Making bad maps slightly better since 2014.

Scheduled for release August 29, 2015.

I don't know about you guys, but I have a serious love/hate relationship with the most popular Dark RP map out there, RP_Downtown_V4C_V2.
Not entirely unlike how I love/hate Trade Plaza on TF2.

Anyhow, the map is generally great fun to play on, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is it horridly built. Parts of the map have frame drops of 30fps or more, several sky box leaks, sloppy transitions of the sky box with the geometry, and that one ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ staircase that doesn't touch the ground (and doesn't appear to have been fixed on ANY third-party edit of the map, either).

And another thing that personally irritates me is how reclusive some mappers are with their .vmf file. I can understand being sparing with handing it out, but flat-out keeping it to yourself and yourself alone to me just sounds selfish.

So, what's my solution? Put the pen to the grid paper and rebuild the damned thing from the ground up, then release the .vmf for everyone to use with as minimal of restrictions as possible.

What you get is RP_Downtown_OpenVMF.
It promises to streamline the layout, improve performance, eliminate the dependency on CS:S, add features expected of newer Dark RP maps, and welcome people to take their own spin on it if they so wish.

It's one ambitious project, and one I plan on following through on.

For more information as it becomes available, check back to the steam group every week or two.

Also, this is the first announcement made in ~9 months.