Final Haven (2-3)

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

Final Haven: An area of very little tiberium and high civilian count, Globotech keeps a watchful eye on this area and continues to develop it as more and more civilians either flee or are evacuated to the area. Globotech has claimed the tiberium in this area is "under complete control" and as such the population lives freely and without worry.

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Map made by Dudeinabox!

Orac · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 3:56 am Post subject:

Usually I like three player maps, but this one I'm not so enthralled by.
I think that the problem may be lighting, it seems too intense or totally absent.

m7 · Commander **Joined**: 17 Apr 2009

I like the layout, but I'm not a fan of the lower amount of money on the map. Guess I'll have to play it and find out for myself.

Starkiller · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2008

Chocolate buildings ! Very Happy

Dutchygamer · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 10:07 am Post subject:

Lol, forget my post in the staff forum then #Tongue

I like!

Lord Unforgiven · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:41 am Post subject:

I like the map. Well designed, strategically less tiberium.
The lighting is also good, but some buildings (e.g. the Bridge Repair Hut and the Hospital) have an unnatural yellow glow in a mostly blue environment. Did anything go wrong here?

Dudeinabox · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 11:57 am Post subject:

Orac wrote:

Usually I like three player maps, but this one I'm not so enthralled by.
I think that the problem may be lighting, it seems too intense or totally absent.

Care to elaborate? I can't really work on a contradiction #Tongue

I can't really do much about the lighting on those buildings since they're just not affected by dynamic lighting. Sucks I know.

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Dutchygamer · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 12:09 pm Post subject:

The buildings that aren't affected by global lighting are in a different pallet. They share it with all buildable structures, compared to 'normal' civilian structures Wink

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

It's either this darker color for the buildings in Unittem on dark color maps or glowing. I prefer the darker color by far.

[TiberianFuture] · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 5:55 pm Post subject:

The map looks really nice, but it seems that the bottom-right player has disadvantage when it comes to accessing tiberium;
in other words, that player has only one nearby field and even then it's smaller that what other players have.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Actually i would prefer playing in the southeast position, as this one seems to be quite well defendable. Only 3 entrances and 2 of them are bridges.
And the tibfield on the other side could be quite well defended from the hill to the east with moles, AA and obelisks.

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Dudeinabox · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

Actually i would prefer playing in the southeast position, as this one seems to be quite well defendable. Only 3 entrances and 2 of them are bridges.
And the tibfield on the other side could be quite well defended from the hill to the east with moles, AA and obelisks.

You've basically hit one my design criterai exactly Smile

Top spot - Not much build space, more tiberium and easy to defend

Southeast spot - Plenty of build space, easy to defend and the nearest source of tiberium. Tiberium is limited and destroying the bridge denies access to the spot.

Southwest spot - Tiberium is quite far away and there's relatively good buildspace but it's difficult to defend (unless you're Q45 of course #Tongue

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Anyway, thanks for the comments and I look forward to seeing it in the next patch and for some online funs!

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OmegaBolt · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:06 pm Post subject:

Only one true way to find out if it works well or not. #Tongue

Aro · Alcohol Fueled **Joined**: 10 Sep 2006

That's one way. Another way would be for Bolt to fulfill his duty as a TI mapper a bit more. #Tongue

Orac · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject:

Dudeinabox wrote:

Orac wrote:

Usually I like three player maps, but this one I'm not so enthralled by.
I think that the problem may be lighting, it seems too intense or totally absent.

Care to elaborate? I can't really work on a contradiction #Tongue

I can't really do much about the lighting on those buildings since they're just not affected by dynamic lighting. Sucks I know.

There are areas with relatively intense lighting, and then areas which are very, very dark. The patchwork look of the lighting, even if it doesn't look too tiled, looks odd and unnatural to me.
This can't really be changed with the green light of the Tiberium, but the fact that some portions of a civilian town are light while others are dark strikes me as odd.

Q45 · Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2009 7:54 pm Post subject:

Dudeinabox wrote:

Southwest spot - Tiberium is quite far away and there's relatively good buildspace but it's difficult to defend (unless you're Q45 of course)

LOL!

I really need to come up with some new tactics..

But as I've mentioned already, I like what I'm seeing. The detailing in the cities looks brilliant. Smile

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