East Coast USA - Feedback welcome

I really do love the map so far. One thing I have notice though, is it just feels like there isn't enough off roading trails. I don't know how Maine is, but here in BC there are tons and tons of them going off the sides of logging roads, etc. Also, other than the town there is really nothing except a few houses. A gas station on the other side of the map from the town, or some sorta little commercial area or industrial area would be nice, would also give people somewhere to deliver and pick up things assuming that will be a part of the singleplayer gameplay at one point. Also, even though the edges of the map aren't exactly beautiful, a view point or two would be nice on the top of the hills. Where I live there are tons of trails that go up to view points with a little fire pit etc. (Maybe on the top of the hill near the town facing toward the ocean?) Would also be cool if there was a campsite kinda area with proper sites and all the other little details (signage, garbage cans, outhouses, fire pits, tents..), probably on the shores of the river. Basically the map just needs more interesting variety to it, I'm sure you have already but really take a fine look at some places in maine on google maps, I'm sure there are many little details like this that would seriously help fill in the map good.



Here are some example photos of the type of off roading I'm thinking of. So far I've only found rock crawling trails and some really tame trails, nothing in between really. Granted I've probably not driven all of them.

Just gonna post links so my post doesn't take up the whole page.. These are apparently all in Maine.
http://image.fourwheeler.com/f/32250514+w660+h440+q80+re0+cr1+ar0/131-1106-07-o%2B131-1106-off-roading-in-a-maine-4x4-area%2Bisuzu-climbing-up-hill.jpg
http://blog.jeep.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/JeepBlog.png
Something like this could be interesting, murky puddle with some big rocks hiding under the surface.
http://www.rmtp.us/big puddle.jpg
http://image.fourwheeler.com/f/3225...n-a-maine-4x4-area+isuzu-climbing-up-hill.jpg
http://s146.photobucket.com/user/billyjp2/media/maine001.jpg.html
http://goohv.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/rm6.jpeg

I've had some good results similar to the last few photos by just having a bunch of rocks clipping through the ground a bit, sunken. Notice how most of these rocks that are on a hill tend to be quite exposed on the lower side and nearly flush with the terrain on the upper side... If u nomsayin. Come across that a ton here.

 

Awesome, I think that's what I meant. I'm assuming that means you also fixed the house hanging over the edge, right? (Never mind where I was driving)

 

It's a great track, I'm gonna take a drive some day and look for stuff to take back to this thread.

Until then: What I miss is more life. It all seems so dead and static. And ideally more variation.
But it's something you probably should be working with in the long run, because for it to be quality content the engine needs to be ready for it (imo). But a lot of it can still be modelled and put in the map as static objects.

Bunch of suggestions/ideas: (deformable dumpsters/trash cans, leaves, broken bushes/trees and other objects. It could be something as simple as a wheel or an exhaust system laying around in the ditch. Shopping cart, bus stop (with glass or deformable metal structure), loose stones and sticks, road signs, light poles, swaying trees, birds, parked cars (a van for instance), dead ragdoll animals, additional car parts or old crash marks, burnt down houses/cabins/vegetation), ladder and paint bucket leaning on unpainted wall (with fluid simulation and ladder deformation).

Don't get me wrong, I love the track, but some more objects (signs of life) would be cool, and some long term world design goals making the world more dynamic. Would also be really cool to see AI vehicles one the road (each car belong to a house/business or property and have usual drive times), trucks have a daily route, people drive for work, youths go drifting, and grandma take a drive in her old car. The farmer takes his tractor out etc.


Sorry, I know this isn't mainly what you asked for, I got a little carried away. To sum it up I'd like to see some objects, variation and so on to the world design. I hope to come back with specific critics on the map with pictures.

 

I do. I just don't have a good computer.

 

Okay, this is annoying. Invisible walls, and vegetation barrier. It's too crowded, why fence in the road in like that?
See spoiler:


I can't get up anywhere here


I found a place I think I could get out from, but it was very slippery. My plan was to back out, but then I got stuck in the tree. Solution? Reload map (I don't know how to change spawn point.).

 

The attention to detail in this map is truly amazing. The only issues I've seen so far are in the more 'urban' areas of the town. Some of the block sized buildings have odd, fully enclosed, concrete courtyards and strange roof structures when viewed from above(see attachment).

The other thing that I think this map could definitely make use of is a little mud. C'mon now, there's no way that a town as rural as the one in the map wouldn't have it's fair share of mud pits carved into the earth by local rednecks.

 

As much as I love East coast, USA, I have a problem with it. It seems like everytime i go near vegetation, this happens:

I also get this problem on Dry Rock Island

 

At first I thought it was going to be like Dry Rock Island...
But then I took a slow drive through it and discovered they were even more details (hidden houses, off-road trails, jumps...) than I first though and whoa it's such a good map !

The roads are good fun, even if they aren't as deadly than usual, and the scenery is beautiful.

But I think the swamp house lacks ivy, the blue house near the sea and the island could be awesome as a fishing shack, the beaches look like concrete from far and it would be really fun to have a cave under Fir Rocks (that's the name of the city right?)
I'm already imagining a crawl trail mixing natural caves and sewer

Keep the awesome work !

 

There is a weird stretch of green water over by the secret swamp that sticks out-

 

Delete your game cache

 

sucks all the other levles work just fine but ECA crashes the game every time I play ECA no offenes

 

Have you tried deleting the game cache?

 

Thanks for your help.

 

I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but I found a few "bugs"

1) Around the area in the first pic there's something in the road that eats tires/tyres and sometimes also suspension bits..
2) there's a triangle without grass texture
3) the collision of the sidewalk of the bridge ends when the "guardrail" ends, while the sidewalk actually is a bit longer, so you just drive straight through it.

 

#2:

 

ramp in road

 

Seems I got the area wrong. I think it's the yellow line (or very close to it) around this area

Edit: It seems to be the yellow line on this whole street, or at least between the two intersections. When driving over it at a low speed occasionally the tyres get grabbed and at higher speed that results in a flat.