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[Fate 6]

MadPanda, on 19 February 2013 - 02:35 PM, said:

Got it three times. My first impression aren't that great. The map is indeed huge, as promised. The battle however seems to focus near a ridge at about middle of the map, with both teams being on the sides of the ridge and taking pot shots at those who show their face and showering lrms to those you can get a lock on. Have to play more to get a better idea, but early impressions is that it's not that great of a map. Too much walking, and the long range action is not as good as it sounds.

Maybe you're running Assault. Conquest, as I've found lately, actually has a lot more flow to the fights. Instead of going halfway around and stopping at a base, the fight keeps evolving. On Alpine, there ends up being a lot of variance in the size of fights, from 8v8 or 4v4 to 2v2.

[Windsaw]

They team I played with yesterday had Alpine Peaks on their first match.
After I joined them: Nothing.
Nothing for the rest of the evening.

AP is still a myth to me.
Hopefully it will manifest soon.

[Corvus Antaka]

Alpine peaks is just a lie told to keep us "beta testing"

[Terran123rd]

It's an awesome map and the devs should feel awesome for making it.

[Fred013]

OMG ITS SOOO BIG!
srsly, I saw jenners with PPCs and LRMs everywhere and snipind left right and center. TAG is a must here.

Edited by Fred013, 20 February 2013 - 02:22 AM.

[Ohgodtherats]

I got it twice in 30+ lone wolf games and only after they shut elo off and the queing went faster. It certainly is large. It also highlights what an advantage mechs scaling terrain have over mechs already at the top.

[Errant Variable]

YES.

And it is glorious. Even if I got waxed by some rubberbanding ECM+Streak ANZAC.

[TDR3D]

The bards sing of this map, but I believe it only to be legend.

[Thorqemada]

The map is huge, and i mean huge huge, big time huge huge
You need super long range weapons or a lance of Lightspeed Mechs...probably both.
Imho it will shine with 12 vs 12.

[AceTimberwolf]

had about 5 matches in a row in it. Kinda wanted to go back to the old maps LOL