FESTERS PLACE

Today and yesterday I have been playing one of the new payload maps, pl_zig_b4. Admittedly I do like it, but unfortunately the first checkpoint is unrealistically difficult to get the cart to. I know yesterday we actually did play it all the way to the end, but I would leave that to luck and unholy teamwork on part of the blues. I was thinking of changing something to do with the map, such as making the train faster, making the red spawn further away or something more drastic.

I know there will be disagreements about fiddling with the map but it's just too lop-sided on the first checkpoint, in my opinion. I have found a couple of tools that most source mappers would already have, one that decompiles the map (Vmex) and one that can edit the ent file (EntEd). The latter odesn't need a recompile so I would prefer to do that. Someone who is more experienced with SrcMapping could do this instead of me, so I'd be happy to pass the baton, since I only ever messed around with GoldSrc mapping (that's HL1).

So I guess we should have a chat about what could/should be done...

First off nothing can be done about the coke points cuz we don't make the maps we just UP them to the server all new maps get thrown on a few nights for umm... testing? .. but i agree it is a very difficult first point but all the rest seem to pass easy once first is done..

Its a beautiful looking map though. Shame its a bit flawed. Bloody fps hell on a craptacular machine like mine as well