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hum

too fast

nice map

last part was a bit pain to find the spot to hook

Is there anything that needs to be modified?

yes the last swing Was also confusing, idk if it's fine when u mark the hook spot

The movement while the big drag was also not intuitive

The spot where the speedup is

Can u show how the part should be done?

Im not sure if we found the best way, but it feels not good at all

how about this

hm ok idk acutally

if u know how, it works good

but its still confusing af

• The purple for "off game layers" doesnt look great here, would look better if you make it black

• There is a bug here, the ht design animation can be seen through the little gaps

• Here too, ht design animation

Is it same as in 1st map , then its ok

bugs are not ok texnonik xD

• You forgot the little empty line design here

this design looks better for the unhooks imo

OK, I'll try

Agree, that grey looks way better for the unhooks style

u should mark all signs green, only the off signs black

rn its a bit random green and purple mixed

No problem

how about now?

all signs green, only the off signs black

like hook off hammer off etc

ok

• You forgot some unfreeze marking, where tele 1 is and cp6

• Here maybe instead of spam, just do same design like you do for the rest, would look better

• Btw i think this would look better if you fill it up with the same green bg design you got instead of see through (you got a couple like this, but up to you, not so important)

I changed the color scheme and fixed some parts where cheating was possible.

Oops, I missed a bit in the color scheme.

I think I'll have to make further changes tomorrow; I need to go to bed now

u used for the refill marking a solo sign

u should use a refill sign

u know that u can use 3 ways here?

yes I know

Including the end of this level

i would give the signs the same color

I did slip up here

would extend this a bit, that u have better view

at the beginning, u know that u can do it without using the left thing?

I didn't think of that

for this part i would add just 2 at top and bottom, to make it a bit more clear

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this should happen? I would say put a laser

no need u can go back up

you should put the signs as red and green, since is the main thing of the map need to be visible and very recognizable

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still ugly

Do you have any other suggestions?

the cleanest is the one that i sent earlier

imo

Alright

same with stoppers

and maybe others too

But I will still keep my own style for some of the textures.

It still looks a bit off I think

But it’s visible

How could it be improved

I think the colour of the symbol on the green

Is too bright

Yeah u should use dark like b4

Background for on white, off black

Way batter imo, this red is not nice

Regarding color choices, everyone has different preferences, and I can only do my best to accommodate each of you

the green should just be white

what did u change

Colors

The colors are getting lighter

1

The main color needs to be contrasted with some of the colors

I have changed the color to black and white. I feel that this will make it easier to distinguish and will not disrupt the overall atmosphere of the map

I also added some decorations to it

yeah as i said it fits better with the map colors

forgot to say that u can cheat this

OK

annoying gaps

at start

the bugs are everywhere

hook others not marked , i would maybe suggest to put somewhere there also so you don't go all they way back ( but if it's don't cheats part )

should be more space right side like in left side .

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add line around tele 16 i guess

Added 9 progress bars.

your tileset is bugged

Fix problem

I tested the map with

and we agreed, that this map shouldn't start with a swing/hammerhit filter like here, because its misleading about what the map is all about.

marked hookoff tiles are confusing players while first time playing the map and lead them to start playing the part in a wrong way, especially for the first part in the map. (we are aware, that you need these tiles later in the part)

you should close this area, as people intend it to be included as part of the gameplay.

We tried lots of different ways to do the part and many things to make it work somewhat consistently but it seems that this part just doesn't work out properly.

1st issue: One can cheat the part without taking speed and by just running through the speed-ups but it's also quite random. 2nd issue: Even if you try doing the part as we think it's intended by taking speed everywhere it seems not to work properly nor consistently as you get stuck in the speed-ups with strong as well as with weak hook.

This doesn't really suit the map and it's a little unbalanced in terms of mates having to do the same amount of work; it's not too bad but you might want to fix it still.

tele/stopper tilesets have those buggy lines around them

bug

cornerbug

at tele2

Markings for hook off, hook on, jump refill and all tiles in general should be clear to determine and this is not the case here, it's pretty much a guessing game and that doesn't suit the map as brain map at all.

bug

tileset buggy here as well

bug

hold an eye out for these, 3 found so far at 30%

markings not consistent throughout the map

mark pls

make sure to add time cps throughout the whole map

You might want to add team force because team 0 would only lead to disappointing experiences.

Pretty fun brain and puzzle map overall though. Should hopefully be ready after you made sure that the above-mentioned things are taken care of. 👍

Really enjoyable map in my opinion and it is definitely fun finding out how each individual part works in its own and both players have to invest brainwork to find the way through the part.

Keep it going!

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but its solo part

no

try hook left and swing ->

yes that’s why he wrote swing/hh, anyway it’s not in a solo part

powerless 1 is kind of the same, little swing b4 start

Maybe the message made up room for some confusion but for this map we expect the filter to also somehow represent the map-being and swing/hh are both very basic moves and give a wrong idea of what the map is going to be like, therefore a filter that requires at least a little bit of thinking is probably more appropriate

Flaws that were made in the past shouldn’t justify them for the future

depends what u call a flaw

We defined it for this particular case twice already, please reread the messages above but the main reasons are that it is misleading and unrepresentative (also it doesn’t filter the right group of people)

it's like 1% of the map, does it really matter?

it was said multiple times now why it matters

Fixed the above problem

change symbol

here as well

Nice fix but unfortunately the part is still cheatable like this:

Do you want to keep the hook on/off markings? You don't really have to fix it but I would recommend doing so because it's a pretty brainy map and therefore it's important to know which tile does what and this is not 100 % clear by looking at those tiles even though the players could figure it out on their own but I would still recommend changing it - it's up to you.

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I don't plan to modify this marker because it's consistent with 'powerless1,' and the white tile indicates activation while the black tile signifies deactivation. I feel this is quite clear.

Ready except for the jump refill markings that you already changed but forgot at some places apparently:

Here

and here

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Thank you for your reminder

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maybe 4~5?

This one feels harder than even powerless 1.

4 should be fine aswell, 5 is a bit to much imo

I'd also rate it 4*

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• missing design

• wrong placement

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The map is now ready to be released!

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upload this version thanks

fixed it

Does this impact ranks?

fixes a cheat where u can drag the player. doesnt impact r1

doesnt change how the part works as well

Fix should be up

Fixed a skip, there are some changes in the appearance of the level, but the process of passing the level remains unchanged.

upload this version thanks