I'm not very good at Counter-Strike, so while I can't say whether or not it plays well, I *can* say is that this is, without a doubt, my favourite modern interpretation of Half-Life's visual style and BMRF's architectural style. The guard towers, the design of the exterior walls, the coloured lines in the interior walls, the crates... it all brings back memories without ever being a straight up copy of any of them. Even the layout of the map seen from above is reminiscent of layouts from the HL1 quadrulogy.

Which brings me to my question:

Have you considered uploading the map to Garry's Mod's workshop? The game supports CS:GO maps as they are, and I can confirm this map works perfectly fine thanks to its age, so all you'd need to do is set up the addon page and make it clear that mounting CS:GO is required. I'd really love to be able to play on it with my friends in Sandbox and have more people know about the map. It's rare to see love letters to the older games such as this.

@ Maelmeaty: Thank you :)

Reminds me of how everyone were after that bomb Black Ops placed under BMRF. Amazing map!

@ Warren elite: you're onto something here :)

the real reason behind the resonance cascade

Reminds me of a mix of minestorm, prodigy and the HL DM maps. Great work.http://steamcommunity-a.akamaihd.net/economy/emoticon/csgoa

@ icy: thanks :)

indeed, HL3 will start in Freeman's office in Forlorn :D

its possible to jump from the staircase on bombsite b to the window above it if you break the glass and hold shift

in forlorn

half life 3 confirmed

some parts are overlit
cool map

@ siXtreme: thanks for the feedback

@ LambdA: thanks for the server info and good luck

There is a server in West Europe which plays Forlorn. The server IP is: 37.59.30.83:27025

It is 20 slot and 128 tick rate.

We play a lot of other very good maps, including most of the Operation maps. Please have a look here for other maps on the server

http://psteamcommunity.yuanyoumao.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=176838712

Also in garage on these boxes and on the orange steel things, in ct on the balcony at the toxic starge sign. If this are bugs or glitches i dont know, I just tell you were a glitch could be. I will test soon if we can make the floating bomb on your map.

Also in middle at the yellow danger sign at these 2 white boxes, also on the opposite in the small corner and on top of these boxes, also in middle on the big white box. I dont know if you want that there can stuck bombs or not but on every box or similar thing the bomb could get stuck

On A spot where the red No Parking sign is, the bomb can get stuck on the pillar thing left and right, you cant get it without a 3 men boost

On the A spot, you can boost yourself from the airconditioning thing onto the ceiling were the green sign are. There is a little pixelwalk. You dont need to boost.

In garage you can walk an this orange steel things (dont know how to call it) which are holding the building.

And also on the A spot there is a little office at the side of the spot with a big window. You can boost onto the roof of the little office and see through. Then on the B spot you can boost onto the camera.

When you walk from CT spawn towards A, and go up catwalk, you can runboost onto this little thing above the A sign. I know there is a wall so you cant do this but you can runboost onto this thing which should prevent to boost onto this little roof over the A sign. The one which is right above the big A sign at the wall. Hope you understand were i mean :D

#OperationSaveOperation

Thanks everyone, really happy to see all this support and I take this opportunity to thank Philip again for his selfless and great initiative to promote the maps that were severely hit by the automated downvotes.

@ siXtreme: can you elaborate a little more? are you referring to the small balcony just above the bombsite A plant site? Thanks

We only found one spot were you can runboost very easy. At the Catwalk you can runboost onto a little balcony.

#OperationSaveOperation

#OperationSaveOperation

#3kliksphilipSupport

gud map :)

#Support

#3kliks

kliksphilip's crew

This really deserves more than 3 stars.

Thank you everyone :)

Your support is greatly appreciated, especially in light of the recent vote manipulation on the workshop that hit this map hard.

not sure why but it looks like a map from Unreal Tournament. Its really nice! :)

Love the visual theme of this map! Shame about the vote manipulation.

looks like a really interesting map.

will test it out later.

+High visibility
+Outside area looks sexy
+Nice detail, and theme
+Optimized, really good fps

-Some light just too bright, not sexy
-Layout, too many small path in the middle of the layout

Screenshot for not sexy and sexy lighting http://imgur.com/a/XEibu

9/10 nice map

the scale of this sucker feels massive! why can't t spawn just be garage and t side lower? I get it for timings, but two long routes leading to the same spot, seems strange. Sites look cool with the catwalks, and the wall bangs threw the thin metal will be real.

Looks clean and good visibility

There is half life refrence in long hall xd. btw nice map tho

Looking great Will, I've been looking forward to this map coming out for ages, and to see a LambdA symbol just makes my day.

You mentioned that this base is abandoned - I think if we think long after the incidends of HL1 and OP, then it would also be nice to see a little HL2 graffiti/propoganda in places. Just a little bit, But I guess it depends if the evacuation was recent :)

Thank you everyone for the overwhelming support and uplifting comments, really means a lot :)

Congrats on your release!

Grats on the release! Just walking around the level, I can tell you put in a ton of work. Love the little easter eggs.

Congratz on the release! :)

this map is fantastic, well balanced looks nice and is really fun to play!

black mesa?)

Glad it's out now. Hope to see this in the upcoming operation.

I was waiting for this. Great job sir.

круто!!

finally! looks like alot of routage on the CT side, I will def be checking out your 'manually-tuned nav file'