Ner'zhul Campaign

[Achille]

An interesting idea for campaign and while the overarching narrative is not exactly original its still an honest take on a campaign arc and looks like a good first foray into campaign design!

So from what I have seen in editor and from what I have played of the campaign, I would say that this still needs a ton of work to be viable. I would recommend familiarizing yourself with using Events in gui so as to prompt more original gameplay, check out this cool old thread by Archian! It will give you an overview of different trigger editor components. If you get stumped part way through making a trigger, just post a thread in the Triggers and Scripts Help Zone and someone may give you some pointers!

Another thing that would likely help a lot is familiarizing yourself with the Campaign Editor. I notice that throughout the campaign custom data is defined for each map, but did you know that these maps can share object data from the Campaign Editor??! That means that you only have to make a custom unit ONCE! Thats 12x less work! Check out this overview to learn more!

Above all else be proud that you made a whole campaign, I would advise you stick with this and use each mission as a milestone for your personal development as a map editor. Experiment in each one as you learn and this could become something special.

Best of luck!

 

[Lang]

Don't feel the campaign content, it like a simply map that gather to be one, the plot is interesting but the execution need more improvement to be a proper campaign map

 

[Ianfire Hawklight]

the story is good, but the map is very simple

 

[deepstrasz]

@Lang and @Ianfire Hawklight would you please detail your posts more so the mapper can improve? The comments seem a bit vague right now.

 

[Ianfire Hawklight]

@Lang and @Ianfire Hawklight would you please detail your posts more so the mapper can improve? The comments seem a bit vague right now.

i finished your campaign, the story is great! the chapter three i didn't find the way for the victory ( i tried to pocess the silvana's corpse and destroy the enemy) and chapter fifitheen was corrupted and a coundn't play! Some levels are too easy, only getting the initial troops and destroying everything! the arc of redemption is great and very interesting

 

[deepstrasz]

Generally, very simple effort in all fields. Rudimentary terraining and at times bad for the game's pathing, recycled techtrees, units and so on.

Sylvanas as a Banshee shoots arrows. Little space for building. Your enemy, Balnazzar who is under a player called Varimathras, is level 1 while Sylvanas 10 from the start.
In the next chapter, Sylvanas is but a weaker unit with no name who has Possession requiring research. The corpse is an enemy which attacks you... Winning the chapter leaves you with victory and still playing.
Third chapter's Sylvanas' corpse is an enemy which attacks you, again. Mind you, it's supposed to be protected by the player from the Scourge. While the story premise might be nice to explore, by this map, it got absurdly nonsensical. The enemy can be stormed quickly as they are just starting to build their base.
In each chapter we have to choose the spells again when the hero is max level anyway. Enemies have level 1 heroes most times.
The dialogue leaves a lot to be desired.
Meh, the last levels are RoC human campaign edited ones.

Some nice ideas. Overall, bad execution.

Simple.

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[Resyak]

I strongly advise you that if you want to learn how to create campaigns, download and study how the experimental authors here do things. I would also tell you to focus on improving a single project, it makes no sense to keep creating new missions without learning anything and with all the deficiencies of the previous one. On the other hand, the artistic section is not a minor thing, and you must also learn to create attractive maps that are not a plain with nothing.

Making a campaign is a very complicated job that requires countless hours of work to learn how to do it and even more so, if you want to do something with a minimum of quality. I have been doing it for many years and I am still mediocre. But you can always improve, the biggest problem is not that the level in general is very low, but that it seems not to improve at all from one project to another. So I repeat, look for quality campaigns, download them, open them with an editor and see how they are made, that is how I learned.

Regards.