(DM) Dismal by HReaper (Official)

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Map Quality

Good
2
15%
Bad - Items
0
No votes
Bad - Design
10
77%
Bad - Problems
1
8%
 
Total votes : 13

Sat May 10, 2008 12:52 pm

  • Rate and discuss this map.
    LordHavoc
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Sat May 10, 2008 1:02 pm

  • Too small. Really.
    1. Open Notepad
    2. Paste: ÿþMSMSMS
    3. Save
    4. Open the file in Notepad again

    You can vary the number of "MS", so you can clearly see it's MS which is causing it.
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    divVerent
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Sat May 10, 2008 1:03 pm

  • divVerent wrote:Too small. Really.


    Too much exposure to other players (high interaction rate) spoils many open maps, regardless of size.
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Sat May 10, 2008 8:55 pm

  • I have had good games on it when playing Minsta CTF. Which is insane but also insanely fun :)

    But, it is just not really a good map. The looks are sort of alright, the patches do make it look smooth. But what good can be said about the gameplay ? If it would be upgraded to have twice the space platform wise and some more elevation differences between them it could be a lot better. But then it would become a sort of second Evilspace.

    It's also a bit 'buggy' in that you can jump behind the curved walls at the back of the two opposing platforms. At least, you could when I played it some time ago. I even saw minsta matches where someone could snipe from behind the walls and not be hit themselves, like you could do on Bluesky until that was fixed.
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    PinkRobot
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Mon May 12, 2008 3:59 pm

  • divVerent wrote:Too small. Really.


    indeed
    Aneurysm 4 the win !!!!! :D
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    cortez
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Mon May 12, 2008 7:12 pm

  • Small, ugly, buggy. Plain and simple, this shouldn't be official.
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Wed May 14, 2008 5:55 pm

  • Dismal once was my favourite back in the good old 1.21 times and I always liked it instead of its bugs. It's pure suicide fun, especially the fight for the Nexgun place in the middle. I'm glad Nexuiz is having quite a lot of maps that don't really make sense, and together with Evilspace this is the grandfather of the simple open fun maps. Keep it like it is. Not every map has to have tactical deepness.
    uncomfortable
    random
    mean
    embarrassing
    limited
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    Urmel
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Thu May 15, 2008 8:26 pm

  • Yeah i think dismal is ok for (m)instagib but is too small and open at the same time for all other game modes.
    The mentioned bug were one could get behind that wall is fixed iirc

    Unless one plays instagib i'd say the design is bad. Also for a symmetric map the itemlayout is too uneven.
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    esteel
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Thu May 15, 2008 8:47 pm

  • Urmel wrote:together with Evilspace this is the grandfather of the simple open fun maps.

    Well this grandfather needs to be sent to the old folks home because it's way past it's prime. Evilspace is much more aesthetically pleasing and lacks the giant bug concerning curves.
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Thu May 15, 2008 8:59 pm

  • Dismal works for LMS and 1v1 CTF, and I appreciate high death-floor, but I voted bad design for the curve flaws and that it doesn't play well in general.
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