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Old 2012-06-07, 03:52 PM   [Ignore Me] #1
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Scale of Map compared


EDIT: To make it clear for people coming to this thread... I believe PS2 has larger maps, bigger scale, and thus BETTER... I am not saying otherwise.

I did this just cause... Indar's map from stream last night with Oshur 4km square pic found elsewhere on forum.

I sized it so the road sizes were the same - incidently, the Gates were the same size too... which means roughly, same scale unless both roads and gates were dropped together at the same %!

So... Indar is larger than old Oshur map, physical wise.


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Old 2012-06-07, 03:55 PM   [Ignore Me] #2
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It's a rough and dirty comparison, but it sounds about right. Basically, the maps are huge. That's all we really have to know. The maps are huge.
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Old 2012-06-07, 03:59 PM   [Ignore Me] #3
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Previously I estimated my own comparison. It may be off, but I did my best.

I based mine on the size I know facilities were in PS1, vs how large I know they are from the PS2 footage. From what I can tell, the AMP Station in PS2 is about 4x the size of the AMP Station in PS1, approximately. So I this is roughly based on that. You can see a PS1 AMP station and a PS2 AMP station pretty close to each other on the middle rightmost portion of the image.

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Old 2012-06-07, 03:59 PM   [Ignore Me] #4
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I would describe PS2's maps as smaller, but much more detailed than PS1's.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:02 PM   [Ignore Me] #5
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Originally Posted by Eyeklops View Post
I would describe PS2's maps as smaller, but much more detailed than PS1's.
As an artist, I would say the maps are same size or larger... they look smaller because the buildings are much larger now. Even the towers are huge compared to the old ones.
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Click here to go to the next VIP post in this thread.   Old 2012-06-07, 04:06 PM   [Ignore Me] #6
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I'm still not impressed with the size of the maps. The AMP station we see is big yes, but it also take sup a significant chunk of the playable part of Indar and only takes a few seconds to fly across the map.

So yeah it's huge compared to a normal FPS map, but it still feels like the indar Amp station is roughly 1/5 of the map, which makes it feel small. It's clearly one of the larger bases, as the bio labs look much smaller area-wise.

From that it feels practically the same size as Old Oshur.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:09 PM   [Ignore Me] #7
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So yeah it's huge compared to a normal FPS map, but it still feels like the indar Amp station is roughly 1/5 of the map, which makes it feel small. It's clearly one of the larger bases, as the bio labs look much smaller area-wise.

From that it feels practically the same size as Old Oshur.
Whoa. It is waayyyyy less than 20% of the map.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:12 PM   [Ignore Me] #8
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Surely the key is travel time? How long does it take an aircraft/tank to go East-West and North South?

The new continent is larger but the mossie (as an example) is also faster.
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Click here to go to the next VIP post in this thread.   Old 2012-06-07, 04:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #9
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Not really, the demo area is actually quite big. The bio lab next to it is much smaller. and that amp station's surrounding area in the demo is a good chunk of bottom-right part of the map.

If you look strictly at the central facility itself, yeah that' snot big, but the facility is sprawled out and takes up a lot of land.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:14 PM   [Ignore Me] #10
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Whoa. It is waayyyyy less than 20% of the map.


This was where they were fighting yesterday if I recall correctly....so yeah WAY less than 20%
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:17 PM   [Ignore Me] #11
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Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:22 PM   [Ignore Me] #12
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Originally Posted by Eyeklops View Post
Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.
I didn't mean to make this thread to bring doubt to that. I was simply putting a visual comparison up...sorry if it came across that way.
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Old 2012-06-07, 04:23 PM   [Ignore Me] #13
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As has been mentioned, its pretty hard to compare given the scale difference, move-speed difference etc etc
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Click here to go to the next VIP post in this thread.   Old 2012-06-07, 04:23 PM   [Ignore Me] #14
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Originally Posted by Eyeklops View Post
Why is this so difficult? They told us the new maps are build on an 8km X 8km area. So all we need to do is figure out how big one sector is in PS1 and scale it. I agree with prior popular opinion that Indar is about the same size as the PS1 home conts (Amerish, Ceryshen..etc), and smaller than Cyssor.
PS did have a range indicator, so it seems reasonable for anyone willing to do the measurements could stand at sector positions and use the in-game rangefinder to determine exact distances of the edges and scale it out to do a continent comparison.
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PS did have a range indicator, so it seems reasonable for anyone willing to do the measurements could stand at sector positions and use the in-game rangefinder to determine exact distances of the edges and scale it out to do a continent comparison.
Except, the range indicator in Planetside 1 was highly suspect, IMO. Either that, or Auraxian-bred humans are like 3 meters tall.

What you really need to do is kill a couple dozen people in a big line head to foot, and then use the range indicator between two guys at either end of the line to calibrate, first.
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