Tainted River v2.7

[Moderator]

01:48, 26th Jul 2010
ap0calypse: Approved

 

[-Kobas-]

Oh another map by Cweener! Give me some time and I will leave comment!
Btw I see that your map descriptions become better and better

 

[Cweener]

yeah, I'm trying and getting more familiar with the BB tags

 

[-Kobas-]

I am so disappointed

 

[Cweener]

Fixed, now it is a melee map

 

[-Kobas-]

Just look at pictures
Map need more balance for sure!

GAMEPLAY
Red can exp to 2 mines easy + that one below can be reached easy (destroy/harvest trees)
Blue can exp to 1 mine but with best def, very easy to def and build base!
Teal is in the hardest position here, he has cliff that will block units and buildings from merging to 1 large base!
TERRAIN
Terrain is or empty or full with trees, add some cliffs! And remove small places between trees because small units can hide there!
Fountain looks bad, remove waterfalls
Also tiles are bad, you can harvest or destroy trees with units easy, terrain will look poor!
Add fog (not strong one, example light green from 0 to 15.000)
Add custom light environment
Create region across whole map and add fog effect (light green/white) will be nice + rain from map options will leave nice effect!
ELSE
Also pls calculate shadows and save map always before upload!

I hope that will you fix these problems soon, I will leave review tomorrow so I hope it won't be vote for rejection

 

[Cweener]

will fix these by midnight my time tonight and as for the balancing, i have played in every spot against computers and players, and i believe it is balanced.
(see pic below)
red would have to block a lot more than teal, and has less space to build, but has a mine closer.

blue has trees which can be cleared for space, but has more entrances to block off, and his second gold mine is very open to attack as well.

teal has the most space but has a very separated secondary goldmine, but has an easy first base to defend.

 

[Karner]

Because you helped me out with my map, I'll try out yours. Not that I'm much of a reviewer, but I'll try it out and rate it at least.

 

[Cweener]

Can't wait

 

[Karner]

I really enjoyed it. And contrary to other members belief, I believe its balanced. However I do agree that the waterfalls look kind of ugly, but it doesn't affect my opinion that this is an awesome map. I'm glad I tried it.
All this reviewing has made me tired. Good night sir.

 

[Cweener]

Thanks for the review
and its okay about the waterfalls, they're being taken out when i update this tomorrow.

EDIT: 1.9 Is HERE!
featuring more trees, more doodads, more cliffs, less waterfalls, and more fun xD

EDIT2:
2.3 is here.
changes include,
*major balance changes including,
adding of waygate for teal to get to extra goldmine. adding of extra creeps on bridges from blue&red to extra goldmine. (there you go -Kobas-)
*adding of doodads
*fixed some pathing problems with rocks
*fixed item drops for low-level creeps. (one of them dropped MOD )

 

[Cweener]

hey -Kobas-, when you going to review this?
(sorry for double post, it was to update subscribers)
(doesn't violate rules, because it was for a valid reason )

 

[-Kobas-]

Well right away

EDIT:

Ok let see... Tainted River v2.3

Things that I like:

1st - Map Description
2nd - Tiles are good placed
3th - Sky
4th - Fog
5th - Global Weather
6th - Nice usage of lower and rise terrain tool
7th - Large number of doodads

Things that I don't like:

1st - 7 Gold Mines (Red can easily def 2)
2nd - Some Creeps level 3 or above don't drop items
3th - No point for Way Gate (there is no cliff and distance is small)
4th - It looks like shadows aren't calculated
5th - Fog is 2 strong (15.000 instead of 10.000 will do)
6th - That picture above

7th - Terrain leaks (picture below)
8th - Some doodads like Cattail shouldn't be placed on high ground, far from water. Also you can place a little more shrubs near rocks!

Word or 2 to Author:

*Well I have nothing to say I write all about map above, improve it and I will vote for approval . I will give you 2/5 for this one, items drops, shadows, gold mines and players location are main problems here! Some can be fixed easy but try to improve that problem that I pointed to already above!

2/5

 

[Cweener]

okay,

7 goldmines... every player can get to their goldmine and defend it, and the extra one is accessible in the same amount of distance and resistance for all players.

Drops...well...whoops

Point of waygate is to help teal get to the extra goldmine in the same time as blue and red without having to face the dragon D:

wierd...i calculated shadows.

:/ i kind of liked the fog and though it added great effect. I'll probably not change that.

will fix doodads

New version to be up in ehh a day or so, I'll edit this post once I'm done.
That was old version in pic. New version is balanced i beleive.

*sigh* what is a terrain leak? i feel noobish asking.

 

[-Kobas-]

I be waiting for new version
Well I write terrain leak, just look at picture, grrrr looks really bad, use lower or rise terrain tool to fix blizzard terrain sometimes

 

[Cweener]

oh okay, I thought you meant like it leaked memory some how, I was like ZOH MY GOODNESS!! heh, new vers up within an hour or so.

Edit:
And so it came to pass that the countess who...wait...wrong game...
2.7 IS HERE!!! and it brings

*Fixed creep drops
*Fixed doodads positions and added some shrubberies
*RE-Calculated shadows
*fixed terrain problems with random indentions

 

[Ironside]

I personaly dislike the idea of 3 camps, but that's just me, I will take the previous reviews to give this map a rating of 3/5, I will contact the moderator to approve your map.

 

[Aslit]

too wird, i got this map in a starcraft map search

 

[deepstrasz]

-the southwest mine doesn't have any guardians if the player isn't in the game from the start
-some of the expansion mines are nearer to some players than to others
-overall it has a random look; this sort of map is more suitable for campaigns