Map Labs is an ongoing anthology of mapping competitions, primarily centered around Valve's games!

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For this competition, we asked entrants to find Halloween inspiration on The Unknown!

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Halloween Horror V
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Dana_Cief Author
Dana_Cief - - 1 comments

First!

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stealth9999
stealth9999 - - 36 comments

I need to get an external hard drive so my computer won't have three drives so I can download more of these!

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Nitestokeh
Nitestokeh - - 97 comments

These contests should really end as soon as beefbacon submits a map. Guaranteed first place every single time

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Fast_Train
Fast_Train - - 588 comments

The Wayder Residence - too much of "THE UNKNOWN" can't outshine the lack in other departments.
DATA_RETRIEVED - a very classic sci-fi horror in space. And I'm saying it in a good way. The only thing I wish was more developed before last seconds was "imitating speech" part.
CODE_LOCK_EXPUNGE - storywise, there is no horror. Nice one but misses the mark of competition for me.
SUBJECT - uuh, cinematic. Unfortunately it promised more than delivered. The intro dialogue gave me the most enjoyment.
The Haunted Dive - I would prefer no enemy encounters in this competition. And no TBC endings in general. But I'm all for SOMA vibes.
HEATDEATH - ******* mazes.
The Pit - bonus entry at it's finest.
Visitor - exactly what I expected from this mappack.

Overall DR is the best with mapping, atmosphere, giving lore through notes (while foreshadowing). Visitor is a golden standard where mapping, gameplay and theme are at the proper level. SUBJECT and HD both have great opening.

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Unamelable
Unamelable - - 3 comments

There any steam page to play all maps in once? (Its pain in the *** to configure settings for each mod and copying userconfig.cfg doesn't help either)

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Moneran
Moneran - - 1 comments

i need someone to explain to me why instead of doing literally anything else beefbacon decided to just ******* annihilate this whole map labs thing by making god quality maps that i never knew even possible to make in source. how is he doing something like that in like a few weeks? why?

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