NSOffice

nSOffice (nStudio)
Date released	May 25th 2019
Creator(s)	Thexz
Status	Inactive

nSOffice was a map in Murder Mystery 2, it replaced Lab 2 and was released in Season 1 on May 25th, 2019. It is based off the nStudio group. This map was removed with the Easter 2024 update on April 1st, 2024.

It is generally a divided map amongst the MM2 community, where people like the map for it's visuals and objects, whilst other people dislike the map for it's small size (similar to Office 2) and horrible performance for many players.

Appearance

nSOffice is made to look like a modern office area. Though it looks like a big and confusing map at first glance, its size is not too far from average, and the layout is actually quite simple. The office consists of two floors:

• Ground Floor: A lobby with an indoor playground/obstacle course, a reception desk. Behind the reception desk is an office room, next to it is Nikilis' Office (which is inaccessible unless you clip through the wall), also a meeting room some seating, and a cafeteria next to it. The other side is a hallway leading to another office room.
• Basement: A hard-drive storage area underground with a managing room.

This map has automatic sliding doors just like ones from The Lab, which can make exiting or entering sections time-consuming, especially if a murderer is chasing you, it may also reveal one's position if the player gets close enough to the door.

This is one of the maps (Along with Hospital3) with special ceiling lights that are connected with strings that allow movement when touched.

Hiding Spots

Though a rather small map, nSOffice has many hiding spots which innocents can take advantage of:

• Behind the boxes around the ground floor (The boxes are pushable, as so it is not recommended to hide behind them).
• Inside the potted bushes of the indoor playground.
• On top of the wooden office cubicles in the lobby area (by jumping from the light decorations positioned on the wall next to them).
• On the trophy case of the office room behind the reception.
• Inside the tube in the greenscreen room.
• On top of the pipes in the cafeteria (Requires parkour).
• On the wooden decorations of the office led by the hallway.
• Inside the hard-drives with booths at the two sides of it, with the wires.
• On top of the hard-drives.
• On top of the managing room.
• Inside the fridge in the kitchen.

Trivia

The JD logo.

• Though being named nSOffice, the text on the image which can be seen when voting is actually nStudio.
  • This may reveal that nSOffice may stand for Nikilis' Studio Office
• Inside the green office room next to the cafeteria, a magenta JD logo can be seen, representing JD, who also contributes to Murder Mystery 2.
• The pictures placed inside the ground floor hallway are screenshots taken of various maps that used to exist or were going to be added in Murder Mystery 2: Mineshaft, Bank, and Night Club (with the exception of Factory).
• Inside a door that you cannot open, there is someone that seems to be from the Mafia.
• In Nikilis' office, you can see Nikilis working on a knife box in paint.net, presumably the godly box.
• Coins can spawn in Nikilis’s office, However you can't collect them.
• nSOffice was removed during the Easter 2024 update. The reason is that the map was horribly optimized and that the map was very laggy for a lot of players. The doors, lighting, objects, and moving parts are thought to have been the culprit for its removal. Nikilis himself said the map needed optimizing.
• There are plans in the future that suggest the map is getting a revamp to be better optimized.

  

  Nikilis working on a knife box in paint.net.

Problems

• It is the worst optimized map in all of Murder Mystery 2, with many players experiencing bad performance on nSOffice. Most of the players think it's because of the maps excessive lighting and moving parts.
• The automatic doors can be buggy to slow/old devices, with players experiencing lag, so if you are being chased by the murderer, it is recommended not to go to the doors.
• When you spawn inside of the basement, go to the automatic doors and climb the ladder. The first time the map came out, a majority of players got confused about how to get down/out of the basement.
• The map was poorly made, because of this one could clip through the walls of the map. However this was later patched and you can no longer clip through spots around the map
• nSOffice and Hospital3 are some of the only maps that you can use the Teddy Bear glitch method to glitch into areas of the spot. This was around for a year or so until it was patched in March 2020.

Gallery

The Reception.

The Hallway leading to the Main Room.

The Main Room.

Another view of the Main Room.

The Office Area.

Nikilis' Office.

The inside of Nikilis' Office.

The Meeting Room.

The Kitchen/Lounge Area.

The JD logo.

The Recording Room.

Another view of the Recording Room.

The Basement.

The Server Room in the Basement.