CEONSS

Zon3r wrote:This is your map? i didn't know, i apologize, i would have approached it differently. i thought you are buffing up a map as usual, and in those cases critics does not hurt as when someone is criticizing something that you made. sorry again. and congrats for your first map. ut2004 mappers are really rare nowadays.

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    Description="'All the peoples meet on Syrma, as on all inhabited planets, conflicts, wars, but also the alliances, the love and friendship intersect there. All lived in harmony, until the humans were desperate to seize the wealth of the planet, using the demons with which they had spent a covenant. The latter obey therefore of good thanks to their invokers, by taking advantage of being on the continent for raiding a soul or two ... The planet Syrma became their headquarters, but their actions are still weak, whereas some people continues to believe that a peace is possible."
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Pegasus wrote:Note the ExtraInfo's value .

Zon3r wrote:So there is this deemer that i can't pick up for obvious reasons. is it there to make me suicide?

Pegasus wrote: First up is the lack of character, and if anyone thinks I'm gonna get into a discussion about petty aesthetics here, lemme just assure you right now that's not the case. Mind you, I'm not talking about thematic cohesion here, as the map has a theme in mind (hilly, rustic countryside) and it manages to stick with it more or less (aberrant militarized/industrial emplacements and ancient ruin flairs notwithstanding); what concerns me here has much more to do with overall geometry & terrain design. Basically, moving around the map, from higher elevations down to the various dilapidated houses/structures that contain the objectives and away again, the totality of the vistas and gameplay-significant locations feels pretty much unremarkable. I mean, aside from the bases' coliseums and weird force fields there and at the proximal primaries (more on that later), it's pretty much devoid of interesting landmarks to the point that even if the map was without a single gameplay issue, the average player would struggle to remember anything specific about it after a match; kinda like how you'd be hard-pressed to recall anything about Aratheia, DG-SandStone, MeadowLand or SweepingSands. This isn't just a "window dressing" or "marketing" nitpick either since a map's larger geometric concept can often influence gameplay through encouraging players to explore places off the beaten path or, more importantly, by providing the framework for unique fighting/tactical situations around the objectives.
As a simple proof of the above claim, think about some of the ONS maps you've always found to be good, or even the best. Now consider what it is about their overall theme and geometric design - around their nodes' areas, the bases and along their midsection - that makes gameplay around there good. Would you say, for example, the node areas lean more towards a complex/busy arrangement or do they go for a cleaner/simpler concept instead? Does the distribution of geometry elements/structures in such popular maps tend to be uniform between areas of importance or are there any kind of unique/notable architectural set-pieces that contribute to making them memorable? For me, whenever I think of mainstay maps, the answer to both those questions tends to fall in the latter group; examples are ample too and off the top of my head would include Alien2, Ascendancy, BasementHomeTheater, BitterSands, DesertedSands, Dinora, GunShop, IslandHop, Katharos, OmahaBeach, Panalesh, Silva, SlatedWorld, Suspense, Tyrant, VolcanoHigh and a number of other, frequently preferred roster entries. There are successful maps that don't adhere to the "central setpiece" design principle, too - Maelstrom, MasterBath and BiggerBeerBattle come to mind - but you could nonetheless argue that their node areas are still characteristic enough on their own.

Pegasus wrote: Btw, I forgot to mention it in the last post, but gj going the extra mile and coming up with a 6-line long story to further flesh out your map, GLoups . Oh, and disregard my previous comments about the origin of the custom house st.meshes and complex BSPs; guess I should learn to pay more attention to archived maps' accompanying readme files >_>... Use of 3ds Max, PS4 and a polygon cruncher mentioned in there, and the source of those st.meshes is credited as this modeler.