Fire Swamp

[Moderator]

Orcnet

19:39, 16th Nov 2013

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FireSwamp (Tested Version Last Updated: 12th Nov 2013) Rate Score Percent Letter 5/5 91-100 A Rate Score Percent Letter 4/5 81-90% B Rate Score Percent Letter 3/5 75-80% C Rate Score Percent Letter 2/5 70-74% D Rate Score Percent Letter 1/5 50-69% F Overview: Gameplay "The performance of the game is a good as Blizzard accurate, creep difficulty is neat as well on gathering resources, although players will not expect a bundle of lumber supply from there main bases, still it can be improvised." Terrain "Terrain has a bizarre view of fire and flame, this is quite a unique trait for designing a terrain, a real good looking as well." Management "Overall map can is recommended." Total Score: (Gameplay[x/5] + Terrain[x/5] + Management[x/5] / Total Score[15] * 50 + 50) Rate Score Percent Letter 10/15 83% B

 

[Legal_Ease]

- Add a Screenshot please!

 

[Ken-E]

Full Review Emerges

The idea for this map is really inventive and fresh! Trees felt like in the right place I really like that and the hybrid mix of the terrain is pure win, although I think you forgot to put a description on the map and the Suggested Players should be: 2v2v2, FFA (imo, I don't think FFA would be suitable for the map since two players are far too near to one another)

The map may feel a narrow and to tight making maneuvering a bit bothersome and island jumping might leave you unsatisfied, honestly, I don't know how to put it. Overall I think there's a lot room for improvements...

This isn't my full review, just leaving my initial feedback. Further testing your map, map rating score will be coming soon.

 

[sonofjay]

A wild SonofJay appears!

Fire Swamp, I personally find this melee map interesting but really messy on many ways. To use the rarely use but effective Natural-Bridge doodad is already impressive on your part but to abuse it that much? That was so gutsy and I think it did some wonders but mostly backfired. The good thing about this is that its new to some players to have bridge to connect islands after islands and I'm pretty sure they'll enjoy that.

I think you didn't consider that if two team clashes on one of the bridge then maneuvering your army will be a real pain in the ass. Well here is a better situation, imagine 4-6 team clashing on one bridge? Brilliant isn't it? Oh and the bridge can use some love, it looks really plain and bad with the dungeon tileset. Usually using some other doodads to cover its will work.

Anyway, the terrain overall doesn't really appeal to me that much, it sure is nice to mix the terrain, but the terrain tileset you picked doesn't really mesh with each other. I think Dungeon and Icecrown might have been a more interesting terrain to mix having a little bit of symbolism in the mix if you can come up with any. Other terrain issue is that its too empty, I know that you're already dealing with small islands to operate but there are some doodads that doesn't have pathing to clog the small available terrain space. Also those fire, rocks, shrubs doodads that you spammed is actually painful in the eyes right now. You might want to reduce the fire doodads and reorganize the rocks and doodads you spammed.

Gameplay wise, the bridge already brings a lot of interesting stuffs in the table so accompanying it with goblin lab just made everything more interesting. The creep drops is also acceptable(always nice to see melee map with custom item table) and there are lots of creeps to farm.

Anyway, my current rating is just 2/5. I think this should remain pending for a while for you to make some adjustments.

 

[normalice]

A wild SonofJay appears!
I think you didn't consider that if two team clashes on one of the bridge then maneuvering your army will be a real pain in the ass. Well here is a better situation, imagine 4-6 team clashing on one bridge? Brilliant isn't it? Oh and the bridge can use some love, it looks really plain and bad with the dungeon tileset. Usually using some other doodads to cover its will work.

well, it's really intended as an FFA map, but i really hate bottlenecks. I'll try to figure something out - I think that I might be able to expand some of the island in size and use 'wide' bridges instead of 'long' bridges.

Anyway, the terrain overall doesn't really appeal to me that much, it sure is nice to mix the terrain, but the terrain tileset you picked doesn't really mesh with each other. I think Dungeon and Icecrown might have been a more interesting terrain to mix having a little bit of symbolism in the mix if you can come up with any.

I'll give that a shot.

edit: that didn't really work because the only 'natural' cliff type available is snowy, which makes no sense in a fire map..

You might want to reduce the fire doodads and reorganize the rocks and doodads you spammed.

well, the fire is there to mask the horrible lava tiles. Additionally, all of the lava tiles are pathing blocked - I suspect people won't really see the fire very often except from a distance. It's "spammed" in such a way that it blends in to the background. I'm guessing if I clean up the rest of the doodads, it might make the fire look cleaner too.

I'll give it another once-over with a refreshed sense of purpose sometime soon. It seriously took a week of agony to get it how it currently is. I just needed to not look at it for a while and see what other people thought of it..

 

[taavidude]

terrain good as always 5/5
creeps 4,5/5 i think in some places the creep camps are too powerful and there are no green creep camps near starting positions
doodad 4/5 some places are just pretty empty, more trees would be better the starting postions are good by trees but the middle is pretty empty
players 4/5 i think the map is pretty big for 6 players because the map is actually big enough for even 8 players
overall rating 5/5

 

[Orcnet]

Map approved, see moderator comment on top.

 

[Avicuss]

Everything looks good to me except the fires are a little much...