Maybe that was intended?

I'm not a critic or anything, but cp_roswell is probably my FAVORITE custom map in tf2. Overall the map is just fun to play and has a lot of detail. So good work haha!

All right, this map is on the narrow pinnacle of near perfect map design. I play it about once every time I join my server, and it still surprises me with what you can do with it, and the amount of strategy involved.

Pros: It has an original concept for a map (for team fortress 2 anyway) and still remains within the theme set by the game. There are several routes to each control point, and there is always at least three ways to access the CPs and the area surrounding. This makes defense difficult, but not impossible for a coordinated team. There are plenty of open spaces for Scouts and Snipers, narrow cooridors for pyros, hiding spots for spies, and plenty of good sentry positions. Plus, there is no perfect sentry position, even the places on point B have the windows that are practically made for said purpose. The custom objects are nice, and the UFO itself is nice and smooth looking.

Cons: There are a few bugs located in this map. One of the main ones is that BLU's spawn walls can be shot over, and on their Spawn roof they can shoot at CP A, sometimes destroying a sentry placement before the round has started. The 2nd is that CP C is buggy. Either the area considered a capture zone is off slightly, or sometimes defense just plain don't work. After about 80% completion, the only way to stop a capture, is to kill the offender not just defend.

Improvements: Point C is very hard to capture at times. This is not only because sentries have a fairly easy time defending, but also because of the long capture time, combined with only 2 entrances, and a very pyro/heavy friendly environment within. Perhaps open up the wall between the Capture Point and the ramp up to the saucer? The ramp is very rarely used as opposed to the crack.

Notes: The Capture time on A is PERFECT, and has provided many a heroic rescue, and is balanced to a tee.

How do you get custom props in tf2?

There's always money in the ba

I really enjoy playing on this map, it gives some epic battles which involve lots of teamwork to push though and win. I find that the final cap point is dominated by the engineer with sometimes 4 or 5 SGs being all tightly grouped making it quite monotonous and challenging to push though (but at least it is possible!) The winding layout inside the buildings seems to confuse a lot of new players but I find they really give an advantage to the attackers as it is very hard for the defenders to block all entrances to the first two points. This usually means that if the defenders win it is on the last point and never either of the first two. I love the theme of this map and it looks excelent too the custom props work really well and look beautiful however the atmosphere doesn't quite feel right, i can't put my finger on what it is but it doesn't seem to saprkle, it feels quite grey. There is one area that I feel needs a lot of improvement to match you usual high standards, the tunnel at the back of the UFO, the entrance at the cap B side looks very jagged and feels like one of those 'my first try at displacements' displacamenets. Over all a great map that plays like a charm. I love it and look forwards to more from you. :D (tc_meridian has amazing potential!)

I still have no idea what these balance issues are. Care to provide more detail?

Sorry about the confusion, I am not a normal player, tester, or fpsbanana user, I just say what I know, experience, and observe, I've been running fps servers since doom1. I like your map, the saucer is great, but it's not enough to look past the balance issues, those issues being very small but notable. There's a certain instinctiveness that is missing, it's more a show piece of art than an actual playground that happens to look good. What is great is that your very close to achieving it, just not yet in this state, which is great because you haven't wasted your time, your just not finished.

I'm not sure what you mean by balance. That was a factor I paid very close attention to, and every real world round I played on showed very little imbalance. If one team had a hard time taking a point, they were steamrolled the next round, indicating the teams were imbalanced, not the map. In fact I let the map sit in beta weeks after I normally would have trying to ferret out any hidden imbalances, and I saw none, and nobody on any of the servers it ran on suggested there were imbalances.

I'm not normally this defensive about feedback such as this, particularly since you still gave the map a good rating, but I have to say that what you're suggesting is more or less the opposite of what I found from the extensive playtesting this map went through. I'm more than a little baffled.

Pros: IT HAS A SAUCER!!!! WOOT! Cons: not balanced enough for real game play, gets boring quick Improvements: polish up reflections and lightmaps Notes: love the idea and concept, needs more real world play testing, i can't get anyone to play this map more than a few minutes because they get bored