COH: Europe In Ruins

Quick sneak peak of my new project im starting, 6p_Omaha Beach; a few screens:

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All bunkers will have low health so put units in at your own risk, will only take a couple of shots from at guns to k.o them.

needs more trollface.

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No shotblockers. Everyone will QQ about 88s in this map. Tank Traps might as well give a lot of pathing problems for majority of the vehicles...

tank traps will only be on the left, so thats an inf zone, they arent 88's- its a coastal gun battery, just shoots throughout the map like on the mission cherbourg. and the roof is accesible on the coastal gun battery

I love it that you use this costal gun battery! Always thought it would give the map immense flavor!
it makes the map dynamic even if it doesnt effect the battle at hand.

I've always wanted a decent omaha beach map :D

Like, ever since playing Medal of Honour when you storm the beach, I've thought it would be awesome to have a multiplayer rts version of it :D

This will be a good starting map for the next campaign for the allied landing.

+1

We should get all the mappers to mobilize to do campaign maps.

that would be sooooooooo fucking awesome!
Special maps for special rounds...!!!

first someones gotta get down a list of the sectors they want to do then mappers can try and see if they can make 'em.

only issue I see with this being a campaign map is that it's being assaulted side ways instead of from the beach, so it's not really a beach landing, it's more like they're fighting to regain Omaha beach.

i didnt consider the campaign when i started making it, if you wanted it specifically for the campaign i can alter it now to make it so its a beach landing. if a mod could add a poll then i guess we can see if people want it side on or a full frontal beach assault, before i carry on.

I say side assault. makes balance easier.No need to worry about who has terrain imbalances for scatter shots hitting dirt and not units.

I agree with the balancing, but then it isn't very representative of an invasion :(

meh doesn't really have to be an invasion scenario, you assume the allies already took the bench and the axis are trying to take it back, didn't this really happen?

No, the allies were off the beachheads when the axis counter-attack started.

I hate tym's sig. That guy is really annoying.

who? the poor guy who runs into the door or the guy whos hogging the camera  :D

but anyway the map looks nice but its gotta have some balance ::)

The camera-hog guy. I just want to punch his face every time I see him.

That sig shows a dude, who is imitating this guy from the Dutch version of Jersey Shore basically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KRlbfuolcE

This is a more pro imitation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXf2YNmp94Q

I can imagine its only funny for us who know what it is and know the language, but if you dont know now you know.

I don't care what he's trying to be. I just want to throw bricks at him whenever I catch a glance of that sig.

Regarding the map:

It looks kinda cool but we'll all have to play it before we know for certain whether or not it's going to be imbalanced or an "88" map.

TBH, if they make the allies storming the beach, making this map a little 88 oriented is acceptable imho

lol myst im getting annoyed with him as well, i've been trying to find a new sig.

there is that better?

You wont need tanks....Mortar smoke + infantry is good enough

I would save mortar as 88 can snipe the gun, officer smoke and couple rifles would do it fine for me

If you think this map is unbalanced.(It was meant to be in real-life)
Make it a 3v2, 4v3, 2v1...
Less axis.

lmao.

Integrating a collapsable trench system:

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but once the sandbags break it looks like shit?

not if i put sandbag splats underneath them, will just look crushed.

p.s: sry for trying to be innovative and not spamming farms everywhere.

there are special undestroyable objects that can be used for trenches

here is the tut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWg-D2NayLw

i know how to make a trench, im not retarded, its for a uniqe type of gameplay that instead of green cover spam people can determine what kind of cover is where. if it gets destroyed it gets reduced to light cover. its something alternative.

Nobody wants new gameplay, now go make a fuckin farm with 2 roads and some scattered buildings and hedges.

LOL ampm.  Sad but true.

I like this alot.

Never liked the static sandbag trenches that fuck up tank pathing. (the kind on vengence)

Keep it up keeps, lookin very good!

yeah, huge random height differences are much better for pathing.
note that the tank thinks he can actually crush the sandbag and race trough. but once its crushed he find a big hole in the ground and goes WTTFF??

that screenie that keeps put up, looks literally like sandbags lining a wooden floor spline, kinda sunken into the ground. I dont see how that would effect tank pathing at all.

have you ever drove over a crater?

Mod edit: no need for the flaming

Let's get back on topic and stop nitpicking about a freaking trench, shall we?
If it turns out to be problematic I'm sure it can be resolved in an update later.

it creates an issue because the tank does not "know" there are height differences there. it thinks it can crush the sandbags so it will try to drive straight trough. when its on top of the sandbags and it notices the height difference, tank gets stuck and people go rage. the same thing happens when you crush hedges(as u can notice in schijndel, bottom of the town) or walls (as u can notice in red ball express)

without sandbags the height difference is still an issue btw, you can see the edge is not really smooth from the picture.

I said stop nitpicking for now.

If he smoothes out the height difference it should be fine. He just needs to use the pathfinding tool to make sure the units can cross it without issues.

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right, so do you guys think i should make the bit highlighted a shingle rather than a cliff face? it will give a wider opening for the southern players to flank the middle as the middle is naturally leaning towards a northern favoured defensive position, with this opening the southern players have alot more room to move and attack from the side of what would be a heavily fortified position, and the southern cliff face means they wont be as subjected to being over run from a flank due to only having a few openings, it should make for a very different kind of playstyle i feel.

Flat area! 88 ftw!