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Sect of the Holy Mother 7

Here it is, the Sect of the Holy Mother 7 - The Siege of Zambilion! Nothing much to say regarding the map except that I hope you enjoy it.

Oh, yes. A member asked my permission to look around the map in the world editor in order to learn from it. I did find it rather polite, but you do not need my permission for that, the map is not protected, therefore I want you to learn from it, but of course don't modify any of my maps and don't redistribute them.

Feedback is always welcome, of course.

Oh, and this is not the last part, as some of you might think. There will be a part 8 which will be the final, but don't let that worry you because I already have the next project planned and it will be situated in the same world, about 20-30 years after the events in the Sect of the Holy Mother.

I leave you now to your map watching. Have fun!

Keywords:
Sect, Holy Mother, Kafana, Nikola, Cool, Awesome, Battle, Epic, Zambilion, Fort, Cult, House of Dusk
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Sect of the Holy Mother 7 (Map)

Level 7
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I think the movie is great! Like he others you have made. I realy like the fort and exelent terrain, when they talk not to short and no to long. Perfect, hope you do more movies +rep. :)

But may I ask, how do you get the ground going upp like walls, I cant find out how.
 
Level 3
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a great 5/5 from me, and I wish there is a next part, u cant let the end so open :O
anyways great "movie" great work, keep it up :)
 
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Did anybody actually read my comment attached to the map? It says there will be part 8...

P.S. I am trying to fix this mysterious bug that does not load the extension. I will contact Ralle and see what the problem is, but for those of you that don't know, all you need to do rename the map by adding a .w3x at the end of the name of the map. I will try to fix this as soon as possible and I am really sorry, but it really isn't my fault.
 
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Well, I've never heard of or seen this series, though I'm sure it's a fine addition to the director's cut I'm gonna have to watch it all!
 
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The VII was very good, except it lagged for me in some parts :( But not many.

And OMG! Why the fuck did you have to end it like THAT :D ?

Now I want to watch part VIII even more zomg! :p

Omg... I don't want to wait :D
 
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I don't believe this! Yesterday I log out and there were 8 votes and a rating of 5.00. Today 9 votes with a rating of 4.56, which means somebody gave me a 1 just because I had a perfect score.

God damn noobs. I'm not saying that the map deserved a perfect score but with 8 votes of the grade of 5 and a Director's Cut I would say that the minimum grade to vote would be a 3, if that!
 
Level 7
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eh awesome cinematic and the best battlefield 10000/5 its a bit laggy when the angels of death come Good Job Nikola :thumbs_up:
 
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That's the problem with text, for some it is too fast, for some too slow and for some just right. Sorry if it was too fast for you, but I think that this speed is just about the right speed for most people.

P.S. I want you guys to check out the official map in which the story of the Sect of the Holy Mother is situated.
 
Level 3
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Great as always.
CMarket, You are a genius (yes, i know i said it before :p).
5/5

When will we see the next part ?
I can't wait ;)
 
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Samus is blonde? Woah! I always imagined her to have dark brown/black hair...

I think the chances of it being game fixes is alot higher than an incorrect installation.
Stop the hax!
 
Level 13
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Fellow cinematicer.
I watched your cinematic, and started watching with the assumption that it would be a really good cinematic, not that I am pin pointing out that it's a bad one, but it has a directors cut for a "reason".

I would like to shortly review your cinematic.
Terrain: You had some nice terrain here and there, some nice custom doodads where used to amplify the environmental feeling.
Other than that, make sure to use a few Ctrl+Page downs, to get those tree roots in the ground, they look ugly if you don't do that.

Camera: You camera work was quite poor, you took shots on decent angles, but you often let these angles stay for a little too long, the panning was ok, eventho you might consider slowing down before you hit the end of a camera of fade out.
Make sure you don't go through landscape or doodads with your Camera, Blizzard has a really nice way of showing what is inside the doodad ;).

Action: Make sure that when you make action, that you make it realistic, it's very important in fights that you maintain the realism, 3 units bashing on the back of another while that unit isn't dieing isn't really realistic.
Also, a part where the priest talks to his general while he's attacking and is getting his, these things make the cinematic way let realistic.
It's important that you keep every aspect of the fight in your trigger hands, the more you do this, the more realistic you could make a battle look, for an example, download "Shipwrecked part7"

Overall: It's not a bad cinematic, I gave it an overall rating 3/5.
+ Nice landscaping at certain points.
+ storyline was decent.

- Action was unrealistic.
- long conversations, with low amount of camera movement or angles, and no music or something.
- Poor camera work, keep those doodads out of your camera's and try using with slowed pans, or Fades.


Hope this is useful as a review
 
Level 34
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Well Warnico this was fantastic review except this rating 3/5 maybe you was to sharp man, because everyone told this was 5/5 and you only would rate it lower. it deserves more than 3/5 that is fact.
Well still I am impressed with your review because you put alot od concentration to remind everyhting! Some users cant take it because his cinematics are so long for standard cinematics... Well I last few years every day watch at least one movie, soemtimes 2 per day, so it is not problem for me to watch cinematic even 2 hours long!
 
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Well, I am 99% sure that he did not watch the first 6 parts. The strongest points of the Sect of the Holy Mother are the ones that HappyTauren pointed out:

Hoooly sheeet....
I though people were overrating this cinematic :p
Then I played the parts 1-7 from 3-6am. All the feeling, ambient, story line, and defined characters made me think it was truly a movie, and not an ordinary cinematic.
6/5 (Director's Cut).
 
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