Author Topic: Best of Paintball 2 Map Pack (Read 6410 times)

Fryth · « **on:** April 12, 2004, 09:31:27 AM »

Okay, need nominations for the Best of DP map pack. We should have a good balance of oldschool and newschool maps. Since I only really know the former, I'm going to start by suggesting:

midnight
battle
koth

KrayZie · « **Reply #1 on:** April 12, 2004, 09:33:41 AM »

heh, nice... i like this post... hmm... let's see.

old:
hellsurv
battle 1 and 2
koth
midnight

new:
sandtrap
pforest
shazam
arctic

jitspoe · « **Reply #2 on:** April 12, 2004, 10:47:47 AM »

midnight2
roundup
shreds_pball1
shreds_pball2
siegecastle
castle1
hellsurvivors
ub_rooftop

Anrkist · « **Reply #3 on:** April 12, 2004, 02:19:13 PM »

" new:
sandtrap
pforest
shazam
arctic"

wtf?!? new.. ive been around scince 98.. two of those have been around longer then me. =p

Newish
pbcup
encounter
indune
jump
Ill add shazam.. I enjoy this map, and while alot of the older play tend to hate it.. newer players really enjoy it..

Old
hellsurvivors
kaos
koth
ksplat2
midnight
pb2dm1
sphouseqw

Eiii · « **Reply #4 on:** April 12, 2004, 04:37:14 PM »

um...shazam22?

meat · « **Reply #5 on:** April 12, 2004, 05:30:17 PM »

note that jits only pointed out the good ones, and id have to agree with fryth too.

RoyalBlood · « **Reply #6 on:** April 13, 2004, 03:22:46 PM »

I'd say nay to battle - its REALLY outdated now, and really never was that good to begin with. Battle2 would be good though.

Midnight, Hellsurv, pforest, sphouse_qw are definites

Depends on what you mean by best. If you allow simple small maps that arent good for matching at all, but that still can be fun to play on a public server, then pbcup, sandtrap should be included too.

Some other maps that people havent mentioned that i will toss up:
Thunder, Brainstorm - for the larger sized maps.
warzone2 - very fun map
castle1 - a fav
just about any map shreds made
lostpath, hunt, cfire, ksplat2 - these used to be pretty popular but no one plays them anymore?
how about some of those seige or 4 team maps? I always enjoyed those.

Excalibur · « **Reply #7 on:** April 13, 2004, 03:37:53 PM »

what about docks 2 anti lag or somthing like that.

RoyalBlood · « **Reply #8 on:** April 13, 2004, 04:05:14 PM »

Docks2 would be better suited for a "worst of DP" map pack.

jitspoe · « **Reply #9 on:** April 13, 2004, 05:33:11 PM »

I've never been that big of a fan of sandtrap... The one-door base to docks2 kills it, too. The center area is fun, but about the only way someone gets through the door is when someone screws up, and that's frustrating.

Excalibur · « **Reply #10 on:** April 13, 2004, 06:20:59 PM »

i hate all maps with a bottle neck mid cause its too much sprey and prey

meat · « **Reply #11 on:** April 13, 2004, 07:21:43 PM »

right, bottlenecking maps destroy any type of real teamplay involved, aside from lets all rush and hope one guy gets through. These maps include strap and pbcup, to which i say no thanks.

RoyalBlood · « **Reply #12 on:** April 13, 2004, 10:35:50 PM »

Well no, lets get it right. Bottlenecks are good in maps, if they are done correctly. Havine one bottleneck in the middle of the map kills gameplay. But having no bottlenecks at all and just one big wide opens space kills gameplay just as well.

Having too much open space and no bottlenecks creates "spray and pray". Basically everyone just rushes and spray-n-pray. Adding a few bottlenecks slows the gameplay down and adds strategy and balance.

Having too many bottlenecks (or worse just one with no open area) creates "sit-n-stream" where players just sit on each side of the bottleneck and stream paint at an angle through or across the bottleneck till the run out of ammo, effectively killing gameplay cuz no one can get through. You want multiple paths and some more open space to balance this out.

So as you should have figured out by now, the best maps are ones that have equal amounts of multiple paths (but not too many to the point where it becomes too complex), some bottlenecks, and some open spaces - all evenly balanced out to perfection.

Excalibur · « **Reply #13 on:** April 14, 2004, 12:32:50 AM »

royalblood you read my mind

Anrkist · « **Reply #14 on:** April 14, 2004, 01:17:15 AM »

Meat, there is no teamplay on pub servers! And this map pack would be made for pubs not matches.. bottlenecks are fun to me.

S8NSSON · « **Reply #15 on:** April 15, 2004, 12:02:21 PM »

Since paintball2 ships with a set of maps you should have instructed everyone to not include those maps in thier opinions.

I can't even think of any other maps that i truely loved to play as much as some of the original DP maps.

Anything that's interesting and different.

Borgus · « **Reply #16 on:** April 15, 2004, 01:05:39 PM »

Old:
Midnight
Pforest
Hellsurvivors
Castle1
koth
pb2siege1

New:
pbcup
shazam
antioch2
shreds_pb

Dirty_Taco · « **Reply #17 on:** April 17, 2004, 08:46:43 PM »

Post removed

Darkphyre · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2004, 07:34:22 AM »

old:
Hellsurv
Splatterhouse (dp version)
Ksplat2
ksplat

new:
back2back (yes, I like this map, sue me)
shazam22
encounter
antioch2
ub_rooftop
skylit

and no, skylit is not listed just because I made it. If I wanted to plug myself I'd post armageddon and upb4 too ;p

ASDA · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2004, 03:23:48 PM »

all thoes maps are good i say koth