Working on a new map

[horsefeathers]

I glad you guys are enjoying it! I always try to start with something fun to surf and then work from there.

[horsefeathers]

Hey everyone, I am satisfied with the state of the map and have released it to gamebanana: http://css.gamebanana.com/maps/183698

Some changes I made since the last time: I re-ordered the stages slightly; I switched 3 and 4 because I felt that 3 was harder than 4 and I wanted to split up 4 and 5 since they have similar styled end areas. Along with that, I fixed some lighting bugs and weirdness and did an optimization pass.

I had fun making this map and I will do it again in the future; but right now I am out of ideas and need to recharge. Thanks to everyone who helped me make this map.

[THERAPIST]

surf is awesome but theme sucks and that makes the map suck

also idk if i played this on shit settings but that was much harder than t4

BTW WHATS SONG IN VID

[horsefeathers]

Thanks for the comment. The song in the vid was Clams Casino - Motivation. I don't think its harder than t4; there are t4 maps I cant beat yet so it cant be higher right (perfect logic). The maps I was inspired by where also t4, so I wanted this map to have the same perception. The only setting I used to test it was sv_airaccelerate 150, which the maps sets when it loads.

It sucks that you think the theme sucks; what exactly do you think sucks about it? If nothing else, I hope you still can have fun on the map.

[truktruk]

I don't like the theme because it messes with depth perception. Though if that's what you're going for it works! I can't really comment on the map quality since I only played the first stage, but it seems pretty good.

[THERAPIST]

yeah theres no depth perception and the fact that its literally all white means that theres like no visual cues and the stages are so long, i pretty much forget the exact route for the stages as i finished them

there are some maps i can go back to after years of not playing them and recall perfectly, id probably forget the stages on this one within a week, so there'd be 0 chance of me ever playing it again after the first time i beat it, even if i did like it

also on like stage 3? where you land on a ramp and surf under a wall to next ramp theres a gray strip on the bottom of the ramp which is obviously the same color as the floor so you don't even realise how low you can surf on the ramp which makes that part unnecessarily annoying just because of the shit theme.

has anyone else actually finished this map? it felt like a ridiculously hard t5, not even close to t4 but idk if my settings were wrong because if i surfed some stuff like you did in the video im 100% sure i wouldnt have even made it.

[truktruk]

but idk if my settings were wrong because if i surfed some stuff like you did in the video im 100% sure i wouldnt have even made it.

To make sure your settings are good in the future you can simply join a surf server then open console and type "create surf_[mapname]" while your still in the server.

[antihack]

I agree with therapist. You did say that you were inspired by polygon so it makes sense that this map suffers from exactly the same problem as that map does. Surfers usually instinctively look at the ramps' texture to gather information about their current speed and position. If the ramps are all uniform grey it is very difficult to obtain that information. I think a good deal of the map's difficulty came from the fact that I had to guess a little bit as to where I was landing on any ramp, and that's really not good; difficulty should come from the stage design rather than a flaw in the design. It's a shame since the levels seemed like they would have been very fun to surf otherwise.

You wondered how much you really need to see in order to surf in your original post. Well, I think you need more than this.