Interesting:)

The colors and textures rock. Can't comment on layout though.

Layout is iffy to judge, is this a VQ3 or CPM map?

It's made for VQ3.

It's wayyyyy too small.

This could be a decent CPM map if it was more vertical. That is, if you stretched it vertically and then maybe moved one atrium low and the one of the others higher and added a couple connecting points with tele and stairs/jump-pad.

Otherwise, as it is right now, it's way too small and more than likely you'll get gameplay that's really lopsided. One player gets map control and then WALKS back and forth between armors/ammos and wins games like that.

If you're going to do 1RA and 1YA, you need to make the map big enough that a player had multiple chances to defend YA/RA from controlling opponent. If you're going to do 1RA and 2YAs, you still need it bigger than this because you simply don't have enough room to make running armors a difficult thing.

I would say disconnect one of your atriums and puts RA in a difficultly defended corner (maybe something on a low floor in the corner or something like that) and then having the YA at some mildly easily defended area.

Last comment, force "attacking" routes to have clear opportunities to be defended. For instance, a spot to locate the YA at is a place where running towards it blindly could make for a medium/easy difficult SINGLE shot to defend by the opponent. RA should be easily attacked from at least ONE path. But RA should typically be the "harder" to defend.

The ceiling is temporary due to this being an alpha map. Some areas will be open and the ceiling height will be increased by one or two blocks. This wouldn’t effect gameplay as you described but it will eliminate the boxed in feeling.

I like your comments regarding the items. Only realy players will give you feedback like this :)

What if I dropped the quad, replace the JP there with boxes to make it more difficult getting out, and place the RA in the center there?

Next I would change the YA location to the place where the RA is now or in the JP hallway next to that atrium. RA would be more difficult to defend and the YA is easy to defend there. Both armors would be at different corners of the map so it’s less easy to go armor running thus reducing lopsides gameplay.

What do you think about that?

Thanks for the reply

Latest version here.

Changes:

Changed the spawnpoints to minimize bots spawning in front of you.
Removed the quad.
Changed the RA and YA to make running for them less easy.
Swapped a couple of weapons.
Added health.
Changed the LG room.
Removed the JP near the forum quad. Added boxes instead.
Created more space in the RL area.

I hope you all want to give it a go.

I think the layout is pretty much done. I would like comments on item placement and spawn locations. Bot support is added. They use it rather well. Each area is visited. Tourney seems a bit dull though. I think I can go pretty it up now. What do you think?

screenshots of it ;p