Valve made it? Jeeze did they go downhill... first HL2, now cs_compound!
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Don't forget Doom3 
Anyway. As far as hostages adding a thril goes, the last time the hostages worked properly was back in cs 1.5... the golden days (atleast for me). Reason why cs_ maps are losing popularity is because most terrorist just sit there and camp it takes a reallll good ct to get in and out of cs_assault in under 1:30...
I say we port it to HL2DM. wanna give me a hand myrk?
with a couple tweaks, it would be nigh unto perfect for deathmatch.
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On some servers, where I played map "cs_compound" is very popular. I've seen much peoples, whos want to change level on "cs_compound", which was 20 minutes before.
"cs_compund" is the map, where rules auto camps... Map is big and FPS are little low. I won't say, that "cs_compound" is bed map past my experience on local servers.
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[addsig]with a couple tweaks, it would be nigh unto perfect for deathmatch.
All we need is that guys decompiler. Granted this map would make a good DM map, but cumon! CS? Nah!
[addsig]Huh? Do you even play CS?
CS has always been team deathmatch from the start, with the 'team' aspect always taking a back seat as opposed to something like TFC. There's no reason to work together, especially in a cs_ map. The introduction of de_ maps is where you see a tiny bit of teamwork, but its mainly limited to which direction the ts are going to rush and telling other cts which bombsite they're headed towards. Usually you're better off going around by yourself in an attempt to flank the main group.
Additionally, the hostages were never important in CS. Nobody plays cs_ maps with a team goal of rescuing the hostages but instead they focus on how to best kill the other team. That's the most common objective, and the hostages are just a last resort to make sure end round camping is mostly pointless. The only reasons the hostages were included in the first place was to try and move CS beyond its obvious team deathmatch focus. Find me one cs_ map that doesn't have the hostages in some far off corner that doesn't require killing the majority of the terrorists to get to. There aren't any.
The reason people hate maps like siege, militia, and assault is that they are complete campfests with sniping being the dominant strategy and that they are not entertaining at all. There is nothing more boring in CS then sitting around for 5 minutes while the last CT camps the building near spawn in assault while the last two Ts sit in the warehouse camping the ledge, and odds are it will happen every single round.
The introduction of defusion is the only reason why CS took off like it did. Those maps are fun, allow for a wide variety of strategies and tactics, and are also very unpredictable. Hostage maps have none of those attributes.
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