Yes, comparing one giant online map (and its three tutorial maps) to a bunch of singleplayer offline campaigns is such a fair comparison! Next thing you know, Pokemon is considered better than WoW because it has more pets to obtain.
I don't know what type of expectations you guys have/had about SCU, but the fact remains that for an MMO made with modding tools, it's quite impressive. Even more so considering they've packed everything into one map.
In fact, being able to learn how to do different terrain within one map would be among the most helpful things for the community to gain from this.
Not saying that it's not impressive (I've put too many hours in (seriously, you don't want to know) and still find it fun), just hoping that it will be done better (well, there isn't much they can improve tbh) at some point.
And I think the gist of terrain thing is covered somewhere (on one of the twitch interviews; Jayborino's or livebee's). May not be explained well enough in context of the editor, I guess.
edit: jayborino interview 20 minutes. May be explained better on livebee's video
I'm sure there's at least 1 campaign that meets that specs.
Edit: and to be brutally honest, content isn't always everything. I've had 2 people that I know who played the PTR a huge amount (with its 9 hours of content), but now have stopped playing SCU altogether.
Well, the biggest complaints (that aren't mine) are about the bugs, and the seeming lack of developer involvement. A game that improves on those 2 things may effectively kill SCU.
Highly unlikely. SCU is kept alive by its unrivaled amout of content, polish and hype. Knowing the SC2 modding community, there will always be very very few mods that could ever dare stand a chance against such a mammoth, even if they have the tools. Case in point: For years now we have been able to do complex stuff with SC2 models, but for some reason Im still the only one to really ever have made extensive use of the amazing cinematic models. Hu.
In the 3 days, I've gotten messages from friends about:
Have they patched the game yet? (polish)
I hope they replace the final boss (hype)
Once you complete all of SCU's content once there isn't much to do. (content)
Not the best sign of unrivalled polish/content/hype.
Not saying that it's not impressive (I've put too many hours in (seriously, you don't want to know) and still find it fun), just hoping that it will be done better (well, there isn't much they can improve tbh) at some point.
And I think the gist of terrain thing is covered somewhere (on one of the twitch interviews; Jayborino's or livebee's). May not be explained well enough in context of the editor, I guess.
edit: jayborino interview 20 minutes. May be explained better on livebee's video
edit 2: found livibee interview link here:
https://www.twitch.tv/livibee/v/86090829
The condensed Custom Campaign Initiative is on this Google Sheet!
List of my Custom campaign text reviews (warning: only the first half of each is serious)
Okay hype, maaybe not (then again, where's the recent SCU Hype). Polish? Certainly. Content: you be the judge.
https://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/custom-campaign-initiative/
I'm sure there's at least 1 campaign that meets that specs.
Edit: and to be brutally honest, content isn't always everything. I've had 2 people that I know who played the PTR a huge amount (with its 9 hours of content), but now have stopped playing SCU altogether.
The condensed Custom Campaign Initiative is on this Google Sheet!
List of my Custom campaign text reviews (warning: only the first half of each is serious)
Well, the biggest complaints (that aren't mine) are about the bugs, and the seeming lack of developer involvement. A game that improves on those 2 things may effectively kill SCU.
In the 3 days, I've gotten messages from friends about:
Not the best sign of unrivalled polish/content/hype.
The condensed Custom Campaign Initiative is on this Google Sheet!
List of my Custom campaign text reviews (warning: only the first half of each is serious)
This will probably kill the SCU game off. As an SCU player that makes me sad.
However, hopefully we can get some new awesome arcade stuff out of this.
The condensed Custom Campaign Initiative is on this Google Sheet!
List of my Custom campaign text reviews (warning: only the first half of each is serious)