Terrain Discussion: Verticality
One thing that’s been brought up often, but especially something I’ve pondered recently is verticality and how it varies in the 3 games. If you go back to something like Wolfenstein 3D, that game ha...
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@TheSprinter85 Chomp town is a good example of this.
The high ground isn't amazing and many buildings have stairs near the back or conveniently placed vans to punish unaware players trying to abuse the advantage but many of them also have walls or slopes to protect you from long range harrasment yet the stairways I mentioned earlier make it great for flanking and as the name would imply most matches have a ton of chompers they are able to move very efficiently on this map.
Even in ops the pots can be placed on top of buildings which allows them to bottleneck the streets and browncoats are forced to deviate from the main path to eliminate them as they are generaly protected from ranged retaliation but much the weakness is that rooftop plants are alone and generally unprotected if they get swarmed.
The high ground isn't amazing and many buildings have stairs near the back or conveniently placed vans to punish unaware players trying to abuse the advantage but many of them also have walls or slopes to protect you from long range harrasment yet the stairways I mentioned earlier make it great for flanking and as the name would imply most matches have a ton of chompers they are able to move very efficiently on this map.
Even in ops the pots can be placed on top of buildings which allows them to bottleneck the streets and browncoats are forced to deviate from the main path to eliminate them as they are generaly protected from ranged retaliation but much the weakness is that rooftop plants are alone and generally unprotected if they get swarmed.
@stukapookaIs that map in GW? I haven't actually seen this map but I will check it out in a video or something. Sounds like an excellent example of the verticality that is present in the shooters and how it can be used effectively on this map.
- @TheSprinter85 Yeah it was the map that launched with gnome bomb in gw1. A small town with multiple small buisnesses, a gas station, and a statue of crazy dave riding a chomper while holding a flower. A lot of nice details like signs on restauramts saying plants eat free and a small tomb marker in the corner of the map where the zombies spawn in.
The buisnesses aren't that high while gas station and statue are but provide a lot of cover while having backdoors for classes like chomper to use. It's not gw1's best map but it's still up there. Chomp Town is a great map from the original GW. It has a lot of routes to get around, a decent amount of accessible high ground, and excellent cover. It's a map that really needs to come back.
- @Iron_Guard8 The fact that more gw1 maps didn't get directly ported to 2 hurts my soul everyday. I'd be fine with a redesign like aqua center but i would love to have it look like it did originally.
@stukapooka I get why they changed Garden Center for GW2 and love the zombified Aqua Center, but I would also love to have the original look back as well, even if the maps end up laid out the same but just have different visuals, although having other differences would be better of course.
I know that Daisy Drive in BfN is a kind of homage to Suburban Flats from GW, and it's one of BfN's better small maps, but I do love the original and had some great matches and Ops there, so again want to see those old maps back, with any needed changes for larger characters and balancing as needed.
