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[InnerSphereNews]

Hey MechWarriors!

Here are a few sneak peek screenshots of the new Community Warfare Map called Vitric Forge!

This map is coming out on Patch 1.3.391 - 05-May-2015 !

Last screenshot

[DrSlamastika]

[Tennex]

Awesome. I'm so glad it didnt end up like cybertron

[Davers]

It's very...red. I don't really see the HPG connection though. Maybe the structures are similar?

[Odanan]

Is that a neutron star?

EDIT: oh, it looks more a blue giant star indeed.

Edited by Odanan, 05 May 2015 - 04:04 AM.

[TheSilken]

I bet the defenders' base is the HPG part. This is the attackers' side in the pics.

[mailin]

Great, but how about a new map for the non-CW playing crowd?

[Hoffenstein]

They're both non-inhabited, space/moon like worlds. HPG has some areas that are a bit cratered too. This looks great though, can't wait!

[Liquid Leopard]

Odanan, on 04 May 2015 - 04:58 PM, said:

Is that a neutron star?

No star of any kind looks like that, unless you're looking at it through a hell of a filter.

But, the patch notes say it's supposed to be a blue giant.
PGI just sucks at astronomy.
...Like at Canyon Network, where you can see the surfaces of those other planets/moons lit up even though the sun is behind them.

Edited by Liquid Leopard, 04 May 2015 - 05:12 PM.

[50 50]

Very nice.

Why is there meant to be a connection with the HPG map?
Terra Therma seems more appropriate.

[MoonUnitBeta]

Neato. Looks pretty decent

Needs more blue ambient light IMO. The sun should probably be brighter looking. Those are my only nit picks lol.

Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 04 May 2015 - 05:27 PM.

[Revis Volek]

Liquid Leopard, on 04 May 2015 - 05:10 PM, said:

No star of any kind looks like that, unless you're looking at it through a hell of a filter.

But, the patch notes say it's supposed to be a blue giant.
PGI just sucks at astronomy.
...Like at Canyon Network, where you can see the surfaces of those other planets/moons lit up even though the sun is behind them.

I think you do sir....

Blue stars do in fact exist, O class stars which burn over 33,000 Kelvin

[Kiiyor]

That blue sun looks freaking amazing.

[Threat Doc]

I have to admit, it's absolutely beautiful, you guys have outdone yourselves. However, is it playable?

[Sereglach]

MoonUnitBeta, on 04 May 2015 - 05:24 PM, said:

Neato. Looks pretty decent

Needs more blue ambient light IMO. The sun should probably be brighter looking. Those are my only nit picks lol.

There probably is a fair bit of blue ambient lighting, but if the ground is very ferrous dirt (meaning it contains a LOT of iron, like Mars) then the surface is still going to look quite red. If you look at the surface the more reflective points of the landscape are, in fact, giving off a blue tinged light.

I wouldn't want to make the sun much brighter looking, or you'd start to lose out on a lot of the detail, and it might start to suck up too much of the sky/atmosphere. The surface imagery actually looks like they used actual photos of our sun and combined/recolored them to appear like a blue star.

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The map looks frigging incredible and I look forward to just roaming around in the training grounds for a while. Sometimes it's nice to just hop into a mech and wander around maps. There are some great details on all the maps that you just don't get to really take in when you're actually playing a match.

EDIT: Apparently the surface is made of Corundum, according to the patch notes, which is an extremely tough red-brown mineral . . . so regardless of the blue light the planet's surface would most assuredly still have a deep red tinge.

Edited by Sereglach, 04 May 2015 - 06:17 PM.

[Duncan1dah0]

Oooh, pretty!

[Jody Von Jedi]

The patch notes say the attackers will have their work cut out for them on this new map. There is little to no cover. It recommends "leap frogging" from crater to crater as you make your approach, as the craters are the only real cover.

It's going to be very interesting.

Jody

[Matthew Ace]

Now THIS is an appropriate map to reenact MW2 Mercenaries intro video.... as soon as we have Unions too.

[FupDup]

BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!

[Liquid Leopard]

DarthRevis, on 04 May 2015 - 05:25 PM, said:

Blue stars do in fact exist, O class stars which burn over 33,000 Kelvin

Yes, they do exist. And 'blue' is relative. Our home star is supposedly yellow. If you look at it, you pretty much see searing white light. That much of any light looks white.

The blue in these pictures is what you see in an artist's conception, or when NASA publishes a photo with a color filter.

And if it burns at 6 times the temperature of our sun, how are we supposedly going to land on a planet with the star taking up that much of the sky?

PGI also loses astronomy points for describing a star as "main sequence" and "blue giant". It's one or the other. They must have been stringing big words together for fun.

They just don't give a sh!t about suspension of disbelief. Not as long as someone gawks at the pretty pictures.