Finally finished this!

I felt like I needed to stress the fact that this is not a remake of CoD1's Chateau. I found out that it exists only halfway through development. Ingame name of the map is "Manor, France".

This is a small map set in an old French manor and has chateau-like architectural features. It has secret passageways, wine cellars, chandeliers and everything else you'd expect from a secluded hilltop castle.

All standard gametypes are supported (DM, TDM, CTF, HQ, SD) and the gameplay should be balanced on both sides.

This map is intended for smaller LAN games. The supported number of players is 16, but I wouldn't play on it with more than 8 people, because of the size. That said, if you want to have absolute havoc, you can. Also works well in 1v1 matches.

It runs on about 10-20 FPS more than official maps, so if you can run CoD2, you can run this.

I'll put 2 screenshots here and link to the rest with URLs, so as not to make the thread image-heavy.





The rest:
Basin
Library
Basement
Lobby
Study Room
Storeroom
Driveway
Main Entrance
Courtyard

Download links:

GameBanana Map Page
MediaFire Direct Download

There is also a ReadMe file included in the download with installation instructions, should you require them.

edited on Mar. 14, 2014 06:24 am by Tinkerton

Great Job! Love the architecture and detail you put into this map! Any chance of an overall layout image of the map? Im always curious to see how everything fits together. When I get back home I will have a look around myself.

Also, are there any servers hosting this map?

Thanks! I'll grab an overview screenshot and append it to the post sometime today. (might be useful for others if you already had a look yourself)

There aren't any servers hosting it (to my knowledge), and if I recall correctly, the pubs in CoD2 are usually hosting 16-32 player games, which is too big, and it's why I haven't bothered asking.

EDIT: This was a bit more work than I had anticipated, but here it is:
Overview screenshot

The entrances to the basement are marked with colors on both pictures to tie them together.

There will be an update soon (some of the elements on the pics aren't supposed to be there ), but the general layout will stay the same. I'll update the screenshot then.

edited on Mar. 22, 2014 02:32 am by Tinkerton

Hey! I had a run around last weekend and I have to say Im impressed by your eye for detail. It looks like a really fun tdm or dm map to play on a LAN :)

Btw, did you make more maps for any of the cod games? Your name sounds kinda familiar to me

Hi and thanks for the compliments.
The eye for details forgot to add doors to the map , though it's being fixed and restyled in places (with loads of setbacks slowing me down this week).
This nickname is new, and this is my first release of anything, ever. Though it's not the first thing I ever worked on - Source's Hammer and other Radiant variants. So you probably don't know me (unless you play loads of Left 4 Dead 2).

To be honest, I found it the best blast to play HQ on this, and most of the side/spawn balancing and gameplay polish was done in respect to those playtests. It just perfectly captures the "Oh God, they're crawling out of everywhere!" feel IMO.

The experience with radiant shows, my first release was way less polished :p

I didn't notice the lack of doors, sometimes its better for the gameplay to just remove them and keep the doorways easy to navigate. I myself have the habit of making the doorways a little cramped sometimes, which can make it hard to navigate around the map.