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i forgot to add entities off at the tune layers

looks like ddmax

Parts Mapped Alright

Ideas Ok

But Unbalanced and badly Mapped Transitions

Not thinking at all about 64 players

But you are getting closer to getting something useful

added music and CP Teleport nerf at a harder part

music has to be embedded

oops

fixed that

what is this attempt to build a map? if u need help u can ask me.

props for pushing out so many maps, you will be a great mapper one day

the quality between the maps began to grow less, I think he needs help

maybe he needs another full breakdown of his maps and learn from there, like

did on 8bits [https://ddnet.tw/testlogs/show/8bits]

he has quite the passion for mapping so he would deserve getting some advanced help

Oh lol. so many text. thats why better show/help in game.

The problem is he is a novice player so he can’t make good gameplay yet

But true he does have potential

im novice player

U finished supernova

fake

Changed freeze color, and teleportation color, kept deep and undeep color the same, and added some shadows

Decoration updated

you have to work on balancing the difficulty of parts for you parts might be easier than others, but the goal is to envision a difficulty, let's say novice 3 stars, and build the map such that an average novice 3 stars player could do all parts with equal difficulty

do you really want ppl to fail here? and it's not really clear where to drop the tee, the part is just very weak. but you could improve by making it unfaily (add tele at red). (also useless hookthrough at blue)

this part is pretty decent, except it's faily at the end, which again I am just not sure about, it feels unnecessary. it's like making a drag part and randomly removing tele tiles to "increase difficulty"... so try to add tele at red (in this reverse L shape, to avoid corners)

this part with deep is actually kind of clever, maybe a bit too tight but still. I would consider adding undeep at yellow, so it's possible to go back and help your teammates

the blue part is quite nice actually :) the part on the left is a bit too hard imo, especially the thing I marked red. make it smaller, and you can also just replace the deep with freeze because your teammate is already deep and it'd be annoying to accidentely touch some deep and fail

why no hookthrough here?

also pretty hard to put deep there, increase the ceiling there

you should add undeep at yellow in case someone accidentally (or intentionally) skips the undeep down there. it's important since there's a stopper and you would be fail. pretty hard to do, but technically possible

a very boring part. try to spice it up. like adding something that requires the interaction of your teammate (e.g. you hammer him into an unfreeze and he must do a little gores, where he falls back down if he fails)

the solo is tooo hard, make it less tight. weird is that unexpected drop after unsolo. you should definitely put the unsolo at blue, because you would just block each other

this drag could be good if it wasn't so tight. especially blue is quite annoying, having to go back if your mate doesn't know he must hold D there. make it less tight and add hookthrough so you can drag him back

that's a really sad deep, you can think of something more clever (and less tight.!!)

Ok, so here the turnoffentities is spam, you should make 2 grenade so you don't miss it when falling down. and make the platform where they land bigger, because most of the time the dude will just drop down right away

the shotgun and shields at orange are useless, just add shields at purple. shooting your mate with shotgun is sooo slow, you can speed it up by adding stoppers at blue.

that drag part is fine

for that laser part, you should make hookthrough at blue because the alternative of jumping up and hooking your mate out is not the unfailiest thing

deactivating hammer here has no use at all! what's good about the part is that you can reach your mate on every pixel down there at purple. also, the spam

last part is quite difficult. i would just move the ceiling one block up for a bit more space

on design, these blocks look like solid blocks. you should put the transpareny wayy down

the freeze color is just not very aesthetic there's color theory which suggests using colors that either complement each other or support each other. Red tele + dark yellow freeze is not really a good combination. I personally like making the freeze a color, and then the tele a more darker version of that

maybe something like this, as an example. purple as freeze and darker purple as tele

these shadows in the freeze you put there are actually a nice touch, i like them

this moon moves too fast, and here it's also a bit too off-center for my taste

there's one fundamental problem you always seem to have you allocate space and try to fill it with a lot of content. the end result will always be that your parts are tight and have no room to breathe in

if you look at a modern novice map you will find that it uses a lot more space. it feels just so much fresher and you can develop a very nice straightforwardness / flow. you rarely really want to go backwards when playing a map.

if you would start laying your maps out like this it would be much easier to work on, because you can actually move parts around and make them bigger / smaller whatever.

i often said "this and that part needs more space" the problem with your layout is that it doesn't allow space! so how are you even supposed to fix that?

this is why you often just get to hear "try to learn from the mistakes here and make a better map next time" because it's not really saveable / workable anymore

so really, if you want to improve the next best step is to lay your maps out with much more room to spare.

Thanks for the advice i'll fix that!

fixed most of that

i want test 👍🏻

make the deep carry part easier and the jetpack part.

At the end purple or Yellow tele would be nicer i think

At the red stuff instead of deep would be easier with freeze

And bcs of deep people could block at that part easy

the map is boring for a novice map, the newbie will get stuck at the beginning

but its cool gameplay

you fixed a few of the things, and the purpose of that was so you keep learning what small details you should notice but the map is not still not near releasable, still too tight and just too few of working parts / unique parts / clever parts. I gave you an informative description on what your next steps would be to improve on your next maps. I would love to see you rather spend time on something new, so you can surprise us on your mapping journey with your next maps

$decline