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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.

What's the difference between this and the first one?

Why can't it simply be hotfixed? It's not like Relic can't patch it for two months.

Skeleton team + they have to pay steam everytime they upload?

That would be my guess.

Well. There are two problems:
First: Those semi red cover streets are still counterintuitive construct. Most maps (i think all Relic maps) used full red cover roads or non red cover at all. There is no mixture of those "street mechanics". When i'm deleting the hole red cover roads people are not happy. So i can move the red cover subroad (it is an invisible road here that is generating the red cover) to the dragon teeth line. But like i said; it will feel awkward because only half of your roads will feel/behave like CoH2 roads (vehicle speed bonus). To be honest i would delete the hole red cover but it seems to me that no one else support those idea.
Second: Sturmpanther started a pool for the Westwall cutoff houses. The result is not clear. It seems to me that there are two groups; one group supports the houses and one group want to delete them. The problem is that there is not enough feedback. I can upload new versions but i think there is no feedback about the new solution. So i can change it but no one will tell me the result or gameplay impact.

If you delete the entire road the map will feel larger.

The solution is to do what we always have to do with roads when this happens, put craters on it, even if completely invisible they will provide yellow cover for safe passage. You could also try and negate this with ditches as they do the same thing.

Also the second point is correct, you will have people bitch about the houses staying or about them not being removed, you will never make everyone happy that plays the game. Trust your judgement on it and move from there.

Typically however, houses on the cutoff at all is a no-no. So I guess damage it out all the way/ sight block it so it isn't as strong, or out right removal.