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I stand corrected. There were two small sections on the right side that appeared to be deep snow.

In the worldbuilder any snow greater than a depth of .25 is shown as DEEP SNOW and appears RED. So .251 will draw as red in the worldbuilder. Snow less than .251 will be drawn as yellow(Left side of picture).

However in the game .250 is indicated as deep snow with the snowflake mouse cursor. This map had several areas at exactly .250. Only two were in normal playing areas and they were small.

Using the TERRAIN COVER overlay (right side of picture) you can see the deep snow areas (RED Checker areas).

Yup. It is why for everything you go -.25 less than what works. I do the same for water, or this happens. We learned this the hard way with Verman River for Talisman and ice.

This is completely unacceptable. I just looked at Semoskiy in automatch and just GG'd. 55 seconds in I typed GG and dipped out. No way I am playing that map ever. Worst sector layouts of all time! PLEASE REMOVE THIS MAP! PLEASE! PRETTY PLEASE!

Or at least fix the distances...HOLY SHEEEEEIT! North is insta-lose.


WHY IS THERE NO RIOT ON HERE TO GET THIS REMOVED OR FIXED?

I will make a good version. But I would rather it just get removed.

Agree. Talismans map wasn't bad from the first SMC. I should ask him/the community if they want that in instead. It was one of the most played maps...

I talk about the mistake with the bunkers and the tactical map^^
when you scroll back.

I will have it to you after my vacation. So the 7th.

Hello folks,

I'm new to this, but slowly gaining control. But my graphics in the WorldBuilder are all fucked up and streched. Can anyone help me telling what I'm doing wrong? Is it somekind of wrong graphic setting?

What resolution is your monitor?

What hardware do you have? Most importantly what video card are you using? Cause that looks like a larger map.

What tile/splats/splines are you using and how many?

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Moving the points with the blue arrows causes building imbalances. As you would have to contest with indirect fire or flames if someone got an MG into either of the buildings. Especially a vickers vet1. So they were moved farther back to have the buildings still be effective, but not overbearing. Moving them forward as you suggest favors the west side base.

And sight blockers were added to the west base area. This was due to not having an additional flanking route as was created for the east area.

On the east there was also added additional green cover along the attack path from the house(s) to mimic the west.

The point that is just outside the base is a "Free" point. As we didn't want to make a massive secondary cutoff along the roads for multiple purposes (red cover, messing up vehicle pathing, and making the map too cutoff-centric leading to camping in the north/south and assaulting the middle vp / cutoff over and over again)

Also the discussion about the shorter distances between VPS is intentional. You have sight blockers, buildings and negative cover to traverse and fight through for all of them, except the middle vp which has no building coverage. If we were to space them either further out, you would get even more camping in buildings (right now it is pretty player/strategy specific if it happens) and cause stagnant play from securing north/south and only fighting over the middle VP.

For example if you swapped the munitions and the VPS that is even further from base to base and makes the retreat path that much more treacherous. You already see top players move in along the retreat paths with ease to secure wipes. This would become even easier to do with the objective being further away.

Also putting the fuels in the corners is a rule we learned long ago to never do. 1 MG covers the entirety of corners unless you want to put a million sight blockers there to break up the LoS. Which then messes up vehicle pathing, is easy to abuse defense structures around/mines, and still is holdable by 1 MG the majority of the game.

With even more spread of the resources, all you get is "select all my units and a-move to that destination", which was not the intent. This map favors players that can assault/harass multiple points while having main engagements in the central area of the map. During SMC with the current layout we have seen the map play largely different every time based on the player matchups. With some preferring to assault/defend from the north/south or sit in the middle. It also lends itself to several different strats that are neither OP or UP because of map design.

I'm not arguing that the map is perfect. None of them are. Especially when asymmetry (no matter how slight) is involved.

Also not including crossroads is a huge fault, as if its played in 1v1 it should be included in analyzing other maps.