Shifting Sands

[Moderator]

Date: 2011/Oct/15 22:57:20 Vengeancekael: VM // PM: Rep Received: 0

Reasons: Other: If you have any complaints or questions directed towards a moderator, make a thread here: Map Resource Moderation If you think the moderator's judging is unfair or you have overall complaints, make a thread here: Admin Contact Please read the rules thoroughly: Rules Comment: Neat terrain, looks very realistic, except for the sand fall spam, that's just silly. And the map isn't really symmetric, making it a bit imbalanced.

 

[XPQJ]

getting back into editing after not doing it for awhile is hard

 

[daizangan]

nice terrain played it with a friend but it was to hard for wars
there was a bug i think, my footman was thrown off to the sand and cant see and filled my food limit that was no fun but cool terrain
Edit: ahahaha sorry the footman died and got thrown

 

[XPQJ]

all of your footmen disappeared?

I am trying to recreate the bug and failing.

 

[oldmilk]

Wow. This is a brilliant idea for a new environment for a melee map.

 

[Ken-E]

Full Review

Review:
The Good:
(+) Great background concept
(+) Doodad emplacing and terraining is decent and tolerable
(+) Some great implementation on the environment

The Bad:
(-) Trees creates too much spaces in between another, allowing small units to hide between them.
(-) The lizard creeps are facing on opposite direction and doesn't look good
(-) You should change the harpies for early creeping site, it isn't good, because you lack ranged units to pit against them, unless your playing Night Elf.
(-) Tavern with creeps! That's baaad, anyway, it prevents an early accessibility for players.
(-) Sand decoration can get annoying due to the constant spamming of the effect
(-) Tight spaces with awfully huge rocks could make it very annoying managing units
(-) Not even a short description for the map, it only says a '3 Player Melee Map'
(-) This can't qualify as a standard melee map due to the importation and editing of certain materials. Yes, I know, you're trying to make something innovative and all but melee maps are melee maps, if you do import something, try going for an Altered melee.

My Score: 1.5/5
Like all other melee maps, this has a great potential but it should stay being a melee map.
I also suggest that you read this, How to create Melee maps by -Kobas-