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As we all know, crossroads is one of the greatest maps in all of jb ever... jb kinda sucks if thats true ngl
Here I have a clip of some of the INNOVATIVE GAMEPLAY displayed on jb_crossroads!

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now if that doesn't scream "riveting gameplay"... then you'd be right this map sucks holy hell.

However, that was but a TASTE of how agonizingly bad crossroads is.
here's one of my "nitpicky" things, it looks NOTHING LIKE CROSSROADS.
(Left: jb_crossroads) (Right: Tree from the original Crossroads)
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I want you to focus on the trees in this screen shot, and tell me... does that look like a tree from crossroads? No? Because it doesn't.
Its a bit nitpicky, yeah, but if you mess up a cylinder on a rectangle, than what does that say about the rest of the maps faithfulness?
Also you'll be seeing a lot of the trees because they're EVERYWHERE for no reason! Crossroads on roblox wasn't a forest! It was never a forest? I could count the amount of trees on my fingers in the original!
Its not just a visual thing either! The trees make shooting anything a living nightmare! Good luck catching rebellers when they can just evaporate into the green mass. It also applys to movement, making you bump into every little twig!

Lets go back to the screen shot. Notice something? Its not crossroads, its the castle area of crossroads, and it fails to represent that too.

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The ground has grass on it for some reason? And why call it crossroads when it looks more like some lego castle?
It genuinely shares nothing about the original crossroads besides the studs, and OH GOD THE STUDS.
Old roblox used studs, that is correct, but they typically were reserved for floors (like an actual lego set!). Guess what jb_crossroads does?
PUTS. THE STUD TEXTURE. EVERYWHERE. I mean it, its slapped everywhere with no reason what so ever, trying desperately to look like roblox, and instead being an utter eyesore.

But lets step back from the visuals, and one of my other grips. In jb_crossroads, there is a minigame where you can close blue side from the outside? Seem harmless? Think about that for half a second.
Lets imagine all the blues went into blue side, not knowing there's one rebeller. The one rebeller opens red side, and closes blue side, freeing all the reds, and forever sealing the blues IN THEIR OWN SIDE!
(yes, you can jump out of it, but that's clearly not intentional, and again, is just so stupid that you can halt the blues until they figure out they can jump on the door frame that teleports you)

One more thing, and I will shut up, name me one original, fun, unique minigame on crossroads that ISN'T flood escape?
(if you do name something, thank you. Its a genuine question, I need more minigames to do as warden that isnt flood escape)

Overall, I just don't find crossroads fun, its a horrible Roblox representation, and the missed potential is through the roof.
Should the map creator see this, don't be offended, I really hope you make another roblox map and blow my expectations out of the water, take these criticisms and make something beautiful, but this one? This ain't it chief.

Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.
 
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Nope, nipping this in the bud.
This map is goated.
 
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Eagle_attack said:
So we are removing it for its design and for one minigame?
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In fairness, that minigame is the worst of the worst, but its a good example of the rest of the map, and yes, I hate that the roblox map doesn't look like roblox
 
I mean dr_nostalgia ( Roblox) did a pretty good job on the roblox thing, so there can be alot of improvement for sure! But id rather keep this map until there is a better roblox map.
 
life is roblox
 
funny how we keep a map that no one plays or nominates.

To also mention that. The game has a minigame 'Karts' which is an intressting concept but has a favourtism factor to it which requires reds to hit multiple walls to procceed through. And saying favourtism beacuse warden could put up a warp assasin scout against a back scratcher pyro lets say, and the scout hasnt even finished his 2nd wall. Even then any blue can also shoot a red's side of wall, easily sabotaging the other opponent, and theres been an incident about this and a report. The game can go through fine but my point still stands and a rework of the minigame would be better.

some other stuff i just wanna point out:

-Crush game has a door system, but when the game starts theres a giant wall inside the game blocking the door, potentially getting reds stuck (or killed) if they're in the way. So to be honest i dont get the need of a wall in there

-You can open cells from inside cells with the warp assasin. Similar thing you can do in underjail.

While its not as consistent and easy to do, if you're quick enough and get lucky enough to get the cell you want, you can pull it off pretty quick and pressure the warden.

Heres the example
Post in thread '[JB] Remove jb_underjail_b4a' https://www.panda-community.com/threads/jb-remove-jb_underjail_b4a.34435/post-159123

-Im not sure if this still occurs, but theres a specific minigame that plays music in the entire map.

-fall game can fail to stop most the time (from what i experienced previously) and platforms dont respawn back when the game stops and replays. causing failrounds

-the map just feels cramped in general with barely any vision infront beacuse of the trees.

this might be the only jailbreak roblox map theme i know. But i prefer quality over nostalgia.
 
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If this map ends up going perhaps Island Roleplay would be a better Roblox-themed JB map alternative?
 
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honestly I just don't see it get played, I couldn't care less what happens to the map.
Voted for removal solely because it's a map that lacks polish and I believe has been entirely abandoned by the map maker so there's little to no chance that we will actually get any changes to the map that'll help improve what flaws it does have.
 
Id rather keep crossroads in the map pool because its honestly a pretty alright map. Most of your issues in whatever you said is its design not being close to roblox at all other than a few minigames and well the studs scattered across the map, I do think the map is more so just an extended version of the castle area of crossroads from Roblox but I dont know why it is named "Crossroads" whilst just being its castle area.

Crossroads has a few unique minigames other than flood escape like that ride a cart to destroy spongebob (old Roblox media reference), running away from a killblock wall with carts (another reference from Roblox media) these are the minigames I can name from the back of my head that are in crossroads.



I think what you're mentioning about rebellers dissapearing in a "Green Mess" is stupid because all you have to do is have some sense of awarness and have a functioning pair of eyes to kill the said rebellers because I dont think they have many areas to run off to once they're in the forest.

I think crossroads is a pretty alright map and it doesn't deserve to be removed. All maps have their own flaws and I dont think it should be removed for being underplayed or not "INCREDIBLE", It does need many improvements quality wise and layout wise (atlough I dont mind the current map layout).
I do think it should get picked up by someone so its updated to be a little closer to having a better Roblox-eske appearance or just crossroads in general.

So my vote will be a no and it'll stay like that.
 
I feel like the map just needs some refurbishing and some polishing.
 
Something something i hate this map something something we need more maps like hop jb



Genuinely who cares, just RTV and go on about your day.
 
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