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[Rampastring]

This is an 8-player MP map which I've been working on for 3 months (I started working on this before I released Frozen Canyon)

Size: 140x115
Players: 8
Theater: Temperate
Lighting: Dark teal, red during the ionstorm
Tiberium amount: Medium

This map plays in a yellow-zone city built in multiple islands. Most of the players start from a large island covering the smaller islands, but they need to attack other players from the smaller islands. All the islands are connected with bridges.

Like in my previous maps, there are small amounts of tiberium next to the players, but the most of the tiberium is between the players.

After a long time of gameplay (usually after half of the players have been defeated) there comes a long ion storm and meteors start appearing.

The AI was quite random in my tests: Sometimes it wiped me out in 10 minutes, sometimes it gave a good challenge and sometimes it didn't do anything.

To avoid some gameplay problems, I recommend putting destroyable bridges off (although the bridges have about 7 times more strength than normal bridges do, they can still explode sometimes).

I again recommend you to close your curtains while playing this map

Screenshots:











The screenshot below was taken during the ion storm.


Have fun

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This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Jun 17 2008, 12:35 PM

[Crash]

If you want to promote Odyssey don't do it here, use your signature of something.

It wasn't promoting, I just wanted to show him that I'm still an active mapper.

Anyway, my review... (without playing it, just looking on the lighting, balance, detail etc.) Triggers are a freebie.

Detail: I can't really see anything wrong with it, it's perfectly fine. 10/10
Lighting: The lightposts on water, fona, tiberium etc. are WAY TOO intensive. 5-6/10
Balance: The bridges are a drawback, but as you said it can easily be fixed by simply not having destroyable bridges. The build space aren't equal enough for all start posistions. I can't see much else that makes imbalances. 8/10
Overall: 8/10. When you fix the intense lighting I will say spotlight.

[Rampastring]

Thank you both for your reviews.

B ) Not sure If this is a problem my computer / mod is causing but this map lagged quite badly after about 20 minutes of game-play

I haven't had the same issue, and I've played it with 2 different computers (although the amount of frames per second was much lower here than in most TS maps, the game still ran as fast as it can run in the "Faster" speed setting).

Another thing that annoyed me but I know you don't like people talking about is the fact them buildings are so damn dark, what codes are you using to make them appear like that?

I'm just using a low amount of ambient lighting.. I must have the ambient lighting on low, since if I would've had it brighter I would have had to take away the intensiveness of the light posts, which would have effectively killed the beautiful lighting.

Thanks for your spotlight vote

As for Crashking.. there is one thing in your review that I highly disagree with.

Lighting: The lightposts on water, fona, tiberium etc. are WAY TOO intensive. 5-6/10

I like colourful maps like this much more than the normal colourless ones which have just a few weak lightposts on tiberium/fona/etc.

It just belongs to my mapping style... I think that when you're making a review, you should think of the mapper's style and base your review on it.

For example, I would rate some of your maps' (the ones you have released here) lighting 5/10 because the lightposts are weak and the map looks like the same everywhere. However, since I know that you don't like intense lighting and making a colourful lighting doesn't belong to your mapping style, I would rate it 8/10.

I hope you understand what I mean here

Btw, the reason why there isn't a day night loop is that I don't like those five minute lasting day night loops at all =P
It also could have messed up the ion storm lighting.

This post has been edited by ^Rampastein: Jun 21 2008, 04:44 PM