15 replies to this topic

[Jairn]

First off, I enjoyed the map at first. However, either the devs have gotten too cute or too evil and put in bad terrain and bugged buildings that 'catch you' or have you falling through the ground mesh and getting stuck.

There are many other locations (no I don't have time to capture them all during a fight) that cause you to 'drop' repeatedly so you get the 'can't turn your torso while you drop bug' and you get 'stuck'. There is nothing you are dropping from however so it's like you are a sitting duck that can't move until you get out of that spot.

And these spots are ALL AROUND the entire map. Especially the city block areas. This map is the worst offender and needs to be fixed.

On top of that, the video lag from using heat vs. night vision is around 10-20 fps drop. Something has changed recently in this map.

I have given this as feedback on the patch and hope they fix this. But I really want to see this map pulled until they fix it. And I am posting here to see if others are experiencing this same issue. Or to make you aware of it and see if you notice it on this map too.

My suggestion is this. I wish they would allow you to simply go into maps and walk around them (non-combat or even invulnerable matches) for target practice but they could also serve as a map de-bugging tool that many players would go and give feedback. They could take screen shots, capture video, and capture locations with no fear of hurting their team or getting killed.

[AnnoyingCat]

i say we keep the map

[buttmonkey]

no doubt some kind of training map would go a long way in helping new players make friends etc and ready them before they get rolled match after match by premades.
on the topic of river city, it needs re thinking in my opinion its the worst map of all

[Livebait]

I say get rid of it untill they fix the eye bleeding night vision. Or, at least make the map at dusk or dawn. Every time I see that map being loaded I start rubbing my eyes because I know my eyes will be bleeding after the match. And it has nothing to do with my wiskey drinking

[CDLord HHGD]

I have only ran into one spot where I got stuck and fell through the map. I reported it (via support@mwomercs.com) and it was fixed. I play RC:N a lot (because it comes up 2x more than the others it seems ) and the only other issues I have ran into is when I try to squeeze between that building and that fatlas.....

[Turist0AT]

Oh God not again. No, do not remove this map, i love it.

[PANZERBUNNY]

River City NIght has most certainly broken the random map generator and installed itself as Emperor of maps. I play it so much I think I'm playing a Predator stalking marines .....wait.....there is a new Aliens game out.....*runs off*

[Rina Fujimoto]

Just use heat vision, damn, I'm always surprised when I spectate players and they don't use heat vision at all and just bump into things and get killed by some mech 3 feet from them cause they refused to turn it on.

But yeah, I get that heat vision FPS drop bug too, it seems it only happens after playing for a long time without restarting.

And imho the only place you have to watch out for is the bridge leading to D4, just go the other way or if you go over it be extra careful not to fall off it.

Being unable to avoid falling off the bridge or not being knowledgeable enough to know that you cant fit any non-light mech through those two buildings on D4 isn't reason to take out a map.

[PANZERBUNNY]

I'm not sure if all maps have an equal chance of loading, but that type of map should be a "niche" alternate map with a reduced chance.

I don't mind playing it and would actually welcome it if it was 1 out of every 10, but we're getting it over and over and over and over and over.

It COULD be a map is placed on higher rotation to root out bugs or watch its performance, but perhaps letting us know so people don't fume at their monitors and *sigh* into their Cheerios after the 4th straight River City Night. (If such a theory were true.)

Edited by PANZERBUNNY, 16 February 2013 - 01:53 PM.

[Banano]

Worst map.

[Cache]

Jairn, on 16 February 2013 - 12:53 PM, said:

There are many other locations (no I don't have time to capture them all during a fight) that cause you to 'drop' repeatedly so you get the 'can't turn your torso while you drop bug' and you get 'stuck'.

How do you expect them to get fixed if you won't take the time to record/report them?

[Khobai]

I say keep the map and just allow people to exclude upto 2 maps they dont want to play on

[UnseenFury]

Just remove that cr4p map completely, I dropped 25 times to get new map today and 20 of these drops were either on river city or river city night (more on the night).

I FRACKING hate this map! If buildings were destructible I would be ok with it though.

[Shismar]

Not my favourite map but quite all right. Night vision could use some fine tuning and/or some way to adjust brightness and maybe some other parameters. It is still far superior to heat vision on this map.

So yeah, I'd like to keep it even though I had to play it three times tonight and Alpine did not come up at all. Neither did Caustic so I guess that is a draw.

[Funkadelic Mayhem]

No!
Its my fav map day then night after Alpine now. Night vision does not bother me. I see fine with it.

Just press esc then quit if you get a map you don't want. Id say alt f4 but the devs said that is contributing to the long ques now.

[Krelek1000]

There is major issues with the map...