Lake Farsoe 1.01

I like how ai police chases are more common!

Good map, i like the roads, a few places like the tops of mountains look kinda weird because the texture is like streching and stuff, but besides that really good map.

i honestly think this is the best map on the repo, great roads with plenty of variation. straights when you want them, curves when you don't. the city/desert/mountain layout is an amazing level of variability that even some of the official maps can't compete with. the assets fit well even if a good percentage are stock.

i think the only thing i would add would be delineators and guardrails at the tighter corners with big dropoffs, but that is kinda grasping at straws.

The claim of FPS-friendly is rather bold, as this is one of the worst running maps I've played recently. The excessively wide roads make driving feel unchallenging and therefore boring. On that note, the scenery is pretty to look at and I haven't found any problems except for the snow texture. I doubt the framerate can be improved too much with how much you're playing with lighting, but I'm certain you can iron out the other issues. It's a nice map to look at, unfortunately not as nice to play on at the moment.

I've now spent many hours in this map so I certainly owe you a review for your great work!! Sure, there's some improvements that can be made as others have said (nothing's perfect!) but on the wide range of map mods, this is certainly one of the higher quality maps! Kudos to you and looking forward to seeing more of your work and updates! :)

Very good map!
Some things I would consider adding
-parking lot for PD
-a smaller fire station maybe near the airport
-a trailer park of sorts in the desert area

My absolute favorite map now. Super beautiful and no lag. Tons of places to just drive chill. I love the random ramps too!

Right, so here are my thoughts on this map.
Pros:
- very large, great for driving around
- the lake is nice
- night mode is quite pretty
- better framerate than expected
- interesting integration of a desert
- good feel in general

Cons that made me deduct 1 star:
- as Lucas and Zeit said, the road layouts are frankly weird in some places
- the lanes are a bit wide, compared to the ones from vanilla maps
- mountains can be taller
- snow texture on the mountaintops is rather grainy
- the textures on some assets like the gas station are a bit bland

Overall, this is by no means a bad map (at least not in my books) but I feel like it can definitely be refined and improved.

Cheers Spencer!

Fantastic map! The lighting and colors are beautiful, but it could definitely be improved with some more intricate details throughout (I know this isn't easy on such a large map). I think an addition of something similar to the Rubicon Trail on the west side of the lake would be awesome as well, to bring some other aspects from the Lake Tahoe inspiration.

I created a account to review this map. I downloaded it this morning and enjoyed it instantly. The three seperate regions: desert, mountain, and city lake are fantastic. The wide road around the lake is the best; bravo! This map will be in my regular rotation for some time to come. Time trials and racing would be very welcome. I hope you update this map to unlock it's full potential.

Ngl a good mod, has room for improvement, can make the runway longer like 3 to even 4 kilometers on one single square side of the edge of the map.

Can put the barriers between the two ways of traffic of the big highway as well.

I really like this map, one thing it would benefit from are some good time trials.

My suggestion would be to add a city circuit, asphalt hillclimb, dirt rally, and offroad trail.

Beautiful map. I would not share the harshness of some critics and I applaud your willingness to improve further on it.

from the few minutes I've been on this map I love it, but I did find a slight issue with the AI, a couple of cars decided to spawn inside each other, one of them is in oncoming lanes. if needed I can send a screenshot somewhere.

buen mapa solo que tengo un problemas con las texturas de los arboles y edificios tienen que mejorarlo en ese aspecto

In surface this is a great map, but I unfortunately have to agree with a lot of what Zeit said but mostly down to the fact the custom assets have very little effort put into them as far as texture work goes. The fact that the roads carve right through several hundred meters in some places also makes me believe that you did not think about bringing a sense of logic to your road network.
I also have to be harsher because you've been in this community for so long and have done better stuff in the past, but at this point it feels like you're going down the route of "if it's good enough then that's all I need" and I find it extremely depressing considering your skill level; you've accustomed us to better standards than this :/

I believe this map has potential that you have not been able to bring out, it's a great project, but it's only decent at a glance. A good practice you could try is to look at it objectively and think about what you could improve, I'm sure you'll find lots of stuff.

Love your work but this one simply ain't it.

Great map! Definitely reminds me of The Rocky's and western US a tiny bit, just with a fictional city. The only thing I could suggest is to make the airport hangers farther from the runway, but not a big deal if it's left there. Thanks for the map!

This map is very poorly made.
90% of the assets are reused vanilla assets, and the custom created ones are lackluster at best. The ice cream shop area uses the same concrete material for everything, just with different vertex color. The LODs of the skyscrapers don't match the textures of the higher detail model and also don't seem to change the actual geometry. The custom gas station opposite of the city has a very basic, low quality model and a bunch of UV errors while also using the same concrete material for everything.
The road layout is so utterly nonsensical and ridiculous: roads should follow the shape of the terrain and don't just slice right through. One can very clearly see where you just went into flatten, drew a line and smoothed it afterwards. Merely using tunnels and getting rid of duplicate parallel roads would massively improve the current situation. There also is no detail on cliffs at all, usually the game has rock meshes sticking out.
Your "PBR Textures" apparently consist of clicking on Materials V1.5 and only using the base color and normal map of the original material, even linking to the map of origin. To not do this is basic mapping knowledge. Previously transparent materials appear fully filled in due to a lack of opacity map.
If I were the one who commissioned this map I'd feel scammed out of my money.

false information!!!!! i am running map on 20 fps :angery: Jokes aside, it's an amazing map for everything. Whether it is screenshots or drifting down the twisty mountain roads with a 772hp mk1 Pessima. Awesome Job!

One of the best (when not even the best) map i drove one so far!