Friedrich is back!
So, what I was working on the last days (in my spare time), I'll show you!
As most people know, all
my siege maps are now official through the new patch. But
FSE re-edited some, especially
Siege of Toulon and
Citadelle Napoleon completly different to
Naval Siege ones. Probably that are really nice ideas, but imo and knowing due live practise on
84e Siege Server these changes
didn't work well with the average siege setup. So that's why
I re-edited them again (because they're something like childs to me, and I need to care about my childs).
For the entry:
The biggest problems for attackers are, that they're 90% not able to reach the beaches/walls of the forts. The distance between the Frigates to the defender points are simply too long. Most boats get sunk by one cannon ball or the crew get easily anihilated by a ricochet shot.
Let's watch what I tried to fix:
First of all, I changed the possible landing places for invading boats. That reduces a lot the distance attackers need to cross with the their tiny boats. So they're not any more so long under the cannon's eyes.
Second, I changed the Frigates armamament to a standard: all of them have now 5 cannons (1 swievel gun, 4 naval guns) and a mortar.
On Citadelle Napoleon I changed also the place for one Frigate more close to the 2nd one. It seems, that spawn entry clusters/Frigates to far away from each other causes crashes and let most people spawn on 1 Frigate (the one with entry point 32). Additional, it's a unwritten rule not to place entry points of one team between the ones of the other team, what actual is fact on the maps contained in the patch. (2 other frigate props on the map are just cosmetic and have no effect on gameplay, as you can see here in the background)
On Siege of Toulon a lowered around the outer walls the terrain, to make it more easyer to hit them by attackers guns, but also to make it more realistic when you can't look as attacker what is happening inside the fort walls. This old feature is an heritage of old MM times, when I created the map. I was a newbe in mapping and couldn't put as much efforts in placing fancy looking walls as I now do. Additional I made some cosmetics here! FSE just placed some fort cannons pointing over the wall crown, I made some fancy artillery postions on the chemin de ronde.
Last but not least I did some cosmetics on the main gates of the forts, to let it look a bit more realistic.
Thanks for reading!
Comments are appreciated!
