For the most part, the layouts are giant square areas full of narrow corridors with the odd large room. I'm not making my own maps because some manuals I found online included them(such as this one), though I would be making maps if I hadn't come across these resources because the layouts can be confusing, particularly where some of the traps are involved. The game does include portals, one way doors, illusory walls, pits that will drop you into other areas or floors, spinners, puzzles, and even at least one elevator so far.Exhuminator wrote:@Ack
Sounds like a good time. I've always meant to play the first two EotB games. How's the layouts? Are you making a grid map to keep track of where you are? Or is it not that confusing? Anything like one way doors, portals, fake walls, that kind of stuff?
Thankfully the game also gives you a default compass, so you can often identify spinners because you'll suddenly face a radical direction. Some of the puzzles involve teleportation that will send you back a step or to an identical location, so you'll have to figure out a way around these. Illusory walls usually feature a dwarven symbol representing your ability to walk through; it's a nice touch, since dwarves have a colony on level five, and it makes sense that they'd be using fake walls to avoid some of the nastier critters wandering around. Some of the teleporters are also blatantly obvious and shimmer with giant pink sparkles. Once you've seen one, you'll immediately know what it is.
As for traps, the most interesting one I've seen so far had you move through corridors while pits opened right behind you. I thankfully got this one right on the first try and made it around to a teleporter to escape. Otherwise it would have sucked quite a bit. Others have involved needing to throw or drop objects on pressure plates, or moving over said plates in a particular order, or finding switches that look like decorative pieces. I know from the maps I can see that I'm missing stuff too, but I cannot figure out those secrets so I just press on.
