Helms Deep 2015 v1.6

[InfernalTater]

Woah... Woah...!
The Terrain is good and this gotta be fun!

Oh! BTW... you must Optimized the file size!

Please edit your second post, copy it, then delete it, and paste the text from your second post into your first post so that you aren't wasting space with two posts in a row within a minute of each other.

It doesn't personally matter to me but a lot of people around here hate double posts so you should fix it and try to avoid double posting in the future; don't forget about the Edit button. If a significant amount of time has passed since your first post than a second post is understandable as people who already checked the thread may not be aware of an edit to the post, however there is no reason to post a second time within a minute of the first post.
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Normally I would take the time to point out how you could improve this map, but there is so much wrong with it that I don't want to spend the next week typing a novel as I have little interest in this map at the moment and it isn't worth the effort. Continue to work on this map, and I'll check on it again some day. When the list of what's wrong with it is short enough to fit on a page, then I'll test it again and tell you what's left to improve.

This is basically a below-average map that makes use of a lot of great imported content.

If I rated it based on how it plays, I would give this a 2/5, but it looks pretty enough to bring that up to a 3/5.

This map needs work on every aspect. You didn't even fix unit collisions; mounted units all stack up into little balls, inside of each other.

This was massively disappointing.

 

[clockwork2]

Ride forth sons of aeoer!!!!!!
EDIT: Did I do that wrong? XD
Anyways I am exceptionally pleased this map is here.
EDIT 2: There will be a third for a review of sorts.
EDIT 3: Here's my review:
As far as helm's deep games go, it's pretty darn accurate! I also found it amusing that middle earth artifacts somehow wound up in Hornburg.
Now because it seems like something the people should found out themselves I am going to leave artifacts mostly unmentioned. The only tiff I have is that the game LAGS something fierce in AI mode. All in all though it's likely not going to bother most people.

 

[Splub]

This looks really awesome! I'll play it sometime later.

Thanks for sharing/uploading! God Bless!

 

[Vengeancekael]

- The intro cinematic.... may as well be left out. It's just the camera moving around in bad angles for a rather long duration.
- Proper icon positioning: If the skill you are about to learn is at the top left, then it should be at the bottom left when learned, etc.
- Better skill tooltips: Please do not use the standard tooltip layout that Blizzard has used. Use more colors, shorten the text and get to the point as to what the skill does and also try using QWER hotkeys.
- Use passive icons for passive abilities (legolas' multi-shot for example). Same thing applies to active skills
- The heroes have awfully boring skills (as well as skill effects) and the combat in general seems uninspired. Heroes with huge amount of HP and enemies that take eons to kill.
- Also the hero abilities seem to have year-long cooldowns.

Honestly just another carbon copy of the typical helms deep map, with nothing new. Neat terrain though, I guess.

 

[Peaces]

will there be simple AI?

 

[A Void]

Why are the images so sharpened? What happened?

 

[FLo0pZ]

did you fix the keybinds ? the health of orcs are a bit high i must say. the cooldown of skills is too long. I'd rather have so-so abilities that i can cast every 10 or so seconds rather than a powerful spell i can cast every minute... and then auto-attack every rest of the time.

the healing item's costs too much (7 gold?) by the time i get 1-2 kills i usually need to heal, and that's focusing all archers + hero on 1 single enemy.

the defenders should have 1-3 different units, (rather than all being archers that can switch stance from range <-> melee vice versa). standard would be tank, dps, healer. make an item so heroes can heal these pawns (ex:healing salve, modified so it won't dispel on hit. or change the healing salve from item skill to unit skill and give it to healers)

did you change the keybinding and description highlight? remember the forbidden Attack, Stop, Move, Patrol, Hold (A,S,M,P,H). don't use it for skills. tried gimli and had to click each time.

add a spellbook unique to each heroes. add abilities like kick ladder, jump, wall rappel, climb wall, knock orcs off bridge, and most important... RUN (increase movespeed, use the potion of speed skill)

aragorn's ultimate should be locust swarm and change the locust model to ghosts (summon undead spirits). but lore wise it only came out on the third movie which is after the siege of helms deep.

 

[sentrywiz]

Well I love the terrain. Its insanely well made.