SC2Mapster

Hey Narudek, played the first mission today, and here are my thoughts.

• I’ll start off with the negative things first to get those out of the way.

• Intro cinematic: My only complaint is that the camera should be moved a bit because you can actually see the black edges of the map. May not be a huge deal, but it does break immersion a little bit by having the cliffs and everything just end like that. It doesn’t give the player a sense that the planet actually exceeds beyond what you see in the map.

• You should increase Kelysa’s subgroup priority to something higher than all of you’re other units. Disintegrators appear before her in the subgroup and it’s not like it’s a major issue that you have to press tab once to get kelysa’s UI, but generally, I feel Heroes should have a higher priority than anything else.

• Your units feel incredibly underpowered. It takes a lot of time to go through even single structures like a barracks because of the low amount of damage, even with an entire army. Because of this, the mission got kinda tedious after a while. Given the possibility that we may be unlocking more powerful stuff later, I’m not going to be too negative about it, but it’s something to think about.

• Meh, I’m not a huge fan of not being able to build more brood crawlers. I searched around but couldn’t any way at least. I assume the base at the top right was meant for you to take, but you have to leave your structures behind, making them entirely useless as there isn’t a way to keep them active outside of the Brood Crawler’s range.

• Now, let’s get to the positives shall we?

Overall, I really enjoy what you’ve done with the custom race. And it’s not just renamed units, you have totally unique models and concepts which is really awesome. The combination of Protoss pylon power and Zerg unit building and such is a nice little mix.

It did take me quite a while to get things set up, as I was spending 10+ minutes getting used to the system. But once you got that down, it’s actually very simple and easy to use. I like it.

Apart from minor grammatical errors, the story and the dialogue is understandable. The terrain is nice as well. Not heavily detailed, but you establish what kind of world you’re trying to create, which is good. Maybe make some more doodad variations and it’ll look quite cool.

Bugs:

• The drones have the ability to burrow, but burrowing gives you 150 minerals while unburrowing costs 150 minerals. This bug did not occur with any other units.

• Kelysa’s Shockwave ability didn’t appear to stun units, even though the tooltip said so.

• When I got to the other side of the nydus worm, a huge number of thors, siege tanks and marauders were standing at the edge of the cliff in attempt to get to the other side to reinforce the other base. I would recommend making the terran units at the other side belong to a different player so they won’t clutter the area.

• After the final cinematic, the game UI came back and I was able to play for a brief moment before moving on the next mission.

• You should allow people to skip cinematics: If a player fails and restarts, it’s annoying having to watch the cinematics again.

• The camera is zoomed out really high, making unit sounds like attacks etc be very quiet. I think it’s because you use the same camera position as you did in the cinematic. Or maybe that was intentional?

Also, a short question: What is the point of the Larva suicide ability? It didn’t seem to do any damage to nearby units or anything that would make it any good. Although I may be missing something.

Holy crap I may have gone a bit overboard. Sorry if there's too much negative stuff, but I had a lot of stuff to say about this whole concept.

Mission 2, you must make the larva able to Infeste only Zerg structures, because trying to infest terran buildings is useless and makes you instalose the mission, because you basically wasted your only charge of infestation; On the colony where my base spawn i can control Two terran colonists, i think you Made wrong player Number ok them ... Suggestion: Make that all the colonists and huts near to your base, become infested, it makes sense and would be badass, on "breakout" mission on meinhoff it was badass to see all turned into Zerg tentacle awesomeness

Nice mission, a bit weird the economy, because i never used C&C... I am also glad to see a fokin zerg campaign, looking forward for it, even if the story is pretty basic for now, but zerg+destruction is all i need !

• There will be more heroes to use ? Primal zerg ?

This looks interesting. Always glad to see more campaigns. I'll see if I can't get to play mission 1 today and then post some feedback. Do you have a map thread or should feedback be posted directly on here?

Wow, the changes you've made to the base building system seem really cool! Looking forward to playing this.