[M] (2) Neo Korhal Brawl - Page 3

On October 11 2011 10:37 Namrufus wrote:
I just played a game on this vs AI. The water looks really wierd and flat to me (using high graphics settings), I'm not sure if this is your intention. It looks as if you have set the the texture roughness and mesh roughness settings to zero or something.

On October 11 2011 11:01 Namrufus wrote:


not much else...

I didn't notice any gamebreaking flaws or anything

I really like the way you approach mapping "It don't need to be beautiful, it just need to be good". It's the same way that I approach it.

Generally I don't like this map as much as your other work. I don't know, it seems kind of... plain, next to some of the other stuff you've done.

I don't like how the watch-towers cover the whole map, how hard the third is to take, and how super duper open the map is. It also seems a bit small... But I'm not sure without analyzer pics ^^

I think you could add a few clumps of doodads / holes / highground to adjust the openness, but this is generally good-looking! The 4/10oclock bases seem kind of extraneous and neutral with no definition / raison d'etre other than filling space. I would push them further towards the edge with some kind of tactical terrain feature so they are more clearly a distant 4th/5th going clockwise, more connected to the island in a possible line of expansion.

Also you might want to add a wider pod on the center walls to make a nice easy overlord spot with some margins.

The problem that I have with the watch-towers is that it's impossible to hold the third with them the way that they are. If you get A SINGLE TANK at the watch-tower, you're hooped, because you can shell to your hearts content. Watch-towers should offer vision, and through that information, but not a significantly insurmountable positional advantage (for terran, as tanks are the only unit that sees farther than they shoot). Notice how hard (read, impossible) it is to take golds on metal, or how hated XNC was because it was really hard to break a terran camping the towers.

In this version of the map, you can use the towers to bunnyhop, as they already overlap significantly, so that really needs to be fixed. And then you have the 'hard to hold third' that's gonna bug alot of people.

I like.
Though, do the watch towers need the offensive cliff half around it?Last edit: 2012-02-13 17:56:11

You only use 2 terrain levels. Have you thought You only use 2 terrain levels. Have you thought about making the pathway that is surrounded by walls into a lowground pathway surrounded by cliffs? You could then put ramps under the rocks.

The watchtower usually doesn't help you scout early pushes, because it's too late when you see it.
If the opponent applies early pressure and takes your watchtower, you're screwed.
I would place the two watchtowers in the middle.
X coord to the left and right side of the wall in the middle

Y coord between the two rocks

Could you try to create a map with the aim of being totally standard and generic?
4player 16base rotational symmetry or something like that where one would say this looks like X other maps.
Because I think the result would be pretty good.