Thats a description i like!
Anyways, gameplay looks good from the screenshots

 

Well now it's time to try it out

 

I want to, but i am not at home.
Is it possible to play single player, or is there a AI

 

There is no AI support and honestly, it would be pretty hard to make for a map like this imho.
You may explore the game in single player to be ready when you play it online, but there will be nearly no opposition from the cpus.

 

Yea, i heard it is hard to create a good AI. Will test tomorrow.
Anyways, from the description + screenies it looks awesome.

EDIT : I am home now. It were a short trip, but i were too lazy to do else.

I will review it as soon as possible.

 

That's some positive feedback already then

 

Etzers review of Avatar (v. 0.14c)

Loading screen :
Already at the loading screen i were impressed. No spelling mistakes, a good explanation of the history, and a nice loading screen image!
4/5

Gameplay :
The start with R.D.A. were hard, but i got the hang. Soon enough i had gotten a base up and running. The gameplay were not really fun, but enough to keep me.
I have yet to explore the Avatars and Na'vi races.
3/5

Terrain :
The terrain were a real backhanger, it were behind everything else, all plain, some trees dropped at random, some blight (a.k.a. stone) nothing special.
1/5

Systems :
Multiboard :
Epic. Very nice, especially the "trees" and "regrowing trees" The temprature were nice too
Trees :
1200 hp and 2400 hp. Nothing special, just for harvesting.
Unobtanium :
Nice system, right click, and you get 6 gold per second, untill it dies (after a while /5-15 minutes depending on the number of units ordered to harvest), i really liked this, for some reason
Random tips, and dialogues between Avatars and the R.D.A.'s. Very good
3/5

Models :
The winner here. Awesome models with "building animations", death animations, and "WIP" animation (The stone gatherer thing moves it's gatherer thing when it collects. Epic!)
I liked how you could see how the buildings were slowly build behind the cages (fences, building structure, building skeleton)
The intro cinematic were good too. It were like a bunch of ODST's
5/5

OVERALL RATING (While playing as R.D.A.'s ONLY) : 3/5 voting for approval, and rep+.

 

well im not really sure what to think of this map. it is fun...but at the same time the na vi have like 4 units and the corp has 4 or 5 i dont remeber. as far as the in space spot went there isnt anything to do when your "in space". it takes a LONG time to build anything. it was a decent map but i would like to see more units and skins/models.

Oh another thing when my hero guy died and i went to revive him. I put the mouse over the tooltip and it said revive blademaster.

 

Thanks for the early and detailed review

Too bad you played alone though, it sure is no fun to play against noone.

The terrain is currently being redone by a co-mapper, it will be as good as the rest soon enough.

Glad you like the systems, i've improved the info about them in map description.

For the models i'm happy to see that you appreciate my work with them, but a big part of the merit here goes to the epic modelers that i've listed in the credits in map description, i thank them for these.

Thanks for the ratings and the rest!

PS: What is an ODST lol?

I see, the units are few at the moment because i favor quality over amount of units. I take the time to give them a real purpose and nice custom abilities.
There will be progressively alot more as i get through beta stage: at least all the units that are in the movie, plus some others for the fun of it (i will probably add a command to deactivate the extra units if purists request that).
Note that you probably haven't seen all the corp units if you think there are only 4 or 5.
For the long build time, if you mean for Corps, you can just powerbuild with many workers at once. Did you mean for the Na'vi?

The "In space (observer slot)" player, as the name says, is only for observing.
I use it to see any bugs easily. Some people might enjoy watching a game from it aswell. I have wider plans for it later on though.

About the revival text glitch, i had already fixed it in 0.15 but thanks for reporting anyways.

 

well first off let me apologize i just looked to see what version i played and it was .07.....oops....lol anyways i will test this one and let you know what i think haha!

 

0.07 ?! Daaaamn, that version is like, super old! It was even still alpha stage lol. No wonder you wanted to see more models lol.
Okay i'll look forward for your review and rating of 0.14c, it's a nice thing that you took the time to point out the error, by the way. Here's some rep for that.

 

Maybe you should get some screenchots of the other races so that we can see what they are like and the play style of them. Looks like a pretty good map overall im gonna go test it now.

 

Sorry but I don't think there was enough effort being put into the terrain from the screenshots; they all seem plain, although the custom units were very nice, but the tree looked wrecked in wc3. Maybe you should use a custom model for it.

 

OK b4 i get into the bad points let me point out a few good ones

I had ALOT of fun playing this map
Lots of good models
Love the mech system(units getting into the mechs!)

Bad points.
The 80 food cap i dont feel is big enough for the corp. we got SLAUGHTERED. All the avatars just sat around gettin animals on there team. they ended up attacking us with....10-15 of the big animals EACH. so there were between 30-45 of those. and on top of that alot of the smaller ones. as there is no cap on the amount of animals they can control it does tend to be imbalanced late game.

Terrain is fairly plain. does need to be spruced up a bit!

Colateral damage is annoying.... i understand its for realism but....damn.....i hate it lol!

Anyways i look forward to the next version. ATM i would give map 3.5/5 and vote for approval! make terrain a bit better and the rating will improve!

 

Hey you gotta admit the thing with taking animals on your side is pretty impressive...
Oh and 30-45 big animals should be easy to beat (with 3-4 corp players). Just take the units with right attack type, y'know.

 

Terrain is currently being redone by another member of the project who does that much better than me.
You should not restrict yourself to the screenshots though, everything is carefully animated in this map, but i'd need a video to advertise that (and for example, its impossible to screenshoot an earthquake, even though i tried lol)

For the trees i just need nice doodads with animations, but i found out that it's pretty rare around here.

EDIT:

Hey that's alrdy more encouraging than your review of 0.07 eh glad you like the map.

Now for the bad points:
-Food cap will be raised slightly soon, and balance changes will make a higher rise unnecessary;
-An animal cap type-dependent has just been added to v0.15;
-Terrain will be improved soon;
-You'll get used to collateral damage, it's not that bad

Thanks for rating and vote!

Like you said, there is a counter for everything. It's still true that big animals are the strongest units Avatars can get aswell.

 

First let me say

"OMG "

Love the map when I tested it with you I thought it was another crap map ready for me to waste my life on when we got in to in I was like breath taking just like the movie
I have seen maps with better terrian and better moddels but then the game play is crap now this map has potential.
If you stoped developing it I would hunt you down in real life and kill you no joke!

The quest system needs work
The terrain since another person is working on it
As it was said before the game play is a little unbalenced later in the game
(I destroyed 4 corp players by having a load of thantors)
and up the time the avatars get because avatars take a long time to start up were the corp dont take long to

suggestions
Why not more navi
One hometree because in the movie there is only one
Small vilages
also make the thantor black
http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/jamescameronsavatar/images/2/2c/Thanator.png

 

More like dark blue, no?

 

Hehe, glad you like it ^^ as you see, no it aint at all the usual noob map made in two sunday afternoons lol.

All of what you pointed out will be improved in the near future, so don't worry about that. Especially animal limit, 0.15 is bringing solid improvements to that.

In the movie they implicitely tell that there are other hometrees. From some pictures you can see them rising above the rest anyways.
Each hometree will have a real navi village around it.
Ill darken the thanator.

If you got any additional feedback, feel free to tell