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Smolders - Interviewed

Posted by NoToRiOuS at 05:10 1/3/2002.

Battle-Fields.com have posted an interview Rob Smolders creator of cs_robbery, de_rotterdam and de_rotterdam2. The interview delves into the reason behind the removal of de_rotterdam from the official CS map list and his latest creation.

What sort of control do you now have over Rotterdam? Was there a reason given for it being removed from the Official CS patch?

I don’t have any control about it: if Cliffe says it has to get removed well then it just has to. It had to be removed cause there wasn’t enough space left in the patch, de_torn took so much space and Cliffe didn’t have much choice so he removed it. Macman told me they wanted to remove cs_siege but that’s a classic map so they couldn’t do that.

I believe you had hopes for a possible release in time for CS 1.3. What happened there?

Oh yes this map should’ve been in CS 1.3 IMO, it was in on time and an old version with bad gameplay was tested for CS 1.0 and the players at the playtest didn’t like it much. But I know what was wrong so I fixed those things and made the map even nicer but Cliffe didn’t want to look at it anymore.

Read the whole interview here.