Profile of Rosbone

Hold on. How does a 4v4 map take months?! Thats ridiculous. How is it hard to balance a map? I dont undersand that either.
I was told 50 new maps we would see wiht the next patch. I wa ssurpicsed how little it was.

A 1v1 map can take up to a couple weeks to get looking pretty and being somewhat balanced. A 4v4 map is much larger, and therefore takes a lot of time. Balance is not as critical though, so play testing is not super critical. One wrong building on a 1v1 map can break the map for certain factions. The same building on a 4v4 can usually be countered by someone on the team.

Balancing a 4v4 map is more about space in the main fighting areas (middle 100 meters of the map). Too many buildings like Lienne or Lorch and it hurts certain factions. Too many close quarters areas and axis will suffer since their mainlines are long range (Lienne Forest). Having fuel and vp right next to each other will give brits a leg up when they plop a bofors between the points (Red Ball). Having safe fuels will help certain factions just camp and rush out heavy tanks. These are just a couple examples of the 100 things to work around for balance.

50 new maps!!! Not sure where this rumor was found. I dont recall more than one new map being announced. The map patch was supposed to only be a couple maps that had leftover bugs. But it turned into about 28 maps being worked on or so? And we got several new maps!!! But I am down with 50 new maps if Relic is.

Gunthers image is 1440. 3440 x 1440 pixels according to IMGUR.

Wikipedia says that ratio is 43:18. Which is very close to 21:9.

43:18 = 3440/1440 = 2.388888
21:9 = 2.3333

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21:9_aspect_ratio

Screen resolution will not change the area view that you have. Meaning you wont see more of the game you are playing. Screen ratio may change that.

I have always had a 16:9 monitor. But I would think different resolutions will help you in different ways. A widescreen monitor with a ratio like 21:9 could let you see more of the battlefield side to side. A square ratio like 4:3 may let you see more top to bottom, but less side to side, etc. There is a streamer here that runs 21:9 streams once in a while you can check out.

You could test this yourself by changing your game resolutions to different ratios. Remember the screen will not be made for these resolutions, so the picture may be weird looking and blurred. but it will show you how much more/less of the game play area you will see at those ratios.

Full HD is 1920x1080 pixels and 16:9 ratio. 4k is double that resolution at 3840x2160 pixels and is still 16:9 ratio. You will see the same amount of game/map area. It will just look sharper.

What 4K brings you over Full HD is:
- Less need to run anti-aliasing.
- much better detail in textures.
- slower FPS (unless you trade Anti-aliasing).

AA - In order to get rid of jagged edges on objects, you need to run anti-aliaising. AA, paints extra smoothed/averaged pixels along edges to give them a more realistic smooth edge. There are many AA modes and each has trade offs for killing FPS. Running higher res such as 4k, means edges look smoother just because there are more pixels, so you dont need to run as heavy AA or even any at all.

TEXTURE DETAIL- When your videocard paints a wall/floor/etc on the screen. It calcs the angle it is rotated to your eye. If there are not enough pixels on the screen to draw the whole texture, the card will use a smaller blurred copy of the texture. Running high res like 4K, lets the videocard use more full resolution textures and the result is a lot more detail and sharpness. To see what games look like without running smaller blurred textures (MIP MAPPING) see any game written to run without videocards and watch the pixels at angles dance around like your LSD has not worn off yet.

Special note on STEPPES: It is getting twice the plays it normally gets because Hill 400 is bugged. So players getting Steppes OR Hill 400 from the server, will end up playing on Steppes.

Thanks for the feedback Ghost!

Red cover is a problem child:
- Too much angers players.
- Red cover towards your base = wiped squads on retreat.
- If you have too many areas that are not red cover on your roads, vehicles will speed up and slow down randomly.
- Visually it makes no sense that you take more damage on the road but not standing right next to the road out of cover. It would have been better implemented if you could paint cover yourself.

We added cover on the center VP and the entrance from North into the church area. Maybe a couple spots by the cutoffs might be good as well^^