I feel that if more people knew all the crazy trick jumps that you can do in Canal, people would like the flow, more.

Hell, I just taught AboveInfinity and a few other great players how to do them.

Canal and Havoc are my favorites.

I was using the pyramid thrust trick jump up to camo on Havoc last night. Its the fastest method to obtain it but be careful and wise when performing this as teams will eventually look out for it over time.

I made a writeup about it not too long ago. Lemme grab some snippits to help teach people how to do this.




Using a trench-like design, alongside trickjumps to get from mid to top in seconds, Canal proves to have some amazing gameplay from the community, already. It’s also completely unbreakable, as we actually heavily tested Canal before releasing.


The Pyramids can be used to Thrust Boost to the top of the map. To do this, you must have Maintain Sprint turned off. When at a full sprint, run towards the Pyramid. Roughly a foot and a half before the Pyramid, where your Thrusters’ apex would be nearest the top of the Pyramid, you’ll boost off and allow you to land or clamber to the pillars or even on each side of the trench.


Those who have mastered this trick can even access the BR in mere seconds, by landing all the way up at the BR Nest on the bridges.


A similar trick allows for a player to reach the Invisible power up well before anyone else, and even sometimes before the enemy team can even reach their BR to retaliate.


There are many steep slopes created to allow you to use the trickjumps all across the map, from escaping House or Trench, to reaching BR, Assault Rifle, Flag, and Invis faster than you ever could, before.

Canal looks really cool. I haven't gotten the chance to play it yet; the game keeps giving me Simulation and Apparition over and over again. Which is fine, because they're my favorite of the ones I've played so far, but I'd like to play some of the others lol.

chunk made those doors

As happy as I am there is a forge playlist, I wholeheartedly agree.

I spent a good hour or two in the playlist yesterday experiencing the maps and have come to the conclusion that a few of these maps are just wastelands with BR's and camo. While I am not the biggest fan of OG breakout, I still enjoy it, but most of these maps are too flat and open for me to have any fun. The BR is the deciding factor. Camo only makes things worse. I did however find that speed boost was a terrific powerup for breakout, and gladly accept the DMR as a pickup since its a 3SK still.

My most hopeful map for the playlist was the pit remix, however that was one of the worst playing. There is absolutely no reason to have a pistol out as the map is roughly a model scale version of the pit. The actual structure of the map is useless compared to the pit as the best strat is to simply climb the middle hump and spray everyone. "sword room" might as well be an exact remake because with all those corners and a shotgun, it is just as campy as the original.

You can justify it any way you see fit, but not making a formal announcement that breakout maps were needed completely goes against what being a cartographer stands for. Keeping the info to a select few, while telling people not to spread the word only makes things worse. I fear this has already been done twice now as there will most likely be a BTB community playlist or 4v4's or 2v2's. It doesn't matter. Not telling the community for whatever reason is the wrong approach. It is why the CC's are surrounded with such controversy. After all, what is the point of having a community playlist if only 10% or less of the community even hears about supplying maps for it? That isn't a community playlist, it is another batch of CC maps like the BTB maps we already got. We're not deciding as a comunity, we're getting force fed maps which defeats the whole purpose of the playlist. I understand certain people were approached to make certain maps for this, but that also is not the best way to go about this... I know Epicenter has nothing to do with the CC's and I found that to be the most enjoyable out of the whole playlist.

All I'm getting at, is that we need transparency. We need communication. We need maps from all the corners of the community. If you are a CC that practices all these, then good for you, but I find it harder and harder to witness the actions that have taken place over this game so far. It is frustrating for poor map choices to be glorified, let alone learn that nobody was informed about the need for maps in general. I hope a different approach is taken for the next playlist, but fear decisions have already been made.

The 3 maps I wouldn't mind staying in the rotation: Epicenter, Canal, Apparition, Maybe Highrise...

This isn't me whining by any means either, just a general concern as a dedicated community member having to hear feedback from a big chunk of the community expressing real concerns.

These look f'kn amazing guys! Really miss this community and making maps with you all. Great job everyone!

So I replied, but decided not to derail the thread as that is a whole different topic. For those interested:

http://www.forgehub.com/threads/lets-talk-about-the-community-cartographer-process.150230/

Really cool that they are doing this, even its not exactly "community maps", and its more like "specific groups of the community maps".

Some of these maps I like a lot, but some I don't.

I don't have an Xbox

I have been able to play a few of the maps, and I loved all of them - except for Apparition. I like the fact that the creators of this map tried to make the flag a little more pivotal on this map, but in my opinion it is too easy to get to the flag. Also, the distance between the flag and bases is so short that the round is either over in 20 seconds, or everyone just stays around the flag's platform and never take full advantage of the rest of the environment. On the other hand, I loved Simulation and Highrise. Those two maps were very well balanced, and much more fun to play on.

How do we go about bookmarking any of these maps? Do all the creators have them in their file shares?