Creature Defense v.1.0

[Moderator]

11:22, 8th Dec 2010
ap0calypse: Rejected

 

[Arcisal]

Created by Unknown ; Uploaded by: human-master112

 

[light bolt30]

Fix author name. Also here's a list of BB Codes to make the description more colour and add some screenshots to attract more attention.

 

[ap0calypse]

First things first: the map must have a valid author name, it can never be approved without one (Scenario -> map description -> "author").
The type shouldn't be Tower Defense, as there are no towers (in fact: why defense? You need to kill bases, right?)

Objects:
There's a lot to do here.
You didn't give heroes different proper names, you didn't even change the attributes (I could clearly see of which hero you based them, by just looking at the attributes and/or their proper name).
You must customize the heroes, make them different from the regular ones.

The spells are also very lacking: most heroes (if not all) only have 2 standard spells.
Spells are crucial to hero-games, just taking the blizzard spells is a really easy and cheap way out.

You focus on quantity WAY too much, you've got so many heroes, but not one of them is any good!
How about you reduce the number of heroes to... let's say 4 or 5 and actually put some effort into making those 4-5 heroes playable?
Quality > quantity, always and ever - do not be mistaken there, it'll cost you.

Gameplay:
This was downright horrible at the moment.

At the beginning, I picked "All Random", got the tuskarian and a hero chooser.
So I picked

Then I made some mountain giants, archers etc (units in general), they spawned near the mode choose-circles, so I picked "All-random" another... 10-20 times or so, so I got all heroes and all races. For 3 gold per hero and race (as an archer costs 3 gold), not bad, not bad at all.

I repeated this a few times, got about 100 heroes until I thought it was enough.
At this point, the game got completely useless.
I completely crushed any resistance I came across.

There's no need to continue this story, you clearly need to fix this massive bug (did you even test the map yourself?)

Terrain:
Everything is flat and boring to look at.
You've put some geometrical shapes of dirt in an area, blizzard cliffs around the sides and you're done.
Obviously this isn't good enough: give the players something to look at, something enjoyable.



I'll stop here, the triggers also need to be completely redone, but the things previously mentioned will take so much time that the triggers are the least of your concerns (and this comes from someone who values triggers as one of the most important aspects of mapping, so I hope you realize just how much needs to be done).

If you think you're ready to update the map, leave me a message and I'll unlock the map.

 

[human-master112]

thanks, have a couple questions + comments;
Comments:
Heros are suppose to be "basic" because this isnt a hero type of game. they are jsut supporters and arnt suppose to have whacked out awsome abilitys (which i can make)
if you still think that it shud be done; it will
Terrian: your completly right, i have to fix the terrian by adding more doodads and such, i just rushed through it.
Hero Names: no biggy il do it
Glitches: il fix the hero picker thing, minor glitch
Triggers: Ok, now this is when the answers start flowing, so i know theire may be alot of triggers that may cause game leaks "which so far their has been none out of the 37 practice runs i took", i would highly appreciate what needs to be fixed by adding variables or somthing. im kinda rusty at maps these days. so just give me a tutorial and it will be done
please reply and il work on a update asap.

your friend: human-master112

ps. i know how to change the map creator lolol

 

[ap0calypse]

I don't know who can change the author name and who can't, so I just said it in case... ^^

Another thing:

[...] triggers that may cause game leaks "which so far their has been none out of the 37 practice runs i took [...]

You don't notice leaks (memory leaks) in test-runs, triggers like yours cause memory leaks, undetectable little bastards (that is: until you've got too much of them, then you'll notice it... but it's also too late then).
You should read a little about it, just go to the tutorial section, press Ctrl + F and enter "leaks", you should find a few things ^^

(And how could you not notice that 'minor' glitch after 37 test-runs?)

Don't forget to change the stats of heroes as well!
And yes, make their skills better... having heroes in your map pretty much requires bad-ass spells.

 

[human-master112]

lol. the reason i didnt figure that glitch out is that becasue i just added it b4 i uploaded it, so thats why lol. do you have any tips on better types of triigering? cause thats how i was taught to do triggers. if it isnt a really big deal i would just like it to be kept as it is.
eh dont worry about this map, im giving up way to many glitches. im going to start on somthing different and make sure its good, and thanks buddy, il add rep. to you.