Custom Map #8868: Vortex of despair. By: Hypnotic22

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Author: Hypnotic22
Size: 130x130

Desc:
A wind has blown the PZ away and your friend have been replaced with his lazy cousin whom is always late. This is truly the vortex of despair difficulty ?/10

[Johnny Haywire]

Dude, yet another great map! And you've also managed to score FOUR "1" ratings already! Grats  ;)

Yeah, so this one is significantly more difficult than the first one. Definitely in the top 10% of difficulty, I'd say. However, it's still pretty manageable.

The cousin of our former little friend prompted an angry response from me... and after I killed him I was horrified to find nothing but a void left in his place. As much as I hate to kill a friendly AC unit, I hate even more to find out that killing him gives me no benefit. So I restarted and let the lazy cousin live.

I discovered that I needed move quickly in this map and kill a couple emitters and quickly build one PZ Bertha fast, or else the creep overpowered my defenses. While I dislike having to hurry, the ability to begin a slow and steady push outward made up for it.

Thanks for remaking this map and making it a little more difficult. Although I might be able to endure an even *slightly* more difficult version, I don't think I'd enjoy it. To me, this is the perfect balance of challenging and playable.

[hypnotic22]

i am glad you enjoy.... wait.... wait wait you did what ? 

The cousin of our former little friend prompted an angry response from me... and after I killed him

You fiend !

Jokes aside, thank you, try to put sort order on rating and reverse it   ;)

[Johnny Haywire]

Ha ha, yeah I've actually purposely looked for the worst-rated maps so I could play them. Low-rated maps are either stupidly easy or very difficult.

Personally, I think before you can rate a map you have to pass a captcha that requires you to click on every picture that has any wavelengths of light greater than 600 nanometers until there are no pictures that exceed that threshold. I think that would likely eliminate most of the people who give "1" ratings.

And by "eliminate" I don't actually mean to "eliminate them" - although, now that I think about it... hmmm...  ::)

[marvinitfox]

...a captcha that requires you to click on every picture that has any wavelengths of light greater than 600 nanometers ...

You don't like red? And , maybe, some shades of orange? Hokay.


As for this map.
Functionally it is identical to the previous one, but with greatly reduced initial power/firepower due to loss of PZs
Still, it just forces you to get your act together immediately rather than loaf around for a while.

[Johnny Haywire]

You don't like red? And , maybe, some shades of orange? Hokay.

Lol... no, that's not it. I meant to say that the captcha should require a person to figure out what that means. If a person can't figure out what that means, they're unqualified to rate maps. Or vote. Or maybe even breathe.  :P

Glad you're not one of "those" people!  ;)

Thanks for your maps, Hypnotic... I've gone through a bunch and so far haven't found one I really don't like. Great work!   8)