Favorite Map?

MoleculorMoleculor Namer-of-Bob Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 9Members
<b><span style='color:blue'>Original Text of the initial thread from Never</span></b>

I've had a chance to play on all 7 of the "official" NS maps, and I say that I love them all. But, I've always wondered what people thought of as their absolute favorite! So, here they are:


A) Bast (the one w/ Atmospheric Control)

B) Hera (the one w/ the Holoroom)

C) Eclipse (the one w/ Eclipse Command)

D) Caged (the one w/ that technological-looking Hive that has all those crevaces on the sides for annoying Skulks to hide out all game lol)

E) Nothing (the one w/ practically every floor being a metal grating , and the giant elevator with the big beam running down the middle)

F) Tanith (the one w/ that L-shaped hallway where you can see outside)

G) Nancy (the one w/ the Mess Hall)




My vote goes to Hera, because the ammount of tactical warfare involved in that map, with all its pivotal points, is just amazing.


What does the community have to say? What's your favorite map, and why?
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  • relsanrelsan Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3720Members, Constellation
    I like BAST because its the scariest. This is the only map that gives me the willies when I'm walking around in it. The ambience is great and I love all the dripping water. Also it's a great clan map and really rewards people for learning all the crawlspaces and entryways.
  • StormehStormeh Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3541Members
    I think all the maps are very fun to play, but the one that i think is the best is ns_eclipse. Its got a good layout and its got a nice atmosphere.
  • InexorableInexorable Join Date: 2002-09-28 Member: 1360Members
    Not sure what my <i>favorite</i> map would be. I think it's a lot easier to simply point out what stands out for me on each map.

    A) Bast: Engine Hive's proximity to the Marine start can cause problems with siege, but it's not enough to actually hinder the aliens. It's a twisty little maze, and even though I know the map I still sometimes get halfway down a hallway before realizing this won't take me where I want to go.

    B) Hera: Some very nice visuals. Environmental touches like the glass hall make it nice just to <i>look</i> at the level, nevermind play in it. Some very complex Hive rooms, making it very hard to lock off from intrusion as either race.

    C) Eclipse: It's vent system is sub-par. This makes it very hard to get anywhere as a Skulk without tempting fate. Fortunately, it's also one of the few maps to utilize areas of deep shadow. A small, simple map good for getting players into NS.

    D) Caged: If I had to pick a least favorite, this would be it. But only because half the servers in my area are playing it. The other maps are good too, and I want to play them. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> It's fun to start in Sewer Hive and totally decimate the marines before they finish building their turret factory. There are also plenty of hidey holes, high ceilings and vents for the aliens to play in.

    E) Nothing: This one just seems massive. A simpler design than most maps, but enough corners, vents and elevators to keep it interesting.

    F) Tanith: Possible overuse of weld points. Gotta leave <i>something</i> for those poor Skulks to crawl through. Nice high ceilings make Skulk ambushes possible, as oppose to the mainly tube-like construction of Eclipse.

    G) Nancy: <b>The</b> most defensible marine start in the game. Doesn't leave as much room for construction, but nothing beats that ramp of death for keeping the aliens out. An absolutely gorgeous vent system, allowing you to pretty much get anywhere from anywhere. If you could combine Nancy's gameplay with Hera's visual flair, you might just get the perfect map.
  • Y3tiY3ti Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7853Members
    The thing most people don't realize about Hera is that you can place a siege turret in the corner of your base and keep the Hera enterance and the dual nozzles clear, then you caan place siege turrets in processing and attack 2 hives from 1 location........


    I chose Nancy, just becuase it's the only map that(I feel) isn't stacked for one team, I've seen the map go both ways, **obscenity** I've seen bugs come back from one hive on that map... and I love it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->, except those **obscenity** fades >D
  • WindelkronWindelkron Join Date: 2002-04-11 Member: 419Members
    <b>Nothing. </b>Ohhhh my god, nothing.

    My NS expectations were totally fulfilled when I played nothing as a marine yesterday. I was home alone so I could yell into my mic as much as I wanted... let me tell you, I did. I turned out all the lights... and as I walked down the Ominous Whatever and the industrial ambience (I put in my own music) played... my mouth just hung open. The shadows and everything were mind-boggling. It was so incredible blasting down the hallway at a skulk that somehow got right next to me... !!!!!

    Then, later in the game, we got 6000 resources. We then pwned the aliens big-time. (It was a 1.01 server... we DID have most of the resource nodes, but wtf? the comm even said that that was the most resources he had even seen, even with the resource exploit of v1)
  • CatgirlCatgirl Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 5741Members
    I like Eclipse, because it's a good map for learning on. Nice simple layout, call out "Horseshoe" and EVERYBODY knows what you're talking about.

    Plus it's harder to get lost and you can't take 27 miles of vents or 2 hallways to get to the same place.

    I admit it...I get lost pretty easy. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • RotA_PlagueRotA_Plague Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6768Members
    Eclipse by far, everymap that I have went through I have saw so many of the same textures in not so pretty of a layout and the gameplay is alright. When I play eclipse i always have a good time, the setup is perfect and even the marines who could easily just turret spam there 2 doors could be over run with not to big of a problem due to the location of the commander!
  • BillBill Join Date: 2002-08-08 Member: 1108Members
    It's a tie between Hera, Eclipse and Nothing. But Eclipse got my vote.

    If I had to say in order....

    Eclipse
    Hera
    Nothing
    Caged
    Nancy
    Tanith
    and....Bast..

    I know a lot of people love Bast, and so do I, it's a beautiful map with amazing gameplay, but the big open hive is a good example of why outside maps just wouldn't work.
  • MeltedSnowmanMeltedSnowman Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7779Members
    edited November 2002
    I think I keep getting Eclipse and Nothing confused.

    I like them both, though

    ... I think.

    EDIT :: Ah, okay. I looked at the overhead maps to sort myself out. I should've voted for Eclipse. Eclipse is the best. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • TenakuTenaku Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 6969Members
    Eclipse is cool, but it has almost no ductwork, and _no_ strategic weldables.... i'd have to say my favorite at this point is bast, followed by nancy.
  • DeadlyFreezeDeadlyFreeze Join Date: 2002-11-04 Member: 6915Members
  • ShadowDrgnShadowDrgn Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2230Members
    Since everyone keeps voting for it, I'll just say I really don't like eclipse as a kharaa. You must all be marine players. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    There are no good hiding spots near the marine base. The few spots are painfully obvious or well-lit, and it's very difficult for the kharaa to get from one side of the map to the other without a good vent system. The marines have 2 doors that separate the 2 sides, nice and easy for them. The room where the marines start is ridiculously huge, easy to defend, and has so much room to drop all the buildings. Marine starting rooms need to be cramped, have no auto-open doors that alert the marines when you're coming, and at least one L-shaped hallway. Every other map meets that criteria.

    Actually I've never played on nancy. It doesn't seem that popular on any servers I get good pings to. Hera got my vote simply because of the whole ventilation/maintenance area. I love that place.
  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    One thing I will say in regards to Eclipse is that I attempted a lot of the things that are being mentioned here, but simply ended up destroying the map in the process... it was a fight to keep away from the dreaded allocblock:full every time I compiled towards the end. Do expect to see some notable marine spawn changes in V2. I'm really not happy with that area. At all.
  • pielemuispielemuis Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 72Members, NS1 Playtester
    nancy, nothing and tanith are my favorite maps. I voted nothing s:)
  • UmbrallaUmbralla Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 7991Members
    I'd have to put my vote to Eclipse, I play as Kharaa, and I find this map to be amazingly easy for me to build up 2 resource nodes defended by 2 offensive chambers and 1 defensive chamber, as well as a second hie otu in nearly the first 10-15 minutes.
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
  • WarfareWarfare Join Date: 2002-10-29 Member: 1697Members
    My vote goes to Nancy cause I love shipmaps. the otherones are bases as far as they look, except the one with the radar outside. That's a hovering base in some crater/mountain <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> (doesn't count as a ship).
  • philmcnealphilmcneal Join Date: 2002-10-24 Member: 1585Members
    hera is my dust2 kinda map
  • JA1numJA1num Join Date: 2002-11-06 Member: 7261Members
    com'on,u guys know u want Tanith,what's soo bad bout tanith?
  • BigwigBigwig Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1646Members
  • SamWSamW Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2515Members
    heh heh... i voted for tanith... but i voted for it (being stuipd) because i think it is the most unbalanced map ive palyed. i have had the quickes games in that map. We have won before the hlelp drop downs even finish with thier start help items. SKULKS RUSH... MARIENES DIE <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->

    I even went solo and took out all the people and spawn points by myself (exept for some people who ran away)
  • BigEyeGuyBigEyeGuy Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 3335Members
    I love them all cept Caged which i find to be really bad
  • SanchoSancho Join Date: 2002-03-30 Member: 365Members
    Hmmm...I've never thought of Eclipse as being a marine advantaged map. Its small, which works nicely with the fast skulks that keep the marines from expanding. Out of about 10 games I've played, I've only seen marines win twice.
  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    I can't make my mind up..... I like em all
  • Lord_ChambersLord_Chambers Join Date: 2002-11-03 Member: 6160Members
    It's tough to say which maps are best.

    I can say confidently though, that bast is extremely flawed, with siege turrets in the safety of Marine Spawn covering much of the map, and the far off Refinery that rarely sees action.

    I vote to rename ns_eclipse to de_dust. It's simple, easy, and everyone loves it.

    Nothing seems too spread out, but I haven't played it much.

    Hera and Caged have great welding opportunities.

    Finally, Nacey has a great vent system, but from my superficial analyisis, it's layout just lacks the great gameplay of other maps.

    In the end, I think Hera deserves my vote.
  • xfactorxfactor Join Date: 2002-09-30 Member: 1391Members
    My favourite maps are Eclipse, Bast and Nothing..... I voted for Eclipse....

    BTW... Siege turret rocks!! <!--emo&::siege::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/siege.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='siege.gif'><!--endemo-->
  • KungFuSquirrelKungFuSquirrel Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited November 2002
    <!--QuoteBegin--Lord Chambers+Nov 10 2002, 10:43 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Lord Chambers @ Nov 10 2002, 10:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I vote to rename ns_eclipse to de_dust.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    I don't care what came after that, this is the point where I kill you, burn my hard drive, buy the rights to my map, sue the NS team to have it removed, and jump out my 5th floor dorm window. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> As much as I respect dust for its respect, I never want to see Eclipse compared to it. Ever.

    /me twitches
  • TyphonTyphon Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1899Members
    Heh, i still cant tell which is which. the only map that i can identify by name is bast (thats the one with the rotating door, right? Or was that eclipse? lol)
  • ChromeAngelChromeAngel Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 14Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    It was a tough choice but I voted for NS_Nothing. Through all the months of testing NS_Nothing was consistantly the most balanced and best paced map.

    The only map i'm un-happy with is NS_Nancy, the only good thing about that map is the gameflow.
  • BlightBlight Join Date: 2002-11-10 Member: 8087Members
    Caged Is Quite Cool ^_^ <!--emo&::sentry::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/turret.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='turret.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--emo&::onos::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tiny.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tiny.gif'><!--endemo-->
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