Custom Map #10468: 110-Flu. By: Rennervate / AlexX

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that's what happens when you have a cold and make a map...

Loren Pechtel · December 27, 2022, 04:15:11 PM

I didn't think I was going to survive the spores but I managed to beat it. There aren't enough sprayers to do a lot of harvesting from the good bugs.

rennervate · December 27, 2022, 05:25:17 PM

Quote from: Loren Pechtel on December 27, 2022, 04:15:11 PMI didn't think I was going to survive the spores but I managed to beat it. There aren't enough sprayers to do a lot of harvesting from the good bugs.

loren you're an old grumbler...🤣 just assume it's intentional. and here you don't have to harvest anything

hawgwash · December 28, 2022, 09:22:04 AM

Alex, this is a brilliant map. It was extremely challenging from the beginning to almost the very end. The level of detail is evident many places to the experienced player. The balance of game play, the variety of techniques needed, and in some cases just the distance from point A to point B indicate the effort you put in. It was very long, and longer than I usually like to play one game. (But if I hadn't been playing this map, I would've just been playing a different map!). Thanks for your contribution, and I look forward to the next one. I do wonder though, did you suffer from disturbing dreams as a child? Just kidding.

rennervate · December 28, 2022, 09:37:49 AM

Quote from: hawgwash on December 28, 2022, 09:22:04 AMAlex, this is a brilliant map. It was extremely challenging from the beginning to almost the very end. The level of detail is evident many places to the experienced player. The balance of game play, the variety of techniques needed, and in some cases just the distance from point A to point B indicate the effort you put in. It was very long, and longer than I usually like to play one game. (But if I hadn't been playing this map, I would've just been playing a different map!). Thanks for your contribution, and I look forward to the next one. I do wonder though, did you suffer from disturbing dreams as a child? Just kidding.

Thank you for your very kind words and your detailed criticism of the map. I was very happy and it relieves my bad male cold enormously.
btw... i like the map itself ;-)

purety · December 28, 2022, 02:12:29 PM

Took me 4hrs. Would love to have more CSM maps.

wolfgoesmoo · December 28, 2022, 04:03:24 PM

Quote from: hawgwash on December 28, 2022, 09:22:04 AMAlex, this is a brilliant map. It was extremely challenging from the beginning to almost the very end. The level of detail is evident many places to the experienced player. The balance of game play, the variety of techniques needed, and in some cases just the distance from point A to point B indicate the effort you put in. It was very long, and longer than I usually like to play one game.

Totally agree with all this. The asymmetry in the map really made it interesting. I'm sure there were other ways to tackle it than I did, but it felt like a map that really rewarded you making a variety of choices. Maybe only the last ten minutes or so were on autopilot and I think my time was close to four hours.

Loren Pechtel · December 28, 2022, 09:59:17 PM

Quote from: rennervate on December 27, 2022, 05:25:17 PM
Quote from: Loren Pechtel on December 27, 2022, 04:15:11 PMI didn't think I was going to survive the spores but I managed to beat it. There aren't enough sprayers to do a lot of harvesting from the good bugs.

loren you're an old grumbler...🤣 just assume it's intentional. and here you don't have to harvest anything

Yeah, all harvesting did was allow the bombers to sortie more often.

rennervate · December 29, 2022, 05:38:36 PM

Quote from: Loren Pechtel on December 28, 2022, 09:59:17 PMYeah, all harvesting did was allow the bombers to sortie more often.

and a Bertha cleans even faster (so it's also missing)... not to mention a Thor (he fires even faster).

Martin Gronsdal · December 30, 2022, 10:54:44 AM

so, I gave this map 10/10 score and I also wanted to strangle you 10 times playing this purgatory!

rennervate · December 30, 2022, 11:04:57 AM

Quote from: Martin Gronsdal on December 30, 2022, 10:54:44 AMso, I gave this map 10/10 scoreand I also wanted to strangle you 10 times playing this purgatory!

i love you too my friend

AstraNine · December 31, 2022, 07:35:12 AM

This is a brilliant and challenging map. Possibly one of the best ever created, certainly in a very select list. However as yet I have not completed it even after five hours. Stuck on the bottom left platform. Hints please? I have tried blitzing it with cannons, sprayers but cannot clear it. Obviously flyers cannot help and you cannot fly a CN over it. Something I am missing?

AstraNine · December 31, 2022, 07:45:58 AM

Soon as I posted I had inspiration and managed to clear it! Phew! An amazing map that took me close on six hours to finish although I wasted an hour on the bottom left platform alone. I lost so much time attempting an assault on the totem without securing my position. That was a tough map, really tough. The no fly zone over the totem was pretty rough and almost (dare I say it) unfair. It would be easier without that. But overall no doubt in my mind, a masterpiece of a map.

rennervate · January 01, 2023, 04:04:03 AM

Wow. Your feedback made me very happy! Thank you very much for that.

With the platform you only have to create AC with snipers on PZ. Then send some guns over and then nullify

D0m0nik · January 01, 2023, 07:34:13 AM

Wow, this is a truly epic map, born from adversity! All the above but what also worked very well for me was that you very carefully controlled the aether, I always had just enough and not quite enough, the perfect balance.