Observations after first night of beta testing
Observations after first night of beta testing
Thanks to all the server admins (some of whom were at work
) who made the effort to get the map up and running for multiplayer testing. Also thanks to TW-Stratomagus (and Tripwire) for taking time to walk me through the publishing process. And of course, thanks to all the players who shot, bayonetted, and ran me over with tanks at Ogledow yesterday.
I'm on my first cup of coffee so this will be disjointed and I'll make more sense of it later, but here are some observations.
That was a great fight! Congratulations on winning the first tank battle of Ogledow RO2.
I don't want to save players time running around the map. Here's why:
My intention for this map is to create the conditions that allow new players to experience the feeling I got during the best games I played on RO. For Ogledow I think this will mean mostly bolt action rifles supporting tanks.
If you want to survive and take the objectives you'll need to figure out with your teammates how to advance with the tanks as cover. This won't be the same from game to game, since there will be different players.
I agree and am working on it. I am not a fan of using the deco grass much, it looks pretty but it gives a false sense of security, as any enemy at range sees you. It only conceals them from you, getting in the way of your shot but they can see you clearly. I want to figure out how to get some tall grass that doesn't hit performance yet conceals if you're in it.
Is the sun in your eyes?
I actually had replaced all of them with statics, but chose to return to the original. I think I will leave the farm ones alone, but some of the others might become wood fences, especially the one at Ogledow. As for needing practice modeling, uvmapping and texturing, sometime I'll show you my portfolio XD.
Observations after first night of beta testing
Thanks to all the server admins (some of whom were at work
) who made the effort to get the map up and running for multiplayer testing. Also thanks to TW-Stratomagus (and Tripwire) for taking time to walk me through the publishing process. And of course, thanks to all the players who shot, bayonetted, and ran me over with tanks at Ogledow yesterday.I'm on my first cup of coffee so this will be disjointed and I'll make more sense of it later, but here are some observations.
That was a great fight! Congratulations on winning the first tank battle of Ogledow RO2.
I don't want to save players time running around the map. Here's why:
Thank you for not putting in additional spawn zones. Hopefully this will get us back to slower paced thoughtful gameplay, while keeping the current fast paced maps there to have a growing amount of diversity.
My intention for this map is to create the conditions that allow new players to experience the feeling I got during the best games I played on RO. For Ogledow I think this will mean mostly bolt action rifles supporting tanks.
If you want to survive and take the objectives you'll need to figure out with your teammates how to advance with the tanks as cover. This won't be the same from game to game, since there will be different players.
I agree and am working on it. I am not a fan of using the deco grass much, it looks pretty but it gives a false sense of security, as any enemy at range sees you. It only conceals them from you, getting in the way of your shot but they can see you clearly. I want to figure out how to get some tall grass that doesn't hit performance yet conceals if you're in it.
Is the sun in your eyes?
Have you thought about replacing the long mid height BSP walls with something nicer? Modeling some rock walls would be good practise
I actually had replaced all of them with statics, but chose to return to the original. I think I will leave the farm ones alone, but some of the others might become wood fences, especially the one at Ogledow. As for needing practice modeling, uvmapping and texturing, sometime I'll show you my portfolio XD.
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