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Barney Attack - Dunkelschwamm

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       These Barneys do not attack, even if they did they can not hurt players. This is an old map back when Sven Co-op worked differently and Barneys could hurt the player, so the main gimmick of this map can no longer be realized. SCMapDB page Author: Keen Date of final release: 2000 Maps in package: 1 Map review of Barney Attack (originally posted on SCMapDB) by GrandmasterJ | July 28, 2022 | 1785 characters by dunkelschwamm | July 28, 2022 | 1542 characters      Barney Attack is a map with a bunch of Barneys in it, and as one can only expect, they sure do attack. The ground is a grate, around you are crates, ammo among the freight, Barneys throwing hate. Retaliate, or don't. Barneys can't damage players anymore because Sven Co-op updates often carelessly break balancing in existing maps apparently. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯      The players have a bunch of weapons. Snarks don't do shit, but grenades'll clear the Barneys out. There's a platform, a drop into a bottomless pit. It&

888 - Dunkelschwamm

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       The author of this map has a reputation for making weird, bad, short maps. This particular map consists of one room. SCMapDB page Author: Robootto Date of final release: 2005 Maps in package: 1 Map review of 888 (originally posted on SCMapDB) by dunkelschwamm | December 5, 2021 | 1456 characters      Robooto's maps stand as an incredible collection of meandering doodles of map ideas. I say that with no disrespect, as the natural flow of productive creativity is one of the things I cherish the most about the human experience. So with that, I hope there is no perceived hostility when I say that 888, like many of Robooto's maps, eludes every attempt at rationalizing its existence.      888 consists of two conjoined chambers with strange brushwork which evokes industrial lighting and perhaps a jungle gym? An underpass hallway contains headcrab spawners which lazily pepper the map with impressively healthy headcrabs. The map features weapons for aiding in attacking these head