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[CK16]

Discuss here the poll covering map options we would like to see in 2017!

Poll here.
https://mwomercs.com...tions-for-2017/

[Bombast]

Bombast, on 02 November 2016 - 05:45 PM, said:

As always - A real urban map.

Possibilities include:

- Tukayyid - False City. Set up in 3052, this fake metropolitan area was set up to confuse Clan invaders. A variety of traps, false buildings, and underground areas are present, allowing for sneak attacks and flanking maneuvers

- New Avalon - NAIS Complex. The shining jewel of the Federated Suns/Commonwealth, NAIS has occasionally come under fire. Hanse Davion himself once waged battle against ComStar forces on it's grounds. A combination of tall buildings and open plazas provide much cover and avenues for assault.

- Luthien - Weeaboo Palace. Anime and stuff.

[Javin]

So many urban environments could be added.

Military bases, Air bases, Manufactures, Large cities, Naval yards, etc.

You could decorate with different builds with each great house style.

You could add in environmental effects like swamps that slow down mechs, gravity that allows higher jumping, trees that could be set on fire, healing up the mechs in the fire, etc etc.

Add in some fun vehicles like light tanks or VTOLS in stead of just turrents. Perhaps even destructible civilian vehicles.

Give the players the ability to make maps on the test server and I think both PGI and the player base would be happy with the result.

[CK16]

Not bad points and ideas.

Also for all those who always complain PGI only does mechs ect. Here is your chance to speak up!

[Robinhood78]

No hot map option? Sick of short TTK? Your answer is hot maps. Sick of 9000 dmg alphas over and over? You answer is hot maps. Pilot a light mech? Hot maps are your friend. While the big guys are over heating from too many alphas you can get in and do some real work and get out again before they come back online.

[Bombast]

Robinhood78, on 16 January 2017 - 11:27 AM, said:

No hot map option? Sick of short TTK? Your answer is hot maps. Sick of 9000 dmg alphas over and over? You answer is hot maps. Pilot a light mech? Hot maps are your friend. While the big guys are over heating from too many alphas you can get in and do some real work and get out again before they come back online.

The problem is that without getting rid of map voting (Which we should), hot maps quickly fade to obscurity. How often does Terra Therma pop?

Might as well go for a new map type (Urban) and hope the playerbase likes it enough to introduce some variety into our lives.

Also, the new Terra Therma is the newest (public queue) map, so the next one should avoid being a cauldron probably for the sake of variety.

[Quicksilver Aberration]

I voted for a real urban map, like Big City from the MW4 days, just without the park. I want at least one map like the old Frozen City where brawling was the goto thing regardless of the meta.

[Robinhood78]

Bombast, on 16 January 2017 - 11:46 AM, said:

The problem is that without getting rid of map voting (Which we should), hot maps quickly fade to obscurity. How often does Terra Therma pop?

You have a point here that no one votes them and that's a shame because I honestly believe hotter maps would solve some of the common gripes. I can't tell you how bored I am with Crimson Strait right now, it is legitimately 2/3 of the matches.

I completely disagree that map voting should be removed though. That was introduced to give players a say in the choice so when they bring a brawler they don't get stuck with Alpine etc.

[CK16]

Quicksilver Kalasa, on 16 January 2017 - 12:00 PM, said:

I voted for a real urban map, like Big City from the MW4 days, just without the park. I want at least one map like the old Frozen City where brawling was the goto thing regardless of the meta.

Don't even need it t be that short of fire lanes. Have some long but narrow ones for snipers to set up ect, be unique for sure. I would prefer not forced only sub 300m ranges. Need some room for snipers. Like I just said best option is long straight roads and alley ways.

[Myray]

i would love to see some hot urban map

a setting like terra terma just with many skyscrapers some map more for brawling less range

story behind it would be easy too vulcano errupted city died and became a battlefield

[Quicksilver Aberration]

CK16, on 16 January 2017 - 12:18 PM, said:

Need some room for snipers. Like I just said best option is long straight roads and alley ways.

You won't find use for those unless the roads are extremely wide and long like there were in big city, but then again that just made mid-range a better option than actual brawl.

[CK16]

Myray, on 16 January 2017 - 12:29 PM, said:

i would love to see some hot urban map

a setting like terra terma just with many skyscrapers some map more for brawling less range

story behind it would be easy too vulcano errupted city died and became a battlefield

Or its a desert city? Maybe not so much skyscrapers but more bunker like structures cause of high heat and winds. Think Twycoss is like that.

[Bombast]

CK16, on 16 January 2017 - 12:32 PM, said:

Think Twycoss is like that.

Sarna.net said:

Twycross is a weather-wild desert planet that orbits a large and hot sun, where cataclysmic events and powerful wind storms are common, and its people are used to this. Due to these storms and events the population placed their cities and towns underground or made surface structures squat and flat. Twycross has a massive and continuous storm known as the Diabolis, which spawns never ending destructive weather.

Edited by Bombast, 16 January 2017 - 12:35 PM.

[CK16]

Bombast, on 16 January 2017 - 12:35 PM, said:

Lore stuffs

Boom!

[Athena Deathrose]

I've always wanted to see a map with skyscrapers.

[Amsro]

Lugia3, on 16 January 2017 - 12:54 PM, said:

I've always wanted to see a map with skyscrapers.

Downtown megacity for the win.

Give something for mediums to excel at and a map for splat brawling assaults to be devastating.

[Duncan1dah0]

Types of maps:
1) Underwater
2) Lower Gravity
3) Orbital Space Station / Giant Space Ship
4) Something that includes tunnels / underground or interior spaces

[Pariah Devalis]

I want only a couple things:
1) a dense urban map, full of 5-10 storied buildings.
2) an entire map like the OUTSIDE of Emerald Taiga, with those green mountains and hills covered in trees.
3) a desert, dune map similar to polar Highlands except hot and with sandstorms.

Edited by Pariah Devalis, 16 January 2017 - 02:06 PM.

[Navid A1]

- Huge maps

- Either heavy urban or desert (or both)

- open grounds with hills and rocks here and there

[Tibbnak]

Open up community mapping options, even if community maps are relegated to private matches unless they perform exemplary over others.
Then there won't be a problem; people will make what they want to see, and pgi won't have to pay 300,000 a map.