Chill Ride - GrandmasterJ

 


    Ride off into the perpetual sunset with some chill tunes. There is no time limit, no objectives, no secrets, or any goals other than chilling out. 

SCMapDB page

Author: Gruntzz

Date of release: 2022

Maps in package: 1

Map review of Chill Ride

(originally posted on SCMapDB)

by GrandmasterJ | July 1, 2023 | 2062 characters

    This is indeed a very chill map. It's a big circular track with a ton of cars that players can drive around in a big loop. The skybox is a delightful outrun style sun and there is some chill synthwave in the background. The track and car color is all brown which is a confusing contrast to the bright sky.

    My teammate decided to splatter me so we drove head on and I disintegrated at the molecular level on contact. We did this a few more times with the same result before we eventually both died from the impact. I don't know how the impact on func_vehicle works so be careful of the lucky few with splatter powers.

    Also at one point my teammate jumped off the track and landed in the skybox and walked around. I followed him and we ended the map here, looking up through the track and admiring the skybox.

    It's a good map, great idea with a decent presentation. I wish the actual level itself and the cars were a bit more dolled up, or some colors other than flat brown at least. I also think the cars were a bit too close together, it was hard for me to drive one out of the middle of the huge lineup without getting stuck and having to back out like Austin Powers. But I did like the huge line of cars, enough for a lot of people to be on the server, I didn't and won't count but there are probably 32. Also there is a keycard for each car that will reset the cars position so they are never lost, which I've seen in another of this author's maps.

Pros:

  • Very chill vibe with the skybox and background music
  • cool keycard system that will reset lost cars
  • enough func_vehicles for everybody!
  • cars drive really well and the track is plenty big

Cons:

  • the track and cars are all brown
  • the cars are a bit too close in spawn and are hard to take out of the line up
  • players can just jump right out of the level and walk around outside

Score: 7.5 / 10

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

The Absolute State of this Blog

Image
   I'm a big fan of Sven Co-op, so much so that I was only half joking when I presented the terrible idea of playing and reviewing every map to my partner in crime, Dunkelschwamm. Much to my surprise she agreed and now here we are, 371 maps in to the 1558 maps currently on the Sven Co-op map database . It was done primarily to get people to stop leaving reviews in the comments and to actually put them in the review section. Let me just check the reviews on the map database. . . . yeah, I think it sort of worked. Then we got nervous that wikidot might die and take the site with it so I created this blog as a mirror.      Dunkel was unemployed at the time and my fiancé still had tons of patience for me so it went swimmingly, I think we averaged something like 15 reviews a week. I did the math but circumstances keep changing and so do the numbers, so that's a very rough estimate. We both dabbled in making maps for Sven long ago when the game was relevant and popula...
Read more

Swiss Cheese Halloween - Dunkelschwamm

Image
        Swiss Cheese Halloween is a conversion of an ancient Half-Life mod of the same name. It was made back in the whimsical time of 2002 by an author who goes by Swiss Cheese, hence the map name. SCMapDB page Original mod author: Swiss Cheese Conversion author: Garompa Date of original mod release: 2002 Date of final Sven map release: 2020 Maps in package: 12 Map review of Swiss Cheese Halloween (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | November 27, 2021 | 6988 characters      A classic Halloween mod that's great for nostalgia and festivity, but frequently trips over itself.      Some information: Swiss Cheese Halloween is an old Halloween-themed Half-Life singleplayer mod. It was one of the first Half-Life mods I ever played, years ago. I was excited to play through it with a buddy in Sven, so I got this port. This review is following our finishing of the mod together.      The mod as a whole offers many m...
Read more

Civil Defence - Dunkelschwamm

Image
       Kill a bunch of soldiers and aliens in some generic warehouses and offices somewhere in a red brick city. It's a pretty straightforward map that requires at least two people. SCMapDB page Authors: Daniel Plant Date of release: 2004 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Civil Defence (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | January 7, 2024 | 3588 characters      Civil Defence is a very simple sequence of gunfighting arenas in a warehouse district setting. Players fight their way out of a building by escaping along its fire escape, then through the district, before moving through a sewers area to the final battle. The first third of the map sees players fighting blackops grunts and assassins, before things take a sudden shift and see the players fighting an odd combination of vortigaunts, gonomes, and shock troopers (with a few itchyosaurs, and eventually a voltigore, thrown into the mix).      The battles in this are intense. W...
Read more