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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 6:34am
More Maps needed ... MUCH more maps!
The variety of maps or better the non existence variety of maps in this game really kills it for me. The building of trenches/trenchsystems is a very big part of this game and I really like this concept, that they grow over time and are getting more complex. But when you have just a few different maps for the battles, then you just use the same pattern of trenches over and over again and that just kills it for me. The immersion and the gameplay experience are suffering so hard because of that ...
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Markus1987 Mar 31, 2023 @ 6:44am 
Sorr, but it was almost always the same battlefield except for added trenches and funnels

Different maps of a region you have but who you would attack from different directions
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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 6:47am 
Originally posted by Markus1987:
Sorr, but it was almost always the same battlefield except for added trenches and funnels

Different maps of a region you have but who you would attack from different directions

I am sorry, but I really don't understand, what you want to tell me here.
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Art Mar 31, 2023 @ 7:09am 
Originally posted by Einherjer:
Originally posted by Markus1987:
Sorr, but it was almost always the same battlefield except for added trenches and funnels

Different maps of a region you have but who you would attack from different directions

I am sorry, but I really don't understand, what you want to tell me here.
They are saying that WW1 Western front looked pretty much the same any area you went to, a bombed out muddy wasteland. So the variety of maps is not a huge issue as it's slightly realistic.
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Vicxent Mar 31, 2023 @ 7:20am 
It is kinda weird though, like "I have fought here before why is there no trench here moment" I do wish each region has their own, i.e. Verdun-Thionville should be unique from other maps. But it feels like there's 6 maps all in all.
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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 8:29am 
Originally posted by Art:
Originally posted by Einherjer:

I am sorry, but I really don't understand, what you want to tell me here.
They are saying that WW1 Western front looked pretty much the same any area you went to, a bombed out muddy wasteland. So the variety of maps is not a huge issue as it's slightly realistic.

Not at all. Hills, little villages, forests absolutely would give so much variety. French is not just a flat country with always one hill with windmill on the left and windmill on the right with little forest .... And the wasteland is developing slowly time after time. 1914 there is no wasteland. This argument is, I am sorry, bs.
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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 8:30am 
Originally posted by Vicxent:
It is kinda weird though, like "I have fought here before why is there no trench here moment" I do wish each region has their own, i.e. Verdun-Thionville should be unique from other maps. But it feels like there's 6 maps all in all.

My words.
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Art Mar 31, 2023 @ 9:01am 
Originally posted by Einherjer:
Originally posted by Art:
They are saying that WW1 Western front looked pretty much the same any area you went to, a bombed out muddy wasteland. So the variety of maps is not a huge issue as it's slightly realistic.

Not at all. Hills, little villages, forests absolutely would give so much variety. French is not just a flat country with always one hill with windmill on the left and windmill on the right with little forest .... And the wasteland is developing slowly time after time. 1914 there is no wasteland. This argument is, I am sorry, bs.
You ever been to the frontlines in France? It's exactly how you described, flat lands with a few hills and the odd house.
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Yuithgf Mar 31, 2023 @ 9:05am 
One thing i'll say, is that irl you had forts in many more locations than verdun, and the occasional city/village which were more than props and changed how warfare works, even if they were largely ruins.

And of course height differences in terrain mattered.
Last edited by Yuithgf; Mar 31, 2023 @ 9:05am
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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 9:47am 
Originally posted by Art:
Originally posted by Einherjer:

Not at all. Hills, little villages, forests absolutely would give so much variety. French is not just a flat country with always one hill with windmill on the left and windmill on the right with little forest .... And the wasteland is developing slowly time after time. 1914 there is no wasteland. This argument is, I am sorry, bs.
You ever been to the frontlines in France? It's exactly how you described, flat lands with a few hills and the odd house.

Yeah well it seems, that for you it's enough strategical depth to build your trenches in just a few maps always in the same layout over and over again. Good for you.
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Einherjer Mar 31, 2023 @ 10:04am 
Originally posted by Yuithgf:
One thing i'll say, is that irl you had forts in many more locations than verdun, and the occasional city/village which were more than props and changed how warfare works, even if they were largely ruins.

And of course height differences in terrain mattered.

Yeah exactly and it's absolutely boring to play the same map over and over.
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ShadowBastard69 Mar 31, 2023 @ 10:04am 
+1 for more maps.
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ShadowBastard69 Mar 31, 2023 @ 10:05am 
also a map editor so we can make our own maps would be cool.
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Art Mar 31, 2023 @ 10:41am 
Originally posted by Einherjer:
Originally posted by Art:
You ever been to the frontlines in France? It's exactly how you described, flat lands with a few hills and the odd house.

Yeah well it seems, that for you it's enough strategical depth to build your trenches in just a few maps always in the same layout over and over again. Good for you.
Well considering I don't own the game I don't think so
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Ice On The Rocks Apr 24, 2023 @ 7:59am 
Not sure why someone who doesn't even own the game feels the need to argue against this point. I don't think anyone is saying that hex's should share ABSOLUTELY NO similarities. Sure, Western France may be mostly "flat lands with a few hills and the odd house" but if you go a few miles to the north or south, you're not going to find the EXACT SAME flat lands with the EXACT SAME hills and the EXACT SAME house. That is ABSOLUTELY immersion breaking and (as someone else said) boring.

+1 for more maps!
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Markus1987 Apr 25, 2023 @ 8:55pm 
Originally posted by Ice On The Rocks:
Not sure why someone who doesn't even own the game feels the need to argue against this point. I don't think anyone is saying that hex's should share ABSOLUTELY NO similarities. Sure, Western France may be mostly "flat lands with a few hills and the odd house" but if you go a few miles to the north or south, you're not going to find the EXACT SAME flat lands with the EXACT SAME hills and the EXACT SAME house. That is ABSOLUTELY immersion breaking and (as someone else said) boring.

+1 for more maps!
The game depicts the OPPOSITION WAR, there were sometimes sections where you had seen the same area for MONTHS, this is depicted very well.

Also, the battlefields are constantly changing, haven't you noticed that yet? Mostly with the seasons
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