This is probably one of the goofier suggestions on this forum, but I'd really like to suggest an optional High-res texture pack for those of us that could run it!

I'm going to glaze over the massive list of cons to this suggestion, in some round about way to show understanding of how pointless this suggestion is. In the end though, I hope to spark some discussion about  it.

When you get down to it, there is nothing wrong with the current texture sizes. However, in a mod dominated by vehicles with first person views, I can't help but long for a high-res vehicle texture pack to be released. I'm not sure what the median range of rigs that the FH2 community uses, but I can say with some certainty that an optional pack with doubled texture sizes would have little to no effect on the performance of newer systems.

However, there are several roadblocks: one is original texture availability and ease of access. Let's start at texture creation--are the textures found in the release version of the game even resized from higher-res versions? One would assume so, seeing as how FH2 adheres to general content creation standards. If not, well then this post has no meaning--making new high-res textures is a blatant waste of time.

Okay, now that we assume that the textures are originally downresed from the higher-res textures, we run into our next problem: can we still get most of the original textures? I can for see too major organizational issues that would arise at this point. The first issue is contact with the various artists: can you still get these original textures? Artists come and go as time goes on, so that's up in the air. The second issue is texture size in relation to file size--there is a lot of data to be moved around! Everyone knows textures are massive, so a pack with high res versions would probably end up being gigantic--I'd say around the same size as the mod itself. Again, both of these obstacles would require a good bit of time to overcome. At this point, I cannot present the perspective of the 'content assembler', so it's up to the devs to determine if such a pack is worth their time.

Now, the outcome is simple: everything looks nicer! I don't think community would mind being able to enjoy the artists' work as it was created--not to mention a simple quality increase for those who can enjoy it.

In the end, though, it really comes down to how many people are interested in a high-res texture pack, and if the devs see this as a justified endeavor.

Anyway, I'm really interested to what both sides think.

I'm not sure if this would be the correct forum to ask such a question, but does anyone have heatmaps covering deaths and movement in the current Forgotten Hope 2 maps? I'm doing an analytical piece going over the mapflow and overall design of the maps. I am really lacking in information concerning how casual strategies developed since release, and how the maps are actually played contrasted with what the play style that was projected in development.

Anyway, if anyone has these, I'd really appreciate if I can 'borrow' them. (I hope this is the first thread concerning this, I couldn't find anything using search...)