How Many Actual Maps are in this Game?

[Frondator]

It seems like there is 1 map per planet but you just enter from different points based on the mission. And even then planets share maps, so Earth and Uranus have the same interior map except Uranus allows you under water. There are, what, 5 maps in this game? Someone give me a number. Great game but there is so much reused content everywhere. It's like I'm playing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again just for that left arm plate of exquisite distinction!

[Walrus-Sama]

They're called tilesets. It's kind of a core part of the game, to play on randomly genrated maps made up of repeating tiles. How did you not notice after the first 10 minutes?

[Me]

It's procedurally generated, so every map is unique. It's basically just tiles randomly put together when the mission is loaded.

The plains on earth is the exception, since this is always the same static map.

[Blue Five]

Levels are randomly generated.

[Frondator]

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

They're called tilesets. It's kind of a core part of the game, to play on randomly genrated maps made up of repeating tiles. How did you not notice after the first 10 minutes?

Ah okay. How many tilesets then? It definitely seems similar for vast swathes of each map, let's be honest.

[Pakaku]

Originally posted by Frondator:

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

They're called tilesets. It's kind of a core part of the game, to play on randomly genrated maps made up of repeating tiles. How did you not notice after the first 10 minutes?

Ah okay. How many tilesets then? It definitely seems similar for vast swathes of each map, let's be honest.

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Tile_Sets

Worth noting is some tilesets share similar tiles, like the Corpus Outpost tileset reusing tiles from the Corpus Ship set, but with some changes, like reinforced glass being unbreakable (and would not put the tile in lock-down) due to being inside a planet's atmosphere.

[Donitsi]

Jupiter maptiles are reworked and come soon. They are slowly giving us better maptiles and new ones.

[Warthain]

Originally posted by Frondator:

It seems like there is 1 map per planet but you just enter from different points based on the mission. And even then planets share maps, so Earth and Uranus have the same interior map except Uranus allows you under water. There are, what, 5 maps in this game? Someone give me a number. Great game but there is so much reused content everywhere. It's like I'm playing the same thing over and over and over and over and over again just for that left arm plate of exquisite distinction!

Obviously some tilesets are repeated, like grinneer ships and corpus ships... but all maps are randomly generated, so you never get the same experience twice, which works wonders in replayability, if maps were handmade, you would get far less variety and that yes would be extremely repetitive and boring... also some planets have different biomes
earth - jungle biome,
mars - desert ,
void - orokin tech biome,
derelict - infested orokin tech
jupiter - corpus station

and so on... every planet or almost every planet got its own unique tilesets, also jupiter is getting reworked into someting much more amazing looking... plains of eidolon is also exclusive to earth
and Fortuna will be a icy landscape to explore filled with corpus military and research facilities that you can enter and explore...

[GunsForBucks]

I would almost consider each tile its own map. There are plenty of single tiles in this game that are larger maps than a lot of games.. just look at Payday or Killing Floor for example.

Sure there are tile "sets" that need to have the same look to be put together randomly.. but if you look at each tile as its own map then the number of maps in the game is actually pretty huge.

An example of this is the Onslaught mode, the maps used are individual tiles but serve as whole maps... some too large even.

[Imperialgoofygoober]

Maps are legion