The Future is... yesterday?

[BTAxis]

The thing with oil rigs is that they're at sea. We don't have any missions out at sea, so it wouldn't make much sense to make a map like that (except for multiplayer, of course).

[Captain Bipto]

thats why I asked.

Would it be hard to code a mission at sea?

[BTAxis]

No, but we don't WANT missions at sea.

[Captain Bipto]

gotcha.

[coCoKNIght]

Why not? Doesn't have to be an UFO crashsite, only a normal alien activity mission. I can't see why such a mission can't be at the coast of the UK for instance...

[geever]

They were speaking about underwater missions, I think.

-geever

[coCoKNIght]

oil rigs are not underwater...

[BTAxis]

It's one thing to allow mision spawning at sea, it's another to make sure it's close to land. The extra complication isn't worth an occasional offshore map. Better to simply limit missions to land and be done with it.

[Captain Bipto]

one thing i'd like to do though would be more fully indoor missions (though I love the base missions where you can go outside!)

I am looking into arcologies, an alien terror squad crashing the opening ceremony for a new (the first?) arcology (sim city or shadowrun style) could be cool.

[BTAxis]

Personally, I'd like to see more open-area fights. As it stands, most maps favor close ranged or indirect fire weaponry because there's altogether too much cover around. I intend to one day finish a desert template that should go a long way to leveling the field.

[Captain Bipto]

An arcology map would combine both long and short range combat (nothing new to the maps really) and i think that would be cool. Would an arcology (indoor parks plus corridor combat) have a place in the game?

[BTAxis]

I don't see why not.

[vedrit]

What about shallow waters? I lost a UFO to the Great Salt Lake in Utah, USA, which, trust me, is not so deep as to prevent some sort of recovery. If the aliens drown, then the UFO can still be recovered (Im sure that it would still be sticking up out of the water, no matter how it entered)

And there were several older maps that gave long range weapons the advantage, like the dam map.
BTW: What happened to those maps?

[BTAxis]

We still have them.

[vedrit]

Why not use them? While, yes, they had their issues, they were good maps