Research Facility (Large Socket)
-Top of both sets of stairs under the main research building is just a dead end. (Funny thing this. Artists forgot to put fake doors up there, we also intended to block those stairs off with infamous crates)

I was drastically fond of this being a sniper point. Please don't block it off.

LOD road bumpers just murdered my LAV before they rendered. :(

Not that its specific to this map, but characters are still rendering on the wrong side of cover from far away. Or if you are high up enough, the fall through the texture and can be shot but disappear.

Something is wrong with the Supply Depot in the Security Scan socket...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDj2K5dg78s

But it couldn't save the heavy ;)
Oh, and i love this socket. It's great for scouts, good job!

What you are probably experiencing is the low LOD. The cover they are using is probably just not rendering.

It's not that it's not rendering, it's rendering in the wrong place. Ever since 1.2, where things render at is different from where they physically are from far distances, which makes soft spotting a hill way off in the distance possible, and counter sniping him impossible.

That isn't anything Level Design can do something about. That is a rendering issue none the less. I advise you put it in the general feedback / bug reports forum.

Reactor Core has glitched rails on the bridge that cause your merc to run faster than normal if moving against them.

If you call in a vehicle (well, I've only tried this with LAVs) from the ground on the Landing Pad, it gets delivered to the top floor...which is both inconvenient to reach, and as far as I can tell, impossible for the LAV to drive off of. I'd rather just get an 'inaccessible location'...

We are aware of this issue as well. I have in the meantime placed an entity that should force vehicles to land to the road now. However, this has not been delivered to the players yet.

Does this also force dropships to be delivered away from the landing pads?

Not sure how realistic the is from a Dev stand point but I would like to place a rally point down where I want the RDV to drop in and then the RDV AI could work it out from that location. Where I am isn't alway where I want my ride.

Not sure how realistic the is from a Dev stand point but I would like to place a rally point down where I want the RDV to drop in and then the RDV AI could work it out from that location. Where I am isn't alway where I want my ride.

So I brought this up with Game Design. Their are discussions happening but no decisions made. Primarily it has to do with not just RDV's, but what the RDV's use. A navmesh, and what its future is. So the idea does exist, but no idea if / when it will happen. Just wanted to update you on that.

I wouldn't expect any results quickly. You can expect some kind of change in the future though.

Unfortunately yes. It tells where the RDV to drop all vehicles. I will start putting in a request for a solution to this. It would be nice to be able to have both DS land on a pad and ground vehicles land on ground.

A nav mesh. On maps that size it must be one hell of a spider's web u got their, explains why we can't drop inside sockets though. Here was me thinking u used dynamic waypoints :-D

Why don't you make the landing pad an installation?

Well and just think of this, the sockets changing as well. Compiling a navmesh is time consuming because for each terrain it needs to load every possible socket combination and rotation and build the navmeshs for them then stitch them with the ones in terrain. This is a reason why the RDV some times freaks out (my technical term) on some sockets.

I'm don't no the tech terms so I'm going armchair dev words lol.

But would not collision boxes be better the rdv simply goes from a to b and if it hits one of the walls it paths around it. I understand I'm vastly over simplifying the problem but nav meshes only really work when u know what ur dealing with and due to sockets and diffrent map types it complicates the problem. Giving the A.I very basic navigation tricks rules instead seems like a better option for dust.

But I'm not a dev sssooo.... :-P

The idea about the launch pad becoming an installation is simple, you just call a vehicle with the console nearby and it sends it there.is this do able in dust now or at least the near future?(I'm not sure if it solves your problem, but I thought I'd say it)