gg_battlecreek

Well seeing as I changed my server to Sven coop this is sorta I guess for others now...and I am going to request my friend soccdood to use it on his Halo Mod server and well also, I will check this out 1 way or another but this looks tight as hell from the image and well I will post again after I view it via lan and well thx for the hard 3 days put into it...

---Stixsamster

whoa amazing work for 3 days only and one of your first maps!

The likeness is pretty damn good, good enough i keep looking over my sholder for my friend ian to pwn me with the sniper rifle. = )

I was going to quibble about detail, custom textures, and some blockiness, but i take it all back considering the aforementioned conditions.

Bravo for a very very good beginner map done in record timing! = )

thanks, i did use some custom textures, in fact i made most of them except some of the concrete on the buildings and rocks. i guess thats the whole map haha. i had fun making it. i learned a lot about VM making this map. but feel free to critique please. i used to get pissed but now i am glad when people tell me how to improve.

ok.

it's been a long time since i played that halo map, but i'm pretty sure the originals weren't as blocky as yours. By "blocky", i mean things are overly square and cubistic when they should have beveled edges or a more sophisticated design.

An easy place to start is to do trims or molding around building bottoms and edges and hallways, add bevels to plain corners to make them look more organic.

Where i would start is to take some screenshots from the original game (which i'm sure you did) and make things more like the shots. if indeed the original map is THAT blocky, then you've done your job already of recreating the original level, but you could always add to it to make it BETTER than the original.

Ambience. I can't remember if you had sounds or music in your map, but definitely add some if you don't. a slow gurgling sound for the creek, a misting sound where the falls drop into the creek, and maybe some computer/machinery hums and warbles inside the bases.

that's all i can think of for now. if you redo them map, pm me and i'll happily playtest it for you.

cheers,
captain terror