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Firerizer Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:35 pm Posts: 1318	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance I kind of like the idea of a tunnel from the door/room area of the flagstand tower. A straight drop down, then angled to the Gen room. I would slightly widen the whole of the flag tower, room and exterior decking. A brave capper could grab and drop into the gens, or a defending Heavy (example) could lob a Mortar down the shaft from the outside.
Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:57 pm

nomadchaser Joined: Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:24 am Posts: 396	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance The new entrance just shows how extremely poorly suited the front entrance is for T:A. In a game of mirvs and fractals, a tiny crack into a straight vertical drop like that is pure suicide.
Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:37 pm

LaunchPad Joined: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:31 am Posts: 13	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance I doubt any developer ever sees this post, but the recent addition of a rear entrance to the Rainance map is a disaster. Hi-Rez took a perfectly good and personal favorite legacy map and adulterated it from top to bottom. I've been a Tribes player for 14 years and this is unacceptable. I used to look forward to other legacy maps like Scarabre and Broadside, but not anymore. It appears that Stonehenge has remained unaltered, but I wonder how long that will last. Thanks for the romp down memory lane, but Tribes: Ascend has decayed into a modern day failure for us Tribes vets.
Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:42 am

Andur Beta Tester Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 7:35 pm Posts: 5835 Location: Spain	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance You're aware that Ascend is a different game with different mechanics, right? Straight up ports might not always work. Ascend has weak shields and strong HP regen, that's why it was the previous incarnation that was unacceptable. Yeah, new entrance should be a short tunnel/arch. It CAN be defended with two forcefields and light turrets, however, so it's still an improvement. Easy fix: make that entrance a short upslope, so you can't launch MIRVs from the back of the map.
Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:25 am

SxxyKate Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:23 am Posts: 1614 Location: California	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance Raindance finally fixed after over a decade _________________ SexyKate's Youtube Channel Clicky! Dueling Theory 101 : a beginner's guide to dueling in T:A
Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:49 am

LaunchPad Joined: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:31 am Posts: 13	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance SxxyKate wrote: Raindance finally fixed after over a decade uh....nope.
Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:34 am

MegaComrade Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:12 pm Posts: 1	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance LaunchPad wrote: I doubt any developer ever sees this post, but the recent addition of a rear entrance to the Rainance map is a disaster. Hi-Rez took a perfectly good and personal favorite legacy map and adulterated it from top to bottom. I've been a Tribes player for 14 years and this is unacceptable. I used to look forward to other legacy maps like Scarabre and Broadside, but not anymore. It appears that Stonehenge has remained unaltered, but I wonder how long that will last. Thanks for the romp down memory lane, but Tribes: Ascend has decayed into a modern day failure for us Tribes vets. Us Tribes Vets? Speak for yourself my friend. The change is only the first and will likely be tweaked more and in this case its for the better. I was sick of god d*** stand offs all the time with people hiding in the gen room with the lead, this fixes that.
Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:09 am

mousedisc Joined: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:38 am Posts: 531	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance Most reasonble scrims had to play "flags outside" on RD just because turtling was such an issue. People hated playing IceRidge for the exact same reason. I always wondered why the map designers didn't make the midfield tower entrances face away from each other in SnowBlind. That would've solved the mortar/spam issue that made so many people hate that map. _________________ ADD CONFIGURABLE CROSSHAIRS: + * . O RELEASE MAPPING TOOLS
Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:51 pm

InsertName Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:52 am Posts: 235	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance Show some integrity towards the IP and get Raindance back to the way it should be.
Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:27 am

Lesteriuse Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:39 pm Posts: 1730 Location: Zagreb, Croatia	Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance Yeah, those uncounterable turtles were so much fun, please take back this change. _________________ A thread on performance bottlenecks in the engine and what needs to be optimised My blueplate/mid-air nitron montage
Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:19 am

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Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

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Firerizer

Joined: Fri Oct 29, 2010 8:35 pm
Posts: 1318

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

I kind of like the idea of a tunnel from the door/room area of the flagstand tower.
A straight drop down, then angled to the Gen room.
I would slightly widen the whole of the flag tower, room and exterior decking.
A brave capper could grab and drop into the gens,
or a defending Heavy (example) could lob a Mortar down the shaft from the outside.

Sat Jun 23, 2012 3:57 pm

nomadchaser

Joined: Sun Nov 13, 2011 4:24 am
Posts: 396

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

The new entrance just shows how extremely poorly suited the front entrance is for T:A. In a game of mirvs and fractals, a tiny crack into a straight vertical drop like that is pure suicide.

Sat Jun 23, 2012 7:37 pm

LaunchPad

Joined: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:31 am
Posts: 13

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

I doubt any developer ever sees this post, but the recent addition of a rear entrance to the Rainance map is a disaster. Hi-Rez took a perfectly good and personal favorite legacy map and adulterated it from top to bottom. I've been a Tribes player for 14 years and this is unacceptable.

I used to look forward to other legacy maps like Scarabre and Broadside, but not anymore. It appears that Stonehenge has remained unaltered, but I wonder how long that will last. Thanks for the romp down memory lane, but Tribes: Ascend has decayed into a modern day failure for us Tribes vets.

Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:42 am

Andur

Beta Tester

Joined: Tue May 05, 2009 7:35 pm
Posts: 5835
Location: Spain

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

You're aware that Ascend is a different game with different mechanics, right? Straight up ports might not always work.

Ascend has weak shields and strong HP regen, that's why it was the previous incarnation that was unacceptable.

Yeah, new entrance should be a short tunnel/arch. It CAN be defended with two forcefields and light turrets, however, so it's still an improvement.

Easy fix: make that entrance a short upslope, so you can't launch MIRVs from the back of the map.

Mon Jun 25, 2012 2:25 am

SxxyKate

Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2011 3:23 am
Posts: 1614
Location: California

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

Raindance finally fixed after over a decade

_________________

SexyKate's Youtube Channel Clicky!
Dueling Theory 101 : a beginner's guide to dueling in T:A

Mon Jun 25, 2012 7:49 am

LaunchPad

Joined: Fri Jun 04, 2010 3:31 am
Posts: 13

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

SxxyKate wrote:

Raindance finally fixed after over a decade

uh....nope.

Tue Jun 26, 2012 2:34 am

MegaComrade

Joined: Tue Apr 10, 2012 2:12 pm
Posts: 1

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

LaunchPad wrote:

Us Tribes Vets? Speak for yourself my friend. The change is only the first and will likely be tweaked more and in this case its for the better. I was sick of god d*** stand offs all the time with people hiding in the gen room with the lead, this fixes that.

Tue Jun 26, 2012 7:09 am

mousedisc

Joined: Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:38 am
Posts: 531

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

Most reasonble scrims had to play "flags outside" on RD just because turtling was such an issue. People hated playing IceRidge for the exact same reason.

I always wondered why the map designers didn't make the midfield tower entrances face away from each other in SnowBlind. That would've solved the mortar/spam issue that made so many people hate that map.

_________________
ADD CONFIGURABLE CROSSHAIRS: + * . O
RELEASE MAPPING TOOLS

Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:51 pm

InsertName

Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 9:52 am
Posts: 235

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

Show some integrity towards the IP and get Raindance back to the way it should be.

Wed Jun 27, 2012 3:27 am

Lesteriuse

Joined: Mon Feb 20, 2012 4:39 pm
Posts: 1730
Location: Zagreb, Croatia

Re: Map Feedback - CTF Raindance

Yeah, those uncounterable turtles were so much fun, please take back this change.

_________________

A thread on performance bottlenecks in the engine and what needs to be optimised
My blueplate/mid-air nitron montage

Wed Jun 27, 2012 9:19 am