ontrigger
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8 years ago Forgot to mention some interesting stuff: 1)Some grass textures are way brighter than they should be. Turn on mat_fullbright and fly around reserve maps, it is really noticeable. All foliage should have the same color, right now it looks very unnatural.
2)
Put a skybox instead of an areaportal on the roof, It should gradually increase performance
3) I had no idea what funicular everybody was talking about until I realised that I simply missed it. The path to it looked unfinished, as if there was nothing of interest there.
This cliff right here is made completely out of them. Sculpt some more models, make huge complex ones for different areas that have baked lighting in them (so that you can still have bumpmaps and support bumpmapping at the same time)
There is also something wrong with trees here. Maybe $distancealpha should help?
The window in the left corner had such a short field of view that It was almost impossible to notice this pipe entrance.
Now, I'm a very big fan of showing players where they are supposed to go right from the start of a level. It at least gives some kind of a starting point to help build a logical chain of things that a player has to do to finish a level. On my first playthrough I did not give any significance to both the metal door and the window as I thought they were not connected at all. Because of this I had no idea how to finish this level.
EDIT:
More like I had no idea what to do.
Then I visited this room. The paper telling me to close the pipes then the pumps confused me a little. That was because I noticed beforehand that the railings there were colored red and blue just like the pipes. The model for these buttons should be changed completely to fit the artstyle of the level and tell the player that these buttons are not related to pipes at all and represent a different part of the level.
I noticed that these pipes led to nowhere and also that they are inverted.
I then closed all pumps (turns out that I actually opened them) went to the control room again, ran around the facility, somehow I fixed my problem with pumps by actually closing them this time, opened the gate and finished the map.
Move this window where I show it in the picture. Then move the pipe entrance right where the wooden door was so that the point of interest is this pipe(and so that players can see it through the window clearly). Then contrast this pipe put a bright red light indicating you can't enter it or something.
Move this control room here. That way I can easily access it after closing the pipes AND the pumps.
Now I can clearly see the pipes.
3) Add these 2 computer controlled pipes. No idea where you can place them but if the controll room is moved to the front then you will have to do some refurnishing in the building. It would also be cool if you could make these cpu pipes visible from the control room. The scheme should also be remapped to correctly show how pipes and pumps correlate in the facility. And please change the water pool icon to be more readable. I had no idea what it meant.
Oskutin
Alright, here we go. Let's start from the first map.
Reserve1: 1)Intro scene is bad, does not provide any kind of backstory or info about the game. It's a big problem because I had no idea that I could just run through the game without solving any puzzles. Just put it clear to a player that you can do whatever you want in the game by displaying a text on a black screen.
2)Now let's take a look at these 2 areas:
They are very dark, right? What they clearly need is some dim lighting to highlight the small details and add to the overall atmosphere. A constant light with a soft falloff and a green-ish tint will do the trick. I will explain why flashlight is not needed here a little bit later.
3)In this picture you can see a damaged pillar, but unlike any other pillar that is clearly visible this one is obscured by a tree behind me. It is almost impossible to notice even if you turn around to the right after turning on a water flow monitor. Will be better if you remove that tree.
4)Well, if I stated a water flow monitor then why not to talk about it too? I seriously have no idea what these things do and what their purpose is, can anybody explain that to me?
5)Alright, so now we enter the power plant and here we are greeted with the first puzzle in the game. This is a great opportunity to teach your player about the basic mechanics of the game. Tell a player how the camera works and what we he/she should do with it.
I personally think that this cutter blends with the box way too much thus rendering it literally invisible. I was lucky enough to notice it and pick it up. I think it would be better to make this section have no lighting at all. Not only that it fits perfectly well with the broken fuses, but it encourages our player to use the flashlight. Put the cutter somewhere so it doesn't blend with its surroundings and put a light switch near it to reward a player for finding the cutter(cutter here is a visual cue to help find a light switch, although that will mean that some players will try to use light switches further in the game).
6)The paper on a table in the same power plant should be more readable. You can achieve that by putting it higher and adjusting tonemap scale so that lightmaps don't overbrighten certain letters.
7)I was kind of confused with what I was supposed to do with a console in that plant. Did I have to turn them both off or just one?
Reserve2: 1)I have a lot of critique for this map.
First of all, the lighting HAS to be changed for this area. It is very moody and dark. Sudden contrasts on bright lights make it look even worse. I couldn't distinguish a static prop with physics one not only because their textures were almost identical, but also because it was too dark to see the difference(blue-ish tone didn't help). I suggest making this room way more brighter with a soft yellow-ish tone. Physics props should be stacked at one place and probably somehow highlighted(maybe make a small storage room with a cagelight?)
same thing can be applied to the splicer generator room, lighting is just meh.
2)We are now in a sawmill, a very dark sawmill. Seriously, how come there are 4 lights along the wall with brigh as fuck sprites yet the sawmill is super dark.
3)The death trigger for the small motor should be much smaller and should actually fit its size. It also has some incorrect timing because it kills you even if the motor is all the way down the basement.
3)I actually have to say that I liked the electrical water puzzle here, on my first playthrough I tried to put a bunch of boxes there, now I feel like a stupid idiot because the powerbox had a small timer so that I could just turn it on and run away before it electrifies everything.
4)These stands should have a map telling you where exactly you are right now. I didn't even know that you could go to the claw point.
Reserve3: This one is perfectly executed except for one serious issue. You cannot close the toilet after throwing a poop where it belongs. Things like that really bug me.
I'm kind of tired of writing this but I'll post feedback for all levels later so don't close this issue, thanks.