Recovery Mision on Dromund Kaas

Posted: 2002-10-24 10:44 a.m.   Report Abuse I HATE fish in the water. X_X

Posted: 2002-10-24 1:58 p.m.   Report Abuse Uhhh.... both screenshots show only default MotS models in front of very basic, blocky archi...

Posted: 2002-10-24 8:26 p.m.   Report Abuse obviously somebody judges screenshots before playing the level!

Posted: 2002-10-25 2:31 a.m.   Report Abuse Actually, the archi doesn't look too bad. It doesn't look like cubes attached to other cubes.

Posted: 2002-10-27 3:56 a.m.   Report Abuse This is a great level! I love the fish in the water. I'm working on adding fish to my level, and when you kill 'em, you can eat 'em for 5 extra heath. The architecture was wonderful. This level is perfect proof that you don't need JED to makle a high quality level.

May JKEDIT live on forever!

Posted: 2002-10-27 11:58 a.m.   Report Abuse eating fish to get five health sounds like you have a yummy idea

Posted: 2002-10-30 6:53 a.m.   Report Abuse what the heck is wrong with this thing, it says i need leeza.bat to run it... does anyone else have this problem?

Posted: 2002-11-01 4:38 p.m.   Report Abuse your the first person to say that, I don't know why the heck it would say that!

Posted: 2002-11-03 4:50 a.m.   Report Abuse i got it to work.. the fish are cool, but i dont think they would live in a swamp though.. overall its a cool enough level, and its a NEW one so i give it a 9

Posted: 2003-01-23 2:07 p.m.   Report Abuse Not bad... Pretty good archi, and impressive lighting, especially considering you're new to the map editing scene, Keith.

I've been working away with JED for a year now and I still can't make archi that nice, though I'm ok with 3dos.

Anaway, great job! :)

Posted: 2004-10-15 1:56 p.m.   Report Abuse I gave this one a six.

Architecturally speaking, this is pretty average. While not a box-fest, it is more or less a bunch of rooms and hallways connected together in an unconvincing manner. On top of that, the tree canopies and pools are all surface divides with no extrusion involved... There's no depth to separate them from the ground or sky, which makes things look flat and weird.

Thematically, I have to wonder whether this is even the same planet we see at the end of MotS. It's too bright to be a swamp, especially a swamp on a world as dark and evil as Dromund Kaas. The little fishies in the water were a nice touch, and used properly they can spruce up the typically lifeless water environments found in MotS... But they just seem out of place in this level. Fewer fish and darker environments would have sold the effect better here.

There were also a few problems with the map design. Apart from the areas being too incongruent, the 3do LOD distances were set way too low. Enemies were changing LODs right before my eyes and they couldn't have been more than 8 feet away.
There's also a small Sith area here, and it doesn't feel very evil at all. It's just another purple room with a few statues.

In all, this is really just an average MotS level that never really bothers to pull you in. It's not bad, but it definitely could have been better.