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[Ted Wayz]

Scout Derek, on 09 June 2017 - 02:00 PM, said:

Then please kindly tell me what we will be having in September, October, November, December, January, February then please, I'm sure you're an expert at what exactly will be going on in those months already judging by your tone

Oh, and no mech pack guesses, we know already there are always mech packs :3

What was your source for saying that we will be getting one in the fall? I think you are making as many assumptions.

Still would like to know how PGI managed to destroy the old maps making the new versions. If they released the old versions of maps for 8v8 they would be heroes (if just for one day).

[Felbombling]

QuantumButler, on 10 June 2017 - 05:12 AM, said:

Maps cost 250k dollarydoos so you can't expect them to release more than 1 a year.

I don't buy the 250k production costs any longer. They floated that dollar value years ago, when they were still in beta. By now, you have to imagine that those costs are way down, with a catalogue of game-ready assets that can be repurposed for new maps.

I have been very disappointed in the lack of new maps over the last 3/4 of a year. That's a long, long time to have no new maps and be playing on the same old same old. A robust map production schedule should be a major component for a free to play game, if only to keep a player base happy and playing regularly.

[cazidin]

Scout Derek, on 09 June 2017 - 01:49 PM, said:

Kali,

We shall be receiving new maps towards this Fall/Winter. Please take a look at the following link for what is to come in the following months as far as updates go for the game:

https://mwomercs.com...uly-and-beyond/

My only problem with that is two fold. First. Do we know that those are genuinely new maps and not simple re-skins? Two. What kind of map will they be? This could be another Lavascape or Frozen Wasteland.

[Angel of Annihilation]

JC Daxion, on 09 June 2017 - 02:38 PM, said:

Road map....


But the reason why.. They have been upgrading old maps, they added two knew game modes that have been asked for since ALPHA...

Thats a ton of work..


I really hope they don't prove me wrong and add 2-3 maps in the next 6 months..


Please re-use assets if you can make some extra maps..

HPG MOON, and tourmaline desert... (add new shoot through/UNDER terrian to it.. Think of those unique rock structures in the Arizona desert) Make low slug arms a reason to have verse everything a damn hill humpfest

You know since you bring it up, I don't understand why they don't just re-use assets. I mean I would love to see kind of Flattened out Caustic without the big volcano in the middle or a huge city map the size of Polar where it is just rows and row of buildings like those used in River City or Crimson Straight. Hell how about a desert map based on Canyon Network, except it is just a small hills, rocks and a few ridge lines to break up the map? You could basically take just about any map we have, use the same textures and assets but in a rearranged fashion and come up with an entirely new map. Also if the left out dominating terrain features like the Citadel on River City, the Volcano on Caustic, etc and just kind of flattened things out then they don't even really have to pay attention to balancing the map because battles would be much more free form happening wherever the two teams eventually met up. Polar is a prime example of this. Fights take place all over the map rather than everyone converging on the Citadel or some such. If Polar actually had enough hard and high enough cover scattered about to allow players a place to hide away from LRMs it would be the perfect map in my opinion.

Anyway, everyone says it is hard to make a map, however if they are just re-using and rearranging assets like this, there should be no reason we couldn't have at least half a dozen maps in a very short time.