Posts from Sylvan Guardian

This is a great map for a debut.

But it has both advantages and disadvantages.

Disadvantages:
1. The natural objects and terrain are monotonous. Instead of the colorful nature of Ashan, we see uniform mountains surrounded by uniform forests in a uniform area. Also, the transitions between locations should be smoothed out.
2. The steepest slopes of the hills are covered in grass?? It would be better to paint them as rocks.
3. Riverbanks are usually all sand!
4. There is an error in the script. There is no REGION_ENTER_STOP_TRIGGER, only *REGION_ENTER_AND_STOP_TRIGGER.
5. There is an error when loading the PWL image, resulting in a black screen.
6. 999 angels at the start. This is definitely too much.
7. Paired one-way portals?? It's easier to use two-way portals.
8. All the prophet's huts are empty.
9. It is better to remove the piles of artifacts and resources near the demon castle. Give the first ones directly to the hero, and the latter ones after one line of script.
10. It is easier to use masks than to try to fill all the surroundings with objects.
11. Water creeping up steep hills and violating the law of communicating vessels looks strange.
12. A swamp together with water is a normal idea, but together it looks like green patches on a blue background.
13. Objects with hole tiles create holes in the surface when placed on steep surfaces. The human castle did the same.
14. Some objects do not match the surrounding areas. For example, rotting trees on grassy rocks.

Advantages:
1. There are pictures.
2. There are many quests.
3. The map is not a "Custom Map - Kill'em all".
4. The neutrals are placed in a non-random way.
5. There are scripts (!).
6. The plot is good, as always.
7. There are height differences - the map is not flat like the Earth.

CONCLUSION: a good map, especially for a first work! The author put effort into it, and the map is worth playing. But it still needs to be refined. By the way, for the author's convenience, I am attaching a presentation "what you have/how I see it".

I finished the map; I'll note a few bugs I encountered.
1) A pop-up video appears every time I enter a Castle.
2) Empty huts (near the Sphinx and the sacrificial altar).
3) The one-way portal behind the turquoise border guard doesn't work (it seems it should lead to a demon, so I only got there through the console).
4) The demon himself: you need to give him an army and a level; otherwise, he stands there with his 13th level and 50 dogs and some other minor units.
5) Give an army to the hut on the Necromancer territory (15 zombies is nothing; the starting mines are guarded more strongly).
6) And, in my opinion, you could add a mentor.

Walkthrough of the "Forest Guardian" scenario (Hero difficulty): https://youtu.be/Sy2ql_zcn1U
P.s. Why do we need the Tear of Ashi if it can't be placed in an Elven city?

Hello, in the latest version, no matter where I am at the beginning of the second month, I get attacked by 80 cave demons, and that's it

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Message from Michel_Darina Quote: Message from Sergik_I Hello, in the latest version, no matter where I am at the beginning of the second month, 80 cave demons attack, and that's it That's strange. Are you talking about the pits, right? Then that shouldn't happen at all. After all, the growth is 2 per week, and two months have passed (so there should be 16). Perhaps you are talking about an attack on the island with elven dwellings; then that's how it should be. Can you send me your save file so I can better understand the situation? Thank you for playing my map.

I'm attaching the save file...

I will release an updated version soon.