Profile of Tric

First it was early January [Told back in late Nov/Early Dec]
Then it was late January
Then it was early February
A week or so ago I was told it would be March......expecting a mega patch (this patch is half of what a mega patch should be compared to past patches.)
And now this. Though I guess the changes don't mean much.
Flamer hf change is the only nice change I see so far that they kept.
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I feel awful for you guys. Honestly. Kyle must've been pressured by upper management...so I don't blame him. Quin Duffy might've been the culprit.

Don't forget that they do 4 "major patches" a year. So the next one is right before the DoW 3 launch date... coincidence?

In all honestly though, I do really feel for the modders, and the few active community members that are left (streamers, players, or what have you), that helped test, submitted replays, and worked so hard for this... don't worry though, I'm sure we will all never forget the taste of (out of) Scope (tm) , and for 3 low low payments of 9.99 per DLC you to can get a Relic Scope (tm) DLC commander!

Ok guys, here is the result. Now we have three passages, decorated with diverse mud and rubble splats, as Tric recommend before. They provide light cover and even slow down vehicles a little bit, so you wan´t be able to rush from one end of the map to the other anymore. I added some new craters and a few bushes too.

I agree with what Francis said as well, maybe drag marks (like crab mine flail / blown up mine field) would work to insinuate that it provides cover along these points? Perhaps even a small height decrease to give it that "was dug up" look, will help solidify it more for the player that does not see this or understand how things work when it comes to textures assigning cover.

Either way looks great, and I'm glad you are still actively working on this.

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As you can see above, any attempt at layering a ditch spline OVER the road spline, it won't take priority.

You have to cheat and use a crater splat and layer it accordingly. If you simply alpha blend it out however, it removes the cover bonus from teh splat entirely, so you can blend it down to about 50% before it loses its cover properties.

However you can use this trick, to employ crosses, you can decorate with whatever items you please, but as I have repeatedly suggested, do not use heavy cover if you don't want pathing issues.

I provided the blueprint to show you the textures that are in use here to give you an idea to work with.

Keep in mind that the road texture was Alpha blended in the colorzation mode, which may take some time time to line up with where you want your crossing, this way you don't have to fake multiple roads and you can blend it easier, also by not having multiple roads along the intended path, vehicles won't "hiccup" when hitting the cross section. The hiccup would be them trying to quickly move to another section of the road to maintain the fastest move speed, which may or may not be ideal depending on your intention.

The way done above though will provide the smoothest most consistent result.

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As a side note you could do the multiple roads if you want a more "squared off" approach, then use the ditches in the space you removed, and then hide them with layering, but that is up to you.

What problem can be with pathing ? Now in map its open road where you can drive easy to fuels, WP. Say , that green covers can broke use of ligh vehiles is tupical, coz in you maps we have a lot thing where you can not use at guns, so pls. Play this map before write somthing.

If you could understand English for half a second, you would understand what I said.

Second I played the ever living fuck out of this map during the 6 month submission period it was in and it was personally revised by me about 6 times or more. I could go back and check my logs and tell you exactly, and link you each notepad document of the feedback from each Sunday after an update happened to this specific map.

Now listen closely, as this is the last time I'm going to explain this to you.

Green cover, in all instances in the game block light pathing UNLESS it is a texture bases spline that provides a cover bonus based on where a specific texture is, much like roads or ditches, but far less used.

So that means, all pathing around the roads would be come narrow for 1 (causing light vehicles to do 360's, stop THEN turn, all the things you love), and for 2, all green cover is higher than the medium cover variant. By higher I mean it naturally sits higher in the z axis and therefore blocks shots like nobodies business due to the poor projectile finding in the game.

So stop trying to act like you know literally anything about how the objects or the mechanics of the worldbuilder work, let alone the limitations that you have to take into account to change something to suit it to the crying horde that has no idea what they are actually even looking for, outside making it "less trash".

Its almost like you have never played the game before OR you know nothing of the interaction of objects in this game, let alone the layering of cover textures, or the priority given in how its calculated. It might even be all of it together.

This is the last time I'm going to acknowledge you, as this exact thing has been explained MULTIPLE times, to you, and you have almost less understanding from the last time.

True, so it might be only worthwhile on the far edges of the roads, if at all.

But also keep in mind Westwall does not have anything in it close to the middle road that Halbe has. Westwall doesn't have such an obvious visual line down the middle like Halbe which is why I suggested it as a possibility.

I know most criticism of hills draws from how impossible they are to discern visually, as in most cases the map did not account for how the game handles Z levels. That and raketenwerfers existing.

But the point is is that it could actually work for Halbe, given its specific design.

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You could also run ditches, to provide cover along the edges, so the craters arent so big, since the ditch/trench spline also provides cover.