Void Ridge

[WolfFarkas]

Fast review:

Awsome map awsome terraining.

About the size, is clever the way you put the things. Is quite very good. Distances are ok.
Sugestion for the future: for 1vs1 96x96 or 128x128, avoid 160 or above.
Think that 128x128 is for 4 player maps or very generous 1vs1.

Sugestions to improve:

1) I would place those creeps in other part of the map, because they are too much out of game.
2) Goldmine defenders are level 18 looting permanent level 3, while the others creeps are level 15 looting permanent level 4, I would swap the loots,
level 18 is almost a red, the loot should be better than a level 15.
3) Goldmine creeps are 5 melee units, I think is too redundant, some ranged are missing, I would change 2 melee for 2 ranged.

Even if this map doesn´t fit for ladder play, still deserves a 5/5

 

[deepstrasz]

1. Flying units dropping items isn't a good thing if they are near water or unreachable places.
2. In terms of balance the mercenary camp is OK. In terms of fitting to the map's tileset/theme it doesn't.
3. The concept is good that it makes Zeppelins and air units useful.
4. Neutral hostile units should have more air counter, especially those on islands.

Approved.

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[fostaa]

Terrain is perfect and I personally like the idea of a large map with only two players in it.
I only have three little suggestions:
1. There should be slightly stronger group of monsters at The Goblin Laboratory camps and the small camps closest to the tavern;
2. Loot from monster camps should be improved at:
- Nether Drake camps;
- Goblin Laboratory camps;
3. Make the mercenary camps thematically with some void walkers, vampires inside, even infernals.

 

[Tiriel]

Updated:

-New level 9 creep camp behind starting location, drops a level 2 random power up item, giving players more reasons to clear those trees (and get zeppelins/shredders) and to maybe get the nether drake camp too.
-Permanent loot from the island gold mine and that other creep camp on the edge has been swapped.
-The red camp now has units with ensnare to counter air units.
-Main land goldmine creep camp and mercenary camp units have been readjusted (they have the same loot though).
-Nether drakes have been slighty moved to the middle of the island so it's less likely there will be any problem when they drop their loot. I'm not too sure about this change though, so I might just replace the drakes with another type of creep.
-Added a few more doodads in zones that seemed a bit empty compared to the rest of the map.

@Ragnaros17 I don't want to remove that creep camp because then that part of the map will be super useless and empty, so I hope adding a new creep camp nearby will help with that :c
@fostaa The reason why I made the goblin lab camp weaker is because I wanted players to have easier and early access to zeppelins/shredders. What about the Nether Drake camp loot should be improved though?

Thanks for the feedback!

 

[jj84]

Why save your map in w3x format? maybe you've edited this.

 

[fostaa]

because 'w3x' is the normal format for maps? It is not a scenario or something..