2x2 Banklock
A Warlock Reamke out of 2x2 Banks only
by LD

"Oh wow! Tz challenges everyone to make a map out of 2x2 Banks!" "Who is Tz and what are 2x2 Banks?" It was a sunny monday afternoon, when my girlfriend (the pink text, because she is a girl and her hair is pink) and I (the blue text, you know, because I'm all manly and shit, but I don't have blue hair ..) sat in the garden, enjoying the sun, when I read the latest Site Update including Tz's challenge to build a map out of 2x2 Banks only. So I had to explain who Tz is and what exactly 2x2 Banks are, and that we sat there, thinking of things to build .. "You could make a giant 2x2 Bank out of 2x2 Banks" "You could make me a sandwich" "You can go fuck youself" "A giant Bank would be way to easy, I want to make a playable map, so I have to use a lot of natural geometry" "Wouldn't that be boring? That would just be landscape with some Banks, why don't you remake one of your maps?" "Hm, Dreamcatcher would be the only one that could work, but the original was already really cluttered so I don't think 2x2 Banks would work very good" "Why don't you remake Warlock, just make it a little smaller, I'm sure that would look cute and everyone would get the 'OMG its Warlock!' effect" "Exactly that is the reason why I'm going to fucking marry you one day!"

One of the most important things when it comes down to Remakes, is the right scale.
One of the things that I totally didn't care about when it came down to build Banklock, was the right scale.

All structures are very small, the map itself is only playable with 2 people, any additional people would be even more insane. But even though everything is small and made out of 2x2 Banks, I tried to put as much detail in it as possible.
In this picture you can see one of the bases, there is blue base, red base and the other two bases. They share the same layout, so there is no reason for me to show you the other ones in deatil.
As you can see, the back part of the bases had to be cut out, I replaced it with a Bank that allowes you to jump to the structure in front of the base.

Those structures are high enough to allow a player to walk underneath them, like in the original Warlock, but you are not able to jump on top of them from the ground, you have to use the ramps or the back base bank thing.

This also applies to bottom mid, you can't jump up there from the ground, but you can walk underneath it.
The middle structure had to be changed a lot in order to make it work like the original one.

The teleporters, the lights and the health packs are the only ingame objects apart from 2x2 Banks, other than that I only used a spawn camera, save and kill zones and spawns.

You all know Warlocks boundaries, if you leave them, you'll die immediately.
I used soft killzones in the earlier versions, but people tended to leave the map fpr 5 seconds, just to jump back into the map from the other side.

2x2 Banklock is the worst map I've ever hade, but it is also the one I'm the most proud of ♥