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FreeLance_FoX
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- Sep 6, 2008
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I ran through today and the only serious issues I had, other than my engine deciding to crash randomly every few minutes, were with the health placement. I think it's seriously borked... to the point where it would be impossible to kill someone with half a brain.
The problem, as I see it, comes largely from the density of the medium health packs at B and A. B especially has FAR too many of them, and most of them either need to be made smalls or should be cut. At A the problem is less severe because the paths between them are a bit trickier, but around the point you could stand to remove maybe one and also thin out the health in the A-C area. It just seems a bit redundant to have so many health packs all around... for instance, the double small health packs REALLY bother me. I'd prefer no health at all there, but a small or medium would suffice.
Anyway that's just my unscientific opinion, otherwise I think your map is absolutely spifferific! ^___^
The problem, as I see it, comes largely from the density of the medium health packs at B and A. B especially has FAR too many of them, and most of them either need to be made smalls or should be cut. At A the problem is less severe because the paths between them are a bit trickier, but around the point you could stand to remove maybe one and also thin out the health in the A-C area. It just seems a bit redundant to have so many health packs all around... for instance, the double small health packs REALLY bother me. I'd prefer no health at all there, but a small or medium would suffice.
Anyway that's just my unscientific opinion, otherwise I think your map is absolutely spifferific! ^___^
- Feb 26, 2008
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He's on vacation. Rest assured he'll be on it as soon as he's back 
SuperNerd
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- May 13, 2009
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Dang, beaten to it...
Yay! Snow!
- Jan 31, 2008
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I modified the transparency now.
I think it looks alot better
Before:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/99714/cp_glacier_b20004.jpg
After:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/99714/cp_glacier_b20008.jpg
I think it looks alot better
Before:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/99714/cp_glacier_b20004.jpg
After:
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/99714/cp_glacier_b20008.jpg
- Sep 12, 2008
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Hmm, I like the snow, but not the crystal shape.. I mean, when will you ever see those things falling down in real life? Make them an overlay and swap them on glass or windows, but that doesn't look realistic to me, not even for TF2. Just what I think about it :blushing: Just some randomly shaped white dots would look better I think. Could you try that?
Edit: it might be the images though, I have no idea what it will look like ingame..
Edit: it might be the images though, I have no idea what it will look like ingame..
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better than the earlier version of snowflakes keep up the good work
keep up the good work
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I don't know; I like the way they look now, since it looks more stylistic if they are in this classic snowflake style. I'm not really aiming for a realistic look.
Besides, I do have a few fuzzy blobs mixed in as well
FreeLance_FoX
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Ace I notice that in your newest screens you still haven't reduced the amount of health around B... I hate to repeat something that's simply my opinion, but for emphasis I just want to add that I think your map would flow better with some changes to the amount of health. Either reducing the overall number of spawns, reducing some of the medium healths to smalls, or some combination of the two, would, I believe, really help Glacier to feel more contiguous.
Right now the sheer number of different health spawns has the effect of fracturing each area into little spheres where, if a person hangs out, they can rely on that one pack. Instead, what Valve showed us worked with Gravelpit was to either put a central health location to bring the fight to a point, or to put many small healths to create movement in an area that is otherwise stagnant.
Just my 2 cents!
<3,
FoXy
Right now the sheer number of different health spawns has the effect of fracturing each area into little spheres where, if a person hangs out, they can rely on that one pack. Instead, what Valve showed us worked with Gravelpit was to either put a central health location to bring the fight to a point, or to put many small healths to create movement in an area that is otherwise stagnant.
Just my 2 cents!
<3,
FoXy
captainAngry
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We are still on a22 (i'll update this week). We are a big fan of this map. Played it last night. The demo speaks louder than words. I would give you better feedback but it looks like we are a couple versions behind.
