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Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby necxelos » 28 Apr 2017, 16:12

Hello everyone.

I'm looking for very specific maps. I'll be glad for good recommendations. My cryteria are:
- They need to work well with any AI as this is the main game mode I'm currently playing,
- They need to look naturally, no perfectly flat spaces, no perfect geometrical shapes,
- They need to be detailed (trees, rocks, decorations, not only functionality),
- They just need to look beautiful :)

Thanks in advance for Your suggestions. I tried to look maps in FAF Vault 1 by 1 but it's a mess. Testing every map would take million years, not to mention most maps are in 999 versions named in some crazy way so there's no way for me to know which one is newest/updated version and which one is just old but played because people got used to that.

[EDIT] So far (using my own blind search) I only got:
- Mezmerizing Paradise,
- Forbidden Pass,
- Gap of Rohan.
Not really much but they indeed are of highest quality.
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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby Lieutenant Lich » 29 Apr 2017, 05:33

I heard of one called Open Palms (built in)... I also have heard of Diversity, Point of Reach, Roanoke Abyss (built in), Canis River, Broken Vows, Crashing Waves, loki, Regor VI Highlands and many others that I do not remember...
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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby biass » 29 Apr 2017, 07:07

A lot of custom made maps (min included) are without the ai markers needed to have a good time,
However; a lad called AwarE made a series of maps focused on providing an ai only experience

Find these maps by searching for "Teamplay_AI" in the vault
Map thread: https://bit.ly/2PBsa5H

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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby necxelos » 30 Apr 2017, 14:15

Thanks to some suggestions here and there I've got so far:
- Gap of Rohan,
- Mezmerizing Paradise,
- Forbidden Pass,
- Pamnal,
- Desert Oasis.

Also so far most of the maps get "red card" from me for: low quality texture work (for example bland green texture that even on closest zoom looks "just green"), terrible object placement (for example copy-pasting exactly same group of trees all over the map) and zero map modelling (hills and mountains that are just "blobs" without any detailed sculpting). Those just look bad and sadly there are hundreds of those. It's like people create maps barely for functionality, not caring how it looks at all :(
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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby Krapougnak » 17 May 2017, 16:44

look at all the maps made by Lionheart, they are beautiful, well made and have an interesting gameplay.
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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby Lieutenant Lich » 18 May 2017, 04:52

necxelos wrote:Gap of Rohan

This should not be a choice of yours unless you like long stalemates, firebase wars, game enders, etc. Gap of rohan is nothing but that.
Don't complain about that which you aren't willing to change.

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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby biass » 18 May 2017, 05:54

Guys he is playing vs ai

lion maps (that often don't have markers) might fall out of criteria
don't know about gap markers but its vs ai, the gameplay is the same no matter the map
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Re: Help: Looking for beautiful maps!

Postby TheKoopa » 18 May 2017, 14:20

Aware's maps should be good since they're just remakes of maps with ai markers
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