Posted by Le Chief on Tue Aug 18th 2009 at 1:38pm



This is a killbox.

Yo gvault, just want to let you know that there is nothing wrong with what your doing (making killbox maps and uploading them here) but the thing with killbox maps is:

- There are so many in existence both here and on fpsbanana and heaps of other places.
- Pretty much anyone can make them.
- Most people aren't interested in them.
- They are not appealing.
- Most of them are terrible (poorly thought out, little effort, bad decisions) in all aspects including gameplay.

Looking at the screenshots, it's a fairly open area which isn't really what you want in a Half-Life 2 multiplayer level - walking speed is slow, no vehicles, weapons are more focused on short to medium ranged gameplay - with an open area like that, your going to get pretty dull gameplay.

Make the snow a displacement surface and add some height variation in there to make things more interesting and put some cover in there as well, maybe some crates (non breakable) or concrete blocks half buried in the snow, just spice things up.

Maybe you could add some arbitrary railings or cover on the side of that pathway in the air and do some things there to.

Lastly, look here.

Posted by Kampy on Tue Aug 18th 2009 at 9:10am

it's probably better than killbox

Posted by G4MER on Mon Aug 17th 2009 at 8:27pm

Hey look a round box.. looks like he followed your advice somewhat Reaper. =)