Profile of Tric

Despite playing since launch, I only found out about alternate access roads on maps roughly half a year ago after randomly calling in Panzerfusiliers on one of the 1vs1 community maps that was removed from the pool recently and then reading about it online though only to the extent of finding out that these routes do exist.

Is there a guide anywhere that lists all access points in all maps (preferably highlighted on map screenshots) and explains how you're meant to use them (I'm guessing by placing spawn flags near them, but I'm not clear on how near/far they have to be placed or any other such specifics)?

Or if there isn't, does anyone have the time to make one?

I'm not sure what you are asking? Are you talking about map entry points?

times got changed

Ty Hoolie, you da man.

They still use Essence? WHYYYYY? It's so outdated that became since v3 a horrible optimized and buggy mess engine. Is it so hard to write new engine for modern systems and hardware? This engine took in january 15 years and they write the 7th version of this pile of garbagre.

Version 4 was DoW 3...? Every update is a "new iteration" for a "good" company. Sadly Relic massively hemorrhaged on essence engine version 4 [dow3, the only game this engine lays claim to, and most likely AoE 4, unless they are going to move it over to 5?]

This is like saying the Unreal Engine is bad cause BlueBalls Entertainment for PUBG has the worst running version of it in recent history. That isn't an engine issue, it is a dev issue. The same applies here, especially when v4 of Essence has multiple ways to achieve the same thing and has been bugged since release, soft locking 2/3rds of its functionality behind a hidden export glitch that corrupts the export. Everything "works" in the builder, but depending one what you changed, you will never see it as it doesn't export properly. Was meant to be fixed in September, don't believe it ever was... Either way.

What you say is completely false.

Unity released in 2005, still used to this day [ffs im using it]

Unreal released in 1998, still used to this day

CryEngine 3 released in 2002, still used to this day [but potentinally on its way out due to CRYENGINE/Amazon Lumberyard?]

id Tech [id Tech 1-6/Doom Engine] released in 1995 [for the public], still used to this day, although previous versions are deprecated.

The list goes on like this forever.

If I remember correctly, some old top players were against this war effort thing in the old closed beta forums.

They were against old unrealead commanders from OST and SOV too.

https://www.coh2.org/topic/50471/2-unseen-commanders-left-from-old-leaks/post/504493

IMHO Relic heard these guys too much and cancelled everything (war effort and old beta commanders).

They also had a "commander builder" of sorts that they scrapped, where you would have a set amount of CPs and you could build a loadout within those CP limits.

So you could have guards, tanktraps, m-42, conscript repair, and IS2 or something.

I even talked to Kyle about giving this back (as it was basically finished, before being scrapped) and he said, maybe, but it would only be custom games. I have no idea how they thought this would be bad outside it would be hard to balance around, however I think it would allow for some fun tourneys/customs.

It is tied to the terrain type, and not to the vehicles. You would have to make a map that doesn't utilize the texture from "road_asphalt", at least, to me as a mapper.

A modder might be able to help you more, but I am not entirely sure that this isn't just tied 100% to textures, since that would mean that crates/ditches that have cover tied to it would also be coded into units that utilize it, which would be strange.