Profile of RoswellBonewell

This map rules. The rest can suck it

ROUND #1 REVIEW
GOOD:
1. Great night feel to the map with light posts and small FX fires everywhere creating tmosphere. Looks really good when large engagements open up with explosions etc. I also had fun testing it and running all the lamps over with tanks.
2. Interesting Urban feel with several tight flanking areas.

BAD:
1. The North and South VPs do not appear balanced. The southern VP is behind a building and the Northern VP is open but near a building. May be asymmetrically balanced somehow?
2. The northern Munition point appears a hair closer to the western bases than the eastern bases. Could move the southern munition point a little closer to the eastern bases to balance.

POSSIBLE CHANGES:
1. The south east area could benefit from more buildings or debris where play ends. It feels a little claustrophobic when the interactivity stage just ends in the middle of the area you are fighting in. Since there are no obstructions to clue the player in that they cant go that way. Could extend the stage to include a little more area in the south, would allow another flank opening. This is by the VP and victory point. Could allow a flank around the building between them which would also balance it closer to the northern VP.
2. Some of the corridors feel a little tight. But that is the style of the map, Urban right! So it is hard to recommend anything that might ruin the feel of the map. But I might remove a building between rows to create little pockets of openess. May ruin some of the flanking options though.
3. A couple points have the actual point close to the edge of the capture area. Will need some testing to see if the AI has issues capturing the points.

SCORE:
9/10 - This map has very few problems. After some minor cosmetic fixes it should be good to go.

ROUND #1 REVIEW
GOOD:
1. I like the resource layout. Forces a decision early game, go for both fuels or get the munitions and one fuel. You can decide to starve them of fuel or out tech them later. I think this gives each faction some early game choices.

BAD:
1. This map has too many wide open areas. This can be fixed by the next round. Add some more destroyed buildings or hedgerows to break up the many open areas.
2. The cutoffs may be hard to contest since one of them is so close to the enemy base. This could be another map where more central located cutoffs could reward play in the middle. Which would create a more 2v2 feel as opposed to running to the corners for fuel which creates a 1v1 feel.
3. Some of the roads are too deep. They look more like ditches. This will lead to units shooting the ground a lot. Level up the ground a little so units can effectively engage each other. In some cases this appears intentional, to create a firing lane. Maybe keep it between buildings etc.
4. Base defenses could be better. Base buildings can be attacked without bunkers returning fire.

POSSIBLE CHANGES:
1. Could add some small buildings in the center so if you decide to go mid and get the munitions you can hold them longer. It will force teams to fight all three fronts early game. This will show which team has better micro.
2. As stated above, this map could really use some more sight blocking. That is the major flaw of this map. It is way too open.
3. I like the idea of two cutoff points. This map could benefit from only having one cutoff up the middle. However, "close the pocket" is always a possibility in team games. I would stay with two but move them to be easier to contest.

SCORE:
7/10 - I really like many of the choices of this map. The resource locations, the red cover around the outer VPs, etc. Choices that are play related. However, the map needs a little work yet to be high level. I would rate it a 6/10 but the intelligent play choices make it a 7, soon to be 9 I hope.

This map is several iterations away from being complete. I did not fully review it. The map will need a lot of work laying down splats and splines to get to release level.

If you watch a lot of top level players play, you will notice they do not normally pick maps with a large number of buildings. Not to say you cant have many buildings but most players prefer several infantry units all moving and flanking each other. With buildings you get machine gun camping and mortar fights which do not indicate who is the better player, since they require almost no micro management.

I want to give this a score of 10/10 just for the cow slaughter area! Just awesome

I did not try to fully review this map since it has 200 buildings. I am fearful no one will want to play this in automatch. If you forget infiltration units in your commander choice, you will probably lose. Looks like a blast having a massive war with the AI though!