After some playtests (never had a chance to have a real game before), the obvious problem that sava had became too obvious, and so I decided I would try doing solving it...

How? You might ask, well, removing the central corridor and the adjacent new room, leaving the layout in a form closer to my original thoughts, which was creating a forced chokepoint in the center, too bad the central room was huge and it didn't work as well as I intended... Guess this should fix it, notice how this is a "different" map... I still haven't released sava 1.1, which is probably a map for very populated servers...



Edit: Released! Get it from here.

Comments?

Nice layout some in game screens?

Screens and download of co_sava (v1) are here

Since it's just a reduced version there's no need for new pics...

btw, I don't know when I'll release the new sava (the big one...) since I want to preserve the filename and I want to try to get it as official map first...

I actually really like minisava's layout. Release!

Looks good to me, a tighter map for a tighter game. Get it released!

Oh so you killed sava now as well
Jokes aside, the layout looks sound and will probably play fairly well, good job

I can see a co_minisave and an ns_sava

*chuckles* I said that badly didn't I

What I mean is

I can see MiniSava becoming a CO map

and

I can see Sava becoming an NS map!

I played co_save plenty times, and I think the changes in minisava are nice. Release it

I'll release co_minisava in a few days.

Oh, and I have plans for a full ns_sava, too, in fact, I said that in the readme file.

First time I do something like this but...

*bump*

I think, GO FOR IT

The idea of ns_sava tickles my fancy immensely. Make it so.

I've given the link to two persons to test it a bit and all that, if they don't find anything wrong with it, I'll release it in a few minutes

Edit: Download it!

There he goes again, on his own!

mirrored http://www.brywright.co.uk/downloads/files...inisava_rc1.zip

Is this actually gonna be played on servers ? ( more than 1 )
if u made funmap with 30 brushes .. THAT would work =] ask ollj

don't get me wrong im no fan of fun maps . they're not even fun.. It's just their name their only fun to delete . mkay ..

Meh wants more crops from walls poppin' out and nice brushworked hallways

My question is though
Will co_minisava feature sharks with lazer beams on their heads?

first of all very nice...

suggestions:
* i managed to get completely stuck as a skulk running behind the hive so i think that needs to be brought out by a few units from the wall

* i didnt like the water effect uve used in various places, looks more like the lighting effect ud see on a wall if light was being shone out of some water

* didnt like how the comm chair was placed, its very close to the wall and the kerb the other side, maybe have some sorta round alcove, or put the comm chair where the armoury is and put the armoury on the walkway bit which goes thru the room

Thanks for the comments Meat_Popsicle...

I'll try to fix the problems with the hive and probably switching the CC and the armory...

As for the water... I think it's fine as it is, I think it looks better than the normal water textures, guess it's a matter of opinion

If I get more feedback on the map I'll release another version

Nice Mendasp! I like the layout. Looks fun, can't wait to play it.

Nice Mendasp.

wanna get a woot?

Yeah..check this now!

Go away Nexus.

From all the topics in this forum you had to choose mine to post something completely unrelated to the thread for no apparent reason at all. I hope you die in all kinds of horrible ways.

I just downloaded this and, well very nice indeed.

What's a sou? Lol.

He has a point though. Mendasp is totally Braveheart.

Freeeeeeeeedom!

But yeah, I think I like this map more than the original sava. But that's just me

This looks great Mendasp. As one of the people who got to play the "big" version I really have to say this will probably fix a lot of the problems we had in the Playtests. I would still recommend potentially making a bit more room around the hive (probably just increase the size of the alcove behind the hive and move the walkway forward a touch) as it is still rather difficult to navigate around.

I was wondering if you would consider adding Water Containment back in, it was one of my favorite areas of the map and placing it back in would create a route which does not have to pass through the North & South Central Access area (to avoid potential bottlenecks). If you would rather just save Water Containment for the ns_ version of the map that would be cool, just something to think about (cue my poorly rendered MSPaint version of how I'd add Water Containment back in).

Looks like a nice idea Jazz, I'll give it a try

same here it just needs another route to get past the central area like on all the other official combat maps

Done! I still have to see it in action

Gimme Sava, make it real, or else forget about it!