ORIGINAL: Rick
In one of the threads, you wrote that those that have PC:OWS will have 27 maps to choose from for generating random (or design your own) scenarios. I don't have PC:OWS. How many maps will come with PC:K?
He meant Kharkov - Winterstorm did not come with a random battle generator and it only had 11 maps, if I recall correctly.
1) in the area to the rigth of the narrative terrain description box, the top button used to be labled season, it looks different in the latest screen shot, is it still a season button?
Yes, that's still the season button. The green leaf you see there represents Spring.
2) in the controls at top of screen couple of buttong used to indicate direction of attack, then I saw them with info like Kessel cutoff, and envelop, and in latest screen the again look like attack direction, is it still attack direction then?
Yes indeed, but it's more appropriately the "setup" which can include both attack direction and special situations like a kessel.
This look random battle and random campaign generator looks pretty good to me, but I'm still a little concerned that the maps might get old after a while.
Because of the different "rotations" to the map depending on which side you're fighting to/from (and the kessel possibility) there's actually a lot of play value in the maps. I've fought over the same map several times from different directions and it felt pretty new each time. I think the included maps will do a pretty good job of providing variety and on the plus side, since they are design maps they are more interesting than the average randomly generated map.
With that said, our ultimate goal in a future release is indeed a random map generator and full map editor, but that will take quite a bit more time for this kind of map quality.
Regards,
- Erik
and Floating Paratroopers We grew up with Minor, Marginal and Decisive victories why rock the boat with Marginal, Decisive and Legendary?
