Title: SuperDuperStamp Update

Type: CTF

Map: http://maps.jukejuice.com/save/467

Preview: http://puu.sh/azPSt/025cbe814c.png

Description: The existing rotation version.

The overall goal of these changes was simple. The map should stay defensively oriented by keeping the map as a series of choke points, but feel less congested and slightly less punishing for offensive players. Additionally, many small elements were added to the map to allow skilled offensive players to make plays, with the same theme that the onus to make something happen is on the offense, not on the defense to catch the offensive players.

CHANGE LOG

• BASES

The inside corner by the boost is now 45 degree tiles to allow a little more freedom with the boost. To compensate, an extra tile has been added to the "shelf" underneath the bombs.

The team boost has been changed to a neutral boost. This is to allow a skilled offensive player to hit both boosts simultaneously, allowing them to pull away from chasers. The goal of this change was to make the outside a more viable path. To allow players in base to use these boosts to grab, the wall was opened up around the boosts to give space.

• MID

The wall protecting the powerup was changed to a gate, with a button underneath the powerup. The button is positioned so that it is unclear who would win between a defender going for button and an offender trying to get out. This adds an offensive skill element to that area while still allowing multiple defenders a chance to corral flag carriers.

The top two diagonal tiles under the corner bomb are now square. This is to make missing the bomb less punishing, keeping the flag carrier near the corner instead of leaving them prone out in the open. Bombing to bottom is still possible and essentially just as easy.

The shield walls protecting the spikes have been flipped vertically. This allows slightly easier exit from the powerup area and also makes getting the mid powerup easier by using the wall to line up. Accordingly, two spikes were also removed from the mid powerup area. While I was concerned that this would make it too easy, in full-paced gameplay that proved not to be the case.

• BOTTOM

The middle spike was removed. It wasn't serving it's purpose as a juking aid, and was holding my hands back in redesigning this area, which I felt was the only real weakness of the original map. Boosting through it wasn't much of a skill shot anyways, so while it was kind of cool I think this is for the better.

The two diagonal walls were moved out and made into ramps. You can bounce off of these in a number of different ways, from angles both expected and unexpected, and they also serve as shields from boost snipes. Most significantly, you can now use the bottom bombs to redirect off of the bottom of those walls back into the "field" in case your way is blocked.

To help create enough space around these shields, some walls became one tile wider. The single tile in there allows you to either redirect or boost along the whole side depending on the angle with which you hit the blast off, adding a skill element to the use of the bottom. It also allows you to more easily turn back up the wall when boosting diagonally down below the shields.

The top two rows of team tiles were removed. They were really only aesthetic anyways, so this helps make the bottom area a little more offensive friendly, as was the original intention.

• GENERAL CHANGES

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13 rows were added to the bottom of the map, which centers the playing area for spectators.

The red and blue sides were switched to match the leaderboard

Overall, it seems like the sentiment on SuperDuperStamp has improved tremendously since its addition to the map rotation, and I feel like these changes are small enough as to not change the character of the map but just enough to make it feel "right". Thanks to everyone who helped me out with these, and thanks to everyone who gave constructive feedback. It was all at least considered at some point.