Heart of the Swarm - Fan Made Mission
Thats the First Map! Zar'gara's Fall! You have to collect 100 Eggs - But Zar'gara will collect them too. Its a fight against the Time.
Go to "Image" to see Pictures of the Progress!
Thats the First Map! Zar'gara's Fall! You have to collect 100 Eggs - But Zar'gara will collect them too. Its a fight against the Time.
Go to "Image" to see Pictures of the Progress!
This map was unplayable because it was so slow for me. The triggered cinematic (banelings spawning) happened on every egg, over and over again. I couldn't figure out how to avoid it, and I decided I didn't want to watch it 100 times and quit.
I appreciate the effort, but that cinematic is a deal breaker for me.
good job,
some problems with triggers won't take too long to add a few "trigger offs" so that some cinematic dont loop
I just hope Blizzard customizes Za'gara, even if they just give a couple tentacles or centipede legs. They already used a queen as a boss in Liberty, and it was pretty lame. The flying queens in sc1 were scarier.
I dont get why u made this map. Noone will play it after hots is released.
Ok. That mission isn't bad but there many important things to fix.
Is that 1st map of HoTS available somewhere? (Blizzard version) Or why this map is named "Heart of the Swarm"?
In the actual mission she is called Za'Gara, not Zar'Gara :)
Please rename her.
Okay, here are my thoughts: first of all, after I got 100 eggs, I didn't win, so I quit. Second of all, when I killed Za'gara, she burrowed, then unburrowed and died, which was kinda weird. Also, Kerrigan respawns only once after she dies. If she dies again, she never respawns.
By the way, If you really want to remake 1st mission I'd suggest watching for dialogs and (in russian language, feel free to mute it) for terrain/layout references.
As a side note, I think custom unit models should worry you least right now.
Btw, one major thing:
She is named Za'gara. Not Zar'Gara :)
Ok. 1.1 Is now availible. Sorry for the Problems, im a really newbie. I add some new features, and watch some Blender tutorials, so i can made my own Units. :D
Yeah.. the lack of deeper design is apparent. Attack waves never came (except periodic 1 ling or hydra), and I won game by simply massing roaches. But Wacclian already mentioned that.
Not repeating what he said you should polish objectives(What if I forget that I need to capture 100 eggs?) and start screen(add button-press wait and make objective/story more apparent). Egg capturing should not be done through killing eggs. It looks silly that way.
Anyway, it's all understandable, you'll get better with experience, I'm sure of it. If you have any questions or want more feedback you can send me a pm.
Looking forward to play the final version of the map then :)
Sorry for that... The map is not really finished. Its ony... a "Test-Release". I have made some better trigger for 1 Hour. I will "Patch" it. Sorry that the Map isn't "Perfect".
Hey. (: I noticed several bugs:
• You spelt her name wrong."Zar'Gara". She's spelt: "Za'gara".
• Za'gara doesn't have a death animation. She just dissapears.
• There were grey spots with absolutely NO DETAILED TERRAIN at all around the map.
• Upgrades such as ''Morph to Hive'' and Upgrade to Missile Attacks Level 3 were viewable.
• Come on, the banelings could be spawned at another place and not just use one single, easy-made trigger. You could probably make a pit or something, where they could spawn.
• Lack of cinematics? Just short ones?
My overall experience:
It was fun in the first five minutes. But the lack of design, the feel of creativity and so many spelling errors with her name made me feel like you did not use a lot of time on this map AT ALL. : /
Terrain-wise, that map is halfway from done. I see the same grey, boring texture all over the place. And the only real doodad that you used was a lot of Char Crystals and Char Combs. Of course, you can choose to leave the outer bounds of the map without any textures or doodads AS LONG AS THEY ARE NOT SEEN BY THE PLAYER.
Also... Where is the water and the effects? In the gameplay video for HotS it's green and dark. In your map there is no effects at all. Not even the Weather Ash - Char doodad.
Gameplay-wise I wasn't challenged at all. The attackwaves never really came except for like 1 hydralisk or something. I actually lost the game in the end, because I was mined out and I used my banelings at the wrong base.
Rating: 1,5 out of 10,0... (Poor experience)
Why?:
First of all, I wasn't challenged or had a great experience while playing the map. The Terrain was only 40% done.
When I look at your map (TERRAIN-WISE) I cannot even see a SPARK of creativity. The Char combs and crystals were massed all over the map. There was no water and I saw the same grey texture all over the place.
I also noticed how you placed the Zerg buildings to the north and that was... sorry... horrifying ):.
Btw, I loved that you got the soundfiles into the game. That definately makes the gameplay experience better... If you get all the other aspects of it controlled.
Can you have the real audio dialogue? I can upolad it in the assets section of you don't!