the art pass is Amazing

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old title:
"the 100 player map looks fkn amazing now - pl_dbz art passes & 3 new custom maps on trenches"
FAQ:
Q: How did you make that? What editing software do you use?
A: I use Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro & After Effects. Photoshop for image editing and thumbnails. Premiere Pro for compositing and After Effects for motion graphics (the fancy animations).

[@shounic]

edit: ah fuck @ 1:56 i forgot to replace the on screen element. that's alrexx's map not puxorb :P (they were given a week for this btw) (all relevant 100 player server info in description) this is really not the type of video i usually make but it’s no ad revenue january so i wanted to give it a shot, both for myself to get better at making other kinds of videos, but also if viewers think it’s entertaining :) also also curious about: if i add new features to the 100 plyr server like a new map pack, donator perks, etc etc, is that worth making a video about? to me just writing an update in discord seems sufficient but idk ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ also yeah i'll make a video about the 64 bit business lol

[@ambi_cc8464]

First (real)

[@GGreenHeart]

Could possibly have a 2nd channel for any major 100-player server updates?

[@literatemax]

What kind of perks? Boosted proximity chat range?

[@Splarkszter]

I like this content, really cool and shines a light on extremely talented people. I love how the map turned out on the end, awesome community effort.

[@catfree]

What are ads?

[@theenduriangamer5509]

Every map artist that submitted their responses should genuinely feel proud. Each map already looks like a fantastic fit to the game, so even if your map got voted out by another, don't sweat it, you actually did bloody fantastic work. Hats off to you all (because they take up too many objects)

[@bioticsla]

My thoughts exactly, they all won in my book

[@Tacdelio]

i wouldnt be against having all 4 on rotation somehow. maybe 2 at a time and see after some time see which one the community likes more.

[@giantmutantbug]

Lmao that hats off joke was hilarious

[@Spartan_Tanner]

It's not about the winning it's about taking part. -Wheatley

[@Intentionally_blank]

100% They all look like a lot of effort went in to them. Well done.

[@ruzgar1372]

It's puzzling that of these entries 2 of them are hydro/powerhouse themed which is usually one of the more rarer ones when it comes to artpassing a map.

[@bow-89]

But one of the easiest, best looking and best fitting for the game's artstyle

[@darkuscarlet]

@@bow-89Agreed. I will say though, although the execution could've been better, the Poor and Hatless/Merasmus++ Pass Holders message at the base of the spiral was a really good bit.

[@SaintRedFox]

hydro my beloved ❤

[@TinyDeskEngineer]

It's a shame the style's so rare, because I personally feel it's one of the best TF2 map styles. I like hydroelectric power plants.

[@WilhelmScreamer]

Its my favorite style. Mappers are too afraid to embrace the classics

[@TheFoolishSamurai]

2:33 Is that a comically large gas pump attached to the rocket?

[@CaptainBoxtrot]

Indeed

[@zfilms4858]

yes my man... yes it is!

[@The_whales]

50 minutes until ready to launch

[@WangleLine]

oh my god lmao hgdfhghdfg

[@sv_catgirl1]

That one ended up being my favorite of the rockets purely for that visual gag, it's hilarious

[@Benjy52]

Alrexx’s versions are really good. But the last placed mappers should get mentions for making it look like an old-style TF2 map. It looks like something Valve would have made.

[@theanonymspysandwich]

That should be the standard, since it considered map Navigation and character or attacker/defender readability back in the day. RED is ragedy and rural, BLU is more advanced and clean. Now we get smissmass factory or some shit.

[@pineapple5180]

yoo holt shit benjy

[@Benjy52]

@@pineapple5180 What? 😂

[@RdTrler]

Alrexx's *purple* caves would be very unfun to play in. We're already dealing with people who wear purple over their sleeves, we don't need to be violating Valve's mapmaking standards too.

[@ratcrusher3251]

@@RdTrler Alrexx's map is for shounics community server anyways, so whats the issue? If its not a map planned for being added to the basegame, then whats wrong with going in a different direction from valve standards?

[@hlibushok]

I really like the uniqueness of Alrex's "British overseas colony" setting.

[@funnydotyes]

Was thinking it looked more like a theme park similar to Disney Epcot

[@salr7727]

Ikr I feel like it would’ve fit perfectly as a jungle inferno map

[@LovelySoftSnow]

The half life finale is so good, maybe out of place for the map but imagine a black mesa map where blu needs to deliver the sample

[@sfc0450]

Agreed, I think the whole concept deserves its own map

[@SaintRedFox]

we need more half-life in tf2 man...,,,,,,,,.

[@ultravioletcombat5933]

I felt oddly giddy watching that finale in action, the way that whole place is set up (the simple texturing, the crude GoldSrc-esque geometry, the weird high-poly model on the catwalk above) gave me vibes of the really early custom maps for TF2.

[@ericv00]

It makes me ponder a Portal map...

[@danielbedrossian5986]

My only problame with the resonance cascade causing BLU team is that they normally blow up the world ending things (giga laser, nuke rocket,bread monster) not them selves cause the catastrophy!

[@fcomolineiro7596]

5:06 in love how this whole map is just a complicated "Gordon pushing the cart to the beam"

[@prisso88]

lewiin should just make a half-life TF2 map

[@uranium_enjoyerOfficial]

​@@prisso88 true, i think Black Mesa topside part (in tf2 style, of course) would look pretty neat

[@arturplayz4505]

Someone PLEASE recommend this map to the community workshop

[@weegeequeviucoisas9854]

It could be pretty cool if VALVe added 100 player mode to the game like they did with VSH and zombies, though I wonder if the last summer update set a new precedent or if it was just a one off.

[@fakeplayer9088]

@@weegeequeviucoisas9854 They can't eve properly add those modes without them breaking down and getting exploited whole time, what do you think would happen with 100 player mod?

[@MrBrax]

Can't anyone add maps to the workshop?

[@mdfm28]

@@MrBrax yes mayby what arthur means recommend for the update candidates. but i doubt it will get votes, coust this map is designed for 100 player in mind

[@Orange_lizard_irl]

Imagine if the map randomly chose which version is used

[@Scyzzles]

turq came out with the least votes, but I like that he kept it simple and faithful to TF2's style with minimal clutter probably the version I'd enjoy playing on the most after the novelty of the visuals has worn off

[@hirotrum6810]

Yeah. As impressive as alrex's version looks, it has a ton of visual noise that makes it hard to see players

[@QTwoSix]

​@@hirotrum6810overwatch style brimstone

[@jimmybean420]

@@QTwoSix brimstone? but it's not a halloween-themed map?

[@QTwoSix]

@@jimmybean420 sharty lingo, a normie like you won't get it

[@portal2kid]

honestly it has the charm of the pre-gold rush community maps (lazytown, mach, castle, etc.) that really defined the early era of tf2, which is super nostalgic to me

[@Vegerot]

I appreciate turq's dedication to looking like a map straight from 2007. I really liked the vibes, even though it consistently got lowest.

[@Palozon]

Evaluating idea and executution in one vote seems short-sighted. Voting on ideas with lower-effort proof of concept maps first and then voting on final drafts could've resulted in more inspired concepts getting more talent behind them. Yes I am mad about the drill.

[@AlrexX2]

if it makes you feel better i wanted the drill to win too

[@dustrockblues7567]

I still want the cart to be the xen crystal and last to be the resonance cascade

[@robertwaksberg]

The drill was so fucking cool when I saw it and I was impressed because I was scratching my head trying to figure out how anyone could make the spiral look good in any capacity

[@QTwoSix]

Democracy will always be a faliure.

[@coolium]

I wonder how many people will be talking about the drill.

[@turquoiseleaf]

This was a fun project! It was a nice break from working on my main stuff and taught me a lot more about map making!

[@biygas]

Shoutout to your map for feeling the most TF2 out of all of them, you have a knack for it.

[@gisopolis77]

good job, your version looks great

[@bonnieprincecharlie774]

your version is humble and that's why it shines; i hope to play it some time

[@qlitch]

your version was SLEPT ON

[@croc6105]

Your version was pretty good, it's sad it got the least amount of votes, it felt a lot like a classic tf2 map and had a lot less visual clutter

[@lobo5826]

3:55 He let that sink in

[@sheevpalps66]

NGL I'm kinda mad the drill spiral and the half life ending didn't win. They stay much truer to the original intention of the map by chat.

[@scrunkus]

turq's definitely looks the most like a classic tf2 map

[@ludwigiapilosa508]

I thought it was underrated

[@he3004]

It is rather bland but yes, it was probably the most faithful to tf2 artsytle

[@TaRAAASHBAGS]

​@@he3004That's deliberate, so the classes pop out at any point in the map. Lots of these newer TF2 custom maps seem to lose sight of that very deliberate design choice. Less is more, it's more important a map PLAYS well instead of having the most bells and whistles.

[@CaptainBoxtrot]

Finally, THE map

[@wwtraviswhisson]

THE map

[@aloysiuskurnia7643]

THE nap

[@WeFightForKarl]

THE zap

[@wwtraviswhisson]

@@WeFightForKarl the zip zap zop

[@1mreallynot69]

THE cap

[@BlueShellshock]

I remember seeing this as it was being produced. This thing is madness, and looks so much better now than when it started. Alrexx's work is gorgeous, but shoutout to Lewiin's Half-Life 1 design at 5:02, I kinda love it.

[@AlphaGarg]

And Lewiin's rocket with the comically sized gas pump!

[@cool_bug_facts]

Yeah I wish the test chamber made it in

[@hammerfell5727]

holy shit dude, seeing pl_rainbow ride again after all these years hit me with so much nostalgia

[@jblazerndrowzy]

Brought me back to when I binged Muselk vids

[@michaeljo9384]

Just played pl_raimbow. It's like the mapper is HIGH, like raimbow dev texture, vertical tracks that most of the class can't climb without the cart, and almost no team-colored arrow sign. Maybe it's fun HIGH trip there but need the main path or flanks to be wider to accomodate 100 players's explosive & sentry spam.

[@hammerfell5727]

@@jblazerndrowzy Exactly!

[@SenLouie]

Poor Turq. Poor guy didnt get mentioned in anything.

[@denifnaf5874]

Amd turq was objectively the best

[@AlrexX2]

had lots of fun passing dbz, lots of crazy geometry that let me get really creative :p thanks for organizing this! DBZ SUMMER 2024 SWEEP!!!!

[@TheLegoflims]

You seriously earned it! That mf was damm pretty!

[@bb010g]

Congrats! Beautiful map.

[@SamuelTrademarked]

gex did it better

[@intelchip_x86]

Awesome map, I hope you make more amazing stuff like this

[@gunbreon9309]

I quite like how turq's version seems the most faithful to the game

[@TkrZ]

these are amazing, the amount of time invested by the mappers must have been crazy. i love that half life payload ending too so much hahaha

[@StickMaster500]

Props to this community making and managing to make a map specifically for 100 players without it crashing while Valve scratches their head on the bot problem

[@LaserThemTheGirl]

Saying that Valve is scratching their head implies they're attempting to do anything about it

[@fakeplayer9088]

@@futakisser They have money to do it but they just want to go cheap

[@StickMaster500]

@@futakisser Well yeah, the community is the sole reason why TF2 is still alive and Valve haven't done too much with giving it updates, at least, compared to pre-Jungle Inferno

[@grogcito]

please dude, making the map is nothing compared to trying to solve the bot problem lol

[@junkmail2223]

because the bot problem is way, way harder to solve lmao "this game has a huge amount of automated players" is the kind of shit that no FPS has ever dealt with before

[@jblazerndrowzy]

Although I can see why turq’s design wasn’t the favorite, I’m a little sad since the water-plant aesthetic is only used by Hydro(which hardly anyone remembers) and Powerhouse.

[@glowingdeathclaw3560]

On the bright side; if you get a match on powerhouse you really get to appreciate the aesthetic because the match will last at least 5 hours

[@P-lywood]

love all the art pass submissions, hope the map stays forever. On another note, I feel like it might be nice to rotate through much more seasonal temporary map packs, if something sticks enough it can stay, but if not, just keep it as a seasonal thing.

[@wwtraviswhisson]

These maps look great. Wish I could play then, I’m in AUS so ping issue

[@tbotalpha8133]

Alrexx' is certainly detailed, but I feel like all that eye-catching, contrasting detail would be a detriment to fun play. The whole map is just constant positive space, with no negative space to break things up and help distinctive elements stand out. It looks like an Overwatch map, and I don't mean that as a compliment.

[@godofportal5905]

agreed

[@endermix5859]

Exactly. But people let themselves seduce for colorful and as you said eye-catching details. Not saying is bad, just I don't feel it fits on tf2

[@univalvefoilstrong1184]

Mr. “I don’t like to fit in” with his elite Hot takes!

[@jakestaheli8532]

Mercenary park, hardwood, mossrock, Venice, all of these maps are slightly outside of tf2s artstyle, but they still work. We will have to see how the map design affects gameplay, but this feels like a nitpick right now.

[@milliondollarmistake]

@@jakestaheli8532 I don't know if using Venice as an example is going to help your point but I agree with the sentiment lol

[@comradenikolai322]

See, I actually really like this format. Seeing how people take a basic idea and extrapolate it into a completely different thing is awesome. I love that you even made note of the smaller details, like the medpack room and the sink. I think this concept should be done more. Maybe not in this exact "bare bones map who's basic functionality and layout were democratically voted for on stream" sort of thing, but just this map layout with little decoration is given to map artists to flesh out.

[@Sterkson92]

2:55 I`d make this small room as creepy as possible, to make it feel like an elevator from "The Shining". Bloodmarks, total darkness and one single light point onto medcit with, if possible, changed texture

[@iveseenyourface5404]

brilliant

[@HawnselTF]

Wow everyone did a fantastic job! The half-life ending was super fun to see!

[@wolfcl0ck]

A huge congrats to everyone who worked on this project. This is genuinely one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time regarding tf2. Also HELL YES to rainbow ride getting added.

[@grogcito]

This is the best map ever created. Puxorb's drill is still my favorite feature created, still I love all the art passes created, the mappers really excelled themselves

[@pux0rb]

I like puxorb's drill too

[@Robotboy655]

After seeing that Half-Life part @ 4:50 I kinda want a full payload map that takes the players through the different parts of Half-Life.

[@mikeyes620]

Think the drill idea was awsome for the spiral tower, but the winner was obviously very well executed as well.

[@bugjams]

Fr. Alrexx's map won in every other category imo except the spiral. I'm kind of hoping, now that everyone's seen each other's maps, that be changes the spiral to a giant drill somehow. Such a cool concept.

[@mikeyes620]

@bugjams I agree, but the area around the spiral is definitely what won Alrexx the category. It was definitely a more complete package worthy of the win. If i desperately wanted to have the drill I would swap the spiral build for the drill idea to forshadow the cave later, but implement the best parts of the current tower, like the lights and the gass/steam for gameplay. It's fine as is though.

[@QTwoSix]

Shit map, low effort coal

[@Smeelio]

I love how different these all turned out, especially since they all look so cool! Would it be beyond the realm of possibility to have the map randomly roll for each section every time it loads, so you are getting a different smattering of each design's elements every time? I don't know if that's a thing TF2 maps can do...

[@MyScorpion42]

given how the entity limit is a big limiter on what you an do with 100 players that they're just barely scraping by I don't believe that's very likely, no. It would be cool and possible to have different versions on a map rotation, though

[@the_xplorer_sploder]

@@MyScorpion42 you could just make every different variation it's own map, and add it to pl_dbz rotation

[@damsen978]

I mean... Hydro did that exact thing and people don't like it. So it's probably a bad idea.

[@Smeelio]

@@damsen978 That's fair, but in this case, the gamemode is different and less confusing AND, crucically, the actual gameplay layout is near-identical and only the visuals would change

[@jblazerndrowzy]

@@damsen978Hydro doesn’t do it randomly(or maybe it did and I just have awful memory). Even then, the actual reason people didn’t like Hydro because the game mode it’s in is more complex than it should be and stretches on for long periods of time. As someone who played it somewhat often on the Orange Box, the average match on there, although fun, was *stupidly* lengthy, and the map became confusing to move through when you forgot what stage you were on. And then by the time you figure out what’s going on, it’s a stalemate and now it’s time for sudden death. EDIT: It was random according to KZbin vids and the official wiki, so just shit memory

[@whynotll83]

3:44 "dedication to realism" as dev texture wall is in the view.

[@Nykomil]

To be fair it's pretty thin and obscured. The mapper probably thought it was already textured properly

[@hellofellowbotsss]

All the maps were so cool and you can see the amount of effort it took all the map creators to make their versions! This experiment was so cool and i hope that there will be more like it to come!

[@LargeCoke_Mediumfry]

I love puxorb making it a 60s Future space movie feel. The drill was definitely the best (IMO) spiral design. It makes it look unique and look like it has a purpose for existing

[@_mailer]

I'm genuinely impressed by so many of the art passes here. I think this video is testament to how fundamental Hammer is still after all this time. Hammer++ is a much needed refresh, but Valve's decision to release the Source SDK at all is one of the best longstanding decisions in gaming, since it all leads up to joint community efforts like this that we can all partake and enjoy in.

[@SanityDrop]

this is just insane; these amazing mappers took the same barebone map and give it completely different themes, from beach resort, quarry, industrial and gloomy carnival. Amazing

[@jimboanimations4041]

DBZ is an incredibly cool-looking map, and I am surprised it works for a 100 player lobby! That being said, I think there is 1 thing that should be done for a map made for that large of a lobby: Decrease the speed the cart moves at per player pushing it, but increase the push cap significantly. Maybe its speed could cap at 10 players, and move a bit faster than carts on maps made for smaller lobbies?

[@thirion1850]

A bit disappointed only one person went with the Half Life theme, and *no one* went with a full on Black Mesa theme. There was so much potential there, fighting all the way to first get the anomalous material into the carrier and then over to the final checkpoint to start the resonance cascade. The regular TF2-like aesthetic slowly gaining more and more Black Mesa realism step by step.

[@petermatis6083]

I'd actually love more hybrid maps. Like yeah we already know pl cp and ctf but why don't we just combine them for the ultimate challange? Like imagine a payload race, where both teams fight to cap a neutral flag for their team to open up the way for their payload. Or a dominion match where the last point of both teams is protected like in Degroot keep, and you have to bring a flag to the enemy side to give a chance to push last. Hell what if it's just an entire gauntlet of every game mode on one giant map?

[@ApocalypseMoose]

3:54 Lewiin should've won for that alone.

[@SaintRedFox]

lewiin made the half life finale so he should have won the entire contest anyways

[@JhoTerra]

I super respect turq's basic, vanilla map throwback.

[@jakestaheli8532]

This community has the most dedication of any ive ever seen. From emesis blue, to magnificent 9, another feature length film coming out in a couple days, to this, taking advantage of a random cliffnote in the summer update that was probably added without much thought, and creating an entire map around this idea. Cant wait to play on this masterpiece, and i hope this map and 100 players as an official gamemode releases for casual. Thank you tf2 community for being the best, and making me proud to be a part of it.

[@pikachufrankie]

It’s a shame puxorb or gex didn’t win, as their versions of the map aesthetically fit right in with base-game TF2 maps if brushed up a little bit around the spiral. Props to all the mappers for their efforts, but I truly do think that only 2 of these look like TF2 maps.

[@Benjy52]

We’re not in 2010 anymore. If you want TF2 to keep up with other FPS’s, the maps *must* be modernised. Seeing maps with that same look is just incredibly boring now.

[@pikachufrankie]

@@Benjy52 “We’re not in 2010 anymore, so abandon the art style.” Notice how I explicitly mentioned that the one version reminded me of Powerhouse, a map that’s aesthetics have not really been replicated. Maps can evolve visually without abandoning this game’s general aesthetic, just look at Phoenix, Emerge, or Camber. Your point makes no sense.

[@QTwoSix]

​@@Benjy52you're retarded

[@gigaGrug]

@@Benjy52 Sounds like you don't like TF2 and want it to be something it isn't. They released this game called Valorant a few years ago. It has a wide range of aesthetics. You should check it out.

[@crazybird199]

Wow, that is sweet. Poor turq though

[@endermix5859]

I felt the same for him lol. His map was the more tf2 style out of all of them, but people always will prefer colorful and uniqueness.

[@crazybird199]

@@endermix5859 I personally felt it was a bit bland but it didnt deserve to come in last every time

[@QTwoSix]

​@@endermix5859zoomer brainrot brimstone

[@denifnaf5874]

​@@endermix5859this is why i loathe democracy

[@joedou7glas200]

I'm dissapointed that the Half-Life ending with the resonance cascade when you cap the final point didn't win the last point

[@notloopers1110]

Amazing seeing projects go through

[@humanharddrive1]

wow i love the variety of everyone's tries at it. shame people choose the worst ones, like the venice inspired beach and the castle and the pink cave... that's just not right for tf2's setting. i really liked gex's and turq's versions. this shows democracy is flawed. pl_dustbowl is freaking awesome Also I really liked how you showed off the stuff by the participant mappers at the end. community made stuff deserves to have more eyes on them, helped by people with an audience like you

[@stupidratt]

honestly I wish at least one person went with the design of "mining town covering up a secret facility"

[@commenter_HIMIK-MAN]

Causing the resonance cascade is hell of a way to finish a payload map. I'm surprised no one done that before.

[@Micha-Hil]

Now I'm waiting for someone to actually make this map DBZ themed

[@fives9880]

You may want to fix the spawn point by the castle, the Blu team can be easily spawned camped by Red, causing the whole game to be unplayable for Blu, that’s what happened in my most recent game in your map.

[@HighOnZa]

DUDE THAT HALF LIFE 1 SEQUENCE WAS FIRE, THAT SHOULD'VE WON DUDES 🔥🔥🔥

[@livenishikireaction]

1:25 he said it guys, he said gex

[@PotentialGrim]

Lol the one I didn’t like the most won. At least the ones that looked like the Badlands, Hydro and Powerhouse are still available in the workshop.

[@Cinnamowo]

Alrexx one is really cool! Idk, I just really love all the vibes that it has. And I love seeing trees and water in TF2

[@fireblade696]

For the next map we should vote on how we decorate the map at the end of the build process, and someone decorates it how we want.

[@fastpuppy2000]

I'm not really in love with how we're talking about the art here. It feels pretty harsh on anyone who didn't place first or second, and it's not like a vote is the best way to parse artistic inspiration/beauty, especially when the form needs to fit the function.

[@lithobreak3812]

Yeah, him not even acknowledging the last place felt pretty damn bad

[@maxkoob]

looking at all these maps transition between eachother gives me a weird case of deja vu, i like it

[@paperskate654]

This is so incredibly cool, what an awesome community project!

[@mrkayden1]

massive props to the map creators and the time and detail in them, they're amazing.

[@Real_RUBB3R]

Honestly, even if some of these are very noticeably lower in quality and attention to detail than the others, ALL of these maps are incredible, and the creators should feel proud for being able to pull off something like this

[@boemboemize]

Holy smokes, all mappers did a great job. Stunning work lads, much love to yall!

[@pasanaator9874]

The HAlf-Life ending seemed so cool, it made me imagine a tf2 in the black mesa complex, which i think could be a cool idea for a map.

[@fireblade696]

Lewinn is definitely the most faithful to what chat voted for. He kept all the goofy stuff in. It might not be as cohesive but it is my favorite

[@Optim121]

Wow lewiins half life endcap is awesome how the hell didnt that win

[@siberx4]

2:33 The oversized gas filler is amazing!

[@Bexxkie]

Resonance cascade ending is awesome. HL payload map makes so much sense.

[@ncrtrooper7648]

i like how the shortcircuit actually has a lot of purpose in 100 player maps, they are a great way to break stalemates in chokepoints by eleminating all the explosive spam.

[@spamuel98]

Puxorb's map design fits a lot better with the game lore, since the entire series of events in TF2 was kicked off when Redmond and Blutarch Mann inherited a ton of empty wasteland from their father (who died of every illness known to man when travelling to see aforementioned land that the two idiot sons bought) and started fighting over it. In the official lore, it's just because the two of them hate each other and are trying to take all of the land for themselves. The original business plan for the empty desert was gravel mining for weapons manufacturing(?)

[@cloudynguyen6527]

Gravel and coal mining are their main business. Weapon manufacturing comes from Mannco and I don't think Mannco manufactures their weapons in middle of nowhere

[@spamuel98]

​@@cloudynguyen6527 The CEO of Mann Co is Saxton Hale, so it's a fair bet to assume the weapons manufacturing takes place in Australia. Or maybe the entirety of the Mann estate is actually in Australia, and they were able to get the land so cheaply because it was the Australian outback where people can't live in any meaningful numbers due to the lack of water, and the mercenaries travel there from their home countries for work.

[@MeesterTweester]

I like the commitment to the sink too

[@AlienFan25]

They all look great but the one that wom makes sense. Looks really gorgeous. Crazy how people gave it all different ideas.

[@ozzieggg]

turq made a clean map with great visibility. Best map for gameplay.

[@fortnitesexman]

i honestly feel like every shortcoming puxorb's version has is overcome by that fucking drill, it's by far the most unique part of the map, both in mapping and art

[@mihneababanu4224]

i really adore puxorb's design, it's the best imo.

[@fantastikboom1094]

The Art Guys did what some thought was impossible. Though I didn't like final gameplay changes, I don't care now, when map looks so cool.

[@Mulakulu]

I think the spiral for the steam Tower makes a lot of sense. We already put spirals on chimneys to avoid resonance frequencies for the chimneys to make them more stable in wind. Just look up chimney wings or spirals

[@QuintonMurdock]

That actually looks sick. Excellent work

[@StraferXD]

i actually was shocked at the pure talent showed by these map makers, theyre so detailed and beautiful, wish i was that talented. All of them are sick!

[@centersolace]

oh damn, rainbow ride brings back so many memories, that map is old af, but strangely i could see it working with 100 players.

[@jojobinx4020]

Maybe you could do like one day a week you change all the maps to the most unhinged insane maps out there, like freaky friday or something. Also I really like Lewin's map's ideas, but alrexx's is definitely the more ascetic map. The half life finish on Lewin's is great

[@amagostartdatbigfirekickba9865]

its absolutely insane to me that there are so many talented mappers out there good job lads, every single map there looks amazing!

[@Nagasakevideo]

I like the spiral being a giant drill.

[@tophmidnaYT]

These mappers are crazy talented. I hope their skills make them money cause they definitely deserve it

[@TeaserTravlein]

I really really wish lexiins final point made it in. That was so cool

[@-the_lumberjack-]

I love how I watched the precursor to this video yesterday and now this comes out.

[@PotatoPatatoVonSpudsworth]

I'd LOVE to see Lewiin lean even harder into the Half-Life theme by changing the bomb cart to the crystal Gordon has to push into the beam.

[@somegalnamedseelpit3713]

Yoooo, one of PigPig's maps was added? Never knew they experimented with more cool logic! They also made an MvM map called Yiresa - it takes the "multiple possible bomb paths" to the next level with a dedicated Red and Blu part, and both having their own gate. The tank paths also have doors that open as temporary shortcuts - it's a very neat map!

[@FafikGrapodol]

amazing work! I'm looking forward to more communally made maps in the future, there's so many gamemodes after all! attack/defend, 5cp, king of the hill... arena? hell, maybe even territorial control might be worth revisiting in this way. the gamemodes with symmetrical maps would require half the effort (just develop half and mirror it) and it would be just on someone to art pass the 2 sides, there's so much potential here.

[@flazzorb]

I'm really impressed how much was done in just a week. Even the losers are impressive for the sheer amount of work it took to be done in just a week.

[@mcintoshpc]

Great ideas and pretty good execution on display here, nice job to everyone who submitted their stuff!

[@SturgGaeming]

The map with the giant Gray Co drill is probably the coolest.

[@darkarch757]

Control point to payload actually kicks ass as a concept. Its like the mercs had to break in and steal it and now they gotta get it outta there

[@user-wc7hk2bz8z]

I just watched this video in your entire channel and just this made me subcribe. You are pretty good at this. Keep it on! :)

[@Spazbo4]

props to the guy making the resonance cascade happen in tf2

[@purpleisthesneakiest]

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MENTIONING PL_RAINBOWRIDE! I played it once like a decade ago, but forgot the name, and its wacky cart path has stuck in my brain ever since!

[@purplehaze2358]

Kinda crazy how much some aesthetic touch up could improve an otherwise mostly identical map.