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[Dread Render]

I had a bad dream last night that PGI made a new map and all it was was a wide open desert complete with tumble weeds and a few low sand dunes.

I'm I brawler and this kind of map would mean death perhaps without firing a single weapon.

If it were a good dream it would have been a new City map of down town Manhattan.

[Jiang Wei]

Dread Render, on 09 June 2017 - 08:57 AM, said:

I had a bad dream last night that PGI made a new map and all it was was a wide open desert complete with tumble weeds and a few low sand dunes.

I'm I brawler and this kind of map would mean death perhaps without firing a single weapon.

If it were a good dream it would have been a new City map of down town Manhattan.

Polar is a wide open map, yet... they made it so brawlers could get close by putting in little valleys. A desert would have sand dunes. PGI is too afraid of making a completely flat map. Plus that would be boring. Even a city map will have roadways where you could get sniped from long range. You will never truly escape your bad dream...

The real bad dream is already a reality. Its called MWO.

Edited by Jiang Wei, 09 June 2017 - 09:26 AM.

[Khalcruth]

Personally, I'd imagine they could spend about a days worth of work, reskin Polar Highlands with the sand from Tourmaline Desert, and maybe rocks from Canyon Network, and crank way up the ambient heat. I'd bet it would be a much more fun map.

[Tyler Valentine]

Khalcruth, on 09 June 2017 - 09:42 AM, said:

Personally, I'd imagine they could spend about a days worth of work, reskin Polar Highlands with the sand from Tourmaline Desert, and maybe rocks from Canyon Network, and crank way up the ambient heat. I'd bet it would be a much more fun map.

NO! Please no.

[Kalimaster]

If you ever find this map here on MWO, know this, my LRM's will be there just to say Hello. Consider the damage they do free. I don't charge people for ruining their day.

[Brain Cancer]

People wonder why I vote Caustic when Polar is available.

I honestly have fun with both. It's just the other guys tend to overheat more so I get less flak on my heat-efficient missile lobbers.

Would do a flattish desert map. Bonus: If it has day and night modes, the temps will be considerably different.

[Dread Render]

Kalimaster, on 09 June 2017 - 10:37 AM, said:

If you ever find this map here on MWO, know this, my LRM's will be there just to say Hello. Consider the damage they do free. I don't charge people for ruining their day.

See man!... I woke up just before this happened.

[Clownwarlord]

Dread Render, on 09 June 2017 - 08:57 AM, said:

I had a bad dream last night that PGI made a new map and all it was was a wide open desert complete with tumble weeds and a few low sand dunes.

I'm I brawler and this kind of map would mean death perhaps without firing a single weapon.

If it were a good dream it would have been a new City map of down town Manhattan.

Actually I could go for a desert map like the south west USA.


Basically a bigger canyon network.

Edited by Clownwarlord, 09 June 2017 - 12:26 PM.

[Felicitatem Parco]

I want a moon map. Reduced gravity (JJs, ballistic drop), no fog, but intense direct lighting with huge background IR signature from local star to make approach angle a tactical move, , same HPG muffle...

From what I have gathered by averaging a few sources, cooling in a vacuum is about half as efficient as cooling in the presence of a convecting atmosphere, so although the sun/shade temperature duality will confer a very interesting variable, the magnidute of difference won't be as drastic as the actual temperature Delta. Since cooling is overall halved, the temp difference will be experienced only half as strongly as if there was air. PGI would have to make cooling rates different for sun and shade, and than choose a different "temperature" for the map to reflect the non-normal cooling rates.

To use Mercury as an example, we can see temperatures ranging from 93-700 Kelvins for the day and night sides, but since there is no atmosphere, the Mechs would cool too quickly if PGI simply coded the temperatures as such in the map settings. They would have to reduce cooling rates by half, so they have to program whatever temperature fits their algorithm to spit out a cooling rate that's half of what the rate would be if those actual temperatures were used .

Edited by Prosperity Park, 09 June 2017 - 12:53 PM.

[Davegt27]

if I where to do a map it would have it all

space port in the center with big maintenance hangers surrounding the big union class drop ships

the center space port would be surrounded by water that was serviced by an over land wide wide bridge

and a underground wide wide railway (yes the return of the cave/tunnel) the idea is to have wider area that people wont
hate to go into but wide area with rail cars for cover (at least 10 mechs wide)

city side across the water from the space port

[Coolant]

ooo a wide open desert map...i like!!

[Felicitatem Parco]

Clownwarlord, on 09 June 2017 - 12:26 PM, said:

Actually I could go for a desert map like the south west USA.


Basically a bigger canyon network.

I just had MW2 flashbacks by looking at that image...

[stealthraccoon]

Prosperity Park, on 09 June 2017 - 03:27 PM, said:

I just had MW2 flashbacks by looking at that image...

Pfft!

Oregon Trail, youngster!

[razenWing]

I once had a dream after 10 hours of of fw drop... A mech came alive, crawl into my bed, and said, "I love you, babe!"

It was weird...

Dun remember which mech though...

God I hope it's not a panther...

[Felicitatem Parco]

razenWing, on 09 June 2017 - 03:44 PM, said:

I once had a dream after 10 hours of of fw drop... A mech came alive, crawl into my bed, and said, "I love you, babe!"

It was weird...

Dun remember which mech though...

God I hope it's not a panther...

... Or a Widowmaker.

(I could do a panther, though... They are just another form of Cougar)

Edited by Prosperity Park, 09 June 2017 - 04:01 PM.