Kalindor Forest

[Kino]

It works as a melee map, however I do consider this to be of approval quality.
When you create a melee map, pretty much the only 2 things you need to worry about are terrain visuals and terrain balance.
> As a general rule, I should not be able to clearly see where your texture brush strokes are.
> Another general rule; try not to have repeating doodads of the exact same variation.

And even if these things were not an issue, the map is overall very basic; with no outstanding visual theme or overall plan to it.
- Moved to too simple.

 

[Ken21]

Ok but what do you mean by"not be able to clearly see where your texture brush strokes are." and " repeating doodads of the exact same variation." ?

 

[Kino]

> Your ashenvale canopy trees, there is a large block of them, of the exact same variant in a perfectly straight row.
> "Ok but what do you mean by"not be able to clearly see where your texture brush strokes are."" With your ground textures, its very obvious where the brush strokes you used are, big blocky noticeable diamond shapes on the map.

Considering the size of map you had to terrain, these 2 flaws are not acceptable.

 

[Ken21]

Ok ty, I will consider these changes
And is the map balanced?

 

[Kino]

Ok ty, I will consider these changes
And is the map balanced?

Technically it is balanced.
However even if you fixed the above issues, I still would not approve the map.

With melee maps you only need to do 2 things.
1) Have a reasonably balanced map
2) Terrain that looks good and or is interesting

Its very easy to get 1 correct, and many people have tried flooding the submission board with half-assed maps (not pointing fingers) on the account that they are balanced melee maps and therefore "approval worthy"
Because it is so easy to make a map that fits criteria 1, you must go the extra mile to make your terrain really good (IMO).

If you're interested, I suggest studying blizzard melee maps and see whether you can make a map that can pass off as one.