Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2012.09.04 13:59:00 -
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There's already quite a few more maps than previous builds, though some don't turn up very often. If you're not familiar with how the maps work they set out a piece of terrain which can be given various themes. We've had barren / dusty, daytime green and grassy and nighttime / dusk green and grassy versions of the same map in this build. That's just flavor though. The real meat comes from how each piece of terrain is divided into sockets, which will take structures of various sizes. I've seen two variations of the 5 point control map so far - one with a biomass facility in the center (the one with the pools of green goo at the south end) and one with a communications facility (wide open, with two of the capture points inside buildings).
The plan, according to the fanfest videos, is to generate a ton of terrain maps for the planets we can fight on. Once you've taken control over an area you can customize it by changing the structures in each socket. Those things range in size from the big facilities in the center of the 5 point skirmish map to individual turrets. If you're attacking someone's territory a second time it might look completely different than the last time you saw it.
In addition, we're only starting out with barren and terrestrial planets. Eve also has ocean, lava, storm, ice, gas giant and plasma planets (which look a bit like lava planets, except blue and black). The hope is that we will eventually be able to fight on most of those. |
Kristoff Atruin
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Posted - 2012.09.04 15:18:00 -
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It's also possible that we will never get to fight in gas giants. That was just a list of all the planet types. Notice that I said, "The hope is that we will eventually be able to fight on most of those." The key word being most.
But yes, there could be a kind of map that has no terrain but just floating roads / walkways connecting the sockets. That might not work well with the gameplay of Dust, but it's a possibility. Lava planets should be possible, and ocean planets could have a "terrain" that is a giant, flat floating platform. Lava planets...just a barren planet with more red and environmental hazards. Storm planets...much like a barren planet with very poor visibility. Ice planets are obviously not an issue. The only one I'd really wonder about is plasma planets. They sound like a pretty dangerous environment. |