Cemetery - GrandmasterJ

 


    Here is another horde map, this one taking place in the eponymous cemetery with the stated goal of grinding experience for XP mod. The map certainly does feel like a grind.

SCMapDB page

Author: GForce

Date of release: 2010

Maps in package: 1

Map review of Cemetery

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by GrandmasterJ | July 1, 2023 | 2011 characters

    This map is meant to farm experience for XP mod if the map description is accurate. I guess for that it works well. The map is a big cemetery full of infinitely spawning zombies. We get shotguns and lots of ammo and we start with full armor so in the rare instance we do get hit we take almost no damage.

    The map looks pretty good, but it does have some chunky and blocky parts. It also uses a lot of models that looks pretty good, but totally give away that they are models in both lighting and look. At one point my teammate pointed out a shovel in a blocky chunk of dirt, it was a well done shovel but I could tell it was brushwork because it had a spot of jank.

    The zombies were pretty standard, they had 200 health but go down with one shotgun blast to the face so there is no real difficulty there.

    The only complaint I have is that none of the interesting things in the cemetery lead to anything really. I mean we do find a revolver in a mausoleum but there is a door that tells us who made the map and I kind of wished that would open. I noclipped all over the map and there were zero secrets. It's made for experience gathering, so maybe that doesn't matter.

    It felt like a very run of the mill standard horde map experience. No real difficulty to overcome and no real reward for exploring the level, except for maybe the revolver. The map is made to be a grind anyway so I guess if you like that then go for it, maybe turn the map time up since I felt it was kind of low for a grind map.

Pros:

  • it accomplishes the goal of being an experience farming map
  • the map doesn't look bad and there are things to see
  • players have max armor and that helps things
  • lots of ammo

Cons:

  • the map is definitely all grind and nothing else
  • I felt like the time limit was a bit low to be a grind map

Score: 6.5 / 10

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