Oh, I was under the impression that the dark red elites were zealots, since that's the primary zealot color in Reach.

Anyway, my point is that it can't stick perfectly to the lore, so why bother proving it goes against the storyline? Lumoria is a brilliantly done map, and I don't think its fair to be critical of them in some minor storyline aspect.
Edited by Polamee on Dec 14, 2010 at 04:57 AM

Aight, some things in here are great, a lot of things are bad. First off, the voice acting, is absolutely terrible, the only one who is remotely tolerable is Brandon, because he's the only one who sounds like he's the least bit into it. Meanwhile everyone else sounds like they're delivering a report on the most uninteresting topic known to exist.

This is easily my biggest gripe, because every time I was getting absorbed by the great exteriors, and the great interiors (atleast later on, keep reading) I'd hear someone speak and it would totally ruin it.

Second, some objectives, specifically the "Get across the wall and set up an LZ one", and the finale fight are very poorly implemented, well, more accurately, the triggers are. On my first playthrough I ran right by the place where you're supposed to kill a bunch of covenant guys, and the only thing that tipped me off that something was wrong, was when In Amberclad was still looping, despite starting 10 minutes ago. I stopped and looked at the objectives and noticed that what I was supposed to do was way back, at which point I just hit restart. Then I found out your opening cutscenes were unskippable :S

The player has almost no indication of what he's supposed to be doing there, and unless you make it much clearer that he's supposed to stay there and kill things, (and by clearer I mean more than an unenthusiastic dialogue line) then things are going to go wrong.

Another issue that happened to me was at the end of the area with the buggers, hunters, etc, in the cave. I finished that, and continued running through the door, as some idiotic marine charged out yelling and screaming. Apparently I had to talk to him to trigger the next event, but he ran right by me and there was no indication I Was supposed to wait. I ended up walking through the entire finale area to find absolutely nothing had spawned because of this. Atleast this time all it took was loading the last checkpoint to fix it.

Third, and finally, the beginning areas, where you rehashed forerunner structures from the campaign and multiplayer was incredibly disappointing. I know full well that you have the best forerunner talents working with you, so why did you do this, it looked terrible.

Other random irritations :

The marine in the aforementioned pre finale area (after being talked to) will get you to follow him, then stop dead right where the bsp is supposed to switch. So he stands there in mid running animation.

Ghosts coming out of the wrong way of a one way tunnel (after the wraith)

Getting ejected out of the warthog and not being able to get back into it for absolutely NO reason whatsoever.

Never give AI's rocket warthogs.

The giant red whatever that covenant vehicle is looked awful.

I can only take so much of the same tree.

The wall, which was one of the only custom pieces of architecture early on, is incredibly boring looking.

Some lights were uv'd wrong, and had borders.

The ending cutscene is the most anticlimactic thing I've ever seen, and doesn't seem to fit at all, they need to get this archive, so they run away?

The buggy cinematics, certain objects, most notably the pelican dissapearing on certain angles.

The Good :

The Cutscenes

Most of the custom architecture

The AI encounters

Every single climax event, the finale was great fun, and the architecture was stunning.

Your directing players directions through the use of light was great too.

The skyboxes, glad to see con is still at it.

EEEE:



You know full well this is terrible justification, don't spew this higuy, you know better.
Edited by SeL on Dec 15, 2010 at 12:50 PM

I agree, anything furry, preferably anthropomorphic would have improved the mod 10 fold : ))

Edited by MoooseGuy on Dec 15, 2010 at 04:07 PM

Nice job quoting the uber-long message... >>
Anyways, they are not trolling. It is their right to have an opinion on content, whether positive or negative, right or wrong.

Who cares? It's called freedom of speech.
Your mode of thinking in the past has led to totalitarian governments and other systems of restriction of expression.

Still, if you're gonna plan on putting custom voices, might as well get a sound editing program and fix them up a bit, no?

I found the soundtrack to not really match the pace of the battles I was in.

Sometimes, the marines did blow me up with the rockethog, make them not shoot at an enemy if the rocket's blast radius can impact the warthog.

Cutscene glitches, obviously.

Other than that, very well made.



We know that we have freedom of speech, it is annoying because it slightly hinders the experience of a high quality map.
Also, restriction of expression, lol.
Edited by Sinow on Dec 15, 2010 at 04:09 PM

If you're incapable of doing nothing but spouting irrelevant useless garbage like that, please don't respond to my posts.

There are Voice Acting communities where you post the lines and people will speak them and submit them to you.

Try it next time guys:

http://voiceactingalliance.com/board/

Selentic is actually one of the few people who told me what was wrong (other then I already knew half of it...), how it could be fixed, or why it happened.

and sel, those voice actors were all that were willing to help. You can't force people over the internet to do things for you, especially if you don't know them. I will be making them try harder in part 2 though.



Quite frankly we used this.
Edited by Higuy on Dec 15, 2010 at 05:35 PM

Lodex was Scarecrow. You insulted the Lodeman!! D:

way to handle other people's opinions in a mature, uninsulting manner

seems irrelevant

hi I'm ex CMT and the creator of one of the best multiplayer maps to exist in this game.

Just fyi :))

so does pp
Also, voice acting was bad

Ok... to head off what is already starting to be a flame war that will get people banned:

Sciophobiaranger, Sel was in CMT, he was a member of the forum (and was banned) a number of years ago, he has made maps, that they are some of the best is a matter of opinion that will not be debated here.

People: like the Lumoria map or dislike it that is all fine and good, but if you are going to debate the issues of why you like or dislike it stay on the issues and off of personal attacks.

Move on.

Which there is no need to worry about anymore everyone. Rest assured, I have been reassured that voice acting will be fixed next time. BUT IF IT'S NOT I SWEAR THERE WILL BE TROUBLEZ!
Edited by DarkHalo003 on Dec 15, 2010 at 09:07 PM

Well, the voice acting wasn't too hot but lets be honest- It was easy to understand, the story was clear and its got good gameplay.

What Sciophobiaranger said. It's not as if this map was made by a professional studio with access to paid skilled voice actors.
(By the way guys, I'll volunteer to voice in Lumoria pt2 if needed.)

i finally came back after a short break, and was happy to see this project still going and that part 1 came out!!!

cant ask for a better welcome back gift than this!!!

This. Is. Awesome.

Just found a glitch, sometimes Brandon doesn't hop in the pelican, he hopped in my hog instead!

THIS.MAP.IS.AWESOME.
REPEAT

cant wait for the lumoria mp maps :D

It will be interesting to see how they do them.

Some of the indoor portions of the levels would make awesome competitive MP maps. A bunch of the outdoor portions would be great for vehicle-based matches.

why would you release something with place holder stuff in it?

wait Dennis did a voice? of who?

Of the scientist.

hint: they couldn't get voice actors and lodex is an unemotive robot in real life, that's why his lines are the worst !

:333

Deeper than Arby?

LIES

"Why you shootin' at me, foo!?"

this map loads really slowly for me any way to speed that process up?

got the computer in febuary