[M] (2) AVEX - Year Zero
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Size: 166x128
Tileset:
Spawn Positions: 10, 2
Base Count: 12
Servers: NA, EU, KR
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Purely the product of quite a bit of stress, depression and newfound love for a band I've recently gotten myself into, Ghost.
Been wanting to do a Void tileset for a long time, but it's never really worked out. Oftentimes I would try to mix Lava into it, but the contrast generally bled out the map, so I finally gave up on that idea. The name of the map was voted on by over three hundred people as I narrowed it down between Year Zero and Behemoth. Both names stem directly from the album Infestissumam by Ghost, from the track Year Zero. Year Zero is quite obviously the track name, whereas Behemoth is the second word spoken in the first chant, in a list of names for the devil.
It felt fitting to place this name on a map featuring Amon himself, in a floating rock in the void, where you feel trapped and almost literally inside hell itself.
As for the layout itself, I hate rectangular symmetry, but it's the only way to get such a menacing image of Amon (or any central figure) to look right. I tried to make what I figured to be the most balanced attempt at a medium map, ala Newkirk. Obviously, the base layout appears similar in pattern, but the vertical third is close, the triangle base is further, but blocked by rocks, and the middle is completely different, leading me to believe games played here would be quite different.
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(click to enlarge)
Size: 166x128
Tileset:
Spawn Positions: 10, 2
Base Count: 12
Servers: NA, EU, KR
Features/Explanation/Whatever:
+ Show Spoiler +
Purely the product of quite a bit of stress, depression and newfound love for a band I've recently gotten myself into, Ghost.
Been wanting to do a Void tileset for a long time, but it's never really worked out. Oftentimes I would try to mix Lava into it, but the contrast generally bled out the map, so I finally gave up on that idea. The name of the map was voted on by over three hundred people as I narrowed it down between Year Zero and Behemoth. Both names stem directly from the album Infestissumam by Ghost, from the track Year Zero. Year Zero is quite obviously the track name, whereas Behemoth is the second word spoken in the first chant, in a list of names for the devil.
It felt fitting to place this name on a map featuring Amon himself, in a floating rock in the void, where you feel trapped and almost literally inside hell itself.
As for the layout itself, I hate rectangular symmetry, but it's the only way to get such a menacing image of Amon (or any central figure) to look right. I tried to make what I figured to be the most balanced attempt at a medium map, ala Newkirk. Obviously, the base layout appears similar in pattern, but the vertical third is close, the triangle base is further, but blocked by rocks, and the middle is completely different, leading me to believe games played here would be quite different.
Artsy / Detailed Pictures:
+ Show Spoiler +