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Sorry but categorically not. A greybox that has had time to form is the foundation of an entire map. Art adds to certain playable elements but you could wrap the same design in multiple themes and not drastically alter the quality of the map. Its literally happened for multi game IPs (Halo, Gears, CoD) where they reskin an old map. Its honestly depressing that these contests are repeatedly about style over substance with a focus on art being the most important element. Edit - Sorry that last statement might be a little unfair and it isn't to discredit the effort or work people put into their art, its more that rules that allow people to skip the design stage devalue the tests focus on designing and finalling a map.

So fucking hyped

This is why I would potentially separate the contest out into an art one and a design one. Have a shorter design one that is about the blockout. Do a test later that allows people to collaborate and art the level up, controversial idea but you could actually take the top 3 designed maps and over them out for people to art up which ever one they want. Similar to the artstation contests where people do concepts and then have a second round where people make the things in the concept.

If the contest was at a time when I could judge, I would be happy to.

Perfectly legit response honestly, it shouldn't have been announced to that audience, it is the wrong market for it. If this had been announced anywhere else it wouldn't have caused this kind of backlash. At this point Blizzard is being damaged by their damage control. Do not attempt to delete comments or dislikes. It will only backfire.

Played gun game last night. For some reason CoD does pistol first then more powerful weapons. I guess its inline with everything they do where they encourage power creep. I personally think its pretty shitty.

https://twvideo01.ubm-us.net/o1/vault/gdc2018/presentations/ProceduralWorldGeneration.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1VkKEJV4M19BomTtA0QEi6gtHhaQ8kaHSkpnx9jEVEtBUovNCSFJIhwxY similar technique i would think

I remember this level, glad to see it's nearly done

The top left panel is named differently from the page it takes you to. There is little to no description of why things are the way they are or what is actually meant to happen in each shot. There is very little explanation of what you actually did yourself, workflow etc. If you are interested in level design the dev shots are much more important than the final ones. Top downs explaining layout decision are by far the most telling shots/information you can provide.

Nice, looks awesome, whats performance like? The depth of the lines in the floor look pretty large and make it more difficult than it needs to be to read the surfaces, out of interest how do they interact with grenades? Do they use player collision?

Please post things in the correct forum.

There definitely were a few issues in the leading through the levels. The one where you have to destroy the orb is pretty ridiculous.

Why would you ever need properly UVed textures on a blockout map.

So that guy pretty much agrees, everything is technically possible to do. Its just not realistic that everything is that systemic and that perfect. Hes also not bringing up the actual events that happen that are too well framed for it not to be massive scripted. This is an uninterrupted sequence of 7 minutes. I've seen/done the work that goes into getting a perfect take for gameplay footage/trailers numerous times. Getting 7 minutes without any hick ups (not even the slightest little thing) is completely unheard of. I'll break down the number of perfect things (systemic or otherwise) that happen then you tell me if you think that is possible to capture without anything going wrong. 4:32 - jump down is perfectly timed with the camera coming around to look at them. (so they have a quick pause in their patrol at the top, perfectly normal, they happen to drop down just as the camera brings them back into frame. That requires perfect user timing/input to capture (thats the running theme, the person "playing" this has to remember and nail the timing on all the camera movements)) 5:08 - onwards definitely scripted but I imagine its meant to look that way. 5:49 - climb up and lo and behold two guys in a patrolling behaviour are perfectly there (again given the systemic nature of the systems claimed and the openness of the levels in TLOU1 where scripting that stuff becomes impossible, seems very convenient) 7:00 - perfect timing, guy jumps down (remember open nature of encounters, where the AI are any time is essentially random) just as the fight has concluded. 7:05 - pretty sure the AI wouldn't be able to take that 2nd shot from his position given the cover in the way. He would of had to fire and move at lightning speed to get to a position where he could fire. 7:06 - conveniently placed AI (remember open nature of encounters, where the AI are any time is essentially random) 7:25 - o look two more incredibly well framed and conveniently placed AI (remember open nature of encounters, where the AI are any time is essentially random) just as you turn the camera 7:40 - really that's part of their AI behaviours, impressed if it is. 8:15 - perfectly timed guy starts shooting (remember open nature of encounters, where the AI are any time is essentially random) just as the fight has concluded. What happened to the 2nd guy who was behind you, why in all the time hasn't he moved up to engage given that he was happy to after the first encounter. 8:29 - another perfectly timed AI (seeing a theme yet?) 8:34 - another perfectly timed AI 8:44 - another perfectly timed AI, infact the guy that probably should of been shooting at you before given he had a good minute to get to the fight (he was surprisingly fast earlier but now hes not, almost like they despawned and respawned him there) 8:46 - another perfectly timed AI 8:47 - misses and blows out the glass, totally achievable, just requires you to litter the level with markup and destructible objects (technically possible, doubt you can have it on a default PS4 and all this other complex AI perception, destructibles, etc) 8:53 - perfect timing again 9:50 - lots of AI failing to see you even though they do in other situtations (light/dark stealth mechanics potentially) 10:00 - we are now at about a minute of a perfect stealth encounter in a small space with 4 AI, not a single hick up 10:07 - at this point we are assuming physics objects everywhere right, why did not a single physics shelve get destroyed in that explosion yet they do 2 seconds later in a small melee fight, also note that the destruction there was very specifically only the bottom part he hits. 10:13 - where the hell did bow woman go, she was literally 10ft away from you, yet she doesn't appear in this fight for another 10 seconds 10:18 - ok so ai markup with destructible, again totally possible, but extrapolate this to be systemic and there are about 50 destructible in this shop alone, yeah good luck getting that running on a default PS4. 10:24 - lets say they are using the IK system from god of war for the hammer impact, in god of war that is only on Kratos, here presumable for it to be systemic its on every single AI in the scene. yeah good luck getting that running on a default PS4. 10:26 - o there's bow woman, what perfect timing and then she gets perfectly framed by some pretty lighting showing of real time reflections. 10:35 - hammer man just took 10 seconds to move 5ft and then perfectly timed to attack as the last person is dead So yeah, all of that stuff has to happen for this perfect recording. 23 separate events that given the AI systems they have should be completely unpredictable. Like if hammer guy at the end didn't somehow take 10 seconds to move the who thing would be blown. Honestly its so obviously scripted this shouldn't be a talking point. Its no different than The Division 1 E3 reveal. My quote from back then in 2013: "It's not the graphics tech that is impressive, its actually quite mundane stuff that unreal and cryengine have done for a few years now. Its the absurd amount of detail in the scene + all the effects + all the "non scripted" things like the car door being pushed.and the car getting shot and having a hundred holes made in it. Those together make me extreme skeptical, especially considering Ubisofts significant downgrades on WatchDogs since its first reveal." Its the same thing here. Its not that things can't be done individually its all of it together and too many "non scripted" things happening. If they have managed to pull all of this off, hats off to them. I'm looking forward to the game either way.

No that element of the game was good. But it wasn't a stealth game, there were large sections where you were forced into combat and I would argue the combat wasn't that great.