Dear Swedes: I promise to continue to work on the pronunciation of Gavle, I think I'm close, but I am very American and it is hard for my midwestern accent. I did a bunch of research before hand to try to get it right, haha. Tips on it are appreciated!

As a Swede I look forward to seeing our arsonist tradition represented in TF2

This map layout gives a real old school TF2 vibe in a good way. Chokes at objectives with open areas in between and flanks to avoid the chokes, lots of height variation and underground segments, etc. Great stuff Crash

It's been 8 years. But no matter how much he improves, no matter how much great community content he makes or how much of it gets accepted for the real game, to me he will always be "the Trainsawlaser guy".

used to LOVE the logs and im really excited. as an aspiring drummer / mapper you’ve been a strangely specific inspiration to me. keep it up, crash.

Crash out with a dev log??? Doth mine eyes deceive me??? Can't wait to see how this pans out.

Always wonderful to see new projects from you!

I love watching mapping videos they’re so much fun seeing how people design their own maps

I always love to hear and learn about hammer jank and map making stuff, It's nerd crack that fuels my brain. I try to use the info to make a map myself, but usually I get bored with if and do something else. These videos often kick-start me back into that horrid pit called hammer. Thanks for nerd crack Crash!

This map looks like heaven as a pyro/battle engie main.

I really like this flat dev texture. Gotta try it in my next map

Hell yeah devlog is back!!!!!!

Underrated af. Keep up the work!

Fun to see a map thats essentially two gamemodes in one, taking place in my country too. I always wanted to make a sd map based on Örebro but this works well too. The layout reminds me a bit of dustbowl. If the project never gets finished just say that the dev textures are snow and im sure valve wont notice. 😉 Also its a tradition that the city builds a giant goat out of wheat, that people ignite every year despite it being illegal to the point that it has now been adopted as a informal tradition. During the 53 years its been built it has only remained intact 16 times. So it would be a funny reference if the payload cart would blow it up if blue team wins since RED arent strangers to build with natural materials like wheat. I can already imagen the blue pyro being tempted and seeing the goat as a candy-floss pony in pyrovision. (EDIT AFTER SEEING VIDEO): Nice you were already ahead of me.

Glad to have you back making these, Crash. Good luck on this one.

Haha, unreal seeing the town I drive through every time I travel between university and my family represented in TF2. I have the utmost faith in you! And the pronunciation is tough for sure. It's basically just "Yeah-vleh".

Yo!!! We may not talk, but it genuinely makes me so happy to see that you're still at it after all of this time. I first found out about you many, many years ago when I was sorting through TF2 Twitch streams to find something to watch. I clicked on your stream, heard heavy metal, and began chatting about the music. I think one of the first things we talked about was Animals As Leaders, which I thought was really cool. (Matt Garstka kicks ass). I eventually added you as a friend and, to my surprise, you accepted my request. Fast forward to well over five years later - I launched TF2 for the first time in ages only to be greeted with "UEAKCrash is online". I couldn't believe it. What a cool guy. Anyways, keep doing what you do Crash, I truly appreciate all of the amazing things you've contributed to my favorite game over the years.

Definitely going to join to help test if it means finding a server with your old joke maps on the rotation. An alternate suggestion for the payload cart being the goat on a cart being pushed into a bonfire.

Very iteresting, awesome video!!!! LOVE your work. Please do more videos like this.... i just love bts. stuff and learning about map making. Dont stop, keep up the good work.

That's the most TF2 thing I've ever heard.

No joke the layout at your first point is like 85% similar to my 2 point in my 5cp map I'm making, it also has a sewer section as well, what are the odds

truly the greatest intro i have ever seen

I love dev logs, keep it up Crash!

When it comes to theming, I would love to see this map go for a 2fort/farm aesthetic. I think it that or a mountainlab esc theme would work great

Suggestion for the cart, possibly has a bunch of those Christmas Wreaths that have the candles on them, or something pyro related given the Balloonicorn would look rather similar to the goat being burnt, Maybe Pyro sees the goat as evil and the Balloonicorn will save us all, just throwing some ideas into the ring

love these dev logs! :D

I watched all of your devlogs in 2018 when I started mapping, and they were (and still are) interesting to watch. I am excited to watch this map grow and change.

Lets go!! saw this on tf2maps uploaded earlier today, thanks for uploading this!

I think that if Blu loses during stage 2, the cart should extinguish so that the timer feels like how long the fire’ll last

OMG YOUR BACK IM SO HAPPY

really big fan i love tf2 maps

Super excited to see more! I always love watching the development process for maps.

I feel like Red's spawn should be to the left of 10:09 and another entrance where you point to at 13:38 (maybe tucked around a corner). That way there's an easier rush for red to defend B similar to stage 3 Dustbowl last.

We are eating good this day ❤

No joke the first point reversed for the the offense and defence would be soo good! Specially if you have the control point take a bit long to capture. Because of how many routes lead up to the control point retaking would be fun! And the shack would be a amazing place to fight in specially with the super choky door basically THE place to uber into once you got hold and wanna *Really* push the defenders out. On the next video perhaps you can talk about how you think each class will play! Very interested in what map maker has to say about it

This would be a perfect christmas themed map! Lookiong forward to see more and eventually play it!

your creations are so inspiring

Excited to see where this goes

having not played on the map and only watching the video, the reason it's so hard for red to retake the first point is because all of blu's routes converge right on the point. combine that with the fact that the point also sits right on the main path, so everyone on blu is subtly guided to sit on the point. red also has a height disadvantage when approaching the point which makes them more susceptible to spam. I don't think having one-way flanking route for red will help. there's probably a better solution but idk.

Bringing back so many memories... Feel like last time I saw you doing mapping live I vas still vorking on L4D2 maps... Going to make rest of my hair turn grey~

Can't wait for this to give me a map idea! 😃

hope this map gets added

I can smell the burning wicker goat already. Don't know how the Gävle city council would feel about this. I do hope that they are okay with it.

Hey, you probably don't take suggestions or ideas from the comments but it would be really cool if the water to remove fall damage had a slightly deeper section, at least deep enough to be fully submerged. Not enough maps have water deep enough for Neon Annihilator interactions, or to get rid of debuffs like jarate and afterburn and it would be cool to see another official map added eventually with a spot that could be used. Regardless, the map layout looks pretty great so far, hope it comes together by next year!

Ya Crash is back :D

Hell yeah

Very cool, I need to start making dev logs too!

9:00 I'd rather not put a RED exit there because then RED could get behind BLU for free, which would be quite annoying. I suggest giving RED a room next to the BLU's room at 7:22.

In before a secret lead in to a Swedish themed community update for TF2

Awesome idea i hope you make it snowy i like snowy maps

Looks neat.

I was just watching one of your tutorials learning to make maps cuz I’m working on one as well lol

So many ninjaneers spots 😍

i love gavlepit

man what a great time to be a nerd 😁

Nice

Who you callin a Nerd ya Nerd!

You have gotta make a map with a lot of water for Pyro with the Neon Annihilator

I knew i recognised that name

i wish i could play it. nobody hosts custom servers anymore

Methinks an dropdown would be good for sewer

Interesting concept. But do you think this is a negative since it doesn't fall under payload or control points? Valve would toss it into other category

I've always been curious and I guess now is time to ask: Wouldn't it make testing easier to design the stages in reverse order? That way instead of testing each stage individually you can release the full thing and always get the most playtime on the most recent stage created.

I like the idea you describe for this map and cant wait to see how it looks in the end. also, and you dont need to listen to my opinion here since Im not a map maker, but if possible can you avoid putting props/collision on walls? Ive always hated when I'm sticking to a wall and my movement got stopped by something very minimal/non-existent (dont know what to call those things but maybe someone can give a few examples below)

Tbh, in-game I have the most issues with the flat dev texutres. No depth perception for me.

Not swedish but if you wanna just give a tiny bit of effort it clearly doesn't end with "ey" it ends with "eh". So say "gav-leh". Not hard, I think.

Are you able to use a command like 'mp_tournament'* when loading into a map through Hammer? If so, might be an idea to put that into the console so you don't have to worry about the map timer while showing things off while in game. *Full command would be: mp_tournament 1

I wish I could make maps like this lol.

The Problem with flank rounte is that it take too long to get to and you aren't away going to be successful with your flank imo.

gravel without the r

I think you should make a server to play this map on so i can try it out!!!!!

Slight criticism of the video itself The tf2 audio is pretty loud (not unusual for tf2) compared to your voice

Where do you get the time to make all these maps?

11:46 Wait, you're still getting Steam notifications about TF2Maps test events? I stopped getting those after the big UI update (to Steam beta client) and the only people who bothered to respond to me said it had happened to them too. Is there something new I need to sign up for to get them back?

The current Discord invite link in the description is invalid

the game sounds are a little bit loud compared to your voice

I honest to god thought you were gonna say the name was pronounced gavel

I cant make maps with good gameplay for the life of me, how do you do it??

Hi UEAK