Looks pretty good actually, but can still receive some enhancements. I really like the general layout of it, with pretty long ways but also so much challenging that makes it pretty difficult at many times, specially in that part that you mentioned which is about minutes of unending surfing.

Texturing is decent, I like how detailed they are, and also how attractive they do look. However, I have to agree with Nitekillr, you used one texture everywhere, it is always the same for the ramps, the glasses and the background, and taking into account that those are the great majority of things that are on the map, it becomes annoying after playing it plenty of times, what you should do is to make some variations by using other textures that have a similar looking, for example placing ones with different types of rocks with different tone and different aspect/shape to at least make some of the areas look different with each other, on another note, the glass texture you used is a bit undetailed too.

I don't really hate that brown color running all over the map, it's just it's repetitiveness what bothers me; every area has the same theme, with no notable changes with respect to others that makes me think that I'm going in circles. In other terms the texture still improves the map's construction and gives it a good ambience for a surfing map, although I would suggest trying to apply the suggestion I left before. Ending the jail is also plainly gray which makes it loss appeal, and even the the sun effect can't help to make it look alive.

The designing is quite special, it has plenty of extras and fun but also lots and lots of creativity: More than twenty secrets! Ramps do look pretty well done and don't look squared, I also love how do you make big windows to make the skybox viewable through them, that is a really nice improvement for the map's visuals and looks really refined.

Although the creation in some areas makes the difficulty go from beginner to expert, just compare the first parts to the descendant area where there are about three heavy 180 degrees turns and where is very easy to lose, makes it get somewhat unbalanced. Aside from this the overall structure needs a lot of smoothing, it is just enough with looking to the deep corners where the walls turn to the roof, also environments that are meant to be curved are lacking smoothness too.

I have also found a bug with your water surfaces at the jail, it seems that if I go back looking to one of them, and then return again it will reflect the world improperly:

On the illumitation, looks pretty good because of the sunlight environment you added, nice use you made of that option, it looks delightful and I loved it when I saw the ramp that is between the spawns!
Although I encountered with various light sources that are actually coming out of nowhere:

The reason why the parts that are in the deeps of the map aren't dark, is because of them:

It is actually pretty good, although there could be minor bugs.

The single-player gameplay (I didn't play online, and bots can't do anything on the level) is pretty challenging and nice as I said earlier. I love how you adapted some of the areas for beginner use while you made another paths for expert surfers, also I like how you made gameplay not look same-sounding in every place (by design), besides that in the lowest point on the map there are many glass floors that are fun to pass through the area by them. Aside from that you included most (Or all, I'm not sure) of the weapons, which is a feature to enjoy, gameplay is just beautiful at least when playing alone for me.

Overall, I can't rate, but I would give it a 9.40 in my opinion, there are only issues in the design, like the non-smoothed curves (At exception of the ramps) and the repetitive texturing. However my rating will still stand because of the awesome environments like the evn_sun and the awesome and detailed skybox. Also a little help to fix the curves would be this tutorial, I recommend following it.

Your map is one of the bests of all time I have seen, keep it up!
This needs little to no improvement!

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Pros:

• Skill level
• Curves and turns are smooth
• Balanced
• Neat secrets, I found about 3 of them
• Jail isn't a plain room, which is always good
• Oh my, dat skybox

Cons:

• Better textures could've been used
  

Overall I would definitely rate this 9.5/10. It isn't boring, but it isn't over complicated which is something I really enjoy with surf maps.

It was always a pet peeve of mine to see one texture tiled everywhere

It's common in a lot of surf maps, yes, but I love it when they have a really elegant design incorporated it to make it both pretty to look at and fun!


The way you added the windows with the really nice skybox truly was a nice touch.

And these little guys:

No idea what they are and no idea how they are made, but it put a smile on my face seeing it moving around

I hope my review was sincere, not just for the author but for anyone else checking this map out. Definitely recommend adding it to your surf map collection.

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You are amazing! I am one who is very fond of surfing, and this is one of my favorites. Although, when I first played the server, I had no idea who made it. No I can have the opportunity to thank you, I guess. I watched you're trailer, it's so cool! Anyways.. on to the review.

Pros:

• Spawn's shape: unique and cool because of round edges
• Secrets: very creative and enjoyable to try to find them
• Teleporter sprites: attractive and sophisticated looking
• Map size: huge with multiple things to do
• Surfing: fun to surf around
• Jail: multiple pillars to hide about

Cons:

• Textures: very bland, repetitive, and unattractive to the eye
• Rock and glass textures: look awkward
• Walls, floors, and ceiling: all the same texture, plain, and boring
• Jail: although fun with little amount of people, the jail is small

Overall, this map is one of my favorite surf maps.

Pros:

• Nice looking ramps!
• The teleporter sprites looks pretty cool.
• Nice looking skybox.
• The spawn geometry looks pretty cool, I like the clean rounded corners.
• HDR.
• Secrets.

Cons:

• Lighting transitions seem kind of sudden, bright then suddenly dark.
• Rock wall texture seems kind of repetative.
• Walls in general looks a little plain.
• The nodraws under the ramps are noticeable when you fall.

Improvements:

• Play with lighting a little.
• Add displacements or some other kind of geometry to make the walls less boring.
• Possibly new glass texture? The texture you are using for glass looks a little weird, looks like a transparent tile and looks a bit weird.
• Replace ramps' nodraw textures.

Notes:

• Surf is not really my thing, but I found this one quite enjoyable.
• I love the description, very creative.
• I also like the screenshots, again, creative and informative.

As I said, I am not very good nor do I play surf but I liked this map. Overall, I give it a 8/10, good work.