Illidan V Arthas 2.01

[Daffa]

I will be extremely blunt after wasting around 8 minutes playing this:
"Do you even properly playtest your map before uploading here?"

This map is not even properly set-up in my opinion. The game is extremely stale that I wonder how I even bother trying to finish this with my time and I am sure polishing this review takes more time than me playing this map. Let's get to the details:

1. No win condition. YES. NO WIN CONDITION! I defeated Arthas as Illidan and NOTHING HAPPENS!
2. Why do you even need the gold? With better set-up on the object editor data, the golds and lumbers are not even necessary.
3. The units, with Illidan, Arthas, and the building each player start with as exception, is basically default melee game data.
4. Illidan with Infernal that spawns Naga Royal Guard? Are you serious? This can be a proper summoning ability rather than this ... weird combination.
5. Or do I have to mention that Drunken Haze? Could've better customized abilities here.
6. Or the fact that Mana Burn is still here despite everything else?
7. Could've just removed the unnecessary travel segment and everything else is more or less the same. There's no real build-up, even if both sides follow the supposed path.
8. Well, when I looked the map file up, look at what I found. The ONLY TRIGGER in the map:

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing your goal it to kill Illidan or Arthas depending who you picked,you may begin as An exact match
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Quest - Create a Required quest titled Kill arthas or illi... with the description kill illidan or art..., using icon path ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\BTNAnimateDead.blp
    • Game - Display to (All players) for 10.00 seconds the text: kill arthas or illi...

This map can work if properly set-up, similar to bosses in some campaigns. However, this is extremely subfar that I am at a lost. Unless majorly improved, a 1/5 is pretty much what I can give out.

 

[deepstrasz]

Yes, I'll have to agree with most of what @Daffa commented.
It's indeed too simple, more like a test map, really.

Simple.

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