Imperial Bunker

Description
Every once and a while a map will come around that really makes you go 'Wow!' Unfortunately this is not one of them and contrary to what the author believes, I don't think this will be a 'big hit'.

Let's begin with the technical details: the simple 'Does it work or no?' question. While the author says that it was intended for multiplayer use for FFA, team FFA, and dueling, it doesn't work for any of them. I tried to start it up in multiplayer and each time I got in-game my JKA crashed. Okay, so half of the map's purpose scratched off the board right there. Now I tried singleplayer and, lo and behold, it worked! Unfortunately it wasn't really as spectacular as he makes it out to be.

You start off at a different place just about every time you play the map in singleplayer which can be quite confusing, and there's a number of missing textures such as on the Z-95 landing pad. The textures that aren't missing are generally over-used and too small so you get the bad tiled-texture-effect. The missing textures can be overlooked however, but the different spawning places just becomes a bigger problem when added with another little thing: screwy triggers and whatnot. For example: A door will open from one side and you go outside. Once outside you want to get back in but you can't. There's absolutely no way to open the door. You try to jump over the building to get another door but OH NOES! THERE'S AN INVISIBLE WALL KEEPING YOU IN YOUR PRISON! You try to jump off the side to get into the water so you can swim around to another door but OH NOES! THE WATER IS INSTA-DEATH WATER! You die as soon as you hit it! Another example would be that going in one door doesn't trigger an event needed to continue through the map, so you have to go back and around to ANOTHER door in order for the event to be triggered. This was one helluva confusing map.

Another little thing that confused me was one of the rooms with what appear to be holding cells. The only problem is that in the holding cells are stormtroopers, snowtroopers, imperial officers, and skeletons. >_> If this is an IMPERIAL bunker, then how come there are IMPERIALS being imprisoned? Put rebels in there or something. I heard no music playing either as I navigated through the bunker so I checked the PK3 file. There is indeed a music file but it doesn't play; it's probably for the better though since the music he chose doesn't fit the map at all. If the music DID work, what you would hear is 'Sweet Child O'Mine' by Guns N'Roses. Now I know this is a pretty decent song but honestly. It doesn't fit the mood AT ALL; why play a light-hearted rock song in a Star Wars Imperial military establishment?

This map has too many problems and is too frustrating. Try to fix the multiplayer so it doesn't crash, fix all the triggers and doors, and fix the NPCs and music; then resubmit it. Then hopefully I'll be able to give it a decent review.

~Laam'inui