Interchange Is A Master Class In Level Design

Finally! I found a popular video BEFORE it will be popular. Pretty neat. Gz with 300k views in a couple of weeks!

ending on a limerick was S+ content, subbed

This is a great video except for the fact this nap is fucking dog shit and I love it

i see vid, i laugh, i sub. Im not a complicated man

Nahhh bro. This map's design is utter garbage. Spent the whole video waiting for the /s.

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When i just started playing i was immediately drawn to interchange, the giant mall just seemed like sick a sick place to have gunfights. But after a couple thousand hours i can safely say fuck the ridiculous darkness on interchange, makes it so unenjoyable

The problem i find in this map is lack of extracts. Like there are only 2 and they're identical with scav extracts, and it's really easy to camp. Also there are lack of looting spots so there are really small amount of points of interest

interchange is indeed the best map in this game

If only you could see inside the map

If BSG actually rendered lighting properly interchange would be so cool. I remember seeing a video where someone had ported the model into unreal engine and rendered it properly and it looked absolutely amazing. That goes for all the eft maps but I feel like interchange is maybe the hardest hit.

i'm pretty sure that you forgot to talk about that one keycard room in the container outside of the mall

abt Hawol or whatever it's actually an upside-down anti-copyright auchan because in russian it's called Ашан and A is changed to idk tf is this, you see it right

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Strolled in to Interchange in the dark. No light. One of my first times there. Shot a scav and heard two flashlights click. One in front. One behind. I had somehow strolled in between a 2 man without any of us knowing. I gun the guy in front of me down with my M4. Run behind a pillar nearby almost losing my life. Both my legs and one of my arms are blacked out. I'm fumbling with a magazine in a attempt to reload before the blood loss kills me. As I peak around I open fire on the other guy almost killing him but he gets his gun reloaded and kills me before I kill him. He could have bleed out. He could have survived. I will never know. That's story time with me. Now goodbye.

No, no its not

"This is metal" killed me 😂

Autism and Gaelic jokes, I feel personally attacked xD

Hey it's not our fault we're hyper-senstive and notice everything xD

Interchange isn't level design it's a 3D scan of a real building

Interchange is truly one of the Tarkov maps of all time

"Similar to your dead childhood pet, the eeriness you feel when you see it is multiplied 10x when you're INSIDE IT."

AYO WHAT!? not even 20 seconds in!?

This is too good

BSG has a GIFT for making something good IE the map design but then also making the experience... extremely unfun 2 viable extracts both most likely camped 1 extremely expensive one and a boss that will kill you nearly instantaneously from VERY long range and has a level 5/6 on and has over 1k hp................ the only way to kill killa is to get lucky and hear him shuffle otherwise youll pop around a corner and boop less than .2 seconds your back to lobby GL scanning that giant area in less than .1 seconds in basically pitch black bugged the fuck out lighting....

Remember, youre playing Tarkov, where one out of every 5 players has ESP and aimbots sooo....it doesnt really matter what you smash or where you go.

11 wipes/9000h inter main here. this video is pure gold to me. :D its truly the best map ive ever played in a video game. even if its not as good as it used to be, its still fun.

ppl hate on the map due to its high difficulty level, it requires versatility and a specific playstyle to be successful. inter is easy to learn and hard to master, but in return it offers the best CQB in the game imo.

I love your kind of humour lol

One of the maps im most excited for, the thought of being lost in there at night not being able to find the extract seems terrifying, im glad i put tarkov off for so long first playthrough blind with no maps and limited quest spoilers, im in for a treat and get to experience it how the devs imagined.

beautiful

hey man just a little feedback, the audio for the game in some of your videos is super loud in comparison to your voice, which is very jarring when im listening to a calm European fella talk and then the next second im getting ear blasted by gun shots.

Good video but personally I disagree: Interchange is the worst fully finished map in Tarkov. It needs a rework imo.

And judging by how most of interchanges unique map design choices where not repeated on the newer maps I think BSG themselves consider interchange a failed experiment. Or at the very least they've learned some valuable lessons from it.

- The lighting is unnecessarily dramatic while completely unrealistic. In a room with natural lighting from ceiling windows as well as artificial lights all over the place you would not have those deep, nearly pitch black shadows. Real light refects from surfaces, on interchange it basically does not. The lighting on the newer maps is much less extreme with those deep shadows reserved only for a few places where it actually seems realistic. The general idea of having contrasting light and shadows is good, but the implementation is off.
- The map is really detailed but a third of it is empty. There is nothing of interest in huge areas of interchange, little loot, (nearly) no quests, no scav spawns, no amazing flank routes or angles on high traffic areas. Just dead map that barely anyone ever remembers even exists.
- The 3D audio is scuffed as fuck and until they fix it you cant really rely on sound except for a few very distinct sounds such as the escalators. That person you hear creeping while on the top floor might well be in the parking garage two steel and concrete floors below you, but you cannot tell since it sounds like he's on the same level as you. Breaks my immersion every time it happens. Though obviously all maps are affected by this. Interchange is just more vertical than most so its worse there.
- The spawns are shit. A couple people spawn basically inside the building, in a perfect position to rush the high value loot spawns and suck them dry long before anyone has any reasonable chance to contest them. Or in a perfect position to camp the other spawns and gatekeep half the map. "Its a hardcore game" doesnt justifying it only being hardcore for about two thirds of the PMCs while the other third gets handed free wins due to spawn point RNG. All maps have that issue to some degree but Interchange is among the worst offenders.

The good thing is that most of the issues I have with interchange are fixable without too much effort. And at that point it might well become one of the best maps in EfT. But as it is right now I consider playing interchange a chore rather than fun more often than not.

this is the second worst map (second only to woods)

nothing about this map is good; the lighting sucks, the audio is broken, this is the most ratty map, full of extract campers.

Interchange has by far the best layout and design. However no one likes it anymore because BSG removed all loot and it’s way to dark considering that there are skylights right above you

i love interchange, make ultra medical great again

love this. interchange and well labs too turns tarkov into a horror game

I thought I was the only one who liked Interchange. Turns out there are dozens of us.

Imagine camping interchange waiting for scavs to exit you are why this game needs so much work

I don't know who you are or why you're doing this but I certainly need to see more

wow
that was wonderful ;)

The underground part is still full of crates and duffle bags, so yeah comparable of what you get upstairs it's probably less worthy but still viable. And with the bad sound design you'll don't feel alone down there.

This video makes me wanna play interchange now but I must resist the urge. Not until they fix lighting and audio!

My favorite map its so great

sorry for bonking ur head on factory

This video had me ROLLING the whole way through XD
SUPER underrated, You got yourself a sub

This video is all encompassing 🤣