[Dead] The Beginning of the End (6)

Hello EF community!

In this topic I will present you my first attempt to create a map for Eastern Front. Its name is only a placeholder until now, it may be changed during production. In contrast to my first (released) MP map, it will be rather symmetric, fair and balanced.
If you ask me for progress, I can tell you I just did around five percent so far, but with this thread I raise the pressure to finish it.
Enough words for now, here are some screens that will be updated from time to time:

Map overview (ignore the words if you ain't German :P)


An abbey in the maps North (look for the word "Kloster" on the map overview):


Stay tuned! :D

Last edited June 20, 2011 at 7:26 PM by MaxiKing6

Nice paint map ;)

Looks like a good layout so far.

I always do paint maps before starting of with WB. Sometimes I also use paper and pencil to draw sort of an overview.
I do this simply for the reason that I have a concrete plan about what to do.
While proceeding in doing this map, I will make kind of a hybrid with the tactical map created by WB and drawings using Photoshop. :)

QuoteMap overview (ignore the words if you ain't German :P)

I'm not german but i don't ignore this. :P

Anyway nice concept. I hope that you will not have crash WB like cephalos had it :(.

This WB crashes are sooo fxcking annoying. Let's hope Maxi got working WB.

Cranialwizard wrote:
Nice paint map ;)

+1, good concept map ( I draw them with pencil) is very important.

Go Maxi, go!

Thank you, Cranialwizard, Dzierzan and ceph.

cephalos wrote:
This WB crashes are sooo fxcking annoying. Let's hope Maxi got working WB.

My WB is always working, unless I place an object that WB doesn't like (some of the VisOnly sometimes cause problems).

Yesterday evening, after I was home again, I worked on the graveyard ("Friedhof") next to the abbey. It will look very pretty I think :)
My plans also include a ruin of a castle on one of the bigger hills, I think the right one (with the purple point on it) will be the one.

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Go Maxi, go!

:D

That looks like a real hostile environment. I hope the troops have gasmasks or something.

...Say, this map wouldn't happen to be set in Australia, would it? :D

pariah wrote:
...Say, this map wouldn't happen to be set in Australia, would it? :D

Indeed, it is! During the battle, your last strong point, the Ayers Rock, is your last defensive point that you have to defend against swarms of Romanian troops (yes, Romania has invaded in Melbourne because it bet the Reich and all its allies and enemies).

Seriously, there will be two versions. One for this mod and another one, more Nomandy-like, for the Westfront Mod. The EF map will have more free area, darker forests, fewer houses and will have an other atmosphere setting.
I thought about setting it in the Carpathian Mountains, because it has four hills.

Two new screens of my work of today on the eastern hill:

Looks great, dude. You quite absolutely sure this isn't Australia? It totally looks like it!

Haha, since when are there medieval castles in Australia?  :D
I haven't that much time atm, so this map can take its time (I hope I can complete it in summer holidays).

Last edited May 16, 2011 at 3:46 PM by MaxiKing6

I forget what the place was called, but i went there when i was little. Saw the ruined castles and cannons and everything. Your screenshots remind me of it.

Schaut vielversprechend aus. I'm looking forward to play your map.

That reminds me Chateau Colombieres.

Looks nice but I think that this symmetric map layout ruins the map. It looks like you just putted a mirror on it :P.

Symmetry is important for gameplay. I recognised this when I released my last map, lots of people had been whining about unfair starting pos. (I think you can read trough the topic @HQ-CoH.. :P), that's why I did this in the way it is.
Furthermore, this was just a concept. I did another concept drawing in the meantime, but I was to lazy to upload it and didn't think of it. The concept you can see above comes from the early days, so it won't look that why when it's done (that can take a lot of time..).

QuoteI recognised this when I released my last map, lots of people had been whining about unfair starting pos.

That's what a good map should be like. I should look different at all places but still be balanced.

This project is dead, instead I have a new one for you, just for EF and realizeable. I may recover this thread in the future if I decide to continue work on the map, however, that's rather unrealistic.