Official Red Alert 2 Submission - 5th






Map Name: Ascension
Author: ArissDJ
Site: YUCNC (www.yucnc.tk)
Game: Yuri's Revenge
Best Rating On OMCs: <none>
Best Position On OMCs: <none>
Players: 4
Futurely Featured In: <none>

Ratings:

Original Concept: 17.8%/20%
Ballance: 11.6/15%
Eye Candy: 23.4%/30%
Fun Factor: 15.0%/20%
Triggers: 10.2%/15%
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Overall Score: 78.00% (SPOTLIGHTED)
Valid Score: 79.33%



JonhWE's Position: 5th - 67.0%
Braddoc's Position: 6th - 74.0%
Clazzy's Position: 1st - 80.0% (BEST)
Flak's Position: 5th - 84.0%
Lion's Position: 2nd - 85.0%
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Final Position: 5th



Comments (Note: all maps were submitted to judges anonymously to avoid biased reviews, so the judges had no idea of who submitted the map):


-> JohnWE's Review:

Original Concept: 20/20
Balance: 12/15
Eye Candy: 20/30
Fun Factor: 10/20
Triggers: 5/15

Total: 67/100

A very nicely terrained map, with very good texture placement. Not symmetrical either, it is very good looking. It is quite balanced, but I really wish it had about 1/10th the amount of tech buildings it has now. There is a lighting problem, when a nuke goes off, the map becomes extremely bright, and after several more, it is unbearably bright.




-> Braddoc's Review:

Original Concept: 15/20
Pretty good, I like the town in the middle, it will give the players something to fight for

Balance: 12/15
Everything is well spaced- build room is pretty reasonable. The one problem is that the top players have a slight advantage with the high-ground. However, you did place cliffs in front of lower player’s positions which would make good places to stick defensive tanks.

Eye candy: 20/30
Not Bad. Some areas lack a bit of detail and the cliffs need a bit more texture- they are a bit straight.

Fun Factor: 15/20
I enjoyed the game play. The AI hit pretty fast regardless of skill level and the high ground made all the difference. The only downside was that it was so wide-open that I got a tiny bit bored.

Triggers: 12/15
The sound triggers came off great and the day/night loop looked good, but there was no fun or original trigger ideas. (not that the map needed any) good job!

Total: 74/100





-> Clazzy's Review:

- Original Concept: 17/20
- Balance: 10/15
- Eyecandy: 25/30
- Fun Factor: 16/20
- Triggers: 12/15

Total: 80/100

- Day/night cycle was a nice touch, although superweapon lighting lagged the game in an extremely bad way.
- Many minor cliff errors.
- Nice detail in the city.
- Too many tech buildings, maybe?




-> Flak's Review:

- Original Concept: 19/20 - Realistic terrain and nice little village in the centre.  Trees are
very well placed.
- Balance: 12/15 - 2 players are based on top of a cliff whilst the other 2 are on
lower ground height - height advantage for 2 players.  Ore and build space
however is nicely balanced.
- Eyecandy: 25/30 - Very good semi-desert like feel.  Water fits the landscape well and
the cliffwork is eye-appealing.  Lighting constantly varies in areas giving
a nice feeling of radiance.  More ground texturing would make it look even
better.  Also, cliffing at the very top of the map is too high giving black
errors in-game.
- Fun Factor: 18/20 - AI takes advantage of the terrain and tech buildings as well as
using many parts of the map to their advantage.  Only 2/3 entrances into
bases however can make it easy to turtle.
- Triggers: 10/15 - Day/Night loop which doesn't seem to work, but some nice sounds
worth turning the music off for.

Total: 84/100




-> Lion's Review:

Original Concept: 18/20 Realistic layout, although player starting positions are standard 4-corners.
Eye-Candy:  27/30 Good cliff work (a few minor tiling errors), nice building placement, trees, and water add lots of interest.
Fun Factor:  16/20 Lots of strategic possibilities make this one replayable. No AI pathfinding problems.
Balance:  12/15 A little light on the ore n gems. Would have liked to have seen more, but overall map balance is good.
Triggers:             12/15    Triggers work...

Total: 85/100



Map ReadMe Contents:

MAP NAME : "ASCENSION"
MAP VERSION : v1.0
MAP AUTHOR: VESELINOVIC DAVOR aka.ARISS(DJ)
MAP THEATER: DESERT/URBAN
MAP CREATED : 28/4/2005 to 01/06/2005
PLAYERS: 2-4
RESOURCES: Moderate
GAME: Red Alert 2 : Yuri's Revenge v1.001
EDITOR: Final Alert 2
SIZE: 100x99
MONEY ON MAP:  148325
E-MAIL:  ariss@eunet.yu  <or>  ariss@sezampro.yu  <or>  yucnc@odzaci.net
WEBSITE : http://www.yucnc.tk

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This is a 4 player map placed in Desert theatre , resources are moderate and there are some
tech's reserved for you to capture it. Map features day-night script,eye candy details,ambient
sounds and lights.Lots of building to garrison your infantry in. Adequate room to build your
base , lots of choke points and strategic passages.
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+++ I made this map after more that 2 years from publishing my previous map. Now enjoy the map !
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INSTALL:
To install "Ascension" on your computer, just unzip file "Ascension 2-4[arissdj].zip" into
your RA2 folder. Default folder is C:\WESTWOOD\RA2 . Then start up the game and select the map
from the list.
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(c)2005 This map is created by Veselinovic Davor aka. Ariss(DJ) from Serbia and Montenegro .
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*** day-night script and secret lab unit script by RVMECH
*** you can find me on forums at http://forums.cncden.com , nick: Ariss(DJ)


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Download it HERE.
The zip file contains the map and a full information with rates, judge comments, mapper comment and documentation.