Custom map Reviews – Farewell Chenming

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Published on May 18, 2015 9:56:36 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGrH5V53Jc8

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Left 4 Dead (2008)

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Review

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Farewell Chenming
Can be downloaded here...
http://www.gamemaps.com/details/14513

Campaign Description...
“The 4 survivors known the Chen Ming city is the final evacuation sites, they had to go through untold hardships to the town square from a road, a small town, they can see the dawn of the second day?”

An interesting campaign with the polish to be great... but not the frame work...

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Aesthetics
+Survivor dialogue...
/Mediocre visuals...
+Lots of custom assets...
-Ridiculous amounts of copy/pasted from the official campaigns...

Gameplay
-Ridiculously long chapters...
+Epic melee weapons...
-Functionally broken segments...
-Broke one of the fundamental rules of L4D level design... (see conclusion)
-Severe lack of player leading...

Performance
+Minimal to no studdering...
+No apparent crashes or conflicts...
+Well optimized...

Finale
/Very easy due to arena...
/How to start was no that clear...
+How to escape was clear enough...
+Fair difficulty spike during tank waves...
+Interesting cinema...

Final Verdict
Not Recommended


Before I go into the actual campaign... I have gotten questions (believe it or not) about my rating system...
Highly Recommended – Self explanatory... Tis a very well done campaign that is a must...
Highly Not Recommended – Also Self explanatory... Tis a horrible shit pile...
Neutral – When I can not give enough “objective” reasons for or against the mod...
Recommended – It has issues... but has more objective pros than cons...
Not Recommended – It has issues that are objectively bad and make the mod worse for it...

And while normally I would give this one a Neutral... It has some glaring issues, and while some are subjective... there are objective issues as well...

First, the visuals... They are nothing to speak of in all honestly... Fall in that mid-range to slightly below mid-range area... The copy/paste complaint I made is a subjective one... I personally hate it when people do this... To me, it is lazy and when your own designs aren't up to par with valve's... it makes an obvious divide among their parts and your's... But as a mapper who has studied the official campaign more than a normal person... this is something that most people won't notice or care about...

As for gameplay... It started strong, and quickly drove down at a 89~90 degree angle... Starting with that scavenge event... No supplies, 16 cans (it was changed to 9 after I played it), almost every can by itself, and some cans SO FAR AWAY that you can't even see their outlines right away... Not too mention the sewers that separates these areas...

Aside from that, it doesn't get better... having a LONG chapter with minimal supplies and one too many events... Then it gets better again with a finale that is ludicrously easy... which is a welcomed happening after Chapter 2 and 3...

There were some cool thing here and there... interesting events and some kick-ass melee weapons... but while that book that gives you killer fists it cool... It may very well be the reason for one of the WORST things I have ever seen in any mod every created... Think about it for a moments...

Riot infected in a mandatory crouching segment... no, No, NO, A MILLION TIEM FUCKING HELL NO!... BAD MAPPER!... NNNO!...

There are some things you Just DON'T DO!...
Riot infected can't be killed from the front... and crouching infected can not be shoved...
Combine those two factors, and you get an unfair death trap that can not be avoided if it happens...

While the author has not tried... Someone has justified this with that book melee, because it can kill riot from the front... NOT... A... FUCKING... EXCUSE!...

Just because you have a solution to a problem, doesn't give the problem justification for existing if it doesn't have to exist...
That is like creating a weapon specifically designed to kill Hitler, but bringing him back from the dead so you could use it...
That is like having a skeleton key that fits all 16 locks on your bathroom in your own home, because you keep losing the other keys for the 16 locks on your bathroom in your own home...
That is like creating a knife to counter a knife you created to counter the very knife you just created...

The “key” is justified because you refuse to get rid of the problem...

It is retarded backwards logic... Remove the riot infected from that fire gauntlet... DONE!... You don't some obscure melee weapon that can kill them under impossible circumstances... Just DON'T CREATE THE CIRCUMSTANCES!...


Intro music - "Cybernetic" by D1scordant
Final Verdict music – "Synthetic Harmony" by D1scordant

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