Feeling the bullets fly by your ears while you look for cover
How will you do this map-side?
The best would be by making cover on the beach exacly so it gives complete cover yet is very precise, so feeling "safe" yet with tension =) Maybe something good to do would be also reduce accuracy a little for the German MGs, they might be too effective and end up in Germans shooting very short salvas (which would mean no bullets flying by ears) =)
Making players feel like if they were there (as much as possible)
What components do you have to make them feel this?
This would be graphics and statics, overall look. It might be the hardest part to achive... But since the original map did that, its not impossible! =)
Intensive combat
Where is your benchmark for player acceptance?
What you mean? I didint understand this one sorry =)
Uneven (Yet even by victory points)
What do you mean by "uneven"?
Well, if i remember correctly (checked also some old screens), most of the times Axis get more kills, however that doesint mean they win the map, which is balanced by victory points =) And if Axis play really good, it was veeery hard to win. I mean, if Allies play very good and Axis play very good, then Axis got advantage =)
More Blooody
Pained fake blood on the beaches?
Yes, together with some dead models =) Maybe even animated, screaming for help or just pain in one of craters without a leg (Like in that movie Saving Ryan no?) =) Depends on how it will look in the end i guess, goals are not allways achived!
I am open for suggestions =)
Release a test map to the public with distances and covers, see if it works... if you start building a map without knowing if your scale is OK, you risk having to rebuild the entire map later....
good luck!
Yes, thats exacly my plan and also my worry. The map in current stage is very simple, last flag is not done at all aswell terrain beyond the bunker flags is not completed. All in all, every element is to be looked on for now, version 0.1 will be avalible for download today i think, together with small server if i manage
Then i will know where to go next.
Ah, and Natty, who made the original map?
Just curious who to thank for that great map
