Map Review of karpaselamaa

by GrandmasterJ | January 22, 2022 | 2650 characters

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I really like rats maps. I love being small in a big world and running in and out of everyday items. I feel like the approach the author took to making a rats map is to make things as inconvenient and frustrating as possible.

Players spawn on top of a potted plant thing. There are branches below that look like they can be platformed, this is a trap, players bounce off and fall to their deaths. There is a thin slice of elevator floating right next to spawn, players who don't want to die should jump on top and ride the slow elevator all the way down where it will sink into the ground (or rather into the potted plant itself). There is also a pink brush line from the top of the plant to a very large (even for a rats map) glass of water. This line is illusionary and serves no purpose other than luring players who think its a zip line to their deaths.

The base of the potted plant is a building with some very misaligned textures. Inside is a steep ramp that can somehow be climbed by my teammate but not by me. There is another tall thin pink brush that is not a ladder nor does anything that I can tell. There is a top story full of explosive weapons. With the terrible ramp I can't get up I can only see these weapons as a taunt.

There is a large computer with three buttons at the bottom left of the monitor. Pressing these buttons results in them sliding upwards. Something triggers another computer monitor to slide up out of the ground, this will block off the tunnels behind the buttons. I don't know what triggers it but it came up when we tried entering the computer and then it locked up, so we were desperately pressing the button doors trying to move the monitor out of the way. Eventually it moved and we were able to walk inside. The computer monitor has another monitor inside labelled C64. That's it for the inside.

The glass of water has a spot that can be destroyed and then players can swim in it. There is also a remote with no functional buttons that I can tell, but you can expose the batteries. There is a tau cannon on top of the remote. That is it, this map has nothing else.

Pros:

  • I really like rats maps

Cons:

  • spawn is intentionally set up bad
  • the room with weapons is intentionally difficult and frustrating to access
  • the entrance to the computer conflicts with an extra monitor that rises from the bottom of the map
Score: 3 / 10
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