Questions for Friday Night Ops on Level Design

[Hamma]

Perfect chance to get some level design questions in! Be sure to tweet out some Q's.

https://twitter.com/PurrfectStorm/status/319521906116161536

[OctavianAXFive]

Can I just link my thread? :rolleyes:

j/k

Hmm what specifically to ask...

[bpostal]

Level design? Is that like base design or cont design or...? Anyone know?

[Assist]

Level design? Is that like base design or cont design or...? Anyone know?

lol, that's what I was going to ask! What is level design? I was originally thinking battle ranks!

[bpostal]

lol, that's what I was going to ask! What is level design? I was originally thinking battle ranks!

Than I think we know what question to tweet.

"I'm sure you're great at your job, and as a PS2 player I appreciate your hard work...but wtf do you do exactly?"

[OctavianAXFive]

His linkedin seems to indicate that he is a map designer mainly.

Usually the term Level Design has to do with the map.

[Assist]

His linkedin seems to indicate that he is a map designer mainly.

Usually the term Level Design has to do with the map.

So he designs continents then? Because I thought Arclegger does bases?

[bpostal]

His linkedin seems to indicate that he is a map designer mainly.

Usually the term Level Design has to do with the map.

Ah, cheers! So the perfect question would be what are they looking at doing to improve the combat flow across a given continent.

[ChipMHazard]

So he designs continents then? Because I thought Arclegger does bases?

Clegg joined the weapon design team.

[Sledgecrushr]

I dont think we have enough trees on the three continents we have now. How do you feel about trees and are we going to see more trees in the future.

[Canaris]

My question is, how overall has the level design team coped with making Planetside 2 from beginning to now and what's in store for the future, dish the dirt! :D

[bpostal]

Don't forget, we gotta tweet this shit. That's where they'll be looking for questions!

[ChipMHazard]

Aye, posting them here won't help unless some friendly soul tweets them all.

[Canaris]

well one of you has the job, I'm usually asleep when these go live ;)

[bpostal]

well one of you has the job, I'm usually asleep when these go live ;)

I got your back, and with 5 min to spare. Can't promise they'll pick it though.
Provided I didn't fuck it up. That's just about my 4th ever twit (twat? tweet? whatever)

[Figment]

Tweeted a number of questions, some regarding the thoughts behind base design policy (spawn and CC placement and disconnectivity) and one asking when we can expect water choke points and whether the VS will have to compensate for their capacity in that regards in terms of power when we do.


Because the way the game is designed and balanced now, water is just going to OP the VS on those continents and if they get balanced to compensate (which would be significant) would make them UP on non-water continents.

[Canaris]

I got your back, and with 5 min to spare. Can't promise they'll pick it though.
Provided I didn't fuck it up. That's just about my 4th ever twit (twat? tweet? whatever)

You da man bPostal but now I have to stay up for FNO, high command said so ;)

[Hamma]

Hopefully they good Q's :D

[camycamera]

can people post the Q&A's from twitter to here plex?