Custom Map #503: Survive!. By: pls wait until 15mins.

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Author: pls wait until 15mins.
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Desc:
Youre HQ crashed into a military base! Ships hiered by the misterios ,,Loky,, are attacking you! they have a note with them: ,, Like all the others before, you need to perish, Ticon empire. ,, You have to survive 15 minutes until help arives! then you will automaticly win in 40 seconds. Can you survive until your next jump is ready? pls play it once with surviving 15 mins. then you are free to do your speed runs. This is your base:

[ColonelSandersLite]

Q: Do I even need to be here for this?  A: No.

General thoughts:
On the first run, I tried the obvious speed run.  Won it in about 2 minutes.  I noticed that the victory objective wasn't to kill everything and tried a more subtle approach and won it in less than a minute.  I doubt it's possible to beat my time (not a single wasted frame), unless there's an alternate strategy I just didn't notice.  Maybe fiddling with omni placement can gain a tenth of a second or two.  On the third run, I stayed in the middle and built ships and waited for 15 minutes.  Noticing that the mission builds it's own ship to win itself, I started a fourth run where I didn't do anything but unpause the game.  Yes, the mission will play and win itself from start to finish.  No human interaction required.

First, call me old fashioned, but I believe a game should have some degree of interactivity.  In particular, a strategy game should require some form of strategy.

Second, there is no point in waiting for 15 minutes.  If you've survived for two minutes, you have already seen everything the mission is going to throw at you.

Third, from a technical point of view, this mission seems to be well executed.  It takes advantage of features that seem a bit more advanced.

Fourth, I'm *really* not a garmmar nazi, but really?  You put all that effort into making a mission do some advanced things, but don't put any effort at all into how you present it?

It is my hope that the author will learn from this and put those skills to better use.

My Rating:
1/10

My time:
0:51.6

Difficulty:
Extremely Easy.  You can take a nap and still win.

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As for film, there are Critics, now we have a professional Critic in PFE game!   ;)
Playing maps several times, game description: as a professional scientist - detail and thoroughly.

You are welcome, ColonelSandersLite!   You make our life in PF Society more interesting! :)

P.S. By my opinion in PF game in comparison with CW3 very weak response of players (rate maps, comments etc.). That is why I am very glad! :)

[Karsten75]

Q: Do I even need to be here for this?  A: No.

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Especially the part about English not being everybody's first (or even second) language.

[ColonelSandersLite]

Some typos? Fine.

Just a kid? Fine.

Bad English leading to a couple of mistakes with prepositions or whatever? Fine.


These aren't the case.  This person is intelligent enough to put together a technically advanced mission.  They can also write english well enough to *get help* with their english.  Considering the effort they put into the rest of the mission, it is very apparent that they can do better.  If saying as much isn't constructive criticism, I don't know what is.  I am an experienced modder and content creator extending the courtesy of honest feedback, just as I desire honest feedback on my own work.