Fixing 'Decay'

[unixfreak]

Lots of people say Decay is too big. I had a look at some areas which don't seem to get alot of gameplay.
So far i removed the "tower" area with the pipes/ladder in the far corner, and blocked off the long ramp/chute leading to it. Also removed part of the lower area with the rifle spawn.

I have still yet to texture/remove stray entities, but wondering if any other areas can be improved / removed or re-routed. The areas i removed barely had any gameplay action from what i noticed, they were pretty much dead areas.

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[restcoser]

looks like a good idea, i know the map isnt technically big but it sure can be a maze and hard to find your opponent in smaller matches. (different example: octavius, big map, but not a maze at all, not too hard to find opponents)

[bonifarz]

I really like the design and maze-aspect of Decay. With those cool new door mapmodels by Unnamed, maybe some passages or sections can be made mode/mutator specific? E.g. I guess with the freestyle mutator, it does not matter much to have many corridors to explore.

[Jfault]

Wait err, so you just made a shit ton of dead ends? The Pipe area was great for getting to floor 3 from floor 1

EDIT: However, I would like to see the doors removed at alternate middle on the second floor. It's too easy to throw a mine on those doors and guarantee a kill on anyone walking through.

Oh yeah, clean up the dead ends in the basement too.

[freezurbern]

[Jfault]

[Jfault]

The problem is, unlike floor mines, these mines are completely unavoidable unless you shoot them, With mines on the floor, you can just jump over them.

EDIT: I think they are fine, if we can somehow fix the mine problem. Until then...

[unixfreak]

[shirepirate]

[unixfreak]

Well here's the changes i've been working on (had a bit of help from acerspyro).

* removed the tall pipe area.
* added some hanging lights to the large room (and some wall detail)
* mixed up some textures in the large room
* added a small access vent connecting the 'long' area with the upper area
* middle ramp is steeper, underground area extended
* console room underground is now a teleport to the 'long' corridor (2 way)
* some other small geom/tex/bug fix

Entity placement hasn't been checked yet, and some weapons may have to be moved about, also the teleport is just a palceholder for now, will try make another portal thing to fit that area. Waypoints are also borked, as they need to be redone.

Just posting it here now to see if anyone agrees with the changes. I feel it flows better with that far corner (tall pipe room) taken out. As there is no need for the long ramp corridors at the back anymore.

Some screenshots of the areas below, although easier to see what's changed if you just load the map.
https://imgur.com/a/o7BTx

[shirepirate]

looking good so far

[shirepirate]

any progress on this?

[unixfreak]

[unixfreak]

Sorry it's been a while since i last posted anything about updating this map, just dug it out this morning and finished it up.

* moved the bottom chamber/room closer to the staircase
* added some small details to the hanging lights
* checked weapon/actor/affinity/spawns
* added waypoints
* added a sniper nest in the wall near the fan room
* fixed some lighting/shadow errors
* textured missing areas
* removed water from teleport room
* removed sparkly circle particles from teleport entrances (they looked odd at a distance)
* removed most of the 'dusty' particles, which weren't working properly due to default maxparticles values
* changed texture in the "hidden" vent passage
* some other things i've forgotten about

https://imgur.com/a/bVW8Q

Should be good to go, but i'll post it here now so if anyone wants to playtest it and finds any more issues etc.

This map is still focused on these modes;
* deathmatch
* bomber ball hold (spawns randomly across the map)

The reason it doesn't have normal bomber ball mode is because there are no team base locations (if you load bomberball mode, it will automatically change to bomberball-hold)