MidnightDelight by AS50

[AS50]

Salutations fellow DDrace Networkers!

This is my first visit to this lovely website with the intention of publishing my first map here, in the hopes of contributing something decent.

I welcome any criticism, positive, or negative. I believe this to be a moderately difficult map, all stages (1-14) have been extensively tested and are working as intended.

However, there may be a rare issue with stage 10 whereby the switches glitch-out sometimes.

Also, with regard to the teleporters: I was lazy at first with the teleport numbers (going from 1 to 200 as I did not follow the increments properly ). I decided to replace all of the teleporters rather quickly so there may be a broken one lurking around somewhere, I'll fix any issues as soon as possible if I happen to find them.

Thank you!

AS50

[Varys]

soooo i tested this map and iam very cinfused about this design....it look like someone has mixed 3 or more layers....this is very awful in my mind (other testers should test it ). you wrote that this map was tested but there are million bugs in it :
-i would prefere that you change the map design
-you use tiles more than one time for different things like the triangel...this will confuse other players when they are not playing with entities
-you have to have a better contrast between freeze and teleport or kill...it is not possible that the 3 things have the same tile
-part 9 works not rly
-part 10 is not working/buggy

i know it is your first map but pls remove the bugs which you will see in the sreenshots, than upload a better version.
all in all its a nice map with nice ideas but very buggy. if he remove the bugs i would say nov 5*-mod 1*
Varys

[AS50]

Thank you Varys, I greatly appreciate your feedback and your time taken to test the map!

Alright, I would like to respond to each of your screenshots, please keep in mind that I did mention that I had to redo the teleports because they were filthy, thank you for showing me where the bugs were.

Starting from the bottom screenshot upwards:
○ I will differentiate between kill and freeze, thank you.
○ How is the Ninja tool not necessary? You need it to reach the top. If you are referring to the fact that you could most probably hammer-fly up there then I will disable hammer flying at that section.
○ By the "missing 2 blocks" I presume you're talking about the silly idea of making the rocks physical, I will remove that.

Second screenshot from the bottom:
○ I agree, the triangles serve no purpose, It was meant to warn the players initially. I shall remove it.

Third Screenshot:
○ Teleports will be fixed.
○ I will replace the "GO" symbol with an arrow if that's suitable.

Fifth screenshot (The pretty heart):
○ "what is this?" That is to warn the player that there is no teleport entity there.
○ "freeze looks like unfreze" will redo the freeze tiles.
○ "3. the arrows which should help the player are not necessary" These arrows are there to show that it is a one-way only I don't think it matters really.

Sixth screenshot:
○ Will remove blocks.

Seventh screenshot:
○ Will display arrows for speed-up.
○Will add required freeze-tiles.
○ Will distinguish between freeze and teleport.

Eighth screenshot:
○ Will fix speed-up.
○ Both parts do work, I have tested that myself with a dummy, no doubt about it, I must admit, the rocket part is a little tricky, however, it is most definitely possible.
○ I think the arrows are alright.

Ninth screenshot:
○ Will do.

Tenth screenshot:
○ Roger.

Eleventh screenshot:
○ Definitely works, it's something different.

Twelfth screenshot:
○ Will distinguish between the two better, thanks.

Thirteenth screenshot:
○ Will fix.

Fourteenth screenshot:
○ There isn't supposed to be a hook-able block there, if there's still the entity there though, I will remove it.

Fifteenth screenshot:
○ Will add arrows.
○ I actually don't know why there are triangles. (Facepalm) Will remove.

Sixteenth screenshot:
○ Will fix teleport.

Thank you again Varys,for being a good tester, I will take everything that you mentioned into consideration and fix all the bugs you came across. Once again I'm going to stress the fact that this is my first map, I appreciate all the criticism as I want this to be perfect.

I noticed most of the problems are with the teleport tiles, contrasting errors and distinguishing between tiles. Also, you said: "-part 9 works not rly", the actual part of the stage does work, however, I will re-test again.

Thank you!

AS50

[AS50]

Update: Varys,I have finished fixing everything you mentioned about the map, will do another test run tomorrow when I have time and then re-upload.

[Lady Saavik]

Varys:
quads off, when you're making screenshots. Your text and parts are more visible then.

AS50:
man, so polite ^^

[AS50]

Thank you Lady Saavik!

Update: Will be attaching the latest map soon, everything mentioned by Varys has been fixed/cleaned-up (hopefully). Stage 9 and 10 should now be working correctly 100% of the time.

[AS50]

Alright, this is the latest version of the map currently, there should be no bugs as far as I know.

Good luck

AS50

[Index]

Hey,
i quickly looked at the map. I did not play it properly, so here are just a few little things I noticed whith super and /pause (:
I have to say that the background is kinda nice with the twisted moon, all the clouds and these stars that are nicely arranged. Unfortuantely that does not apply to the tileset. It looks like you just used every tileset you found/liked and combined them. Sry, but I don't like that mixed style, would be better if you just use one tileset for the whole map or at least one fitting tileset for every part? ;( Oh, and beside the few things I do not like, I have to say, that this map is quite nice for your first attempt (:

[AS50]

Thank you for the reply Index. I have decided to scratch the whole map. However, I am going to start creating a new map which will contain new parts as well as the old parts within MidnightDelight. I will also try my best to avoid repeating any mistakes I have made in the old map while creating the new one.

Edit: I will try my best to not mix tilesets and rather try to stick with one. There are so many tilesets that I would like to use, I just can not make up my mind, heh.