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[Shooty]

Soz if been covered else where but quick search turned up nothing. Interested in any info/rumors on the number of maps expected on release.

Info prolly under NDA but thought I'd put it out there...

[Krubarax]

Educated guess>
More than one
Less than a hundred

I do not think you will be getting any better than that

[Atayu]

GB Krubarax, on 25 June 2012 - 03:34 PM, said:

Educated guess>
More than one
Less than a hundred

I do not think you will be getting any better than that

That is a good guess but I can get closer. Here you go
Educated guess>
More than 1
Less than a 99
See im closer as I am positive there will not be 100 maps at launch As I know of no F2P that started with near that much.

[Krubarax]

What did you expect?
it was just a guess

Allright, let us comtinue then.
More than one
Less than fifty

Edit: Wait wait... 99 is less than one hundred.
Exacly like I said

Edited by GB Krubarax, 25 June 2012 - 03:41 PM.

[PhD Of Pwnage]

one map Bob

[Shooty]

rofl... less than 5 would be my guess

Edited by Shooty, 25 June 2012 - 03:44 PM.

[mrcarlton]

It's a live launch game, so content can be rolled out bi-monthly or whatever. I won't be upset if they just release 1 awesome map, and from videos/blog posts thats all we know for sure.

[Telecleez]

found this in the forums hope it helps http://mwomercs.com/...__fromsearch__1

[MrakAttack]

I'd guess 8 at the most

[Voss Korgan]

Well there is two for sure. My guess would be 4 at launch.

[Nexus Trimean]

Best Guess, 3-6. Could be more, probably won be less, though atm we have only seen one map. The Devs are the only ones who know how many maps will be out at release.

[Shooty]

Telecleez, on 25 June 2012 - 03:46 PM, said:

found this in the forums hope it helps http://mwomercs.com/...__fromsearch__1

ty mate

[WardenWolf]

One map has been shown in videos (rocky canyon), and a second has been talked about by folks who played at E3 (an ice / snow map). We know they have talked about urban maps too, so I expect that would be a minimum of 3 maps - maybe up to double that amount (6) at launch.

[Atayu]

PhD Of Pwnage, on 25 June 2012 - 03:41 PM, said:

one map Bob

Well we have seen lots of pics of the forest-lake map, might be more then 1 actually.
Then during E3 we saw the video someone made of someone playing and it was on a snow map so I can say there will be at least 2.

[Shooty]

Im just so excited Colin...

[Steven Dixon]

They have released the concept art for 3 maps so far. At the razor booth they had 2 maps active. They have talked about urban warfare so we might see a city map. My guess is that on Aug 7th we will only have 2 maps and we might get a map every month or so afterwards. I'm not part of the beta though, so for all I know they could be testing 4 or 5 maps at the moment.

[WM Atimar]

Speaking of maps what about Rumors of how many different game modes ?

[GHQCommander]

I won't be happy if they don't aim for about 500 maps. Maybe not straight away but in time.

There would types of terrain: snow, jungle, urban, desert, forest and maybe coastal right? Otherwise the game really going to seem a bit stupid. We're fighting on multiple planets. Any less than 20 maps and we'll know them all within a week.

I think each type of terrain will have 10-20 variations. Consider snow for example.

1. One with a coast, most planets will have water I bet
2. a forest covered one
3. one with a lot of hills
4. one with a lake, maybe some buildings
5. an urban or semi urban one

So that is 5 for snow. Then consider 5 variations of each one of those or even 20 variations for 20 different cold planets. Only then will they ever make it feel like we're fighting on many planets and on different locations on each planet. 5 x 20 = 100 for snow.

WardenWolf, on 25 June 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

One map has been shown in videos (rocky canyon), and a second has been talked about by folks who played at E3 (an ice / snow map). We know they have talked about urban maps too, so I expect that would be a minimum of 3 maps - maybe up to double that amount (6) at launch.

When you say map do you mean the type of terrain/planet conditions or do you actually mean, 6 battlefields?

Would that not be seriously laim, i know I would not be impressed?

Even PS2 games like BF2 had about 12 maps. I would expect about 20 to get started with but I won't be surprised if they have had someone making maps for weeks.

[Steven Dixon]

That's defiantly possible, and I hope it's true, but I'm not really expecting more than 2 at launch. If we have more then I will be pleasantly surprised. But they are spending a lot of time on each map to make sure it's just right, so I don't know how long it takes them to make a map.

[WardenWolf]

GHQCommander, on 25 June 2012 - 04:33 PM, said:

When you say map do you mean the type of terrain/planet conditions or do you actually mean, 6 battlefields?

Would that not be seriously laim, i know I would not be impressed?

Even PS2 games like BF2 had about 12 maps. I would expect about 20 to get started with but I won't be surprised if they have had someone making maps for weeks.

I mean actual, full maps. Remember, this is an online game so they can constantly add to it. WoT, which is similar in some respects, started with less than 10 maps but has been adding them at a rate of about 2 every 2-3 months. I expect similar results here.

However, the lead designer talked about having varying effects in a recent interview. What I am hoping for, based on that, is a situation where there may only be a few maps (3-6 now, 12-24 within a year maybe) but each time you play it is a little different. Day vs night (maybe dusk and dawn too), cloudy vs clear, rainy vs snowy vs clear, fog, etc could all come into play.

Edited by WardenWolf, 25 June 2012 - 04:52 PM.