Minimap

[Skitzo]

I would like to suggest the idea of adding a minimap to the in-game hud. It is tiring to keep re-opening/closing the map in order to see whats being captured.

I can understand if you don't like the idea because of realism. Just a suggestion!

 

[[5.SS]Pzgr.Zay]

Yeah we all need a WWII GPS lol

 

[worluk]

we already have ww2 gps :/
Because people cant tell one wall from another

/me loved the gps'less 1.2 days

 

[UncleDrax]

we already have ww2 gps :/
Because people cant tell one wall from another

/me loved the gps'less 1.2 days

I loved the hand-drawn scrap of paper look of some of the overheads back then.. now it took me FOREVER to learn the layout of (Minsk?).. but it happened eventually.. :]

 

[worluk]

(Minsk?)

Kiev more likely

 

[Jono]

I want a radar.

 

[PUTZ]

I want Radar.

ask and ye shall receive

 

[mikitsubizunizu]

Radar was implemented in Korea

 

[Manstein]

I loved the hand-drawn scrap of paper look of some of the overheads back then.. now it took me FOREVER to learn the layout of (Minsk?).. but it happened eventually.. :]

I bet it was Kiev, that map had the most awesome map haha, not only was it hand drawn with no radar, I think it was tilted 90 degrees to the side as well.

I don't think I even saw the Allied half of the map (I only played as German on that map for a while) for at least a month.

Still, that map had a great atmosphere to it

 

[worluk]

it was a really great map one of the first maps i played in RO

 

[SiC-Disaster]

God no.

 

[[TW]Ramm-Jaeger]

we already have ww2 gps :/
Because people cant tell one wall from another

/me loved the gps'less 1.2 days

Yeah the game was so much better when nobody knew where they were at or where the objectives were The overhead map is nowhere near GPS, and is far more realistic than soldiers not having a clue about where they are at, and what they are supposed to be doing.

 

[snake byte..]

Yeah the game was so much better when nobody knew where they were at or where the objectives were The overhead map is nowhere near GPS, and is far more realistic than soldiers not having a clue about where they are at, and what they are supposed to be doing.

i blame it on the vodka myself.. i never know where i am on any given map and know even less what i'm doing..

 

[[-project.rattus-]]

Yeah the game was so much better when nobody knew where they were at or where the objectives were The overhead map is nowhere near GPS, and is far more realistic than soldiers not having a clue about where they are at, and what they are supposed to be doing.

Well, actually, you'd just need a quite accurate map and a marker on the spawnpoint, and voila, knowing your way around is as easy as breathing, without having the magical "you are here" arrow.

 

[worluk]

Yeah the game was so much better when nobody knew where they were at or where the objectives were The overhead map is nowhere near GPS, and is far more realistic than soldiers not having a clue about where they are at, and what they are supposed to be doing.

"nobody knew", well, i know around 20 guys (that is those that played the game regularly back then) who pretty much knew where they are.
And well, i dont know, maybe people suck terribly at orientation in FPSs, i never had a problem with knowing where i am.

A map, with an arrow, that shows here i am, moves the way i do, points in the direction i look, sounds pretty much like GPS to me. Marked spawnpoints is a different thing. But we never had those.
And the objectives were marked back then too, they just werent some flashy icons where you could check if something got capped on the other side of the map.

But well i guess, its all about how one likes it
I never had a too big problem with the GPS arrows, they make things easier for some (i never use them anyway), but flashy cap icons just changed the way you play (Kauk probably being the best example for it).

 

[Jono]

Thing is now Ramm is that you can't be sneaky and by-pass an obj to get to the next one and cap it it without the enemy knowing because they're defending the first obj.

Just one more thing that you can do in RL but not in RO..

 

[aag567]

I think they should do maps Vietcong style.

 

[SgtH3nry3]

I think they should do maps Vietcong style.

Yes!

Or even better: the Resistance & Liberation style.
Just a folded piece of paper with (a texture of) a map on it.

 

[Zenith]

Yeah the game was so much better when nobody knew where they were at or where the objectives were The overhead map is nowhere near GPS, and is far more realistic than soldiers not having a clue about where they are at, and what they are supposed to be doing.

Actually mate most squaddies didn't know where they where, that was down the NCOs and Officers, who would in turn lead the men to the objective. This is why the loss of such men was extremely detrimental to a unit.

 

[monster]

I would like to suggest the idea of adding a minimap to the in-game hud. It is tiring to keep re-opening/closing the map in order to see whats being captured.

I can understand if you don't like the idea because of realism. Just a suggestion!

mini map is one of the things that dicked up WW2OL.