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[Angel of Annihilation]

What I don't understand is why PGI can't just design new maps using the existing resources. Why can't we have 3-4 variations of Forest City or Caustic or what ever. There are also tons of cool looking textures and terrain used on the FW maps that aren't' available for quick play map. Also the design of these maps doesn't even have to be all that intensive. I mean Solaris City would have been a ton better if it had been laid out as a real city with blocks and cross streets and intersections instead of all those crazy choke points that most mech can't even fit through. I mean a Caustic without the caldera just those random little hills and ridges randomly scattered about would be a hell of alot more fun than the ring around the caldera matches we currently have.

Anyway, I have been saying this for years but there is really no reason why PGI doesn't have twice as many maps in the game. Just quit trying to make the maps artistic, slap down some hills, rocks, trees, valleys, water, etc in any old random fashion, do a test to make sure mechs aren't getting stuck all over the place and call it a done map.

[MW Waldorf Statler]

the very small team for MWO has enough doing with modelling and Texturing of mechs, Bolts, Decals, CP items ,and Bugfixing ...the Ressource of Members with Cryengine Experience near zero ,all news work with UE4 experience to MW5

[Koniving]

GeminiWolf, on 19 December 2018 - 06:52 PM, said:

ROFL ROFL ROFL you guys ROFL ROFL think that they will use resources ROFL ROFL ROFL *choke gasp* to alter MWO maps...OMG OMG OMG my sides are hurting, best laugh I've had in a long while. Thank you OP.

On a side note...

In the past they have put a living room with a TV, couch, remote, some trash, and a PC gamer magazine with MWO on the cover in Forest Colony (prior to the map increasing in size).
There's a CEO's golf area on top of a building in River City (it's still there).
Frozen City (before it was expanded) was a coastal city with a shipwrecked cruise ship (the sea kind, not the space kind).

Forest Colony's reg version before the expansion also had alternate versions with and without the shipwreck.

Frozen City had a weather system where fog/"blizzard" would intensify in one of two (maybe 3?) areas with a small chance of it happening (but when it did it was hard to see).

Occasionally on the old frozen city, it'd alternate between having and not having street lights on streets you can't even see due to the snow cover. Though not sure if this one's intended or just a bug.

I mean there was this bug too.


But long story short, PGI has done similar things in the past. (There's a number of Easter Eggs on Terra Therma, but good luck getting a match on it).

[Mister Glitchdragon]

PGI could, with minimal effort, reskin HPG into Daytona, Talladega, or Michigan International...

[50 50]

I'd be a little wary of the amount of space the individual map files/resources etc.
However... all that HDD space isn't going to fill itself so bring it on.

Visually it would be very nice to see all these maps we have come to know represented with a different tileset and just have the fun of playing on them.
Don't limit it to just the quick play maps though, there are the 6 Siege maps and tilesets that can be thrown into the mix.
What would it be like to have Vitric Forge redone in the swamp tileset from Viridian Bog?
Alpine Peaks in the Vitric Forge hell scape?

There is a massive amount of combinations really.

[El Bandito]

Can I have a Chopped Down Forest Colony map please? My eyes will be thankful.

Same map, just no trees.

Maybe only stumps.

[FRAGTAST1C]

Mister Glitchdragon, on 20 December 2018 - 09:53 PM, said:

PGI could, with minimal effort, reskin HPG into Daytona, Talladega, or Michigan International...

Best. Post. Ever.

[Ragedog4]

Mister Glitchdragon, on 20 December 2018 - 09:53 PM, said:

PGI could, with minimal effort, reskin HPG into Daytona, Talladega, or Michigan International...

Thats awesome!

You know that would be cool if they remapped it so NASCAR would be impossible.

[LordNothing]

i dont like minimally viable map design. weve seen what happens with that. too many times.

what we really need is community made maps. the number of playable maps would double overnight.

Edited by LordNothing, 21 December 2018 - 05:11 PM.

[Ragedog4]

LordNothing, on 21 December 2018 - 05:08 PM, said:

i dont like minimally viable map design. weve seen what happens with that. too many times.

what we really need is community made maps. the number of playable maps would double overnight.

Wont happen. The main issue Russ talked about is the amount of time it takes to balance and test the map and they have small staff. This way they can change cover, temps, and effects of the map without having to go through that process. Yes it would be nice, but lets also take what we can get, and this will double our maps.

[LordNothing]

Ragedog4, on 21 December 2018 - 05:25 PM, said:

Wont happen. The main issue Russ talked about is the amount of time it takes to balance and test the map and they have small staff. This way they can change cover, temps, and effects of the map without having to go through that process. Yes it would be nice, but lets also take what we can get, and this will double our maps.

of course its not happening, hence the decline.

i mean if pgi wanted a minimally viable map design go with rolling hills (think ireland) or sand dunes. throw down a few of the prefab buildings that already exist and boom map.

Edited by LordNothing, 21 December 2018 - 05:42 PM.

[Ragedog4]

LordNothing, on 21 December 2018 - 05:34 PM, said:

of course its not happening, hence the decline.

i mean if pgi wanted a minimally viable map design go with rolling hills (think ireland) or sand dunes. throw down a few of the prefab buildings that already exist and boom map.

Thats exactly what they are talking about doing. Hence me asking everyone what they wanted to see for map reskins.

[LordNothing]

Ragedog4, on 21 December 2018 - 07:06 PM, said:

Thats exactly what they are talking about doing. Hence me asking everyone what they wanted to see for map reskins.

way i understood the op is he wanted to reskin existing maps, which doesn't really bring any new map layouts to the game. going the other way, textures and prefabs on some hastily generated terrain makes more sense.

[Ragedog4]

LordNothing, on 21 December 2018 - 07:46 PM, said:

way i understood the op is he wanted to reskin existing maps, which doesn't really bring any new map layouts to the game. going the other way, textures and prefabs on some hastily generated terrain makes more sense.

I am the OP on this thread haha.

ReSkin includes new buildings, Trees, Changed layout, different Temps, different times of day. Etc. For example It would be the same map like Frozen Highland but instead could be warmer, has grass, have Cookie Cutter placements like farm silos, trees, boulders, barns, and buildings that help block shots.

Same Map, different Skin, different placements of objects. Etc.

Edited by Ragedog4, 21 December 2018 - 08:32 PM.