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In my quest for competitive maps, I wondered if some of you might be willing to list your personal favorites here. It can be either stock or custom, Quake 3 or 4. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Thanks!

Check out the CPMA map packs. It's just over 100mb worth of maps... some of them are kinda iffy, but the majority of them are pretty well done.

Quake 3: hub3 (cpm22), cpm1a, cpm15, cpm3a, netourney1? (Never Enough), nodm9a (pro-dm13)

They aren't all 1-on-1, and the list is kind of out of date since I haven't updated in a while, but here's my list of Kickass Maps. Warning: I'm picky and weird, and the list is subjective and illogical and everyone will probably find something on there to gripe about.

I've been told that Pretend Girlfriend is pretty damn solid for tourney. I can't take complete credit for that, since the map is a rebuild of the great Q2 tourney map Pretend Best Friend by Than, which I can't seem to find a link to at the moment.

Edit: the linkage on a lot of those is dead, but you can probably find them via Google or LvL...

Q4:
Monsoon l4dm2_1 (getting tired of it, but it IS a great map), Placebo Effect wvwq4dm1 (it's everywhere, but still)
Lost Fleet TMP (Often underrated, if you ask me.)

Oh, and "Grinder" (gdlk4tourney1v2). Of course. :icon25:

Notice I didn't pick any remakes? There are some fun ones, but I think the best tourney maps for Q4 reflect the fact that it's a new game; crouch sliding changes the gameplay a lot.

I don't think trying to find which maps are considered good/fun is the way to go... Trying to find WHY they are is (the basics).

Maybe these links have been pasted all over this forum but there's always room for a few more:

Mapping guide (this is for CPM, but most of it goes for VQ3/Q4 as well - VERY well structured and overall guide) (note: the guide is continued on another page)
Lunaran's design theory (a link to this guide is also mentioned in the Challenge Pro mapping guide, but I name it anyway because it's so useful)

If these basics are applied with some thought behind it, there is no restriction and you don't end up with a map that "looks like this other map".

GODLIKE wrote: Lost Fleet TMP (Often underrated, if you ask me.)

I thought I was the only one who liked Fleet One of my favs, but it gets a lot of smack talked about it.

For q4:
Phrantic, Placebo, Ruiner are all good.

q3:
aerowalk, blood run, pro-tourney6 (best map ever made), cpm1a, etc. Lots of other good ones, maybe I will make a list of underappreciated tourney maps for this thread.

Item placement, mostly.. added a grenade launcher, too. And all the TMP maps have more "performance" lighting than the stock maps, but it still looks not too bad..

Like GODLIKE said, the TMP version of Lost Fleet has an item placement that doesn't suck and performance that sucks less.

That being said, Lost Fleet is indeed fun for most players; the problem was when 'competitive' players with 50-70% rail would play it, things tended to be very 1-dimensional.

The BEST 1v1 Quake map is DM6 (The Dark Zone) for Quake1

Bit of a long post this one, let me start by saying my map tastes are somewhat different to others, but the top 6 greatest 1v1 third party maps ever in reverse order in my eyes are:-

6) Meatball Grinder (v1.1) - IK3DM2 - Fingers
5) Farewell - t3t4beta6 - Tymo
4) Story to Tell - necro6 - NecrosiS
3) Until The End Of Time (Tourney) - alkdm08b - Kona
2) Dismemberment - hub3dm1 - the Hubster
1) Evolution - pukka3tourney2 - thefury

That said the following DM maps are permantly in my baseq3 folder:-

1) Andeh's Arena - aatourney1 - Andeh
2) Until The End Of Time - alkdm08 - Kona
3) Golconda - bal3dm2 - Bal
4) Wicked - cpm1a - FxR|jude And Decker
5) Up Close And Personal - d3xf1 - DruZli (later became a cpm map)
6) Use Of Weapons - deckt1 - Decker (later became a cpm map)
7) Patibuh's Lair - ffdm2 - blemish (later became a cpm map)
8) Earth Core Program - fjo3tourney1 - Fjoggs
9) Aerowalk - hubaeroq3 - the Hubster
10) Dismemberment - hub3dm1 - the Hubster
11) Meatball Grinder (v1.1) - IK3DM2 - Fingers
12) The Forlorn Hope - jof3dm2.pk3 - JustOneFiX
13) Pull Your Socks Up - lun3dm4 - Lunaran
14) Iron Oxide - MKOXIDE - Killer
15) Prophecy - mrcq3t4 - Mr.CleaN
16) Natestah's Beotch - natedm2 - Nathan Silvers
17) Story to tell - necro6 - NecrosiS
18) apologie - polo3dm4 - polo (I think this one also later became a cpm map)
19) Hot Place - pukka3dm1 - thefury
20) Evolution - pukka3tourney2 - thefury
21) Lost Forever - q3tbdm4 - KODIAK
22) Ultravolience - q3ultrav - ????
23) Si'Metrik - simetrik - Sock
24) Cajun Hell - Storm3tourney5 - StormShadow
25) Tig's Den - tig_den - Tigger-oN
26) Stabilized Warfare: Resurrection - tymo3dm5 - Tymo
27) Farewell - t3t4beta6 - Tymo
28) Cosmik Debris - unitooldm3 - unitool
29) BeatBox - ZTN3DM2 - ztn
30) Blood Run Tourney - ztn3tourney1 - ztn

And the following DM maps deserve an honourable mention.

1) Grindmill - alkdm06 - kona
2) Ash Rain - Bal3dm1 - Bal
3) Scrap Metal ][ - bal3dm4 - Bal
4) Inextremis - charon3dm10 - charon
5) Liquid Carbon - charon3dm11v2 - charon
6) Realm of Steel Rats - cpm4 - Khaile
7) Clowning Around - cpm8 - FxR|jude
8) cpm19 - cpm19 - the Hubster
9) Mind Control - Devdm2 - DeV
10) Infernal Genesis - Devdm3 - DeV
11) fff - fff - stecki
12) Black Shining Leather - geit3dm6 - Geit
13) Until The Next Life - gm3tourney1 - GlassMan
14) Future Brownie - IK3DM1 - Fingers
15) Stranglehold - jaxtourney1 - Jax_Gator
16) Discontent - kamq3dm2 - Kamarov
17) Nothing At All - lae3dm1 - Laerth
18) A Load of Useless Bloody Loonies - lun3dm3 - Lunaran
19) Coriolis Storm - lun3dm1 - Lunaran
20) Itchy Trigger Finger - mkfingers - Killer
21) Bitter Embrace - mrcq3t6 - Mr.CleaN
22) One Night Stand - onenightdm - smeghead
23) Hot And Moist - pjw3tourney1 - pjw
24) Gothic Rage - qxtourney1 - Quaker-X
25) Vertigo - saiko_tourney1 - Sai-KO
26) Falling Higher - senndm2 - Senn
27) Sinister Purpose - sin2 - Wiebo de Wit
28) Out on a Limb - tig_out - Tigger-oN

Most if not all are available over at lvlworld.com.. I encourage you all to have a look at these.

Regards

Fora.

Sorry if it took me some time to reply. My computer broke down and I had to buy and build a new one. Luckily I'm up and running again.

I thank you all for your replies. I now have a comprehensive list of quality maps to show me how it's done. I'm much obliged for this list.

Thanks again.

Spookmineer: I'm reading those guides as we speak. Although they're really usefull it helps to see the real thing if you know what I mean?