thanks dude, I'm sure we will in the fewture

yeah ill probably try to get some tests done next week, thanks man

 

I know help

 

Im moving this weekend, but next time you're doing testing ill hit you up thanks man

 

First of all, thanks for looking through the map and giving some honest feedback . I've been moving to a another city and had a pretty busy weekend, so sorry I couldn't get back to you sooner lol.

Things to consider:
I will start with the green backdrop, it pulls me out of the immersion. When I look out at it, it is so lush looking in such a dry area. Pine trees in the desert is a very conflicting theme and unnatural looking. There are pine trees in dry areas, however the entire backdrop clashes for me. I would suggest adding in a desert background instead, maybe add elevation with cliffs or something and you could use the green alpine bushes around the map, they feel more in line with that dry of a desert look.

Yeah it looks a little off due to Forge limits, but the lush green forest look actually goes with my theme. I should probably update the post to include a bit of lore. The OG was some sort of space mining dealy-o with a giant circular excavation hole in the skybox. I tried reproducing this but it ate a lot of budget and didn't look great. So I decided to change the skybox and make up some lore. It's set on a planet that lost most of its forests due to climate change. These giant tree farms were necessary for producing oxygen for the planet.

I'm actually thinking of going the whole nine yards and move it to tidal, recolour the buildings and make it set in a jungle. But I hate moving maps

The terrain in general could use some reworking, you can see a lot of the lines and can perfectly distinguish the pieces individually. I suggest a bit more use of ramps to blend in flat to sloped areas, the hills are also budget heavy and in my experience are harder on the game engine. Smoothing out the terrain would likely make for a better driving experience with the warthogs as well, I found myself bumping and twisting a lot.

Yes, the map for sure not final. Theres a bunch of areas that need smoothing out. I never really finish maps, no map can be "finished" in my eyes. I always try to continue to tweak and update maps. Terrain is something I am looking at.

The wall separating the backdrop and the map and the use of invisible blockers is very misleading, from the sniper stronghold, being unable to fall back feels unrealistic. I would suggest in your rework of the backdrop, that you make the edge more of an obvious boundary with higher walls, or a cliff of some sort. Make use of timed kill boundaries and hard kill boundaries in this case.

Maybe like a tall fence or something? I think I could make that work.

The sloped orange roof building hosting the grenade launcher is easy to to get up on and escape the map. Again, I would make better use of timed and hard kill boundaries.

I threw on invisible barriers/boundaries/spawns the day before I packed up my Xbox lol. Very sloppy, but I just wanted to post it and get some feedback on other things. I'll put them down for reals when I decide if I'm moving it to Tidal or not.

The sniper building feels hard to access, I would recommend ways to get up making that area more accessible. I would connect the building with the upper bridge to the sniper. That bridge could hit stairs that connect with your stronghold.

Understandable. Will look into this.

The red spawn is very open and the blue spawn is protected and enclosed. I suggest making red area a cave or adding terrain changes/cover. You could also move red spawn behind the tall building.

Yeah. I gave em' a bunker lol. Cave sounds cool though.

I also suggest somewhat of a safe route from your team spawns to avoid camping during CTF. Use spawn volumes for CTF and assault.

Yeah it's honestly the reason I didn't release it with CTF in the map posts because I thought it would play shitty haha. But a safe route sounds good. I'll have to look into it and try to come up with something lol.

You are an excellent forger and I love your content. Please take this feedback with a grain of salt as I have not played a game on it. This is meant to challenge you and make this an enjoyable and balanced experience.

Thank you so much again for all of this awesome feedback. This is exactly what I wanted man. Kudos bro.

Honestly, the visual stuff comes easy to me, the gameplay stuff is what I have a lot of trouble with sometimes, so its great to see it all in writing. I'm going to forge tomorrow and see if I can incorporate your suggestions.

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Dang Dugout is a sick name! If the map stays desert themed I will definitely use this.

And thats sick! Any other FF maps you thinking of doing?