urban battles?

[lordfadooboo]

i know its probably pretty out there as it would mean a whole new set of environmental models and such. just kinda feels like these planets were fighting on should look more... lived in.

is there any potential for this?

[Moodyman90]

In theory if we ever get pushed back to Super Earth itself then we'll have more urban environments to fight in. Haven't dug too into them but apparently some people have seen "Super Earth maps".

I wouldn't mind fighting in actual towns and the like the closer to Super Earth we get to.

[Pandas_of_doom]

I agree it feels like most of the planets that we "liberate" from the enemies are more or less just random space shacks and the occasional SEAF makeshift base.

be nice to have some urban areas especially on a few of them or maybe more densely colonized small town sections

[Salty Slothy]

I want to pavlov house some bots. PLEASE

[CloversDrop]

You fought in towns/cities on super earth in HD1, so I'd think it's the same here.

[Mitzuriki]

Stalingrad tier planet...

[Danyaell]

HD1 had this on some defence missions. It was cool.

+1

[Titan Exodos]

Originally posted by Pandas_of_doom:

I agree it feels like most of the planets that we "liberate" from the enemies are more or less just random space shacks and the occasional SEAF makeshift base.

be nice to have some urban areas especially on a few of them or maybe more densely colonized small town sections

exactly, could realistically add road ways, bigger farms with like actual fields, human factory industrial zones, gas stations, etc. i mean it doesn't have to be all of that but some semblance of society beyond some sparse buildings would be nice.

[SushiJaguar]

Ah yes, fringe colonies. Famous for being covered from pole to pole with sprawling cities and highly-developed infrastructure. Why, I can still remember seeing Tatooine for the first time and marvelling at how they had turned the entire planet into a single megacity.

[MrLuckless]

Originally posted by SushiJaguar:

Ah yes, fringe colonies. Famous for being covered from pole to pole with sprawling cities and highly-developed infrastructure. Why, I can still remember seeing Tatooine for the first time and marvelling at how they had turned the entire planet into a single megacity.

Cyberstan is presumably a massive mining and industrial hub. The perfect place for block to block fighting against the bot menace. Or deep underground cavern fighting against the bugs.

[Fannidan13]

Urban maps are usually pretty resource heavy. I wouldn't expect a whole planet like that, but I could see a particular mission set up in an urban environment. Sort of how the TCS missions had their own maps. The buildings would need to be more static than the prefabs we run into all over the system though. Not even worth modeling if I level the 19 floor building by landing on it.

[Inflated_chair]

maybe if they start getting closer to super earth right now they are just doing the outer rim

[Naru]

I would hope Cyberstan if/when we push into that planet is super unique with a lot of urban buildings, as well as Super Earth. The shorter duration defense, evac, eradication missions could definitely do with more map layout variety, since rather than being procedurally generated those are the same exact layout, and would be a good place to implement more urban environments that are hand-designed.

The new defense missions just added are a good step in that direction, and I'm eager to see more.

[Z_Money925]

The urban missions are hella fun. I remember soloing them in HD1 and it being high tense with the bugs popping out of random spots. I was hoping that the defense evac mission in HD2 were going to be that; and to be honest they would be better then what he have for defense evac missions.

[Varien]

Cyberstan must be a urban battlefield

[Alex]

Originally posted by Varien:

Cyberstan must be a urban battlefield

It is. the Devs confirmed it today that it's a urban battlefield.