Rat Maze Alpha

[Deleted member 247165]

@Wazzz or @deepstrasz any of you giving a try to this?

 

[deepstrasz]

@Wazzz or @deepstrasz any of you giving a try to this?

Sorry. It's Reforged.

 

[Deleted member 247165]

Sorry. It's Reforged.

@Wazzz?

 

[Wazzz]

Yeah I should be able to check it out <3

 

[MrFrichyBoy]

Yeah I should be able to check it out <3

Awesome let me know what you think? And if it can get approved

 

[deepstrasz]

Sorry. It's Reforged.

Although it uses classic models. Hmm. I'll see if it works when I get some time. Maybe until then, Wazzz will already have reviewed it.

 

[MrFrichyBoy]

Fixed a few bugs and reuploaded the map! Enjoy

 

[Wazzz]

Review time.

Rat Maze is a relatively simple concept, where players will need to work together to navigate the labyrinth and survive the oncoming waves of enemies. Truly, you are a rat in a maze trying to find enough cheese to make ends meet, and there are minigames as well.

The playstyle is very simple, although with the scarcity of resources most of what you will likely be doing will be running around and running away. There are plenty of items to pickup, making some of the potential early purchases worthless when you can pick up these non-stacking items for free. For some reason, these non-stackable items are also able to be purchased multiple times to no benefit, which is a big detriment in my eyes.

The Cheese stacks are impractical at present. Picking these up can stack up to 20 times before occupying another space, and there does not appear to be a way to drop these items, so you can very easily end up losing inventory space for something that isn't worth anything after picking it up for the 15 gold.

There is a good variety of enemies with different behaviors, some just behaving like bigger versions of the original Pacmen that will spawn in, others moving faster but not being an instant-kill scenario, one hunting you down any time the AI has vision of you. The minigames add a bit of variety to what could otherwise become a stagnant playstyle, too, although they don't seem particularly well designed. The Gladiator minigame, for instance, has you use a Daemon Prince hero to fight off hordes of Skaven who are zeroing in on trying to destroy your castle. One of the skills you can choose is Thorns Aura, which does absolutely nothing since the Skaven don't ever attack you. When you lose (and this is a very strong possibility), a message is sent to everybody informing them that you do not know how to play Warcraft. Generally, it's not a good idea to insult players after they inevitably fail a mini-game that isn't that well designed to begin with, but also has quite a high level of difficulty and, not to mention, doesn't have that much to do with Warcraft's playstyle at all.

The map's alright, it's nothing too inspired but it's serviceable enough. There's the occasional typo ("Accquired" instead of "Acquired", for example), but those sorts of things are easily forgiven and easy enough to fix. For the above mentioned reasons, I will be rating this a Simple resource, and hopefully people have fun with it

 

[MrFrichyBoy]

Review time.

Rat Maze is a relatively simple concept, where players will need to work together to navigate the labyrinth and survive the oncoming waves of enemies. Truly, you are a rat in a maze trying to find enough cheese to make ends meet, and there are minigames as well.

The playstyle is very simple, although with the scarcity of resources most of what you will likely be doing will be running around and running away. There are plenty of items to pickup, making some of the potential early purchases worthless when you can pick up these non-stacking items for free. For some reason, these non-stackable items are also able to be purchased multiple times to no benefit, which is a big detriment in my eyes.

The Cheese stacks are impractical at present. Picking these up can stack up to 20 times before occupying another space, and there does not appear to be a way to drop these items, so you can very easily end up losing inventory space for something that isn't worth anything after picking it up for the 15 gold.

There is a good variety of enemies with different behaviors, some just behaving like bigger versions of the original Pacmen that will spawn in, others moving faster but not being an instant-kill scenario, one hunting you down any time the AI has vision of you. The minigames add a bit of variety to what could otherwise become a stagnant playstyle, too, although they don't seem particularly well designed. The Gladiator minigame, for instance, has you use a Daemon Prince hero to fight off hordes of Skaven who are zeroing in on trying to destroy your castle. One of the skills you can choose is Thorns Aura, which does absolutely nothing since the Skaven don't ever attack you. When you lose (and this is a very strong possibility), a message is sent to everybody informing them that you do not know how to play Warcraft. Generally, it's not a good idea to insult players after they inevitably fail a mini-game that isn't that well designed to begin with, but also has quite a high level of difficulty and, not to mention, doesn't have that much to do with Warcraft's playstyle at all.

The map's alright, it's nothing too inspired but it's serviceable enough. There's the occasional typo ("Accquired" instead of "Acquired", for example), but those sorts of things are easily forgiven and easy enough to fix. For the above mentioned reasons, I will be rating this a Simple resource, and hopefully people have fun with it

Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to review my map. I appreciate the feedback! First thing I fixed was making it so the CHEESE can stack up to 100 instead of 20. I also fixed the Acquired typo, and I removed the thorns aura replacing it with a defense aura. I am keeping the roast in the Gladiator minigame, since it's a joke not a serious critique ! If you could elaborate on how the minigames are poorly designed and how I could fix them, that would be great! Just so you know the Skaven won't directly attack your castle if you bait them, know how to properly time your attacks, and know when to run. Thanks again!

 

[All_Time_Pro]

Super fun game, I really enjoyed playing it! It is very addicting and the mini-games really make the game in my opinion. 10/10

 

[theswarm222]

I enjoy the addition of minigames because it adds casual fun to the game with an added bonus. I think it makes the game more relaxed along with the music choice, and that's what matters to me. Some games are hardcore and others are more relaxed, and in my opinion, we don't have enough relaxed games to play. On the other hand, I don't like the Pacman textures very much, as they're very simplistic compared to the panther, rat, hunter, and ship textures. Also, at this time, barricades aren't very good for much other than attracting enemies. In time though, we'll see. I still think this can be a hard game though. We've wiped out more times than completing the game, and I've yet to see anyone complain about the difficulty. That's good. It's a bit unbalanced in skills, as windwalk seems like the best option compared to entangling roots, net, mirror image, stomp, etc. There's nothing better than unable to be hit by all than targeting one unit or having to manage two.

It's a good game in the works. I hope it gets more love by people.

 

[MrFrichyBoy]

I enjoy the addition of minigames because it adds casual fun to the game with an added bonus. I think it makes the game more relaxed along with the music choice, and that's what matters to me. Some games are hardcore and others are more relaxed, and in my opinion, we don't have enough relaxed games to play. On the other hand, I don't like the Pacman textures very much, as they're very simplistic compared to the panther, rat, hunter, and ship textures. Also, at this time, barricades aren't very good for much other than attracting enemies. In time though, we'll see. I still think this can be a hard game though. We've wiped out more times than completing the game, and I've yet to see anyone complain about the difficulty. That's good. It's a bit unbalanced in skills, as windwalk seems like the best option compared to entangling roots, net, mirror image, stomp, etc. There's nothing better than unable to be hit by all than targeting one unit or having to manage two.

It's a good game in the works. I hope it gets more love by people.

Thank you very very much! I appreciate the feedback a ton! I have slightly increased the cooldown on Windwalk to make it more balanced with the other powers! Im in the middle of a huge update to the game (hopefully the last one), where I add one new minigame, two new buildings, and a few smaller changes. I will be deleting this map submission and reuploading it as a new map so keep your eyes peeled for that. Should be out in a week (depends on how long it takes for my game to get approved).
Btw I agree the texture for the Pacmen sucks lol, there aren't many to choose from. Feel free to add me on Battlenet as a friend SneakyTurtle#1557344.

 

[Deleted member 247165]

@SneakyTurtle I restored your bundle.

If you need further help, pm me.

 

[Deleted member 247165]

Re-review. I asked the author to stream it via Discord. Chatted with him during the tests and play through. The game itself is quite fun and offers a big variety of interesting mechanics and entertainment. The mini game in which you have to build nests should be improved a bit, as in hasting the building speed. Other than that, Ratmaze is approved with a 4/5 rating! Congrats!

 

[All_Time_Pro]

I love the updated format

 

[MrFrichyBoy]

Join the Rat Maze discord to leave your input on the game to improve it !

 

[Ballonskipper]

Hey!

I tried out your map with a couple of friends the other day and i quite like the idea of a chase map with different mini-games and a tiny bit of building. The map is quite simple in it's gameplay which i think works well for this type of map and i like that it is more about running than base building (i tried to built a base for a final stand but a couple of frogs found me and ruined my brilliant plan xD).

Some things are not that intuitive or require you to go to the quest log to find out which is fine but i had no idea the cheese factory existed before i died and got the time to read the quest log. Furthermore the camera could maybe pan to the skill selection building during the tutorial as i found out way to late that i could pick skills.

The mini games are a very fun addition to keep this type of map fun but again they are a bit unintuitive to find as i thought the different buildings were just doodads. But when i found out it was quite fun searching the map for mini-games while trying to stay alive.

All in all it is a very fun map but a bit rough around the edges. Looking forward to the next update!