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Matt H
Dark Trooper Phase 1

Joined: 24 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Apr 17, 2004 18:07    Post subject: Alert Red (* *) View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

Alert Red by Christoph Dobias (* *)

TACC gave this level 40%.
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Barry Brien wrote:
In this mission you must steal the plans of the World Devastor. Weapons that were crated to tear planets apart and make new Fighters or new Weapons with the planet«s resources.
The Emperor is still disappointed about his loos of the First Death-Star and wants to bring the Rebellion to its knees.
Mon Mothma asks Kyle Katarn to help the Rebellion on this thing.

Mission Objectives:

*) Get the World Devastor Plans
*) Kill Everyone standing in your way

Boring repetitive texturing.
Mis-spelling in text.msg
Ridiculous placement of tie fighter.
Lack of texture stitching.
Nice scrolling stars effect makes you feel like the ship is moving.
This level feels like a wolfenstein 3d level. A small bit of altitude variations though not much.
Bad homming in places.
Bar room is terrible.
Also the author didn't credit certain authors for sprites he used (I know this as some of them were mine!)
Quite a challenging level.
Haphazard architecture and planning.
Phase3 as a boss.
World devestator plans lying in the floor in a blank little room right next to a conveniently placed a-wing.
Boring plot, terrible architecture, boring gameplay. Bad mission.

[Message edited by Barry Brien on April 01, 2002]


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Fish
Gamorrean

Joined: 29 Sep 2003

PostPosted: Jun 17, 2004 17:54    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

This level should get an award for "The Ugliest bar in first-person shooter games". If that bar really existed, it wouldn't have guests even if it was a last bar in next 160 billion light years, drinks for free, toilets smelling on roses, nude waitresses recruited from the Miss of the Universe finals, thrones instead of chairs and endless supplies of potato chips. Very Happy

Darth Oosha
Trandoshan

Joined: 24 Sep 2003

PostPosted: May 07, 2008 02:11    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

Small correction: The TACC review score was 15%, not 40%. And to be fair, the author was apparently a Mac user, so he probably only tested it with MacDF's longer maximum viewing distance and didn't realize it would HOM under DOS.

Fenwar
Admiral Ackbar
Admiral Ackbar

Joined: 15 Sep 2003

PostPosted: May 07, 2008 20:02    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

Perhaps the worst thing about this mission is the fact that its title places it first in alphabetical order on our missions page.

That means it's probably the first add-on a lot of people try. Shocked

Darth Oosha
Trandoshan

Joined: 24 Sep 2003

PostPosted: May 08, 2008 04:26    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

Maybe a note at the top pointing people to the HoF and Editor's Choice pages, as well as drawing people's attention to the Death Stars? We have the ratings and review links until then, though.

The MAZZTer
Death Star
Death Star

Joined: 25 Sep 2003

PostPosted: May 09, 2008 00:42    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote

Or we need a more robust, DB backed system which sorts by ranking descending by default.

The hardest part would be importing everything into a DB, honestly. The frontend would be just a simple for loop really, and a few links that control some variables of the SQL statement executed.

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Pumpkinetics
Ree-Yees

Joined: 16 Oct 2007

PostPosted: May 09, 2008 06:33    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Reply with quote

Or I make a level known as "A Dark Forces level".

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The MAZZTer
Death Star
Death Star

Joined: 25 Sep 2003

PostPosted: May 09, 2008 14:29    Post subject: View user's profile Send private message Send e-mail Reply with quote

And symlink it to the Dark Tide series. Brilliant!

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