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strongHold

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But what do you think about it?

stronghold auf wish bestellt

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good map

stronghold 2021 be like

i think you spelled the map name wrong

This map is going to be tested or not

Testers should discuss this

all maps get tested

i see there is quite a bit of off-topic, please do not send any off topic messages so the mapper doesn't have false hope when they see a new message in this channel

the freeze design is broken at a few places

The map is also really unbalanced

turn off entities

on the first part idk how you're supposed to pass, i think tee stack like this is a skip but im not sure

faily shit

moderate 3/5

half way trhough why did you switch the freeze decorations

also part above is too difficult, brut 5/5

edge jump skip

you can make gores in ddnet maps (sometimes), but dont make it too difficult

gay

too hard

turn off entities

Thx for the freeze advises, I hope i fixed them all.

At the start you can hammer 1 Tee through the gap. Its quite simple from hammer hit, a bit trickier from Hammerfly.

The "faily shit" was supposed to be faily because its at the start of the map. I could remove the spike so u can "reset" if u fail the throw+catch. But for me it wasn't that hard to succed at the part (2/3 succesrate)

Changed the freeze decorations (I didnt even noticed that I switched them)

If it's supposed to be a brutal map and you rate the part 5/5 Brutal whats wrong with that? I get that the drag part is too easy compared to the other ones, i got to change that (not sure how yet). Also if you play in a bigger team you can easy boat the part and I myself wouldn't even say Aled is 5/5 Brutal. If it is the space you got, I can change that. But im not quite sure if you mean that.

Changed the Skip.

Made the gores easier.

What exactly is to hard about the edgehammer part? The fact that u can die if you fail? Not quite sure.

Added "turn enteties off".

What parts are too heavy which one are to light? Whats the overall rating i should reach (brutal/moderate 1 2 3 4 5)? Hard to "balance" the map for me, i think its very do able but i might be wrong for other players. But im for sure not the best player ^^.

Thank you very much for your advises!

i think the map seems brut 3/5ish in most places tbh

i'll send image later for part balancing

the reason i said aled was hard was because it was in such a small space

oh crap, the penis tower

freeze design is wayyy too varied

Thats what i wanted to achieve, so i guess thats fine.

Okey, i'll look forward to that.

Ah yea its not supossed to be like this, my bad. If yoiu just mean on that orange hookblock.

yes

it appears like that in other places too

id check map and find all of them, but that would be extremely difficult

Is it like the "corners"?

Guess ill go take a look on all of the freeze tiles

yes

Okey okey thann ill do that

hope this gets released, really fun team0 map tbh

That what i thought ^^

and what i wnated to achieve

Its my 1st map

better than my first map

mine was.... ummmmm...... scary.......

it will burn your eyes

Oh yea on the image i just sent, i squared the unbalanced parts

Well i only play with enteties, thats why i also suck at designing 😛

oh

there is a fix for that

Is it to simple or to hard?

simple fix

go into f1

and type

cl_overlay_entities 50

then, when you are done with that

type cl_overlay_entities 0

or just press the entities button

your screen will look something like mine,

overlaying decoration with entities

But i meant i only use enteties while playing. On any map. I personally dont care about good looking maps ( Background, colour of blocks, etc.). I simply dont know what appears to look good an what not ^^

Im miserable at stuff like this.

Art in particuallar

So on the screen you send, are those parts to hard or to easy?

easy and hard

ok 😄

the median difficulty for the map for me was 3/5

Its super hard for me to judge the difficulty of the parts. I can do them all, i see that there are some softer ones but the "hard parts" u think are to hard for Brutal?

hard parts are are like brutal 5/5 and insane 1/5, easy parts are moderate 5/5 tbh

This map has so many design bugs and some entity bugs

gameplay is often really tight and doesnt fit t0 at all

especially start is really bad for t0

often ppl have to wait for the first 2 to do it which is really not good for a t0 map

some parts are also really generic like this one

deep doesnt fit into map

and is also badly made

just annoying to play

many parts pretty easy and then there is this one which is way too faily compared to rest of the map

lame copy and pasted hookables with freeze around them

no one will use the hookables

end way too tight and also best blocker spot in history

as i already said, this start is horrible. no space at all for t0

as i already said, ppl need to wait for 2 ppl to do it first cause there is no space here

ddmax-like and too faily

really tight and almost impossible with weak

so imo this map isnt worth a release

$decline