Its helpful criticism to say that he has done much better than he has in the past.

Maybe your non-helpful off topic posts should, just, stop.

I played through Lumoria before I decided to play RPSP. Got 30 minutes in realized that all of it was really easy that got killed by a sword elite inside a warthog. It was the only thing that impressed me throughout that 30 minutes of game play.

My expectations were high so I ripped it what I feel was a new one through 30 minutes of me blowing off steam through dev mode in videos that I am uploading to xfire right now... That's right I said 30 minutes, quite unnecessary I must say but I had to stop playing the single player because I had spent so much time BSing in that same defend the base while the same wave comes at you with a 500 round sniper... I was bored. I will bring up the link if people want to flip through it. It is in three parts just for the sake of not having to sit there for 30 minutes.

whatever,

thanks for the upload opsy, i will enjoy playing ur creation, thank you for sharing

Edited by Ubergoober on May 16, 2011 at 05:13 AM

Telling someone they've done a super fantastic and amazing job when they really haven't isn't a good way to give criticism.

hahaha

The levels look awful, every area looks identical, and almost the entire thing is walking in a straight line for 10 minutes with boring encounters. This isn't good at all, sorry. Also when you drop you're facing the entirely wrong direction, but you can still go forward anyway, why would you do this, I walked down there for like 5 minutes before realizing I was going the wrong way.

I stopped about 10 minutes in, around the point I saw a 500 meter straight line and then in the distance another 500 meter straight line that we had to walk through.

RPSP Took OpsY a Long time to make, and I think RPSP Is a 10/10 so far, well, maybe like a 7/10 but yeah.
And for your Information I'm already married.

from what I'm reading it sounds like you're not very good with ai encounters, but level design was pretty good, wish I could play it, gonna try to get my pc repaired again so I can try this out

also, sounds like you used an odst biped that has marine animations, that turns the best of maps into horrid nightmares.

I'd like to see a vid of this map, cause im curious about it, and also does anybody know if it's protected? cause if my computer gets fixed I'd love to see what I could do with those encounters, cause ai are my strong spot in modding if I do say so myself.

.................wow.........................

What level design, the entire first map was totally unintuitive, and everything else was a 500 meter straight line.

I'm just basing this on what I've read and the fact most levels out there used modified versions of sp maps, so it's kinda hard to critique a custom sp map's bsps when there are so few examples of others out there, plus, knowing opsy's rpg map designs, I would guess it's pretty good.

Hello dn djaani,

I didn't like it at all.
Boring sums it up in a nutshell.

Comparing this to Lumoria is just stupid.
Lumoria always will be the best SP map.

Epic regards

I played it...

Some small problems I noticed:
1. the drop pods are drivable vehicles
2. the cutscenes trigger at odd places
3. every time you get shot, you can't attack for a few seconds due to the stun time
4. grenade throwing

Some larger problems I noticed:
1. BSP issues (explained below)
a. rendering problems, it disappeared when you looked at certain angles
b. it was monotonous
c. it looked the same, visually
d. areas were hard to see in due to identical bitmaps stretched over faces, such as the tunnels in the base
2. the timing of everything is off, things didn't trigger like they should have
3. you can't tell what you're supposed to do most of the time, more nav points are needed
4. as has been said, the ai need to be better planned, both friendly and enemy. Example:Yeah... 'nuff said...
5. aside from the number of ai and their behavior, they're too far apart

Found the time to play it today, and there were heaps of problems. Stun, and grenade throwing are really, really, really annoying.

The reason I'm posting this now, and not later, is because after the cutscene where there is the transport warthog, and there is like 4 marines in the back, it froze. I don't know what happened, but after like 5 minutes I gave up and Ctrl Alt Delete - Task Manager to shut down Halo.

And also, the waves of defending the base! Good god I was so bored. So you know what? I shot the marine driving the pelican and stole it! Then I flew back to get the warthog, got the warthog, drove back, and that kinda helped to spice it up.

Weapons. I felt like a 5 year old being teased with a huge lollipop I couldn't have. There was a rocket launcher that would've come in handy, but of course, you couldn't pick it up.

I think you're a good BSP modeler Opsy, but I think you should get more experience in texturing and AI placement. Or let someone else handle the stuff.

Oh yeah, found this:

http://screenshot.xfire.com/s/114075311-3.jpg

The answer is simple: Halo didn't load the maps properly

Halo will load the closest SP map when (map_name) is used and is referring to a non-existent map. Check your maps folder again.

Also, this SP was horrible. It wasn't epic or hard, just repetitive...Extremely Repetitive. The same squad respawns over and over and over again, all of the AIs act the same - they just stand there until you shoot at them and even the landscape repeats itself.

Like I said, it ain't hard even on legendary. The only reason why I had such a hard time with that one grunt is because ALL plasma based weapons will stun you for 7 seconds. A plasma rifle's bolt and a charged bolt should be the only projectile that have stun in the SP and even then, the stun is not supposed to be that noticeable even on a marine. Also, the pistol is already overpowered so letting it cause more damage and giving it more ammo is insane.

The map is full of bugs. You can't pickup most of the weapons, Some parts of the map disappears at an angle and the elephant is buggy as it does "weird things" to the ODSTs. Speaking of which, I find it annoying that the Elephant will eject you when you pass by a certain encounter and prevents you from reentering it again. I do not want to kill these guys, I just want to finish this map so that I can ramble on how horrible it is in this threaaaad!

I have still play Extinction because the fact that you have to cross a plane with your team, trying to avoid warthogs, jets, a stolen scarab's beam and noobs flying around bombarding the entire map while doing a little Role Playing with total strangers gives you an epic experience(but it is annoying when you have to cross the plane on foot and there is a lack of team balance.) This is nothing like the big multiplayer maps. The background music, cutscenes and the banshees may have made it a little epic but the other factors have ruined that epicness. The music isn't even well planned. For example, at the last stand at the start of RPSP_S50, lively music is played even though you know that all of your marines will be killed at the assault.

There are some memorable moments in the map like when a sniper bullet reflects on a jackal shield onto an elite and when another jackal was charging a bolt when he died and it actually homes onto another elite(man, jackals are real accidental team-killers when it come to elites). Nonetheless, that moment was created on the players behalf(not to mention the hundreds of AIs heading towards the map) so that doesn't count.

I really have high hopes for this map and it can be really fun if it is well polished. I hope someone will make a better version of this SP because the RPSP_S50 map gave me and exception before I can complete it. For now I'll give it 5.6 Covert Ops Stars.

-Zekilk
Edited by cyboryxmen on May 17, 2011 at 07:51 AM

No, it's (game_won), it's supposed to load the next solo map in line but that obviously fails because there is no telling how many solo maps people have. If (map_name [map name]) refers to a nonexistent map, nothing will happen.

Wow guys show some respect, this is the best SP out there that actually has a story line, and plus it took OpsY over 2 years. Im sure Arc2 will be better, in your guys view anyway.

Personally, I liked the BSPs. Obviously the texturing could use some work, but that's a minor issue. The ai doesn't bug me. It would be impossible to make 100 ai battles with very smart ai. I think the battles are fun, although they could be shorter. The only real problems I had were with the stunning, grenade throws, and I had several exception errors. I don't know what caused the exceptions, but if you could fix those or give better checkpoints so the player doesn't have to replay 10 minutes after an exception, that would be good. Overall I enjoyed it. The warthog drop pod made me lol.

So I got through everything and I would give this a 5/10

Its... okay. Its kinda fun when I am not getting stunned by fire and I am not able to shoot. As well there are so many Beautification things that need to be done to it. The map is huge, but one texture for the entire map is stupid. I'm lazy is not an excuse to release a map that looks bad. It doesn't take that long to texture something. Seriously I would dedicate as much time into making sure things look nice.

Also I was getting sick and tired of constantly being ejected from a vehicle. Don't do that unless the path ahead can only be traversed on foot as in a vehicle cannot pass through it. Getting ejected by the game for no reason is dumb.

Finally stop using the warthogs with the treads. They look terrible and they have terrible collision models. I cannot stand looking at those things let along driving them

Lumoria was a good single player. Granted for some military formalities that I noticed that drove me nuts. But there is no contest, Lumoria beat this SP by a long shot in my books.

lol I thought it was a bomb at first XD

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Edited by Noobyourmom on May 18, 2011 at 10:34 PM

If you guys don't like it, then maybe you should give us something better than Lumoria to compare SP maps to.

My map e60 was rated higher than Lumoria, until it mysteriously took an extreme drop in the ratings...

Anyway, if you ask politely, Opsy might make you a tutorial on how to make cutscenes. :P

Downloading; we shall see.

Wut. Was that directed at someone else whose post I missed?
Edited by The Cereal Killer on May 18, 2011 at 12:28 PM

^^

As long as you have a basic understanding of mapping, basic modeling, and thing called time, it really isn't that difficult to make something decent.

Glad to help, Cereal. Here's a link to the first map I ever attempted: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=5201

Obviously it has some novice flaws, but there's something to learn here.

Note how the cutscene characters don't fade in and out like a Reach hologram. They are a persistant and integrated part of the game world. Opsy's characters don't fade in and out either. If you want help, I'd be happy to tell you how to do this for Lumoria part 2! :)

While my friend and I certainly don't have AAA quality voice acting, we mostly avoid flat affect, a common novice snare.

Also, note the presence of a storyline. It's not the most engaging, but if I were simply to say: "Rescue the scientist," that would be an objective, not a storyline, so I put some care into that category.

Good luck with part 2! I hope the cutscenes are even more epic and stable than Opsy's!
Edited by Noobyourmom on May 18, 2011 at 05:02 PM

check halomaps sunday

i uploaded tmc_a_fixed 2 days ago, which does in fact include updated cutscenes, music, and other things

covert ops was good, but the gameplay was lacking and the story was also a bit odd. it was new, yes, but like i said you should of worked more on gameplay and the storyline

also take note you also reused plenty of bsps not suited at all for SP missions...

all missions are not perfect, or amazingly high quality. each are superior in what the creators took the most care and time into.

Yeah, you're right. I apologize. I shouldn't insult a whole mapping team because of one member, and you guys did a good job with Lumoria.

On topic: It does baffle me why Opsy's map is rated so low. I thought it was at least an 8.

I'm glad I had access to a computer to feel all this Halomaps love I'm so accustomed now.

As I said in earlier posts, I had to leave, no more internet and I don't know for how long. Could be for 2 weeks could be for 4 months.

So here's the deal for RPSP:

-As I stated before, I knew the maps didn't look ''good'' and wasn't perfect
-Also, as some others pointed, I was alone working on this and while it did take 2 years, only 2 months were actually fully devoted (given the fact I have a job) to this, while I was again without internet connection
-I too hate this ODST crapping out, I didn't know how to fix and didn't have access to anything to ask
-For the base defense you feel is too long... if you play on legendary it's faster. It's triggered by the Marines count. The fewer they are, the more diverse the enemy.


For the ones that didn't like it, I'm sorry. My philosophy on this however is simple: I have been holding to these 3 maps for 6 months now. I had the choice to keep holding on or release. I decided to be kind enough to release, so a few people that could enjoy it would.


I'm working on Arc2, which consists of the following 3 RPSP levels. One major difference is that the BSPs are built with the Campaign in mind so they're closer to a RPG_Beta map like 6.2 in term of architecture. I now know more about the engine and the scripting aswell so I can refine this aspect by a bunch.

As I said tho, I'm again working on this alone, without internet in my spare time (which is pretty rare).


I'm also glad I didn't do anything to raise people's expectation. If you read my post again, the only positive I said was Epic and Scale. Scale is definately there, if you play through the campaign as intended then I expect Epic to be there too.

If you want to do better, go ahead

@Noobyourmom: You speak to me as if I am a part of TM.

@Opsy (mostly your final statement): We are (or at least I am) not criticizing just to call it bad, just because we want to outshine you, or something else similar. We're just observing and commenting on what we saw. I'm making Red Skulls - do I expect it to be better than this? Probably. Is that the reason I want to make Red Skulls, just to one-up other people's maps? No, I am making it because my first maps had most of the same problems that RPSP does, and I want to accomplish something that nears perfection (in my personal opinion). So do the same; you said yourself you've learned since then.
Edited by The Cereal Killer on May 18, 2011 at 07:22 PM

Three words: stun...stings...remove
Additional word: plz
-Archer1

Edit:



Hah, I told you archersbro that team killing is good for something!
-Archer1

Edited by lemarr on May 18, 2011 at 08:01 PM

Well, mine stopped on the first cutscene. n the part where the drop pods fall and there are the covenant crusers. It just stopped. Do I need to have all 3 of the maps in my maps folder in order to play? I only had the first one in.

lol informality with a formal ending.

whats the best map for opsy
?