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[InnerSphereNews]

Hey MechWarriors!

Devs dropped in-game to talk about Map Improvements for River City!

Watch the recorded stream!

[Big Tin Man]

Why only 10 minutes heads up? :'(

[Odanan]

For those who missed the stream, here are some screenshots:

Spoiler

EDIT: Forget about it, Tina already added better screenshots to the original post...

Edited by Odanan, 08 May 2015 - 01:32 PM.

[Tarogato]

Wow that was short notice. Been online all day and I still missed it.

Well... at least it's archived. =] http://www.twitch.tv/ngngtv/v/4823078

[Kalamity27]

Thanks for the screen shots Odanan!

Looking forward to dropping on the new map.

[Wronka]

Very excited for this, looks great!

[Glaive-]

Only thing that makes me sad is that it doesn't look like they expanded the city all that much..
Still, will be nice to have some surrounding terrain. The addition of the island was a great idea!

[Appogee]

One fifth of the new map (most of the bottom right quadrant) is a complete waste of space... a pocket of nowhere that will never play a part in the battle once the lance that drops there has walked out of it.

What a waste. Son I is disappoint.

If the large greyed-out mountain area in the bottom center was actually playable map, instead of out of bounds, there'd be far more interesting battle options.

Edited by Appogee, 08 May 2015 - 12:32 PM.

[Lily from animove]

D: he killed some trees

[Koniks]

For 2 game modes that at least depends on where they put capture points.

And just because most solo and group queue games devolve into ring around the rosie doesn't prevent some players from finding a use for a corner with a chokepoint.

[Tina Benoit]

We'll add our screenshots on this post too!

[aniviron]

I've gotta admit, I was hoping for an expansion of the city itself. Crimson Strait is always disappointing to me because the city areas are tucked away and are only about a block long, so no real fighting ever happens there. River City you get city fighting fairly often, at least when the water battles don't happen. With so much open terrain though, it's going to end up like Crimson where everyone ignores the city and fights around it.

[Navid A1]

very nice...

man...that fidelity of graphics in the crytech SDK is just awesome... I wish we could have the same level of render quality in our games too. (*remembers old closed beta days and goes to a corner and sighs)

[GroovYChickeN]

There needs to been a narrow, winding path that connects bottom left and bottom right. Add in some spots in there for ambushes and small fights. Nothing too big though, it should be a tight fit for more that a couple of mechs.

[Ripper X]

Please make cars and other vehicles be destructible! Who wouldn't want to stomp on cars?

[ChapeL]

I agree with what was already said, looks much improved but the lower right part of the map is wasted space where NOTHING will ever happen. Put some industrial complex there with reservoir tanks or something so it looks like it belongs next to the expanded starport.

PS: I would have really liked to see an Overlord class Dropship there instead of an aerodyne model

[Bloody]

nothing was improved. He added some useless drop space and that is about it.

/golfclap.

[PhoenixNMGLB]

Wow, this looks like a massive improvement. Can't wait to see it in game!!

Really excited to see this and to see what happens with the other maps.

[Malleus011]

So humor me for a wee bit here, and excuse my weak photoshop skills.

Why can't we have these? (Note the wee pass out of the SE corner, making that less of a useless portion of the map)











Or, even better, this?



All of these in random rotation?

[Sirgrant]

Excited to see new areas to fight, longer set up times for battles! More excited to see trees! Would have loved to see other weapon impacts on the trees, ballistics, energy, even missile or Artie strikes. This along with mechlab improvements makes me think that the future is bright!