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Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: zybork on March 07, 2011, 10:09:24 pm

Title: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: zybork on March 07, 2011, 10:09:24 pm: Sometimes, while I am in a match, I realize how much the smell of the map has to do with how much I like it.

For instance, Karith station is quite cool, the air is fresh, especially outside, while in Nexus it is a bit warmer, and in some areas, you can really smell the oil of the door-mechanisms. Uncreation I am glad they took out of the standard maps, because those damn sparks made the air always smell like Christmas-sparklers, which added to the fact it was a useless map overall, I am glad they use other flares in Nano, Nano is okay in that respect.

The air in Tremor – a map I really like otherwise – is stale, a li'l dump in my opinion underground, a fact I only notice when I play alien tough, because the bugs have better senses. Also, the air in Transit is stale, I am also glad it is no longer in standard rotation. A big map, huge rooms, but no wind at all.

For some reason, the air in Arachnid has an organic smell to it, I really wonder what flows through all those pipes and if they might leak a bit here and there, but still, ATCS smells best, it smells like Sand, metal plating, and in my opinion a bit like gunpoweder residue – a smell that reminds me to good old Quake2, and no matter how overplayed this map is, I still like it for that factor of nostalgia.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: Mustard on March 07, 2011, 10:54:26 pm: What.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: SirDude on March 07, 2011, 11:28:40 pm: Quote from: zybork on March 07, 2011, 10:09:24 pm
Uncreation I am glad they took out of the standard maps, because those damn sparks made the air always smell like Christmas-sparklers, which added to the fact it was a useless map overall, I am glad they use other flares in Nano, Nano is okay in that respect.

HAY! i love uncreation...
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: zybork on March 08, 2011, 01:07:25 am: Quote from: Mustard on March 07, 2011, 10:54:26 pm
What.

How about “Use your imagination”?
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: Anonymoose on March 08, 2011, 02:35:43 am: Sometimes when i am really stoned, i smell the maps too.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: Qrntz on March 08, 2011, 05:19:37 pm: For some reason when I join a match, all maps already smell like rotten granger corpses, dried blood and broken lifes of lonely terran marines. :'(
(that's why I'm usually forced to sit at the top of my reactor and cry, sniffing ozone coming from plasma bolts)
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: CreatureofHell on March 08, 2011, 06:24:42 pm: I thought Uncreation smelled of life and joy and happiness...
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: :Lad on March 08, 2011, 06:25:30 pm: The smell of the maps does kinda get overshadowed by the rotting dead corpses of previous battles. Especially the ever popular noob pwning map ATCS.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: Pazuzu on March 08, 2011, 06:48:20 pm: Perseus has that "new map" smell, which incidentally, is caused by toxins in the packaging evaporating into the air around it. So be sure to nextmap it whenever it comes up.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: NexusForever on March 09, 2011, 01:37:09 am: At the risk of sounding B***HY this is one hell of a weird topic.
Title: Re: …and I still like the smell of ATCS best
Post by: zybork on March 09, 2011, 12:20:19 pm: Quote from: Qrntz on March 08, 2011, 05:19:37 pm
(that's why I'm usually forced to sit at the top of my reactor and cry, sniffing ozone coming from plasma bolts)

Ah, that's why! And I always wondered…