Review - Fel Pit v1.0
(Version May 21st 2025)
Synopsis: Fel Pit is a melee map for two players, featuring the Felwoods tileset, which has been beautifully transformed into a fel-corrupted wasteland. The diagonally mirrored map looks aesthetically stunning, without sacrificing visual clarity or gameplay quality. The fiery landscape offers a lot of room to play around with, yet the expansion gold mines towards the middle of the map are important strategic objectives waiting to be contested.
Map Aesthetics: Very beautiful terrain work with amazing tile usage. Amazing. Props and tiles have been used in good synergy, without neglect of minor details and environmental storytelling (for example, eggs near the scorpion creep camp). The map has a few unusual and a bit unclear features: the waterfall river and custom-made cliffs, but I'd deem them to have a minor, if an,y negative impact on playability as they are very distinct features. Overall, a very strong job on visuals. Good job.
Map Layout: The diagonal mirroring is nice to see as it is not as apparent form of mirroring (visually). The map looks to be balanced and properly mirrored. The central areas are very open (perhaps overly so). The top-left expansion gold mine is perhaps the most valuable objective, and it (together with the other expansion sites) has so limited build-space available leaves them quite exposed to enemy harassment. An aspect that would be nice to see is to implement cliff-level to the custom cliffs through usage of ramps: most important custom cliffs are in the corners of the map, and thus you could hide the actual cliffs by usage of ramps - this way players could still utilize the natural evasion chance, while also gaining sight advantage, without changing the visual look of the environment.
Neutral Objectives: Creep camps look very fitting for the map, and the item drops and strength levels of the camps look appropriate. Special mention to attention to detail. Good job. I do wonder if the neutral objectives are attractive enough to contest, and bringing the third gold mine towards the map center could enhance this impact. Nevertheless, good job.
Map Gameplay: A quality map for two players who enjoy one-on-one skirmishes. Some custom flavor is brought by hand-crafted terrain features, while the rest of the map looks stunning.