Profile of Deer

Thanks MonolithicBacon, i appreciate feedback

I made roads and other land routes quite narrow on design, because that kind of "bottleneck" design supports more defensive gameplay. I did that because i believe defensive gameplay is really fun but very few multiplayer maps support it, those that do are my favorites.

Pripyat spring is good example, its bottleneck gameplay, and to some degree rostov (mainly the urban area) is too. I wanted to make map with similar gameplay to those maps where defending is very easy while attacking is very difficult..

I love the concept where defending side has time to dig in deep, player is designing complete defensive system himself including MGs,mortars,AT-guns, minefields, bunkers, barbwires, dug in tanks, tank traps, artillery support, long range guns like Pak43 or ISU-152 etc.. while the attacking side is designing and pre-planning how and with what units he launches the attack with. The good defensive positions and the gap (ice) between those positions kinda makes players build and design in quiet, untill one side chooses to launch all out massive attack that clashes on the massive defense design of opposing player.. and the result is most epic battles i have seen in this game

So its not just non-stop zerging all the time, this gameplay gives players sometimes opportunities/time to design and plan, and then watch how his plan works in action. So far only few maps support this very well, and i tried to make one more map to support this... while at the same time the map supports the stantard non-stop action too, only if/when certain part of the area calms down for a while, you can start designing and building the defensive system.. but you dont have to.




I tried to make the ice be broken at start but after i stamped my entire map to fix one bug, my map started crashing on load if i had added broken ice.. maybe because i stamped the ice too.. it got fixed when i fully healed all my ice to 100% health and resaved/repacked the map, but whenever i tried to re-apply it, it crashed.

Yes the atmosphere settings are one thing which is never going to be done, i know it from experience I used to make maps for 7 years for Battlefield mod called Project Reality.

Nice one ! will be handy in searching for many things

Make sure you are not using any hand placed buildings like HQs and base buildings.

thanks, i had HQs and base buildings (for measuring how big area i should create for mainbase buildings) but i have deleted those... so maybe those have changed some stats in some file, any idea which file ? I could manually edit it maybe ?

Doesnt seem to work for me, the expample splat wont appear in the editor for some reason, i checked its in right place for sure. Maybe it needs to be packed again or something ?

Changing these 2 settings to 0 seemed to make those lines disappear, i dont know what these setting are, top one of those 2 adds brown "shadow" inside tree clusters, and bottom one casts brown shadow over entire screen/map.




Any ideas ? What are these settings and why they caused brown lines across the map ? Map seems fine without these so its not big issue but would be nice to understand