Battle Islands - Page 3

Hezzy · 2004-06-16, 01:15 PM

Searhus will get retired - they screwed up on the waterlevel when creating the terrain in Terragen and they can't change the height of the terrain again. Because the ground is high above sealevel, there is a low flight ceiling. I don't know which others would be took, but Searhus seems the logical choice.

FatalLight · 2004-06-16, 01:24 PM

So they are gonna can som of the current conts? Y? Thers room...

TheN00b · 2004-06-16, 01:34 PM

There really isn't quite enough room. If they have to remove three large continents, I'd say that they should remove Searhus, for Hezzy's reasons, Ceryshen, because of it's annoying complexities, and either Solsar or Oshur, because of their boring, monotonous terrain. Definite keepers are Esamir, for it's beautiful snow and lakes, Hossin, for it's 1337 jungle, and Ishundar, for it's wide, expansive, vehicle-friendliness.

FatalLight · 2004-06-16, 01:44 PM

And cyssor dont take cyssor its the best. Between solsar and oshur... Id say oshur never a battle ther cuz no1 likes it.

Paragon · 2004-06-16, 07:29 PM

I cant wait for this... but i still dont fully understand. Are these ABSOLUTELY going to be replacing continents that are already in existence or are they going to be islands out in the ocean, that will have 1337 Advantages, such as Permanent Equip moduels(sp) ?

I NEVER play on Oshur, in fact, i dont think i have even gotten the EXP for being there. lol. Anyway, This will be awesome.

Once I install the new video card i got (Radeon 9600 XT 128mb) then i will have no problem handling these.

The only thing i have a problem with is the desert one, it is too flat, and it looks like it is meant to be used for Capture The flag, or something. I know that is going to turn out to be a tankfest, and i hate tanks, because they are beasts to kill, and they lower framerate.

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FatalLight · 2004-06-16, 07:32 PM

Ther is gonna be mor than just these 3 right?

Cauldron Borne · 2004-06-16, 09:15 PM

If they only can one cont (most likely), then they can make room for these three. My vote is on Solsar. Seth's a bitch...

And Ish is the WORST place on earth for vecs, too many hills and sink holes. Even Cery is better, at least that cont has followable roades. Some roads on Ish can't even be scaled by vehicles...

How much you wanna bet people will be having Jumper Events into Extinctions volcano? How much you wanna bet I'll be there to ruin it just like the Cery Bridge jump? Cours if it's extinct the bottom of that crater would be a kick ass dueling arena.

EarlyDawn · 2004-06-16, 09:17 PM

Smoke said that if this first Cluster is a hit, they will more then likely add / swap in more clusters later on.

7ruth · 2004-06-16, 09:28 PM

One of the devs, my memory is a bit shady, said that they are making a new map interface to accomadate the Battle islands(and their clusters).

WritheNC · 2004-06-16, 10:31 PM

On the contrary, I hope they toss Cyssor and permanently delete all the files of it and deny it ever existed.

It's a damn waste of space with a horrible lattice and layout and a big pointless mountain in the middle.

Baneblade · 2004-06-16, 11:16 PM

As long as they plan on getting rid of warpgates eventually I dun care what they do...

These look sweet though...

SquirrelMan · 2004-06-16, 11:47 PM

Well, what I am wondering is what the story for the new battle continents is, in "fluff" terms. I mean, how come all of a sudden one (or more) of the continents is gone and is replaced by islands? Maybe one of the empires launched some kind of super-nuke at a continent and completely devastated it or something.

SkullOmania · 2004-06-17, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by SquirrelMan

Well, what I am wondering is what the story for the new battle continents is, in "fluff" terms. I mean, how come all of a sudden one (or more) of the continents is gone and is replaced by islands? Maybe one of the empires launched some kind of super-nuke at a continent and completely devastated it or something.

In the last ATD's they said that there will be an in-game event to herald the arrival of the new cluster, so I assume something suitably catastrophic will occur.