However, I did notice they also redid how the Rohan map connections work, and the larger Rohan area map. Though they didn't make the maps satellite maps.
The larger east/west Rohan maps seem to be gone.
All of the sub zones like "The Wold", and "The East Wall", now properly link to their respective areas. Instead of only some of them doing it, and some not.
Parth Celebrant has been renamed "The Great River", and now links to the Great River properly.
The Misty Mountains label on the Rohan map now properly links to the Misty Mountains map in Eriador.
They added the gap of Rohan, and set up the proper links to it, on the Rohan map
Both the Gap of Rohan and Nan Curunir now have "to Rohan" links that properly link over to the Rohan map
Basically they streamlined the hell out of navigating the Rohan map UI
That's nice The Rohan maps were certainly clunky. Though I sure hope this is not the kind of map "style" and navigation they have in mind for when they do the larger (I think?) revamp they've been thinking about. The world needs to be crystal clear, first and foremost = the game world. With current maps how they are sure it isn't. You can't tell when one open world begins and another ends, or where are connections (as in functional teleports) to another. Split everything into accurate in-game terrain representation of Eriador, Rhovanion, Gondor and After Battle "worlds" - that would have been nice, and then have it tidy and spacey enough, so things aren't cluttered, maybe have borders between zones visible too and how things connect. No "all of Gondor map" with pluses to different "worlds" = you're on After you see After MT, you're on old Gondor you see Before MT. Etc. You may just have a "to After Battle" plus on Gondor map but not outright "March of the King" plus or "North Ithilien" plus on pre-battle "world" - because that's just make things confusing and people get lost which "world" that space is actually in when it's shoved there as redirection on every map
Though they may need higher res support for that, it's extremely limited what they can do with how things work now and with that bad res.
Originally Posted by Arnand_the_Fox
The Rohan maps were certainly clunky. Though I sure hope this is not the kind of map "style" and navigation they have in mind for when they do the larger (I think?) revamp they've been thinking about. The world needs to be crystal clear, first and foremost = the game world. With current maps how they are sure it isn't. You can't tell when one open world begins and another ends, or where are connections (as in functional teleports) to another. Split everything into accurate in-game terrain representation of Eriador, Rhovanion, Gondor and After Battle "worlds" - that would have been nice, and then have it tidy and spacey enough, so things aren't cluttered, maybe have borders between zones visible too and how things connect. No "all of Gondor map" with pluses to different "worlds" = you're on After you see After MT, you're on old Gondor you see Before MT. Etc. You may just have a "to After Battle" plus on Gondor map but not outright "March of the King" plus or "North Ithilien" plus on pre-battle "world" - because that's just make things confusing and people get lost which "world" that space is actually in when it's shoved there as redirection on every map
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