---

Fisk said:
Is there anything in particular I should be doing for my map (Severed Survival) ? I'm currently working on totally wiping out all the current thing placement and going about it this time much more carefully, and maybe adding details, etc... But is there anything further I can do?

---

---

KingKill33 said:
Well, I cut the generator to the immediate right of the first door back a little so that it's not as easy to get caught on, and I moved the smaller box by the demon closer to the stairs so he (and the player) don't get stuck on it. All the terminals in the walls have had their front lines made impassible so that no hang-ups occur. The giant console in the center of the blue switch room has been rounded slightly. And that annoying pillar in the middle of the room with the switch that opens the exit bar has been shrunk a bit. I always found it a bit annoying, but liked it as far as detail went. Hopefully it's less obstructive now.

I actually wanted it to be a bit cramped, as a part of gameplay. That way attacks are almost impossible to dodge, forcing the player to play as perfectly as possible. It seems it may be more of a problem, though. :|

---

---

Jimmy91 said:
I take it that since my map's on the list that it meets the "new" standards? I guess I should feel good. :3 I'd even considered redoing most of it at one point.

---

---

KingKill33 said:
Well, I sent End of the Line earlier. Do you have the map I submitted for Constriction?

---

---

Mechadon said:
(there are some lighting anomalies in the first outside hallway)

---

---

Solarn said:
Yeah, I kind of guessed that, but I'm not really able to do that well yet. I tried and it came out horrible.

---

---

esselfortium said:

Your first map, Bitter Sanctuary, was pretty much universally considered to be rather annoying to play. I didn't really have any ideas for it, but:

<Belial`> map02 is easily improvable
<esselfortium> how so?
<Belial`> remove retarded borders, make all the doortrak pillars open up together with the walls
<esselfortium> heh
<Belial`> instant ok map

That seems like it could help. The floor borders just served to make the player get bumped around all over the place, and making the doortrak pillars open up with the walls would give the player more space to move around in as the start area opens up.

The other map, Proceed With Caution...it's an interesting concept, but I'm not exactly sure how well it'd fit into a megawad to be honest. Though of course, that's Mech's call and not mine.

---

---

Butts said:
edit: oh in map 27. just go behind the teleporter and you get into it. no archvile jumps required.

---

---

Ok, I didn't try all the linedefs since there was no hint to it and the more obvious solution seemed to be jumping from the exit ledge to the ledge between the archie tower and the rest of the building and continuing from there somehow.

Getting to the ssg switch is the most annoying part, if the baron at the ssg were an hk it would've been less tedious.

As for map28, I could never understand the point of making maps where you only have to survive long enough to get to the exit since you can't manage to kill all the monsters. That's what NM is for :P

---