Scale of Map compared

[Krishtov]

EDIT: To make it clear for people coming to this thread... I believe PS2 has larger maps, bigger scale, and thus BETTER... I am not saying otherwise.

I did this just cause... Indar's map from stream last night with Oshur 4km square pic found elsewhere on forum.

I sized it so the road sizes were the same - incidently, the Gates were the same size too... which means roughly, same scale unless both roads and gates were dropped together at the same %!

So... Indar is larger than old Oshur map, physical wise.

[Raymac]

It's a rough and dirty comparison, but it sounds about right. Basically, the maps are huge. That's all we really have to know. The maps are huge.

[Xyntech]

Previously I estimated my own comparison. It may be off, but I did my best.

I based mine on the size I know facilities were in PS1, vs how large I know they are from the PS2 footage. From what I can tell, the AMP Station in PS2 is about 4x the size of the AMP Station in PS1, approximately. So I this is roughly based on that. You can see a PS1 AMP station and a PS2 AMP station pretty close to each other on the middle rightmost portion of the image.

[Eyeklops]

I would describe PS2's maps as smaller, but much more detailed than PS1's.

[Krishtov]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

I would describe PS2's maps as smaller, but much more detailed than PS1's.

As an artist, I would say the maps are same size or larger... they look smaller because the buildings are much larger now. Even the towers are huge compared to the old ones.

[Malorn]

I'm still not impressed with the size of the maps. The AMP station we see is big yes, but it also take sup a significant chunk of the playable part of Indar and only takes a few seconds to fly across the map.

So yeah it's huge compared to a normal FPS map, but it still feels like the indar Amp station is roughly 1/5 of the map, which makes it feel small. It's clearly one of the larger bases, as the bio labs look much smaller area-wise.

From that it feels practically the same size as Old Oshur.

[Raymac]

Originally Posted by Malorn

So yeah it's huge compared to a normal FPS map, but it still feels like the indar Amp station is roughly 1/5 of the map, which makes it feel small. It's clearly one of the larger bases, as the bio labs look much smaller area-wise.

From that it feels practically the same size as Old Oshur.

Whoa. It is waayyyyy less than 20% of the map.

[ringring]

Surely the key is travel time? How long does it take an aircraft/tank to go East-West and North South?

The new continent is larger but the mossie (as an example) is also faster.

[Malorn]

Not really, the demo area is actually quite big. The bio lab next to it is much smaller. and that amp station's surrounding area in the demo is a good chunk of bottom-right part of the map.

If you look strictly at the central facility itself, yeah that' snot big, but the facility is sprawled out and takes up a lot of land.

[Krishtov]

Originally Posted by Raymac

Whoa. It is waayyyyy less than 20% of the map.

This was where they were fighting yesterday if I recall correctly....so yeah WAY less than 20%

[Eyeklops]

Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.

[Krishtov]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.

I didn't mean to make this thread to bring doubt to that. I was simply putting a visual comparison up...sorry if it came across that way.

[Xaine]

As has been mentioned, its pretty hard to compare given the scale difference, move-speed difference etc etc

[Malorn]

Originally Posted by Eyeklops

Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.

PS did have a range indicator, so it seems reasonable for anyone willing to do the measurements could stand at sector positions and use the in-game rangefinder to determine exact distances of the edges and scale it out to do a continent comparison.

[kaffis]

Originally Posted by Malorn

PS did have a range indicator, so it seems reasonable for anyone willing to do the measurements could stand at sector positions and use the in-game rangefinder to determine exact distances of the edges and scale it out to do a continent comparison.

Except, the range indicator in Planetside 1 was highly suspect, IMO. Either that, or Auraxian-bred humans are like 3 meters tall.

What you really need to do is kill a couple dozen people in a big line head to foot, and then use the range indicator between two guys at either end of the line to calibrate, first.