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[Tristan Winter]

Here are the rules.

• Don't respond until you have actually played a 12v12 match on the new map. Testing grounds doesn't count.
  
• Give a succinct verdict of Terra Therma 2, primarily in terms of whether it is balanced and fun to play, rather than how it looks.
  
• Your verdict should preferably be a single sentence instead of a wall of text.
  
• Post an appropriate gif. Anime is frowned upon, but tolerated.

[Bombast]

Will do, once Steam finally decides to stop being a colossal pile of crap and actually downloads the patch, instead of just pretending and downloading 0 out of 0 MBs.

^{EDIT: Not that it's Steam's fault, of course.}

EDIT EDIT: Downloading. Whee!

Edited by Bombast, 18 October 2016 - 10:59 AM.

[Ollie Rifleman Brown]

Bombast, on 18 October 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

Will do, once Steam finally decides to stop being a colossal pile of crap and actually downloads the patch, instead of just pretending and downloading 0 out of 0 MBs.

Its another new feature CONTENT.

[Aetes Nakatomi]

Bombast, on 18 October 2016 - 10:42 AM, said:

Will do, once Steam finally decides to stop being a colossal pile of crap and actually downloads the patch, instead of just pretending and downloading 0 out of 0 MBs.

^{EDIT: Not that it's Steam's fault, of course.}

Come on Steam/PGI! I am sitting here wearing my Draconis Combine dogtags, cap and flight jacket that I got from HBS this morning in the post... I want to break them in while I play A BIG STOMPY ROBIT GAME!

[kesmai]

it´s red and black

[Tristan Winter]

After only a single match, I'd say it looks promising.



Can't say much about how balanced it is yet, but most parts of the map that I have seen look like they were designed for fighting on. They did a good job of including lots of ramps and platforms and stuff, instead of random terrain shapes.

[Tordin]

I cant wait to get my feet hot! Looks promising. Heat management be damned!

[meteorol]

Played two matches. Doesn't look too bad, certainly better than old Terrible Therma. Which doesn't say too much, because that was one of the worst maps i have ever seen, in any game i played thus far. Which are a lot.

[RestosIII]

Tristan Winter, on 18 October 2016 - 10:37 AM, said:

Here are the rules.

• Don't respond until you have actually played a 12v12 match on the new map. Testing grounds doesn't count.
  
• Post an appropriate gif. Anime is frowned upon, but tolerated.

First of all, I HAVEN'T played a match yet, but that's because I'm on allergy meds and I'd rather not punish teammates for me having my bad aim made even worse from this stuff. But I have one thing I CAN comment on that is a genuine problem for me, and probably me alone.

I CAN'T SEE A THING ON THE MINIMAP! It's just a mess to my eyes! I thought Viridian Bog was bad for me, this is just painful!



I'm going to have to actively vote against TT for now because just on the testing grounds I can't see where I'm going or where enemies are on the minimap. PGI WHY.

Edit: After playing several matches, I can 100% confirm I was correct from testing ground work. I can't do a thing on the map. It's a great map, but I can't see anything on the minimap, and I definately can't see the red indicators over enemy mechs.

Edited by RestosIII, 19 October 2016 - 08:49 AM.

[Helios Redneck Claymore Kerensky]

Stop turning everything into a god damned snipers paradise.

[Tristan Winter]

Helios Redneck Claymore Kerensky, on 18 October 2016 - 12:10 PM, said:

Stop turning everything into a god damned snipers paradise.

How many maps do you consider to be snipers paradise?

[RestosIII]

Tristan Winter, on 18 October 2016 - 12:14 PM, said:

How many maps do you consider to be snipers paradise?

He's probably (mostly) thinking about Frozen City and Polar Highlands.

[N0ni]

Verdict: Meh.

Definite change in battle speed compared to the old one which is nice, but other than that it seems to be too crowded in some areas... getting caught on teammates more often than any other map which doesn't help when the battle becomes an almost certain brawl.

Conclusion: It looks nice, but it's still not fun to be on.

[JC Daxion]

I like the look of it.. and anything is better than the PUG zapper.. I only dropped in my MPL+ac20 brawler, but i didn't have much trouble moving into range.. I look forward to playing it more..


The sad part is i really loved the old terra, BUT only in conquest mode, where you basically could fight everywhere else but Theta.. I always thought old terra was one of the best conquest maps around, but some how it always ended up on skirmish and DOM.. which was absolutely the worst.

[Wattila]

Chokepoint map, two teams staring at each other and not moving much. Nice if you're dakka, PPFLD or LRM. Not so much for others.

Edited by Wattila, 18 October 2016 - 02:02 PM.

[Scout Derek]

If people can start choosing therma I will.

[ice trey]

I didn't hate the old one, but everyone else did.

Still, anything that breaks the monotony of HPG/Mining/Crimson is a blessing in my books.

[Wing 0]

No more mount doom in the middle. Thank **** for that lol. Like what I'm seeing. Volcanic eruptions, spewing fire going about, less narrow areas, good amount of wide areas and cover that can favor pretty much anything. Now if only that one ******** map called Polar highlands had a similar landscape like this. Then theres that problem on boreal, sulfurous, and vitric that still needs to be taken care of.

[Hunka Junk]

Played three times.

Every battle converged on the same couple of squares.

There's a couple of weird pink-colored circular-like map thingies that make it look like there's a mech way high up on a couple of mountains when there's actually nothing there.

And this goes back to the original map, but why can I get hurt by machine guns but dance in erupting lava? I personally would support real environmental hazards.

[vibrant]

Hunka Junk, on 18 October 2016 - 02:17 PM, said:

Played three times.

Every battle converged on the same couple of squares.

To be fair, on a new map, people are going to cluster together... and naturally draw towards the centre. Give it some time, and once people start to develop a familiarity with the map, they'll have an idea of places they can sneak around and begin to take more chances.