Botanica

crazyzebu · Aug 31, 2008

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okaaay, so I've dl'd and had my forgethrough + customs and here's my breakdown of Botanica.
It’s a bittersweet map; there are some excellent features and some not so excellent.

I didn’t get to play one flag on it and I will try to when I can. What I mainly played was FFA.

Now a lot of the aesthetics in this map are great; they live up to your previous works. Although I felt some areas were put there simply to occupy space. Like the Staircase structure near the sniper. I feel that's a very poor structure, very unoriginal and unaffecting. With just two staircases I feel that you could've easily made a much more unique structure.

The name Botanica doesn’t appeal to me, that's probably because that there is a garden with a similar name where I live. Either way, the name, to me, sounds very bland. That's just my opinion, no need to take that part seriously. The name lacks that certain oomph that a lot of great maps have. TBH what got me to open this thread was because of your name underneath it.

As a Premium a certain quality, dare I say, is expected of you. It is my opinion that this isn’t your best map, that isn’t to say that it’s terrible and that you should throw yourself into a landfill in the New Mexican desert. It is a very nice map with many nice features. The use of fence walls was great. It really was. That's some quality forging with the fence walls in the ground ever so minutely. Also, nice placement of moveable objects. They really add to the map's class, and functionality but maybe a few too many dumpsters.

Sometimes it’s the little things that cause people's jaws to drop and to talk into their ass about how good it is. There are several spots that were excellent and a few that IMO needed pointless aesthetic touches. Such as just pushing a weapon holder into a box or making something the absolute same height as the object next to it. Or much more importantly, pushing the boxes/walls/etc. that tiny bit into the geometry or following object to avoid disappearing nades. All of the boxes along the back wall(closest to the Foundry bases) allow nades to go down the side, as far as competitive gameplay goes that is very bad.

Gameplay was nice, no massive issues there. Except for some spawn killing although that would've been because of the party size. When the party was shortened it played much better. One thing I noticed was that the entire edge near the foundry windows was very bland and open. Also perhaps one of the needlers(the one with the 30 second respawn) is a bit too close to the power weapon of the map; the sniper.

Another structure that I found very awkward was the purple X thing. I feel like its just occupying space as just an aesthetic structure as it’s awkward for moving around and jumping on and around. yes it was made very well and was nice on the eyes but I felt it didn’t serve much of a purpose.

The sniper spawn I can describe with one word: Sexy

The use of fusion coils confuses me. I do really like the raining one, that helps give this map a certain feel and theme. But other than that one there are only two lonely fusion coils partnered next to each other.

Last thing I'll say is about the blocking off. Not to sound cruel or mean but the walls, they're all off set from one and other. Seeing as how you only used one door I think it was silly of you to remove the other 5, doors can be one of the most useful tools to a forger.

Well, that's my dissection of Botanica. I know I discussed a lot of negatives but I do think that there are a lot of positive features too; like the idea, the layout, the weapon placement, spawns, a lot of the forging. But those little things snowballed.

But in all honestly it’s another very nice map Bl00d, I just feel certain aspects could've been executed much better.
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How the hell is anyone supposed to read this post with the new skin, change your font color. Black font on dark grey background = =(

CanCerBer0 · Aug 31, 2008

Orales, Ahora Si Te Lucistes xD, Buen Diseño E Interlocking
Clasificacion 5/5

Descargando!

forgyforge · Aug 31, 2008

Better than ANYTHING OR EVERYTHING I MADE. 5/5 and a definite DL. I like how you made those bridges, and those structures. Great Job!

firephoenix229 · Sep 1, 2008

This is an impressive, yet perfectly simple, a-symmetrical map. Wow!

headlessbarbie · Sep 1, 2008

I believe this is the map i "walked in on" while you were "forging" and you were like "omg how'd you get in here?" and i was like "umm... the door, i mean, party was open." and you were like "well god knock first! Noone is supposed to see this!" and i was like "...........awk-ward........"

amirite? imrite.

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