Fox Mulder, on 09 May 2011 - 10:48 PM, said:
Yep, that was my point exactly. Seems like they were paintball junkies back at 3D Realms.
I bet they always wanted to make some paintball matches in that map if it really existed.
Obviously they like that area very much and it's why they kept it so classic and unchanged at it's core.
When I used to obsessively play the crossfire map on hl1dm, I would also day dream with some of my mates, about how cool it would be if somebody actually built the crossfire map in real life and we would get to do some paintball matches there in real life!
So I know exactly how much these guys loved those maps and I can tell that Geroge Broussard loved it as much too.
I am not sure if I actually heard this for real or it's just my imagination, but I think during the production stages they actually had paintball guns in the game and they were playing some paintball death matches inside the game itself.