Rentau's Voyage

[Moderator]

16:46, 5th Sep 2010
Cweener: Rejected (until updated)

Review

 

[indomitable1319]

Wow, who downloaded that?! Just joking, but thanks.

 

[takakenji]

looks cool i might try it but im heading off to sleep for now

 

[indomitable1319]

Okay, thanks! Good night.

 

[dexm]

Cool map dude for a beta.

 

[Septimus]

egad!! don't abuse hidden tag. using hidden tag doesn't make your description any good, try to give it a proper structure by using table.

 

[indomitable1319]

Table? Could you help with that?

 

[oldmilk]

Screenshots?

 

[greenfate]

Hmm, not all the people lke first person view, please fix that.

 

[indomitable1319]

Screens? I'll try to put some in.

Hey, how's the game? Only dexm said a 'rather' good review.

 

[Khaled]

Great map but you must set the path of the icons, as disabled version, they are green

 

[indomitable1319]

Don't know how...

 

[oldmilk]

I know someone said that table is better than hidden tags, but for something big like screen shots, I think a hidden tag is good. Don't abuse table. Give your description a proper structure by using both hidden tags and tables in the best way.
As for my review for the game itself, I find it hard to target enemies, because their models are constantly moving when attacking me, so I can't click the same spot. I died because I couldn't target a murloc with Stab.

 

[indomitable1319]

.... Okay. I'll fix that.

 

[Septimus]

I know someone said that table is better than hidden tags, but for something big like screen shots, I think a hidden tag is good. Don't abuse table. Give your description a proper structure by using both hidden tags and tables in the best way.
As for my review for the game itself, I find it hard to target enemies, because their models are constantly moving when attacking me, so I can't click the same spot. I died because I couldn't target a murloc with Stab.

actually it was common sense to use hidden tag for screenshot and changelog

 

[Vuormalainen]

Remove "Even though I'am only twelve years old, I act like I'am is thirteen." and the whole useless biography part, made me sick sorry.

EDIT:
How does this work out?
"Occupation
12 Year Old First Year Highschooler"

"Date of Birth
October 23, 1989 (20)"

 

[indomitable1319]

Hehe, just thought that there was an age limit.

 

[ipwnnn00bs4life]

Ok so I was playing this map and i was thinking this is really cool! But then I heard the Morrowind music and i lol'ed. Its not that I hate Morrowind music its just random and funny because I hated that game.

 

[indomitable1319]

The music sounds awesome to me. But could you please give a full review? I really want to know what I should improve on.

 

[Septimus]

After I play this map, I notice this map lack of proper polishing and definitely need a drastic improvement. My rating for this map is 1/5 (Unacceptable).

I would vote and wrote the entire review later on as I am quite busy at this moment.

 

[BlackKnightTGS]

That was a nice and fun level, looking forward to the continue. I couldn't get past Level 4 (until the Gnoll Dictator), I don't know if I can properly level afterward, since I had to...cheat ._. My game crashed and I saved at the Ogres, and I was too lazy to refight everybody. Anyway, I'll give this a 4/5 for now

Oh, and it'd be nice if you fix the icons, cause when I pause, the fearsome green boxes of doom appear on my screen

And lastly, I Slashed and Ogre when he was asleep, then attacked him, but he didn't retaliate, my Slash was Level 1, but...I don't think he's supposed to be sleeping/be stunned for that long.

 

[Khaled]

DOn't know how...

It is exactly as you set the path of a skin.
Paths are:
BTN:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\BTNNameOfIcon.blp
DISBTN:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtonsDisabled\DISBTNNameOfIcon.blp
PAS:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtons\PASSNameOfIcon.blp
DISPAS:
ReplaceableTextures\CommandButtonsDisabled\DISPASSNameOfIcon.blp
And more

 

[indomitable1319]

Okay, I'll work on teh green icons.

The ogre was a trigger I forgot to fix.

 

[Septimus]

1st of all, don't give your loading screen such an look with this kind of color codes. It is pain as hell to view it.

2nd, you have missing icon and those entire instruction was wipe off by just a single "ESC" click. For people who have no idea what is this map about, the first look at this map at the start of the game would make people think "oh!! it is currently at cinematic mode, maybe click "ESC" would skip it".

I recommend the ESC trigger to be turn off for a couple of seconds to prevent people from making such a mistake. Yes, it might sounds dumb mistake; but it is often happen to newbie.

3rd, you should allowed people to turn off/on the weather effect as not everybody have a good computer to support the effect. I was having a hard time trying to play this map due to the weather effect.

4th, don't abuse the color codes. from what i seen in your tooltips. you use various colors in a single sentences and it is annoying to read it. use color codes only for the maint title should be sufficient.

5th, don't use different hotkey for the same ability. learning ability and ability are just the same, ensure they use the same hotkey or else it would confuse the people itself.

Don't

Learn Holy Light [X]
Holy Light [Y]

Do

Learn Holy Light [F]
Holy Light [F]

The replayability values ain't that great either, I keep travelling and encounter the same thing. Hack, slash, hack, slash and it getting to be repetitive till it was boring.

You need to polish up the map at this moment.

 

[indomitable1319]

I was waiting for the review. So what, rejected? Currently, I can't see the pictures as I'm on my cellphone. I'll read it again later.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Looks like a good map. I'll review soon!

 

[Septimus]

I was waiting for the review. So what, rejected?

Yeah. In my opinion, it should be rejected till updated. It need to be polish before it could be release to the public. As for now, I think it isn't ready for the community.

 

[indomitable1319]

How do I polish it properly? I'm not on my computer right now so I'll work on it later.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Well for starters fill up the whole map

 

[indomitable1319]

Doodad limit, sir...

 

[CyberDuelX16]

There's way to bypass those

 

[indomitable1319]

I know. I don't have JNGP yet.

 

[CyberDuelX16]

Ahh, i see. Well good luck! (And if you don't need that part of the map you can trim it down)

 

[indomitable1319]

I already have an ending in mind, though.

{Sylablle 1}Ren{Sylablle 2}tau
{Sylablle 2}Tau[Sylablle 1}ren
Rentau = Tauren

OMG I only noticed now...

 

[Crave.]

In the end, Rentau should suddenly burst into flames and transform into a tauren and wipe ou the human city he will be in

 

[indomitable1319]

Hahaha, weird.

Cweener, why did you edit my post?

It was also a *BUMP message.

 

[Zanekok]

I tryed it and it isnt as good as i thought. Camera is moving so slow. Moving and attacking by mouse. Try to do moving on WASD and Space attack or something like that.

 

[indomitable1319]

I'm sorry, but this is JASS or vJASS. I don't know anything about that.

Custom attack system is a mystery to me, sorry.

 

[Zanekok]

Oops i thought this is WASD movement but it isnt xD Fail sorry

 

[indomitable1319]

Hahahaha

 

[bounty hunter2]

Rentau's Voyage Review

Rentau's Voyage is a single player RPG made by indomitable1319.

Single player RPG-s are quite a rare event this days, so that's a drastic bonus from the start. However the longer I played the map, and explored it in WE, I realized that it's only positive point is the map genre.

First of all you overdid the packaging here at the site. To many colors, to many links, too few and rather uninteresting screenshots. You should have put more screenshots and less text. Now to the map itself.

The terrain is very poor. Too many dodoads placed around, which makes it looks ugly, and makes the map lag. Rivers edged by blizzard cliffs, instead of making nice smooth rivers with the height tool. Blizzard cliffs used as mountains. That's plain ugly. Especially the ogre part, also, there are really to many dodoads scrabbled around there. It seems you had put them just to fill the empty space. In overall, the terrain needs a complete remake.

Now to the gameplay and the 1st person system. It's quite inadequate and clumsy to use. The 1st person system. And it contributes to the lag. I would suggest avoiding it, since it really doesn't help the gameplay. And the gameplay is quite boring, the story not interesting enough. I can't really say much more about it.

Your RPG needs a lot more work put on it. Terrain, story, spells, maybe a hero choice option, removal of the 1st person system, etc. 1/5.

Oh,

If you know how to make a cinematic skipping trigger, please contact me at [email protected], or at www.hiveworkshop.com. My username is also Indomitable1319.

• Untitled Trigger 001
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) skips a cinematic sequence
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Set Skip1 = True

• Untitled Trigger 002
  • Events
    • Time - Every 0.10 seconds of game time
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • If (Skip1 Equal to False) then do (Do nothing) else do (Cinematic - Turn cinematic mode Off for (All players))

Basically you need two triggers. Once a cinematic mode is skipped, the boolean goes to true, and the second trigger goes on, exiting the cinematic mode. However this is very rough. Needs polishes, such as trigger turn offs, enables, disables etc. But this is how its done, you play around now.

 

[indomitable1319]

Thanks for the cinematic trigger.

As for the map, I'm done with it. It's over for me here, I can't change the terrain anymore. I started this with the Enforce Water Height Limits On. And the base terrain solid ground. I would've done a better job with this, and I really notice how bad this map is now that I can trigger and terrain a lot better. The triggers are leaking so much, the skills are screwing my ass, everything's getting a lot harder here. It's too bad that I won't finish my map because I can't get JNGP to fix everything.

If I had time and patience, I would completely redo this map. It's just too bad I can't at the moment, and I would ask a kind mapmaker to continue the map for me or something like that. I'm not too sure if I should give up on it, or not.