I am almost done with my map, a few daysmore, I am doing a final review......I was looking for a good map beta test site for some good map feedback.......not critical people....positive stuff.....
Any suggestions anyone?.



Eagle1

i dont mind having a look at it for you (and the rest of the guys/gals on here too would prolly like to aswell).

not sure there are any sites like that around yet. sometimes critisism is good  

I'm good at spotting errors... just call on me if you want to find every unaligned texture or overlapping brush

An idea I had a while back - a beta testers mailing list. People who are prepared to give proper critism (give them a test review before joining the list) would join the list and people requiring beta testing and feedback for maps/mods could distribute a link and people can give feedback. The person who requires the beta testing would have to host their own files.

People aren't always fortunate enough to be in clans or have a fast connection to run a test server to get feedback.

Just an idea. :P

Ark

Hey all,
The thing is that where would I (others) send a file so people can review a map...before your ready to distribute your map..so the map can be reviewed by others ...a kind of lookover check out by other mappers if you may ......so that you would release a nice map. This way a map would have a good chance of success for all to play and enjoy.
The problem is email limits.......no server access..
I dont know everyone.....I would love to try out my map with others with out having to put out a bad map to try it.
Any Ideas?


Eagle1......

I'm afraid there's no quality website with map reviews for SoF2 yet (or I missed it).

Posting a link to download your map from here as it's been said could prove good yes - posting same on other modding/mapping forums could pay off too. I know I'd post here and on http://www.modsonline.com if I had a SoF2 map ready for beta.

An other idea would be to get in mapping channels in IRC. You could try #mappers and #level-design (#leveldesign?) on QuakeNet. You could also try general SoF2 channels to get gamers feedback, on QuakeNet, I'd name #clanbase.sof2 for any gametype and #gamers-club if it's a CTF map.

Put it on http://www.map-center.com, it will get tested there. Its a good page for asking mapping guideance.

Try posting it on this site... http://pharao-fs.ravencommunity.net/iv/index.php

Always get lots of good useful feedback!!

Thanks all,
I have a fullvis map ready in a pk3 file ready to go. I am doing a fullvis with extra light compile now, that version   should be done later tonight. I will try to upload map pk3(current version 1.00 tonight). Thanks everyone, I will try the two listed sites tonight.

Eagle1...

post a link to it on this board aswell