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
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)
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-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.
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.
@@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 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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
@@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?
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
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
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.
@@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.
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.
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
@@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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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
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...
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
@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
@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 UA-cam vids and the official wiki, so just shit memory
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
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.
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.
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.
@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.
I love the divide between people that went with nostalgic old tf2 maps that are simple by design, people that tried a unique twist on the map in the middle ages of tf2 maps style, and ofc the jungle inferno and modern map styles that look astonishing
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?
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.
As a manufacturing engineering student, I feel I am qualified to say that the mobile drill goes REALLY hard. It got my brain going for how the mechanics of the full machine work, as well as what practical purpose the drill actually serves.
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.
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?
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!
Amazing stuff all around. I hope some of the other designs are seen in future maps, I really liked the ones that diverged from the very samey (albeit well done) lighting/atmosphere TF2 maps usually have outside of Holidays and MVM. Personally, I'd kill for more maps with rain.
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(?)
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
@@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.
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
so glad to see rainbow ride getting some love. I remember Muselk covering that map years ago and haven't been able to see an active server running it in forever. Definitely gotta try it out again.
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.
This shows how passionate players and modders are for this game. I hope it lives many years in the community servers. TF2 is my favorite PC game of all time.
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.
I’m so disappointed resonance cascade couldn’t be made into a canon TF2 event. Also, I love the concept of hybrid game modes, I want to see more maps like that
I feel a little bad about turq, his map was the most adhering to the classical art style for tf2 maps, but I guess that’s just not what the people wanted
The fact that ALL of these submissions fit the game's style perfectly and I can 100% see being added as full maps speaks volume to the dedication of these creators, it's genuinely impressive Makes me wish that all of them could be added at the same time in some way; like a map that every time you play on it has a different aesthetic or what not (even if this is probably impossible to program)
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!
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!
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
First (real)
Could possibly have a 2nd channel for any major 100-player server updates?
What kind of perks? Boosted proximity chat range?
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.
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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)
My thoughts exactly, they all won in my book
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.
Lmao that hats off joke was hilarious
It's not about the winning it's about taking part. -Wheatley
100% They all look like a lot of effort went in to them. Well done.
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.
But one of the easiest, best looking and best fitting for the game's artstyle
@@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.
hydro my beloved ❤
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.
Its my favorite style. Mappers are too afraid to embrace the classics
2:33 Is that a comically large gas pump attached to the rocket?
Indeed
yes my man... yes it is!
50 minutes until ready to launch
oh my god lmao hgdfhghdfg
That one ended up being my favorite of the rockets purely for that visual gag, it's hilarious
Someone PLEASE recommend this map to the community workshop
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.
@@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?
Can't anyone add maps to the workshop?
@@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
Imagine if the map randomly chose which version is used
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
Agreed, I think the whole concept deserves its own map
we need more half-life in tf2 man...,,,,,,,,.
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.
It makes me ponder a Portal map...
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!
I really like the uniqueness of Alrex's "British overseas colony" setting.
Was thinking it looked more like a theme park similar to Disney Epcot
Ikr I feel like it would’ve fit perfectly as a jungle inferno map
5:06 in love how this whole map is just a complicated "Gordon pushing the cart to the beam"
lewiin should just make a half-life TF2 map
@@prisso88 true, i think Black Mesa topside part (in tf2 style, of course) would look pretty neat
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.
if it makes you feel better i wanted the drill to win too
I still want the cart to be the xen crystal and last to be the resonance cascade
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
Democracy will always be a faliure.
I wonder how many people will be talking about the drill.
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.
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.
yoo holt shit benjy
@@pineapple5180 What? 😂
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.
@@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?
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!
Shoutout to your map for feeling the most TF2 out of all of them, you have a knack for it.
good job, your version looks great
your version is humble and that's why it shines; i hope to play it some time
your version was SLEPT ON
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
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
Yeah. As impressive as alrex's version looks, it has a ton of visual noise that makes it hard to see players
@@hirotrum6810overwatch style brimstone
@@QTwoSix brimstone? but it's not a halloween-themed map?
@@jimmybean420 sharty lingo, a normie like you won't get it
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
I appreciate turq's dedication to looking like a map straight from 2007. I really liked the vibes, even though it consistently got lowest.
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.
And Lewiin's rocket with the comically sized gas pump!
Yeah I wish the test chamber made it in
turq's definitely looks the most like a classic tf2 map
I thought it was underrated
It is rather bland but yes, it was probably the most faithful to tf2 artsytle
@@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.
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.
holy shit dude, seeing pl_rainbow ride again after all these years hit me with so much nostalgia
Brought me back to when I binged Muselk vids
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.
@@jblazerndrowzy Exactly!
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
Saying that Valve is scratching their head implies they're attempting to do anything about it
@@futakisser They have money to do it but they just want to go cheap
@@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
please dude, making the map is nothing compared to trying to solve the bot problem lol
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
Finally, THE map
THE map
THE nap
THE zap
@@WeFightForKarl the zip zap zop
THE cap
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!!!!
You seriously earned it! That mf was damm pretty!
Congrats! Beautiful map.
gex did it better
Awesome map, I hope you make more amazing stuff like this
3:55 He let that sink in
Poor Turq. Poor guy didnt get mentioned in anything.
Amd turq was objectively the best
cause there isnt much to say
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
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.
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.
These maps look great. Wish I could play then, I’m in AUS so ping issue
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.
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.
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
I quite like how turq's version seems the most faithful to the game
Wow everyone did a fantastic job! The half-life ending was super fun to see!
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.
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!
3:44
"dedication to realism" as dev texture wall is in the view.
To be fair it's pretty thin and obscured. The mapper probably thought it was already textured properly
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.
agreed
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
Mr. “I don’t like to fit in” with his elite Hot takes!
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.
@@jakestaheli8532 I don't know if using Venice as an example is going to help your point but I agree with the sentiment lol
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
brilliant
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
I like puxorb's drill too
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
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...
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
@@MyScorpion42
you could just make every different variation it's own map, and add it to pl_dbz rotation
@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
@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 UA-cam vids and the official wiki, so just shit memory
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
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.
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.
1:25 he said it guys, he said gex
Think the drill idea was awsome for the spiral tower, but the winner was obviously very well executed as well.
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.
@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.
Shit map, low effort coal
I love the divide between people that went with nostalgic old tf2 maps that are simple by design, people that tried a unique twist on the map in the middle ages of tf2 maps style, and ofc the jungle inferno and modern map styles that look astonishing
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?
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.
I super respect turq's basic, vanilla map throwback.
As a manufacturing engineering student, I feel I am qualified to say that the mobile drill goes REALLY hard. It got my brain going for how the mechanics of the full machine work, as well as what practical purpose the drill actually serves.
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.
Amazing seeing projects go through
massive props to the map creators and the time and detail in them, they're amazing.
Causing the resonance cascade is hell of a way to finish a payload map. I'm surprised no one done that before.
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?
DUDE THAT HALF LIFE 1 SEQUENCE WAS FIRE, THAT SHOULD'VE WON DUDES 🔥🔥🔥
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!
This is so incredibly cool, what an awesome community project!
looking at all these maps transition between eachother gives me a weird case of deja vu, i like it
Amazing stuff all around. I hope some of the other designs are seen in future maps, I really liked the ones that diverged from the very samey (albeit well done) lighting/atmosphere TF2 maps usually have outside of Holidays and MVM. Personally, I'd kill for more maps with rain.
Amazing work to everyone involved! And now.... I want to see this map OFFICIALLY added! 😤
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(?)
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
@@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.
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
Now I'm waiting for someone to actually make this map DBZ themed
Holy smokes, all mappers did a great job. Stunning work lads, much love to yall!
so glad to see rainbow ride getting some love. I remember Muselk covering that map years ago and haven't been able to see an active server running it in forever. Definitely gotta try it out again.
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.
I love how I watched the precursor to this video yesterday and now this comes out.
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
THIS IS DEMOCRACY MANIFEST
You gotta appreciate gex’s commitment to making dbz look like an honest to god 2009 TF2 map
2:37 “We don’t talk about the drill” Only the people that know, know
2:33 The oversized gas filler is amazing!
turq didnt even get a narration🏴☠🏴☠we still love you turq
Great ideas and pretty good execution on display here, nice job to everyone who submitted their stuff!
maybe it's just some good ol 2011 gmod/tf2 nostalgia but there is something so familiar and comfy about turk's submissions.
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
honestly I wish at least one person went with the design of "mining town covering up a secret facility"
That actually looks sick. Excellent work
This shows how passionate players and modders are for this game. I hope it lives many years in the community servers. TF2 is my favorite PC game of all time.
These chaotic fustercluck maps your chat design somehow end up beautiful with the right decor
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.
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.
I'm dissapointed that the Half-Life ending with the resonance cascade when you cap the final point didn't win the last point
bro this half life end point is the best shit i've ever seen
I’m so disappointed resonance cascade couldn’t be made into a canon TF2 event. Also, I love the concept of hybrid game modes, I want to see more maps like that
Resonance cascade ending is awesome. HL payload map makes so much sense.
I feel a little bad about turq, his map was the most adhering to the classical art style for tf2 maps, but I guess that’s just not what the people wanted
They all look great but the one that wom makes sense. Looks really gorgeous. Crazy how people gave it all different ideas.
The fact that ALL of these submissions fit the game's style perfectly and I can 100% see being added as full maps speaks volume to the dedication of these creators, it's genuinely impressive
Makes me wish that all of them could be added at the same time in some way; like a map that every time you play on it has a different aesthetic or what not (even if this is probably impossible to program)
oh damn, rainbow ride brings back so many memories, that map is old af, but strangely i could see it working with 100 players.
These mappers are crazy talented. I hope their skills make them money cause they definitely deserve it
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.
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.
props to the guy making the resonance cascade happen in tf2
This is honestly so cool seeing this map develops as far as it has, whatever map has a regular gas pump nozzle on the rocket is supreme
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!
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
Kinda crazy how much some aesthetic touch up could improve an otherwise mostly identical map.
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!
i think all versions of pl_dbz deserve to be played and remembered
All submissions are so good! It's insane honestly, I kinda want to see them all
1:47 That's a really good bit, though.