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[Bolt-Thrower]

The mini map is our mech's radar...It keeps me alive in engagements (one fight to the next) not a command console. It gives me situational awareness around my mech...not the entire battlefield...TMI !!!!
If you want to command...use the Battlegrid map...that is what it is for. If you want to see the spread of your team...use the battle grid map....don't add redundancy.
This new map is tough on any brawlers and light mechs that use seismic sensor.
Just use the old radar map....it worked just fine. Continue to update the battlegrid map if you want to add better command and control functions. If it is not broken, why fix it? This is certainly no improvement.
Come on PGI...I usually support your changes...but this one is really bad!
I agree the map information has some uses...but currently it is an eyesore and unusable.
Please PGI...let us use the old radar systems in our mechs...it shouldn't be too hard to do.

Edited by Xantacha, 21 June 2016 - 04:56 PM.

[Anarcho]

I play this game since the founders program, almost every ****** day... The only game that took me away from MWO was Dark Souls 3 for a little while... But now, with this new minimap I have the excuse I needed to drop this game for good... Once they fixed, Im back, for now, hello Warthunder!

[Aerei]

Moldur, on 21 June 2016 - 04:05 PM, said:

Wow. Some of you sound like babies that are getting angry over not being able to suckle your mom's teat. Yeah, the new minimap doesn't give us everything on a silver platter. Develop your own situational awareness.

The new minimap is ****** and it's getting hotfixed to be slightly less ******. It still isn't going to be your eyes and ears like before. Figure it out and give it a while before condemning it.

That argument would be more compelling, save for the fact that the new map was allegedly implemented to facilitate awareness of the battlefield, and be able to react accordingly. The new map doesn't do that. People are fully justified to be upset.

[Rkshz]

Aerei, on 21 June 2016 - 04:21 PM, said:

That argument would be more compelling, save for the fact that the new map was allegedly implemented to facilitate awareness of the battlefield, and be able to react accordingly. The new map doesn't do that. People are fully justified to be upset.

+1
about new minimap just all say - FUBAR

[aaarrrgghh]

so just finished my first session since the patch..

as a noob (200 matches is still nooby in mwo) the new mini map leaves me screwed on maps im not %100 confident on the lay out of for every game mode.
for the 3 maps i know its not such a big issue but for the rest i feel at a real disadvantage, if i had just started playing now im not sure i would hang about.
planet side 2 has 6-7 levels of zoom from what mwo has now to zoomed in closer than the old mini map AND the option to have the mini map 4 x bigger at the touch of a button..
why mwo doesn't have at least some lvl of zoom on the mini map is insane and this new in map will hurt new player retention in my opinion

[Bran Vuldr]

All situational awareness is gone with the new minimap.
I have never had the need to see the entire map, and if I did, I would pull up the Battlemap.
The utmost of importance is being able to see what is immediately around you, terrain, friendlies, hostiles, ect.
With this new mini map you have effectively destroyed the seismic sensor module.
Will there be refunds for people who bought this skill and module?
Revert back. This is completely useless now.

[aaarrrgghh]

Bran Vuldr, on 21 June 2016 - 04:41 PM, said:

All situational awareness is gone with the new minimap.
I have never had the need to see the entire map, and if I did, I would pull up the Battlemap.
The utmost of importance is being able to see what is immediately around you, terrain, friendlies, hostiles, ect.
With this new mini map you have effectively destroyed the seismic sensor module.
Will there be refunds for people who bought this skill and module?
Revert back. This is completely useless now.

thats it, the battle map gave us the information the new minimap give, info not needed in the heat of battle, the direction of friendly forces, the direction of enemy force and where the engagement looks likely to happen and the terrain around it..
what i need from the mini map is to know whats in my immediate vicinity it also helps with terrain navigation when your not familiar with the map

[AssaultPig]

obviously the new map is a piece of ****, I don't really feel the need to post more on that

what I'd like to understand is how the hell it went live in its current form. Like, who looked at this and went 'yep, that's a good change, ship it'

[ShadowFire]

Hate the new mini map!!! I liked the way it rotated and its size now is petty much useless. MW4's map system was far more useful. And BTW, why NOT have grids lines on the Drop Screen Map? That made too much sense?


Heck.... PGI take a look at a Garmin or TomTom or ANY car NAVI.... Notice how the car icon always points in the direction it is going.... Why is that??? Do you get the point? Garmin or TomTom would FIRE any engineer that designed a NAVI your way.

Edited by ShadowFire, 21 June 2016 - 05:52 PM.

[ZippySpeedMonkey]

Played my first game with the new minimap, and found it to be terrible. It had me totally disoriented within 20s...

To put it bluntly this steaming pile of cr** needs to go ASAP. Go back to the old map system, were your mech is always facing the screen's North and give it a zoom in and out. That is all that's needed...

Edited by ZippySpeedMonkey, 21 June 2016 - 04:50 PM.

[Mavairo]

AssaultPig, on 21 June 2016 - 04:47 PM, said:

obviously the new map is a piece of ****, I don't really feel the need to post more on that

what I'd like to understand is how the hell it went live in its current form. Like, who looked at this and went 'yep, that's a good change, ship it'

Someone who is intentionally trying to tank the game, probably.
Honestly, at any reputable gaming company, this is the sort of thing that gets someone fired.

Edited by Mavairo, 21 June 2016 - 04:51 PM.

[Rkshz]

relax guyz, old minimap died and will not be included optionaly = its Russ Bullock said

[Triordinant]

jaytar, on 21 June 2016 - 02:55 PM, said:

played 2 games tonight. after the event i won't be playing until this map change goes away.

Here you go: http://mwomercs.com/...inimap-changed/

[Navid A1]

Was just in a game where a highly vocal scrub thought minimap is for knowing the map and because he knows the map like "the back of his hand" he will have no problem


I wish i had the power to banish those kind of players from the game.

Attempts to make him understand that minimap is for situational awareness and anything but what he described was met with failure.

[Burke IV]

Sitting here pressing refresh is more fun then playing with the new minimap

[Larsh]

I've got my hotifx

[Dawnstealer]

Having played this patch for the last...seven hours or so, the minimap isn't horrible and the games have generally been a lot closer. No idea if that's because, with the minimap being less useful, people have to rely on actual communication and not be silent partners.

[Teslar Kain]

Hate it. Hate it so much. Just trying to understand why though. Why make the minimap next to useless?

[axerion]

can´t even tell how much I dislike this new minimap.... yeha alright fix it... but why implement something that is so obvious ******** after all...

[R3av3r]

Worse than useless for this player. I actually get nauseous trying to use it. PGI, you need to change this immediately. I am not the only one who is suffering for it. The game is basically unplayable if I glance at it.