SC2Mapster

The new mission is too hard, I think. I played all others, but could not complete this one.

When I try to open the map with the map editor, I get an error message :

Dependency data could not be loaded

Dependency file could not be found : (Mods\EvacuationMod.Sc2mod)

Continue Anyway?

Can you tell me where i can get this mod? It isn't in the zip file :S

I have played the first mission. On the whole, it was quite enjoyable. The concept was solid and the aesthetics were excellent. I have a few things to complain about though:

• The carrier was too slow. I think its standard movement speed just needed to be faster because it was quite boring moving between places, and the whole level just felt like it was dragging a bit.
• Some of the boss rewards weren't rewarding enough. I tried 4 or 5 times to beat the nydus worm boss (over on the West), and all I got for my effort was a quicker speed-boost cooldown, which I really didn't need to use after that. I would have liked something else.
• Regenerating health on carrier means you can just sit idle and go afk until you go back up to full health. I didn't really like that fact, there should be something that keeps you moving.

And now mission 2. Again, it had good concepts but there were a few flaws.

• There was a lot of walking back and forth. For example, it was a long walk up to that top right area, and then I had to walk all the way back. This was a bit boring. Also, I had no idea how many building there were, or what kind of buildings I would find, so for quite a while I would have to walk all the way back to the first barracks I had found in order to reinforce, which made even more walking. Perhaps change the unit-purchasing system a bit so that Jane doesn't actually have to be next the buildings, or make it so you can't go back, or something.
• You had a few dead ends with nothing in them. This was very annoying, because it meant I spent even more time just walking around with my units. Try not to have fake paths.
• I wasn't a big fan of the four-colossus ambush just near the large beacon. I lost half of my marines walking into that, and as far as I can tell there is no way I could have known. Then I had no way of dealing with it because I had already spent all my gas, so couldn't get a ghost for nukes. I ended up just going in with Jane, killing what I could, reviving her, and then doing it all over again, which seemed like a pretty silly way of getting through that part of the level.
• Carriers become useless after all their interceptors die. Is it possible to make them rebuild interceptors so they are more of a threat?

Pretty good looking set of maps. I'm playing through mission one for the second time, to see how your "normal" difficulty plays out.

The constant typos are really, really distracting. They're in almost every line of text, including your loading screen with back story.

EDIT:

I wanted to come back and add a little more after finishing all three missions.

Mission two is a really good spinoff of the Nova mission in WoL. I liked the winding, twisting map, as well as your placement of protoss units and ambushes. However, the fact that nukes are free and created in five seconds meant I chain-nuked my way across the second half of the map, and completely trivialized it. Once I made it to the limitless resource area, I just sat there and made a huge marine/medic ball and dumpstered the rest of the mission. It felt out of place because of how painstaking the first few minutes were, and it gradually just dissolved into throwing unlimited units away.

Mission three was the best one so far, I really enjoyed the expanding map and the concept of taking over zerg hives. The computer's annoying use of blue flame hellions was also something I haven't seen before, and they wrecked my mineral line a few times before I realized that they spawned in, instead of being created by buildings. This was also a clever precursor to expanding into the zerg side of the map, as it forces players to already have some defenses in place.

All that being said, taking over the zerg and using their units was completely pointless. I just walked through the map capturing hives and ended the mission. It would make more sense to actually have to use the zerg bases (or at least the resources in them) in order to finish the map. As it stands right now, all the zerg units are good for is supply blocking me with unnecessary drones and unupgraded units that are far inferior to my marine/marauder ball.

Some changes I'd like to see include the removal of unlimited resources in mission two, and mission three getting progressively harder as time goes on. In mission three, I think it would make sense to have far fewer resources available, and have the zerg be much, much more aggresive after the capture of the psi-emitters. It would be interesting to disable barracks units, forcing players to use the zerg to complete the mission.

Lastly, as far as the typos go, it looks like you put your text through a translator of some kind, as they continue to be distracting in missions two and three. If you'd like some help editing and rephrasing some text in English, I can help you with that.

Great map! Keep it up.