Andrea Rosa wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:43 pm
What I'm about to say isn't a direct reference to "Liberation" or "The Fenix" (which I have never played) but... how can someone possibly spend so much time in creating a campaign, and overlook the testing phase? Some bugs are really appalling.
In some cases it is because they were contest campaigns that never got a patch after the contest. The most frustrating thing of all time in regards to reviewing a campaign is when you have a contest campaign with many bugs that DID get patches to fix its issues, but no one has a copy of the patch and so the older buggy version is all that remains. This is what has happened with the road to ruin and either hands of power or rise from the ashes (I forgot which one).
The Fenix has quite a few bugs but it is mostly a victim of a development environment with no standards whatsoever. Despite its issues it was the second best campaign ever released at the time of its release. Liberation on the other hand.... good god, there are bugs in there that can be immediately spotted the moment the map is loaded.
UPDATE: Holy shit, I just encountered a mission in Liberation that has a massive gamebreaking bug IN THE MISSION BRIEFING. How can someone fail so badly?
Andrea Rosa wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 5:43 pm
I see that the next on your schedule is "War of the Tribes" by Gabriel Sorrel, one of the not so many modded campaign that I've played. I'm curious to see what you think about it. I was enjoying it a lot, but I had to give up around mission 14 or 15 because my ass was being kicked beyond recognition. It was in 2013, and I was about to begin working on ToH. However, I have improved my gameplay since then, when I'll be able to bring back Brood War on my retrogaming PC I may give it another try.
War of the tribes is one of the only campaigns I know of that wasn't completely shit on by Pr0nogo so I have pretty high hopes for it. I do know from Pr0nogo that this campaign starts to suffer from 256x256 syndrome at the end though so this is probably going to take some time....
update: It already suffers from oversized maps by the second mission, jesus christ....
update 2: If things continue the way they are now, It looks like it's going to get a score somewhere between 75 and 65. I would say this campaign's closest relative is Empire Wars.
update 3: Interesting, the campaign's issues dissappear later on after those two oversized map missions. This campaign is almost guaranteed to get a recommendation especially with the character development and plot. This is one old campaign that has aged well.