[WIP] [WIP] Engineer 1.0.0
Visually this map is incredibly boring. You use the same 4 or 5 textures on basically every surface. You also don't have cubemaps, which only makes everything appear much more flat. Your lighting seems to just exist, with no clear source - light panels or observation rooms.
I think this was mentioned previously: in the excursion funnel part, you put glass on top of white surfaces to make them non-portalable. Not only does this look bad, but it breaks what the player expects. As Nacimota said, just use a non-portalable material on these surfaces.
This is a terrible philosophy and is a big reason why this map is simply not fun. The problem with wanting to make a map "hard" is that often the easiest way is to make it either unfair or complete nonsense - which your map seems to have done both. If I am going to be penalized by getting myself stuck somewhere, then you should put hazard liquid or something to let the player know it is literally a dead end.
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This is a terrible philosophy and is a big reason why this map is simply not fun. The problem with wanting to make a map "hard" is that often the easiest way is to make it either unfair or complete nonsense - which your map seems to have done both. If I am going to be penalized by getting myself stuck somewhere, then you should put hazard liquid or something to let the player know it is literally a dead end.
I agree. Imagine a Rubik's Cube that falls apart if you try to turn it in a very specific way. You shouldn't destroy the players work as a consequence for exploring the level, especially since you have no autosaves. It's contrary to game design practise to trap the player without giving them some indication they are trapped. Most players who get stuck in an area will at first think there is some hidden way out that they are not seeing. After a while they will simply conclude that the trap was an unintended design flaw (as I did before you said it was intentional).
Well, to be fair, once I had the warning I saved every couple of puzzles- And also to be fair, that philosophy made me think really, really hard on what to do, hence my
I like being challenged to think, though I understand why it might frustrate a lot of people.
Man, I would have never got box #4 without ufo's video (he got it third, though). I gave up on it. I liked the map til then. I don't mind the stuck areas, but only because you warned us beforehand. I just made lots of save games. I hated having to
Same as sorebones- I did get how to get it (because hey, only one thing -can- get it, and I have to commend you on a really good idea there, it stumped me for a good ten to twenty minutes) but
Repeat with me three times: the player is not my enemy. All is fair for difficulty, but even heavy weights can't punch below the belt. Exploits, force quickloads, sudden deaths all count as cojones in my book.
Seems interesting but I was too put off by the lack of lighting to keep playing it. Everything is so one-colored that it becomes diffculttiresome for the eyes too actually see and understand the geometry.
How about asking one of the map designers who are good at visual design to help you with it, combination of good gameplay + good visuals is killer. : Doesn't have to be over the top, just a little lighting to make it more colorful + more contrast to make it easier on the eyes to read.
Okay, decided to upload my own solution to just the very beginning of the map, since it's quite different from how UFO did it. Everything else save the order of obtaining the cubes are mostly the same- Well,
I'm not sure if it's anything closer to the intended solution, but:
Part of solution
lot quicker than mine thursaz. good work
Allowing people the freedom to find their own solutions is part of the fun of creative map design, please don't close them off