Battle of the Forces 1.6

[Moderator]

23:31, 21st Apr 2015
Orcnet: Shadow Fury's review

 

[Flux]

Although not a necessity, it is highly recommended to put screenshots to attract players. Sometimes, words are not enough to get the interest of players.

Oh and welcome to the hive

 

[JaredVeatz]

Although not a necessity, it is highly recommended to put screenshots to attract players. Sometimes, words are not enough to get the interest of players.

Oh and welcome to the hive

The screenshots and videos are currently in works... I will update this as quick as I can... Anyway, thanks for the tip!

 

[Shadow Fury]

TERRAIN The terrain was too poor. The whole pathways were made with the Rock tile only which means lack of tile variation. Then, I don't get why using the Small Bricks tile of Sunken Ruins in this map. It simply looks bad with the other tiles. Even the Cityscape tiles look really dreadful with the rest of the tiles. I advise you to choose the tiles you use carefully to get a decent result. Next issue are the doodads. They were not manipulated well as many areas do not have any doodad. The inner forests are especially the ones I'd like to draw your attention to. They have been not decorated well. For the underworld's forest, for example, you could've used Northrend Tree Walls + Northrend Canopy Tree Walls to make it actually look like dead forest. Other decorative doodads like skull piles, remains scorched, trash etc... would've been awesome. To sum the whole thing up, the terrain really needs better tile usage and more decorative doodads. GAMEPLAY The gameplay was not entertaining. Simply the fact that all heroes have copy-and-pasted skills from default heroes definitely ruined the gameplay. It is not funny to play heroes with default skills. You need originality! In addition, the items seemed good enough but I'm concerned about the cost of Mask of Death. It provides 50% lifesteal for 1000 gold only. This is a theft! Sincerely I feel that most starting items are too cheap as well or probably it's just the starting gold too very high. This makes the gameplay really unbalanced. So you should either increase the cost of items or decrease the amount of starting gold. Overall gameplay seriously needs to be refined and polished OTHER ISSUES Why did you set the Defendants to "Camp" (Acquisition Range 200)? By doing so, the defendants will not attack creeps that get very close to them and I don't think this is appropriate. Then, why are all towers of the same power? It should be like this: the first towers I encounter deal X damage and have Y HP, then the second towers have values of damage and HP greater than X and Y. Those towers should also be invulnerable. Just follow DotA style; when I destroy the tier 1 tower, tier 2 (stronger) tower becomes vulnerable. OVERALL RESULT In conclusion, the map requires improvements critically. For now, I'd give it 1.5/5 and vote for rejection.