Heh, align. I was going to make a post almost exactly like yours, specifically for picture 2 complaining about unaligned textures until I saw yours. This map is really dark, even in the 'marine' areas. Reminds me of eon, kinda. Still, it looks really good; keep up the good work!
Also, has the minimap on the top right always been to that scale? The minimap only shows like 2 meters around me, and is therefore completely useless. Maybe it has to do with resolution, since I play at 680x480 since my computer sucks. If it were more visible, I wouldn't have to walk around holding 'c' all the time. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
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He was saying that it's too bright. I agree too, and hope there will be more nooks and crannies to hide in at ground level!
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I'll agree maps like these are very well-made considering the HL engine, and they have a lot of effort put into them, but i'm more fond of the "simple and clean" style of NS mapping. Overly complicated maps often don't play too well, in my opinion.
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" /> btw, thanks Flayra for keeping on the mailing list. It was nice to receive a random email to bring me back here
Alternative theory: The new maps all suck. Believe me I think most people would love another balanced map to add to the popular (veil, tanith, eclipse - or at least playable like origin, lost, metal, orbital) rotation, but the latest additions don't even get a look in on public over super buggy maps like origin.
Even though the screenshots are quite low quality the map itself looks quite nice. More attractive infestation would be nice, I understand the problems with clipping and map limits but it's easily possible to jazz it up ala veil & eclipse which is very simple but very organic.
I'm no expert on gameplay and such. But mind-rendingly, soul-crushingly, hallucination inducingly (that's not a word!), make my head spin around a la The Exorcist causing, back flippingly, insanity causingly, BEEEYOOOTIFUL.
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That map looks good, though. I like how everything is just off.
BTW, that floor you're talking about looks like a conveyor belt.
This map is really dark, even in the 'marine' areas. Reminds me of eon, kinda. Still, it looks really good; keep up the good work!
Also, has the minimap on the top right always been to that scale? The minimap only shows like 2 meters around me, and is therefore completely useless. Maybe it has to do with resolution, since I play at 680x480 since my computer sucks. If it were more visible, I wouldn't have to walk around holding 'c' all the time. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
He was saying that it's too bright. I agree too, and hope there will be more nooks and crannies to hide in at ground level!
Alternate theory. People are afraid to try new maps.
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<b><u>metal and orbital</u></b>
Its totally messed up
Overly complicated maps often don't play too well, in my opinion.
I love all your maps.
~: )
<img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/pudgy.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::gorge::" border="0" alt="pudgy.gif" />
btw, thanks Flayra for keeping on the mailing list.
It was nice to receive a random email to bring me back here
(that's all that needs to be said)
Even though the screenshots are quite low quality the map itself looks quite nice. More attractive infestation would be nice, I understand the problems with clipping and map limits but it's easily possible to jazz it up ala veil & eclipse which is very simple but very organic.