Tales of a Footman - Frederick

[Moderator]

Orcnet

18:09, 21st Dec 2013

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Tales of a Footman - Frederick (Tested Version 15:44, 1st Dec 2013) Rate Score Percent Letter 5/5 91-100 A Rate Score Percent Letter 4/5 81-90% B Rate Score Percent Letter 3/5 75-80% C Rate Score Percent Letter 2/5 70-74% D Rate Score Percent Letter 1/5 50-69% F Overview: Gameplay "The game and story boarding are well executed, very fun to play, the introduction and process of every character is explained broadly yet no villain or antagonist in sight, although the hardest take on the game was the first one, tackling 12 Orc units without the possible health/mana heal nearby on the ally base took me some time to finish and so I use the cheat codes." Terrain "Terrain needed some detail love into it, most of my check ups were the 2nd campaign has a very wide base space while the 3rd campaign was very tight spaces Kenneth's Knights base is very near the enemy's doorsteps." Management "Overall map can be useful, the unexpected death gave me some wonders though, good call!." Total Score: (Gameplay[x/5] + Terrain[x/5] + Management[x/5] / Total Score[15] * 50 + 50) Rate Score Percent Letter 9/15 80% C

 

[sonofjay]

Yay its uploaded!

Time to play some footies!

 

[Theoden of KoMe]

Its actually good.I still don't get it why he was disappeared at the end....

 

[sonofjay]

You should also upload Redemption here!

 

[Whitewolf8]

Maybe he was disintegrated!

You'll see what happened to him in Volt's story.
...
Assuming I actually get to that, welp.

 

[Orcnet]

Map approved, see moderator comment on top.

 

[sonofjay]

Its approved? OH MHAI GHAD!

CONGRATS SEKI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Whitewolf8]

Thanks! I'll see what I can do to improve it~

 

[StopTickingMe]

What if Fredrick was given a new mod like a villager with skin textures holding a club, ax, or sword, and went from being a footman to champion or hero? The aftermath would be great, but I already love how he disappears and no one knows what happens. Those kinds of endings make it look like it was all just getting started.

 

[Whitewolf8]

What if Fredrick was given a new mod like a villager with skin textures holding a club, ax, or sword, and went from being a footman to champion or hero?

Probably would have done that if I wanted to use imports aside from the Footman hero.

 

[Goodguard4]

Probably would have done that if I wanted to use imports aside from the Footman hero.

Are you gonna add some missions or is this just the whole campaign, nice job, keep it up!

Sargeant Guard

 

[DemonFace]

Good points:
terrain is great for all the missions
good storyline
Bad points:
ending is pretty confusing, where did he teleport?
in the last mission when you take back stormwind then the city is so boring only some walls and it doesnt look anything like stormwind which is pretty lame
Suggestions:
improve the stormwind city
4/5

 

[Heinvers]

Well that was unexpected! I mean...where did he go? Anyway (3.4/5 i'd say) It was a bit too shorth

in the last mission when you take back stormwind then the city is so boring only some walls and it doesnt look anything like stormwind which is pretty lame

Agreed with DemonFace; i mean that's not like Stormwind You should improve some gameplay aspects! And no side quests? that's bad

 

[Whitewolf8]

Thanks for the suggestions! I'll do what I can when I get back to working on it. (Which I've no idea of when I'll do so actually.)

To clarify the short mission amount though, it's to be part of a set of short campaigns, so the whole of them together will be about the length a normal campaign would be.

 

[Heinvers]

To clarify the short mission amount though, it's to be part of a set of short campaigns, so the whole of them together will be about the length a normal campaign would be.

Then it's ok! Just take your time

 

[PlankingWolf]

The icons can kind of be confusing, you should flip Frederick's hero icon using the Button Manager.

 

[Whitewolf8]

The icons can kind of be confusing, you should flip Frederick's hero icon using the Button Manager.

Hm, that's a good point, I'll get that for the next update, then.

 

[PlankingWolf]

I'm going to play this as soon as I get a brand new Warcraft III.

 

[ga_xjnk]

I dont understand the introduce's "! footmen". Are them quests or not? I played in warIII v1.26. And it's maybe better if quests's more difficult. Because the last chapter, i only send my hero to allies's troops and i won

Thank you for Agility Tomb of Chapter2, i digged almost of map to find other LOL. Please make more chapter

 

[jocacar]

You could make more chapters but however nice job.
4/5 but I'll give you 5 because others are giving you too low rates.

 

[mariuswarlord]

i will give a 4/5

 

[Nightmare2077]

Simple and straightforward, quick to complete (took me <1hour) and funny. No-brainer and for relaxing - just the way I like it. Also I didn't encounter a single bug, which is very nice.

Things I'd improve (update or in future projects):
1. Too simple and straightforward. Try to add side quests or perhaps some non-linearity or at least aim to make more challenging opponents (as someone pointed out, mission 3 is AFK-completable).
2. I can't distinguish Frederick form other footmen, maybe make him a bit bigger or give him an aura? Kinda annoying that he doesn't stand out at all.
3. Since the campaign isn't serious, maybe it's reasonable to add even more humor. I dunno, maybe include Fredricks wive or kids in future campaign? Could turn out to be funny ;D

 

[Whitewolf8]

Nightmare~

1. First campaign being easy is a good thing, but I'll definitely bump difficulty up for the next two I'm planning.
2. I might make him bigger, but an aura is out of the question.
3. That's actually a nice idea, haha. I'll see what I can do.

 

[WarchiefBlackhand]

Its actually good.I still don't get it why he was disappeared at the end....

he went to kill the lich king but got lost.
:/

 

[melvinzamorajr]

Guess I can do a Short Let's Play on this

 

[ForTheHorde]

Part 2 please! The campaign was nice and i really want to know where he teleported. Also make the campaign harder it was a little bit too easy.

 

[Whitewolf8]

Part 2 please! The campaign was nice and i really want to know where he teleported. Also make the campaign harder it was a little bit too easy.

Still kinda in the planning stages of the next one. It won't be done by the end of this year. Sorry :<

 

[Majkowski]

POSITIVES
- Gameplay is pretty good
- Original hero with custom spells
- Terrain is not bad

NEGATIVES
- Stormwind is not Stormwind, just orc base with some walls
- Short
- Ending

 

[deepstrasz]

Well now, I think this is actually not worse than Redemption.

chap1:
-Kenneth can be attacked
-just a "kill the units on the map" level

chap2:
-why should the Peasants still have the Call to Arms ability if Militia can now be trained?
-lack of ranged units

chap3:
-no siege weaponry. Not even ranged units for attacking, not spell casters
-why do orcish buildings have blight under them?
-Frederick has no ultimate spell. I think no hero has such
-the fortress doesn't really look like a city, it's just wide flat terrain surrounded by walls and trees
-the downside of the AI is that they do not rebuild. Likewise in the previous level. Moreover the player has two allies and the AI is just one

The lack of units is mostly what makes this campaign not good though having a weak hero is/leads to an interesting game play mechanic.

 

[r.ace613]

Where's frederick??!!!

 

[Mr.Tic]

Short, simple and enjoyable. In dedication to our cute little footman, whom tragedy befell so swiftly:

Our good Frederick,
short in legs, but great of heart,
brave, though weak,
vanished in a fart. :/

Seriously where is he? He can't be dead! >:'(

 

[discord666]

We don't have enough of those.

 

[WarcraftLiterature]

It was a pretty interesting campaign. In all honestly it was kind of fun.

 

[w3.exe]

yo plz give me link to download warcraft 3 world editor.exe i want to make a map like u dats y

 

[tulee]

Stress-less/relaxing campaign. Not sure what that item the thunder lizard dropped in chapter 2 does.

I liked how purple (Alice) and light blue (the knight hero) had different army compositions for the final level--- purple being caster mostly, while light blue was mostly melee.

 

[Ricox19]

Fun and short campaign, the 3 missions avaible are very fun, but you should consider make optional quests, the terrain was good except for the final map.
It has a touch of comedy f.e. Frederick was chosen(by a monkey with rabies), had a good laugh.

Having a footman as a hero is fun, with normal damage and normal armor of a footman being able to upgrade it, was interesting.

The end was good, leaving space for another campaign, I'm eager to play your next campaign
If you already made the new campaign you should change the final text in the mission including the name of your campaign

Didn't find any bugs
Played in v1.21b

 

[Whitewolf8]

Haha, thank you-- don't know if i'll ever get around to doing so.
The initial plan was to have Sir Leon, a Footman from Lordaeron and Volt, a Footman from Gilneas be set in the Second and Third wars respectively. Same thing happens to them. All three meet up and a fourth campaign with all of them.

 

[Ricox19]

Sounds fun, building a story between those 3, I imagine those campaigns would also have been short

Btw Is your other campaign Redemption connected to the footmen?

 

[Whitewolf8]

The aforementioned Sir Leon appears in it as a cameo but that's about it.

 

[Fyar]

Very "simple" and fun campaign. It's short, but it has unique features. I always loved those campaigns where you start off slow and not play with 200 units from the start. The maps are balanced and fun, the terrain is good and the dialogue is decent. Kind of sad we will never know what happend with Frederick, though.