Ethereal - Kaziorvb MapComp Judges' reviews

[Survivor]

Mapname: Ethereal
Author: Kaziorvb

Story: Ethereal is a station which was supposed to be a storage of air and power for future human expeditions. But after the alien invasion it was turned into a real battleground.

ethereal.bsp
ethereal.map (5.756 kB)
{0.15}(10) Skill in building, judged from .map.
From the .map Ethereal looks like a grand map. It is superbly made and I can't find any errors in it except for the later mentioned bugs. There isn't much more to say.
{0.25}(8)Bugs, inconsistencies, judged from playing and inspecting the map.
One of the door types has an inconsistency where a brush passes through another supposedly solid brush. You can get under one of the grates as a dretch and delay defeat. None of these are game breaking bugs.


{0.3}(7) Gameplay, judged from playing.
It feels a bit strange walking around. It's a big map especially not suited for small playercounts. The lack of location entities will make this a downright disorienting map. The flow in contained areas is good though.
{0.3}( Creativity, judged from looks.
Generally well done map, although there are 2 bland areas which are more concrete than anything else. He has however done superb art direction with some doors. The most awesome gimmick this competition is the granger-vending machine, too bad it doesn't actually dispense any . Standard models are also included in other places like a dretch near the granger machine or a painsaw on a holder, a Lucifer cannon on the floor. There's no clear direction to it all though. Sounds are lacking.

Total Score (8,0)

Grangervender!





Gratebug

Door inconsistency

[kaziorvb]

well, that sounds really strange for me, i uploaded it, then downloaded it to check if its correct - it was. even today i tested it with my cousin... anyway - im reuploading it...

[Survivor]

you put the wrong link in the pm, ethereal.pk3 instead of map-ethereal.pk3, which resulted in a 1kb useless .pk3. I went on your webspace and retrieved the correct version.

[Survivor]

Putting out links to a map is mappers own business btw. I just take care of distributal among the judges.

[n.o.s.brain]

well, am i ever going to see the map/review?

[Survivor]

Yes, someday far away. Or when I'm done with it maybe? I'm not getting payed for it, i've got an exam coming up and none of the other judges have put up even one of their reviews yet. So cut me some slack.

[your face]

ohh yeah!  christmas break is over!  BACK TO THE GRINDING-STONE, YE SWABS!

[n.o.s.brain]

well, no rush, just wondering wats happening, thats all. 

[Lava Croft]

Actually, my motivation to do reviews for any of these maps is rather low, and this has nothing to do with the maps or its creators. Eventually the reviews will pop up...

[Plague]

Actually, my motivation to do reviews for any of these maps is rather low, and this has nothing to do with the maps or its creators. Eventually the reviews will pop up...

For someone who champions themself on their enduring "support" of this game and maintains the position of a community moderator, your commitment to both this mapping contest and the community in general is remarkably low.

[Lava Croft]

Actually, my motivation to do reviews for any of these maps is rather low, and this has nothing to do with the maps or its creators. Eventually the reviews will pop up...

For someone who champions themself on their enduring "support" of this game and maintains the position of a community moderator, your commitment to both this mapping contest and the community in general is remarkably low.

When you decide that writing map reviews for Tremulous takes precendence over real life, you can write em for me.
Until then, let me set my own priorities.

[n.o.s.brain]

well said, lava 

[Odin]

Can we at least get a screenshot?

[Lava Croft]

Can we at least get a screenshot?

Placeholder until kazior sends in the correct .pk3

[Plague Bringer]

Eleven days to re-upload?

...

[+ OPTIMUS +]

i guess its already up i downloaded it last week... i think.

[Survivor]

It was fixed the day i posted that. I haven't been able to play it though so that's why there's no review yet.

[+ OPTIMUS +]

it would be nice to put the winner map of every contest to a server, that would run only that map. or at least in the rotation somewhere.
like dasprid is also having many basically empty server. just an idea 

[your face]

just get all the gud, awesome, sweet, fun maps all on a rotation... thats wut i did for my server...

[Survivor]

Kazior, you got Judge's choice for all the work. Although your high points were countered by low ones we still wanted to award you . Read your pm.

[your face]

eh, i still like station15 moar. (not that this isnt a bad map) 

Oh, and a link would be nice

[blood2.0]

will mercenarys guild upload it?

[your face]

SRSLY


I want...

[Overdose]

STILL WANT

[Survivor]

http://rapidshare.de/files/39711330/map-ethereal.rar.html

[Overdose]

Thank you so much!

[Bissig]

The granger machine is broken.. What hax do I need to get it to actually output one of those cuddly grangers I heard so much about? 8-)

[Zero Ame]

anyone still have this map? id love to get it

[your face]

http://imn2rc.einsteinbennyboy.com/base/map-ethereal.pk3

[nalf]

Hi, I wanted to use this map on our server, but the grate bug needs fixing. Otherwise it's possible to build a base there that's impossible to attack. Anyone still develops this map?
Thank you, Nalf