this level atm actually.

My ideal map is a beautiful outdoor map with plants, trees, rivers, waterfalls,

you know what i mean

NATURE!

birds fly around and a nice soothing wind on a sunny day

but then boom rockets and guys in hev suits duke it out and destroy allllllll!!!! muha ha ahanahgahaan

Anything huge and vast -- give the player the impression that there's something in the game that's more powerful than he is.

So you like outdoors aye

Im mapping an outdoor map and find that making terrain is easy now thanks to the paint geomatry tool but making it look good is quite hard and so i look at pictures a lot of nature NATURE!

Heres how i did my outdoor map to start

made a rectangle with grass texture, made it bumpy with paint geometry tool, copied and pasted to make a huge terrain, used sew to make all edges connect, and then i made the terrain slightly different in places as so to stop it from looking the same all over, i added mountains around level (again using paint geometry), then i made water brush and made it so it stretched over the whole map and lowered it into the ground, this mad eit so only the deep bits of the terrain would have water, giving it a marsh effect, i changed terrain again to make rivers etc, added models like trees and leaves and voila you have your first outdoor map with lots of detail

Later on i added cave thanks to the tut here

I think the ideal map would be completely in the lush woods with treehouses and stuff. Like something out of The Ewok Adventure or The Movement of Heaven for Q2 by Chris "Sven" Druckenmiller.

Hell yeah.