Black City Doom 1.2

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18:34, 4th Apr 2016
Rufus:

Rufus Review Map Score Gameplay: 9 / 30 Aesthetics: 11 / 20 Total: 20 / 50 Rating Chart 45-50 5/5 Highly Recommended 35-44 4/5 Recommended 25-34 3/5 Useful 15-24 2/5 Lacking 0-14 1/5 Unacceptable Gameplay I played this with its creator. I was playing the main damage dealer / Tank and he was playing the supportive character. It is a pretty basic dungeon crawler with non-edited creeps placed along a track that you need to run through in order to get to the bosses. the bosses themselves are not very exciting fights, since they have no special abilities, just auto-attack to death. The heroes abilities was not too well executed either. Although it was nice having a super slowing ability, it was not at alla balanced. The heroes need a kit rework while retaining their roles as Warrior and support. As for the creeps scattered over the map. htey are not needed in order to clear the map. After only a few minutes I was already at maximum level, and could just run past the creeps in order to get to the bosses, slay them and proceed to win. However, the concept of having one Warrior hero and one support is nice. I liked the kind of team-work feeling we got even though the map was pretty basic. Based on this concept, I believe you can turn this into something good eventually. This game needs a lot of balancing and new ideas in order to be approved. Aesthetics The terrain needs a lift. Currently the terrain is made up by almost entirely default doodads. A few custom doodads can be seen, but they are not enough to create a really interesting terrain. The terrain has been updated since my first look at this, and has become better. However, there are more to do here. I like the ideas with indicating he path for the players so they know where to go, as the maps layout might be pretty confusing. Although I would have picked something else instead of circle of powers. Something smaller like a small torch or floating light. I would however recommend to redo the map layout, so that indicators won't be needed at all. The description could also use a lift. It is informative, but not very attractive in its current state. The screenshot is not working. I recommend adding more screenshots in hidden tags insteaad of links to another page. The imported icons was working and was fitting. Bugs None I could find. Summary This is not yet a really great dungeon crawler. There is a lot of room for improvement, but in its current state it is not very exciting. With some more love on the terrain and perhaps creating a few more custom units, this could be approvable. I hope this review will encourage you to improve your map further! Status set to Awaiting update.

15:54, 8th Apr 2016
Ardenian:

Ardenian's Review Gameplay I agree with all points in the review of Rufus. Black City Doom offers a handful of heroes with default abilities. The players are thrown into action, there is hardly a story behind the game and the gameplay majorly consists of hak'n'slash. Creeps are default ones, too. The heroes are supposed to play a particular role, like Tank, Damager Dealer or caster. One can see, stan0033, that you thought about how to design them, but their quality is not sufficient enough. Think about more out of the corner, what about custom abilities, some more tricks and combinations ? Abilities could influence each other, for example. The difficulty is too unbalanced. The first creep groups are average-easy, but the Satyr groups are already a lot more difficult. You should try to find some balance and linearity. Of course some creeps can be stronger than others, but only making them having more health points and more damage is not innovative. Aesthetics The terrain is not acceptable. I am not going to say much more new points than Rufus already said. It is neither attractive terrain with a decent design nor creative and unique. I recommend you to take a look on our tutorial section for some decent terraining tutorials. Issues I somehow managed to teleport myself in the final area, with the golems, when moving close to the gate right to the starting location. Item drops should not stack on each other. Please do not link the changelog from a Pastebin, but post it in the map description itself. You should add Locust to the Arrow units and you should reveal the path else than with an owl Summary Black City Doom needs a lot more work and love, stan0033. At the moment, it is too simple and lacking features, as well as the presented content does not promise quality and an enjoyable playing experience. Set to Awaiting Update.

 

[Arad MNK]

Some screenshots would be nice.

 

[bear_369]

Some screenshots would be nice.

There's already a single screenshot which is linked than [/B]
Although that's only a whole map screenshot, Ingame screenshots would be great how it works.

 

[Rufus]

Rufus Review Map Score Gameplay: 9 / 30 Aesthetics: 6 / 20 Total: 15 / 50 Rating Chart 45-50 5/5 Highly Recommended 35-44 4/5 Recommended 25-34 3/5 Useful 15-24 2/5 Lacking 0-14 1/5 Unacceptable Gameplay I played this with its creator. I was playing the main damage dealer / Tank and he was playing the supportive character. It is a pretty basic dungeon crawler with non-edited creeps placed along a track that you need to run through in order to get to the bosses. the bosses themselves are not very exciting fights, since they have no special abilities, just auto-attack to death. The heroes abilities was not too well executed either. Although it was nice having a super slowing ability, it was not at alla balanced. The heroes need a kit rework while retaining their roles as Warrior and support. As for the creeps scattered over the map. htey are not needed in order to clear the map. After only a few minutes I was already at maximum level, and could just run past the creeps in order to get to the bosses, slay them and proceed to win. However, the concept of having one Warrior hero and one support is nice. I liked the kind of team-work feeling we got even though the map was pretty basic. Based on this concept, I believe you can turn this into something good eventually. This game needs a lot of balancing and new ideas in order to be approved. Aesthetics The terrain needs a lift. Currently the terrain is made up by almost entirely default doodads. A few custom doodads can be seen, but they are not enough to create a really interesting terrain. The "Black" voidwalker boss is way too large and is covering a big portion of the screen. This should be reduced. the imported icons was working however and was fitting. Bugs None I could find. Summary This is not yet a really great dungeon crawler. There is a lot of room for improvement, but in its current state it is not very exciting. With some more love on the terrain and perhaps creating a few more custom units, this could be approvable. I hope this review will encourage you to improve your map further! Rating set to 2/5 and I think it Needs Fix.

 

[Supernickman 32]

I know it's late but i like this map it's playing normal my rate 4/5.

 

[Zenonoth]

Hello, just tested the map, here's my review
1-No map description ingame ''Nodescript''
2-Loading Screen is empty
3-Terrain is flat and ugly (No appropriate tile variation)
4-Very few items you can get (No shops)
5-Some enemies that you can't reach
6-Boss fights are annoying (No special tactics to follow in order to win)
7-Too many creeps that drain mana
8-You reach level 10 after completing 40% of the map then it gets boring

I'll give this map 3/5 will gladly change/update my rating when you've added the necessary changes, you can also tell me if you don't like my review and I'll gladly remove my rating and comment.

EDIT (9/26/2016): Changed my rating to 4/5 due to adding necessary changes.

 

[Kino]

"The map mostly involves slowly grinding down high life, non-threatening foes while collecting key after key to unlock a succession of doors."

I made this statement in regard to your other map, replace "keys" with 3 bosses and the same applies.
They may have different names, but are mostly the same in this regard.
The saving grace of this one is that it doesn't appear to have been made in under 3 hours. Though, on the flip side, it also means that the game is an incredible chore to play due to how long it is, and how dreadfully the same it is all the way through.

 

[Paillan]

5 - 4 - 2017 Moderation

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