Battle of the Barrens v1.40

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Vengeancekael
Date: 2013/Feb/10 16:26:56

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Lacking Description: Template
Credits to be posted in-game + in the Hive Description.​

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Comment:

Also list an explanation on all the new races.
A full credits list is required.​

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Map still pending and rated 2/5. It still needs some little things to be approved. See my review for some informations: Review

 

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Map Reviewer: Hell_Master Map Name: Battle of the Barrens Map Author: Phoenix1 Originality The idea of making a melee map using the races High Elves, Nagas and Demons looks perfectly fine though not much original because seriously, users can fully make a map by just changing the available race to this ones. Score: 60/100 Presentation Presentation looks fine and quite acceptable but could use some more BB Codes to make it better in designs and visuals. Make the font of the headers such as "Battle of the Barrens v1.00", "New Races", and "Credits" to bold to give emphasis to them. Also, you could give colors and different font sizes to them but make sure to stay in just one color. Enclose Credits in a Hidden BB Code tag to make it shorter but still having the exact and same informations. Optional. Add some screenshots in the description to better present your map. It would be great to show some because most users sees through the screenshots before playing but as I've said, it's optional. Score: 58/100 Design Tooltips looks very fine but I saw some changes in the custom unit's descriptions and you should definitely make it informative as possible and not just a single line like in the Normal Guard Dog, Archers tooltips and such.. The new command button icons looks good in appearance but does not actually fit on the overall games' UI (applies for High Elf since this is the only race I've played so far). The default icons would do and is much better. Icon placements on buildings is a mess. Try organizing them well: in the upper part should be the units and down parts are the upgrades and etc.. Score: 60/100 Object Data Filesize looks big and I do think could be lower (if I am not wrong but If I am, pardon me). Seeing that most of the custom resources comes from icons which are small and little amounts are in buildings, its quite alarming to see this reaching almost 7 MB in size. Score: 59/100 Gameplay To repeat, bad icon placements in buildings and also the custom icons for the command button looks out of place and does not fit. It would be advisable just to use the default ones. Some units such as Normal Guard Dog does not fit for the High Elves. I suggest you to remove that and just stay at Warriors, Archers, Lieutenant and then Captain. Most of the units, upgrades and etc... available for most races looks copy-pasted from the original Warcraft but there is no problem with that but it is much advisable if you would add something in it or totally create a new concept from it. It makes an altered melee much more interesting. Heroes looks totally new but seems to be really deceiving due to that it is just a model change but still having the same and old spells for each original heroes. As I've said, it is pretty much fine if you CnP but it is really much better if you would add something in it or totally create a new concept from it. Score: 44/100 Game needs more uniqueness in concept and ideas due to that the map is just a merge of secret races from Warcraft III with a little addition of something. Presentation is improvable at many parts. See my Presentation part of my review for the suggestions. Tooltips could be much better by providing key informations that needs to be known by players. The custom command button looks totally out of place and it is advisable for you to use just the default icons. Icon placements looks really mess up. I suggest organizing them. Filesize looks big. 7 MB for just some large amount of icons but totally small ones and little amount of building and unit icons is quite alarming. Final Score: 56.200/100 2/5 - Rejected Contact: (Visitor Message) / (Private Message) / (Map Reviewers)

 

[Phoenix1]

Thanks a lot for the review. I will change the description, tooltips, and revert the custom command buttons to the normal ones, which should also help reduce the filesize. I will also fix the icon placement in buildings.

 

[Phoenix1]

Oh, and Hell Master, I actually used a lot of models. More than most maps of this type actually. I ask you to try Demon next time you try this map, as it has a lot more than High Elf.