- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Although Custom Edition had great potential, many of the custom maps out there have an amateurish quality, and for every good, balanced map which offered hours of great multiplayer fun such as Needleosity, there were a dozen of half-baked, bug-infested maps with unbalanced mods that had plasma pistols shooting out fuel rods and assault rifles that fired tank shells.
And even maps like Coldsnap, which I found interesting to play in, are too big for just sixteen players. Not to mention the incredible frustration that happened when -blam!-s changed from their team to yours, dropped a bomb at your team's spawnpoints, and then switched back to the other team so the ensuing explosion that took out you and all your teammates counted as kills, not betrayals, for the bastard who kept bombing your spawns. That is one major flaw in this map, and although I'm not saying that all maps should be perfect, but such unbalanced gameplay sucks.
I just wish that people would invest more time into their maps/mods, so we could have more great maps like Mothergoat's Decoy.