Hi John.

 To be honest, i didnt like that map. I think all 3 last maps jalisco, los mochis, salazar look the same. They have same design, same idea of roadblock, just buildings stay on different places..... The maps like leopardos, calavera, ghost storm, they are one of my favourites maps, becouse they dont look the same.

1. In all your last maps, there are no more image on the scope, in old maps its always been on.

2. Another thing is drawing distance, jesus buidings looking like white boxes on long distances. Look at old multiplayer maps like: sierra, quarry, timberc. They looking great, becouse there are lot of landscape. And landscape looking nice almost on all distances.

3. Why not using any water on the maps, it looks great.

Its only my opinion, so dont be angry on me) And thx for doing new maps, i think by amounts of maps you on the 1st place, good luck and best regards)

Hi SheparD.

Thanks for your feedback, I always welcome it whether it's good or bad, after all we don't all like the same things.

The problem we have is that we are now reaching the limit as to what the game is capable of, so it's becoming harder to find new things to put in the maps, this is the main reason that I now make a new scratch built map for each of my missions.

I can't see how you can say that the Salazar map looks the same as the rest as this is a GRAW2 landscape  where 90% of the buildings come from GRAW1 which I have never used before, how more different can you get.

As to the buildings looking white in the distance, the main reason for this is due to the size of the map if you were able to see all of those buildings then this would effect the performance of the game, so instead of complaining about the white buildings you would be complaining about the amount of lag in the game, you can't have you cake and eat it, lol.

My next mission is still in the alpha testing stage but this will be a bit different from the usual urban maps.

Thanks,John

As usual John, on behalf of the GRAW 2 community out there, thank you for all your hard work for keeping this game alive. When you have CQB you arent interested in the scenery ! If its a built up town fight go for local quality and screw the distance thing, but if its a large open map with trees etc, then draw distance maybe a thing to think about, but from what i have seen so far, you are spot on, and long may it continue.

Got my thumbs up 100 %

:o)

Hi cjo1964,

Thanks for your kind words and your (and everyone else) continuing support.

Looking at my missions I don't see anyway of changing the draw distance anyway, maybe it's a setting in some of the other xml files but AFAIK it's not something I can control from the mission.

As I said before the reason you are seeing these "white" buildings (these are just buildings with no textures) is due to the size of my latest maps, the game engine is unable to display all of the textures, if it did then you would have more lag on the map due to the extra resources needed to display these extra textures.

Having said that someone might know of a way to increase the draw distance, if you do then let me know and I will look into it.

Thanks all,John

"Posted By JohnTC02 on 12/07/10 10:26:48

Having said that someone might know of a way to increase the draw distance, if you do then let me know and I will look into it."

There is no need to increase the draw distance, just dont let players see buildings on long distances by using natural obstacles)) For example map timberk. Why not combining buidlding with landshaft. For example lost military base with desert rocks, after destroing all on it, by tunnel in rocks you come to hidden part of that base, big airport. I mean this rocks(natural obstacle) will hide that base. 

About adding something new, maybe some friendly vehicle: for example 1 tank that have been captured, your point will be to free it, and then you must take that tank to safe point. Maybe take some cool things from other games, like modern warfare 2. For example situation by rounds,5 rounds(waves) you must defend the point with other soldiers, then assault and take other goals of mission. Another thing is doing something with close ranges) For now i remember only strategic eraducation map. By combining close and modern ranges players can use all kind of gear, and finally shotgun will talk)))

Hope it will help somehow for your new maps))

Good luck and thx for listening.

I enjoy playing your maps John.  They are challanging yet you can rack up a large body count.  Only diss is the choppers are damn near impossible to take out.  Takes like 10 mags from a .556.  ZEUS availablity would be nice.  

Good job though.  Keep em coming. 

There is only one map with the Dam in it, we are limited to what we can use to what's available in the editor, unless someone out there can make some more landscapes for us.

Sulley70, if you want to see some extra Zeus's around the map then that's not a problem, I will try and remember to add them in my next mission. If I forget then you could always join the forums and let me know.

Thanks all

John

pdanoe, sorry my knowledge of servers is very limited but I have heard of some servers that use dual core machines can have this problem, there was a fix posted in our forums where by if you force the server to use one core then this can help this problem.

Take a look at this thread, the info you want is from post #10 (check out the link in there as well):http://www.ghostrecon.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=54707 You may need to copy this link and post it into your browser, sometimes these links just take you to the main forums page.

BlackWolf, this is a known bug in graw2, I have mentioned this before so do not use the mule if you are carrying a rpg, this also applies to a couple of other weapons but I can't remember the names of hand.

*Jesus*, nice idea but the problem is that other games use a different engine so they would not be compatible plus you then run into copyright laws, I don't think other game manufacturers would appreciate it if used their material.

Chris, saying the game keeps crashing is no use to me, you need to post your crash log to give me any hope of helping you.