Sunset Beach is one of the best XMP maps ever... But the cave and the beach are two very separate battlegrounds. It's almost like two maps in one.
So I split it.
First up is the beach part. No more caves. I put a teleporter at the back of the base that goes to the laser cannon building, utilizing it as the secondary route instead of the cave.
To prevent the beach (where all gens are) from being completely locked down by one team, I replaced the deploy point with a 3rd generator. It is a hard decision to remove a deploy point, but the new teleporters compensate that by giving very quick access from base back dp.
Finally I put an ammo station beside the back dp (there used to be one in the basement). Techs can spam turrets and gas around base all they want. And snipers in the cannon building can teleport back for a quick reload.
*edit* this feature was (accidentally) excluded in the current release.
The idea originally was to make the excellent stock maps more playable for small number of players we now get, and I hope I have succeeded this time. What I didn't expect was the change I made may have given new strategies to the beach.
It's not just Sunset Beach without caves - it's Sunset Beach Frontline!
http://members.shaw.ca/takwu/XMP/XMP-SunsetBeachFrontline.zip
So I split it.
First up is the beach part. No more caves. I put a teleporter at the back of the base that goes to the laser cannon building, utilizing it as the secondary route instead of the cave.
To prevent the beach (where all gens are) from being completely locked down by one team, I replaced the deploy point with a 3rd generator. It is a hard decision to remove a deploy point, but the new teleporters compensate that by giving very quick access from base back dp.
*edit* this feature was (accidentally) excluded in the current release.
The idea originally was to make the excellent stock maps more playable for small number of players we now get, and I hope I have succeeded this time. What I didn't expect was the change I made may have given new strategies to the beach.
It's not just Sunset Beach without caves - it's Sunset Beach Frontline!
http://members.shaw.ca/takwu/XMP/XMP-SunsetBeachFrontline.zip
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