Lattice - Esamir and Amerish on the PTS

[Wargrim]

Looking at those images, Amerish's lattice seems to make FAR more sense than the current Indar lattice, or the one on the Esamir screenshot. It shows that Amerish was designed with actual geographical features and lanes of movement for ground troops, unlike the white open waste of Esamir or the big square pizza with 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/2 topping regions that is Indar. Except for the canyon part, Indar is pretty much free roaming, as is Esamir everywhere. So any lattice on them will feel artificial, because it can not follow the geographic obstacles if there are none. I so hope we will get a continent with islands and real water and a lot of bridges one day, that works like the PS1 continents, and was designed with lattice in mind from the very start.

[Whiteagle]

Originally Posted by Wargrim

Looking at those images, Amerish's lattice seems to make FAR more sense than the current Indar lattice, or the one on the Esamir screenshot. It shows that Amerish was designed with actual geographical features and lanes of movement for ground troops, unlike the white open waste of Esamir or the big square pizza with 1/4 + 1/4 + 1/2 topping regions that is Indar. Except for the canyon part, Indar is pretty much free roaming, as is Esamir everywhere. So any lattice on them will feel artificial, because it can not follow the geographic obstacles if there are none. I so hope we will get a continent with islands and real water and a lot of bridges one day, that works like the PS1 continents, and was designed with lattice in mind from the very start.

...Or perhaps the Resource Overhall will introduce a Pipeline that visually represents why Base A and C are connected, but not Base D...

But yeah, Amerish will be even better now.

[Rivenshield]

Originally Posted by Gatekeeper

Satellite facilities linking only to their parent base is pretty crazy - it completely invalidates their previous role as footholds for both attackers and defenders to fight over and instead makes them purely defensive cul-de-sacs.

A *couple* of those could add serious spice to the mix. It'd turn any given base into freaking Iwo Jima, just by drawing a few lines on the map.

[Climhazzard]

Originally Posted by Dragonskin

I watched TwF's stream the other day and saw it happen to him. He didn't say anything about it so I thought it was just a bug with the Indar lattice showing on Esamir and Amerish.

Last night I had the bug and checked the maps switching back and forth. The lattice lanes are completely different for each map. So I guess it is kind of a preview of what is to come. Of course it is all subject to change.. but still cool to see.

Of course they're different. Each continent has a different number of bases and those bases are in different locations. Just follow the lattice links and you'll notice that they match the current hex adjacency. The same lattice structure for Esamir and Amerish was on the PTS before the Indar went Live, but they disabled them when the GU was released.

The bug on Live really is just the current hex adjacency in lattice link form. It's not "the future", it's the present.

[Qwan]

Awwww the first year of PS2 after release, its funny because two or three years from now im going to look back on the first year of planetside 2 and always have a picture in my head of a monkey trying to *&^% a greased football. I love this game.