I remember a space station map that had different biomes and was huge! What happened to it? The current rotation of maps feels very similar and generic. LV is distinct. Solar ridge, a classic and distinct. The snow one, great but it’s only partially snowy. The rest feel too similar. I would have thought map making would be less arduous compared to sprite work, and I understand balancing must be hard, along with all the new multi tier stuff, but why don’t we have a slew.of unique, excellent maps.
Aside, massive props to whoever made the new queen sprite, but I prefer the old one.
I forget. But IIRC it was mostly lag and layout. And presumably no one took up addressing either or both.
I think the Tram thing on that map also broke a bunch and no one fixed it? Or maybe I’m just imagining things and it never worked to begin with.
Mapping with balance considerations for a population of anywhere from 50 - 200 is hard apparently. But feel free to try. It’s also a bunch of work. And we only have Two Maptainers. One of which relatively recently ascended.
New queen sprite looks awesome, but the rest of the xenos look weird with it now I think.
EDIT: Also an LV re-workening is in the works coming Soon™
New LV test has been an alright test so far.
You can see how it plays on the twitch vod (shameless promotion)
Unfortunately The map you’re talking about Corsat is perpetually SoonTM due to performance at high pop.
Maybe give #mapping a try
Thank you! Took 6 months of on and off work. It was based on an old, abandoned queen resprite that had several people picking up and dropping it. I just carried it over the finish line.
Here’s the old sprite set I had to work with and eventually turn into the queen we use today.
Coders, Mappers, and some players really hated CORSAT.
The map has a few problems due to being reliant on defunct code, which got it removed.
Early on the complaint at first was certain gates wouldn’t open due to old code so it must be removed, but nobody gave a shit
Then it was about the map being laggy and drove that complaint to the moon.
It is laggier than most maps, but Sorokyne and Hybrisa outrank it easily. Certain gates don’t work, I think the train system didn’t work anymore either.
Im doubtful even if the problems were fixed it would be readded from how vehemently they hated it.
Corsat. It was a great map. Had a few issues with being hard to know where you were/should go (new tacmap would help huge with that) and also the xeno starting area wasn’t very defensible.
Regardless, still a good map and much more fun to play than shivas snowball
