map nice

Don't try to make maps next time

Totally fair to compare based on what you enjoy, but Sharkbay is doing something different than Aquarius. In level design, you have to commit—some ideas stay, others go. The ship and shark concept only works without swimming; adding it would break the core mechanic.

If you didn’t enjoy the map, that’s okay. I didn’t make it to please everyone—I built something I personally love to play and wanted to make it stand out. Some people really connect with it; I’ve seen players get inspired and even call it their favorite.

You might enjoy sharkbay more by focusing on what it does rather than what it doesn’t. The ship and death pit are the heart of the map. Try playing around them, you might find it more fun than expected.

Still, I appreciate your comment. Even criticism helps me grow and improve. Thanks.

thank gosh Aquarius is being added. finally a map dedicated to neon annihilator usage.


"sharkbay" was literally such a disappointment. basic asf map, and despite the name it has NO pyro shark gameplay, and literally NO WATER, OTHER THAN OUT OF BOUNDS. WTF? (its literally named sharkbay)


desperately need more underwater maps, and also just maps with water. Like this sharkbay map literally couldve just had rain on it, as well as 2 inches of water on every surface.

No loafing No, it's not on purpose. Truth is that it was never a big problem, to be honest I didn't even notice it thus It was never patched. Now, if we ever going to update the map again we will fix it.

it's been a couple years, so i thought i'd ask again
when the point unlocks at the start of the round, it happens totally silently, and it's really easy to miss. unlike every other koth map, there's no countdown timer or announcer lines letting the players know when it unlocks, at least in all the casual games i've played on this map. is this on purpose?

the outside of spawn uses the inside of spawns cubemap this is gamebreaking pls fix

I don't know if whoever helped with the func_croc stuff is in the credits list (seemingly not) but if one of ya'll who knows how to change the model for func_croc could add/message me with how to that'd be awesome

Love this map. But I'm very disappointed the capture point wasn't submerged in water just a bit, like 2 inches or so, so the control point is just spammed with neon annhilator pyros. every time the map is played; just pyros using that and offending/defending that way.

Please consider making ANOTHER map where it's like that. There's like no map dedicated to that kind of pyro gameplay other than 2fort. and even then its rare.

one of my personal favorite maps in tf2!

Yeah I agree about how funny it was, however priority 1 would be to make the map exploit proof so no one ruins the game for other people.
I appreciate your comment btw, really nice to hear different opinions!

Why did you remove collisions from the seagull? It was very funny and harmless.

Thank you very much for your kind words. Sharkbay getting into the game was a dream come true. Really glad you guys are having fun!

it is my favorite map in now cus im captain irl xd,very sad that there is only 2 maps with ships in tf2(

bug: the countdown timer and announcer lines for unlocking the point don't seem to be working at all, the point just silently becomes unlocked without warning

After playing a round or two on it. It's really good, just like how I remember it to be 2 years or so ago.
Sadly I havn't played it too much, VSH is taking up most of my TF2 time. And I'm not really a koth guy, but still. If I play koth, this map is really good and will be on my queue list.

sheldon the shark is much better than sheldon the selbyen seal

Thank you so much for making this map, it's genuinely my favorite layout to date and the unique style and art it has just make the perfect map. I love it so much. I'm going to buy SO many stamps

Hi there!

I am finally able to talk freely about the map now that the update is out. My team and I are really proud of the final result and we thank you for your feedback!
Now let's answer some questions:

- the S.S Maria was changed in order for the new name Iron IncWell to make more sense, S.S Maria was something more personal to me.
- About the fps drops I honestly have no idea what could cause that, the map is really well optimized and nobody complained about the fps so far. I even made sharkbay when I had a crappy computer back in the day so I tried to make the map run as well as I could so I could play my map. Thus something like that kinda shocks me.
- Lastly about your questions if this map was going to be added it was really difficult not to say a word. However seeing how hyped everyone was, made our team work a lot harder to deliver the best map we could. We put so much love into the map.

That should be it. Thank you to everyone who's playing and giving us feedback!

Cool idea for a map, but in practice it's awful. Just chokepoint after chokepoint after chokepoint until you get to the middle point, which is way too easy to defend.

Why did you change the S.S Maria?

I love this map's concept and it's really cool to see a different take on the crocodile environmental hazard in the form of sharks. Plus, I just find maps with environmental hazards in general to be pretty fun.

However, my biggest complaint is that the map just feels too small. Once one team takes mid, it never feels like the other team is able to set foot in mid without getting blown up or getting headshot from across the map as soon as they come out from the connector building. Also, despite the small size, the Sniper sightlines at mid seem too effective. I never feel like there's anywhere remotely safe.

All in all, very cool concept, I just think there was probably a better layout that could've been done here.

I'm getting major FPS drops that feel like they're going into the 15 frames when I'm around the point, the rest of the map I get a pretty good 60 fps, same for every other map in tf2, think you could try and look into it?

oh hey, this is the map that i constantly play on in tf2c

idk where to report this but certain out of bounds models (e.g. sharks in the water and that one unreachable ship) turn into a wireframe and/or stretch out on the skybox

wasn't added lol

Is this being added to the game?

lets hope the other maps are as good as this one

hope to god this map gets added in the new update

LESS GOOO

gr8

чо седня будет скажы эй

gura map

Congratulations man can't wait to play this soon

Oh me oh my looks like someone came early to the party

Should I download it and try it out just so I know where to go when the Summer Update releases? :)

aouw!!!!

we saw what you did valve

blahaj bay!!!!!

Blahaj Bay

Sharks + TF2 = based

June 29th??

Congrats on getting this in game! Gonna make some videos of it the second it drops. Looks great.

they're adding sharks to TF2 :O

rumours spreading that this might be added...

LOL

hey good lookin

I'm here to announce the wummer update

HAPPENING!!!!