My latest map. Criticism welcomed

Any and all criticism welcome. I should be posting a download link any day now. Thanks!

BACK STORY

<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt">Earth, 2046. The Russian city formerly known as Kazan is now called </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">город зернокомбайна 8, (Combine City 8 ). For over two years the citizens of City 8 have been secretly planning a revolt against their Combine oppressors. The resistance, which have become known as ?The Hive? have gained access to the Combine Headquarters. This headquarters is a precursor to the Combine Citadel?s that are currently being used. These late model ?Citadels? are called Monoliths; a structure similar to a modern day Citadel but are rectangle in shape and are comparable in height. It is later thought that due to their height, the Monolith?s design was changed to a more functionally stable triangle shape that you see today.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN>

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<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA">The Hive have slowly made their way to the top of the Monolith in an attempt to free themselves from a horrible alien race. Will this be the eve of destruction for the resistance, or a victory for all mankind?</SPAN>

http://www.snarkpit.com/maps.php?map=1803

wrong forum my friend. :/

[edit] been moved so disregard comment :smile:

Sounds like you've got a very detailed backstory for the map - this can't hurt. It's hard to really give feedback based on three screenshots, so I would suggest posting a beta version of the map, if you really want an indepth critique.

Looking at the screenshots, it seems you have a pretty solid grasp of the combine 'feel'. The problem is, the combine architecture is fairly minimalist and hard to make really interesting on its own. It's at its best when you see the contrast between human architecture and combine, or nature and combine (like the citadel entrance, where was burrowed into the ground, or eating into buildings). Maybe you have some of this stuff already - give us a download.

for the lazy type... could you post pics?

You should have started a map specific thread and it would have put the pics there for you and everything!