3rd Place: Endgame by WizardExt

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Map Name: Endgame (wizq2dm4.bsp)

Mapper: WizardExt

Download link:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_5/wizq2dm4.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_5/wizq2dm4.txt

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Judges comments:

Paril: WizardExt, congratulations on a great map. The second I entered this map, I almost expected to be greeted by some Stroggos. The architecture of this map makes it look like a small floating rock that the Stroggos haven't finished building, which I think is very cool. The item placement is excellent for this map, very easily remembered. I didn't hear many sounds, but they were placed very neatly and in the right spots. Personally, I think this map would be a great addition to a single player mission pack, but not that good to be played on a heavy multiplayer server.

Subatomic: I was very impressed with this map. The structural layout is awesome. And definitely a great use of the stock textures. The weapons and ammo were in just enough amounts, good positions to be in as well. Only thing I didn't like was that you could fall off the map, but that's just a personal thing. I generally dislike that about any map. I'm willing to overlook it here though because this one is so friggin' cool.

AAAGGHHH!!: -liked the variety in terrain and environment!

Sabotuer: Beautiful map, such a nice job! Everything was done perfectly, well at least that how it looked at first. Sure I love the idea and the outlook but d**n what the hell is that super shotgun doing on top of those boxes? could have put a railgun, rocket launcher, megahealth or even a quad up there, but a stupid super shotgun, nobody is gonna waste time on that trick jump because 3 jumps away you can get some other weapon. The gameplay was fast and easy, almost to easy, it doesn't really matter where you place the weapons, no area is hard to get to, which I find kinda boring actually! Final words: A really really really beautiful map but just didn't fuel my interest!

[WizardExt]

How the map was planned on paper..


...and now it's finished.





Thanks for the great work everyone, and I mean everyone. Q2 Café people are the coolest.

[Sabotuer [Q2C]]

It's beautiful and actually I thought it would win, at least second place!
Somehow it just lacked some power

[Chris[1001]]

THIS MAP IS AWESOME!! You have my Jealousy! I've always wanted to do a map like that. You may have inspired me.

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Those screenshots look awesome WizardExt and I loved the way you planned it out on paper.
I wanted to thank you for joining us in our contest, we appreciate it!

[WizardExt]

Thanks mates.

[Paril]

I think we need some screenshots from a high quality texture pack point of view...



-Paril

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

That would be nice Paril, but AAAGGHHH!! was the only one who supplied me with screenshots when I asked for them. If you can provide me with pics from all 5 maps, I'll add them to the posts. Thanks.

[napalmdeath]

This guy has LOADS of high quality texture sets for Q2:
www-personal.umich.edu/~jimw/q2/index.htm

[Paril]

That's where I got them. Just get them in order for each part (the pack, redo and todo), and the updates at the bottom.

Only about 20% of the texs are missing

-Paril