SC2Mapster

Hey this looks cool! A nod to WC3 I assume from the description? I showcase custom campaigns on YouTube and was curious if you would be comfortable with me eventually uploading your maps? If there are known bugs and you'd rather I waited for a new version let me know as well!

@omar21710: Go

If you look just above where it says GENERAL in the description, there is a number of options, including Overview, Files, Images etc. What you do is head into "Files" and all of them should be shown, whereas the main page only shows Recent uploads,

@Hultmanable: Go

Yeah, I'll definitely try to play the remaining maps soon and post my feedback on them as I go.

To make Jon affected by upgrades, you need to head into the Upgrades tab in the Data Editor. Search for the "Terran Infantry Armor" and add the following 3 things:

• Add +1 to his Life Armor.
• Add +1 to his Life Armor Level
• (Preferably) Change his actor armor Icon to the Infantry armor Level 1 Icon.

It may be incredibly confusing the first time you enter the upgrades tab, and believe me, it was hard for me too. This is one of the more simpler changes to make though, but it's kind of annoying as you'll have to do that for every map if Jon isn't affected by default.

I've played the first two missions. Just to get an idea of what this is all about.

Mission 1:

Loading Screen - Don’t know if it was intentional but the loading screen didn’t cover up the entire screen, leaving me with black edges. Not a huge deal, just wanted to mention it.

The Cinematics - Again, don’t know if it’s intentional but the dark areas during cinematics look kind of strange in some of the shots. If you’re not aware, you can reveal the entire map during cinematics using the “Global Cinematic Mode” setting.

Also, I noticed that you can’t skip cinematics. Perhaps that could be something to think about. Now, this map wasn’t particularly challenging but if people lose they might want to skip cinematics instead of having to go through them all the time.

Grammar errors - There are quite a few of these. It’s not hard to understand, though, so keep that in mind. The main ones are lack of capitalization, commas and words being spelled wrong. This was the case for both missions.

I have a few examples underneath.

First Cinematic: Zek Strife says “I need to move against the pirate base immediately. can you hadle the crossroads defense on your own? Misspelled “handle” and the c in “can” should be capitalized.

Jon Field Tip: “witch” should be spelled “which”.

The Black Hand tip: “spicies” should be species. Also, “and only work for them when there is an absolutly need to.” It’s worked strangely. I would probably change it to “when there’s an absolute need to.”

Other than that, the mission was actually quite fun. It’s always exciting to see a new campaign emerge and even though this mission wasn’t the most amazing, it’s the first so I can expect it be simple and have exposition.

One thing you did do right is force micro. I could tell that you would lose a lot of your marines if you didn’t micro weak one’s back and I felt the need to use Jon Field’s abilities. Very good.

The terrain is well done. Very detailed, very engaging. I also liked that there were some minor pathways you could go to to explore. On one occasion I was also rewarded for this, by getting a free heal. One thing I found weird though, is that it only healed the unit that entered it. I would have expected all my units to be affected.

Bugs:

• Jon Field doesn’t appear to be affected by the armor upgrade that my marines have. He is affected by the weapon upgrade, though.
• The marine by the Barracks at the southeastern border of the map was neutral.
• I think it’s natural to have Heroes be the focus in subgroups. Jon Field’s subgroup number is lower than the marines meaning that when I select them all, I have a marine selected and I actually have to press “Tab” to get Jon Field’s abilities.
• After the second cinematic with the prisoners is finished, the entire map is revealed. Don’t know if that was intentional or not.

Mission 2:

The story got a little more interesting in this one, and I like that. Interesting to see the Tal’darim make an appearance here.

Terrain for this mission was nice as well. Although, I must admit that some of the grass areas outside your base were a bit bland because it had the same texture planted over a wide area. Also, the Water Generator doodad on the northern Pirate base has no pathing, allowing units to go right through it. Some areas were also a bit empty compared to the first mission. Bugs:

• Two of my SCV’s started mining immediately while some remained still.
• After I trained 10 Marines, the objective didn’t complete and the leaderboard continued to update. I had to train 12 or 13 before I completed it.
• The Zerusian Needlers in the water have a shorter range than Marines, making destroying them much easier. Possibly increase their range to be further than the Marines and this would work much better.
• I could research Stimpack from the Tech Lab but my marines didn't have it available.

In general, I noticed that a lot of these bugs and things I found are Data editor-related. I’m guessing the Data editor isn’t your forte? So, if some of these things I’m mentioning is out of your power to do and confusing, don’t worry about it too much. I just find it necessary to point out things that I notice, and me being a campaign-mapmaker as well, I find myself focusing a lot on things like these.

Overall, there are definitely things to work on. But I do think the campaign has potential.

Interesting. Cool to see yet another campaign in-making. I will take a look at these maps and provide some feedback ASAP.

i will download when also the first map will be available, if i play a campaign i want to begin from the start