Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

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Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby noindyfikator » Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:38 am

When there is summer map look fantastic, but when winter is comming map became unreadable and ugly. I don't even mention map preview when snow is everywhere. It's just useless.

There is how map look in early/late winter.
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I suggest to save map tiles as it would be summer all the time. With cliffs / varied ground types etc.

BAD:
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GOOD:
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Please ignore winter tiles on map and minimap.
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby shubla » Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:22 pm

..But how would you know what is under the snow?

I'm pretty sure that this has been suggested many time and yes it should be changed.
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby insanechef » Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:23 pm

Yes please
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby Fostik » Sun Jan 17, 2021 12:31 pm

Map is saving snow minimaps only when there are no alternative
Normal tiles cant be overwrited by snow.
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby noindyfikator » Sun Jan 17, 2021 1:24 pm

shubla wrote:..But how would you know what is under the snow?.


Well, if snow is everywhere that might be true but for early winter / late winter you can still see terrain type on map, besides 1000 small white pixels u can see terrain pixels. My image marked as "BAD" shows that. But it's so unreadable and ugly.

Let's assume that i am a new player. I start playing in late winter and i see that scattered white pixels on map. That's not good imo. As a new player i wouldn't even know what the hell is that.
Anyway exploring map in winter is just painful. Maybe devs should show us some love instead of putting the skids under us
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby Apocoreo » Sun Jan 17, 2021 8:33 pm

We were hunting stoats as a group this winter. It's kind of wack that we had to use a third part wiki to find out where they spawn, then a third party map to find out where that terrain was because it was our only option outside of randomly digging around.
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby loftar » Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:21 pm

Fostik wrote:Map is saving snow minimaps only when there are no alternative
Normal tiles cant be overwrited by snow.

Actually, that is the intention, but I noticed myself this winter that there seems to be some bug with the new minimap implementation that overrides that sometimes. Should definitely be fixed, but I haven't found the cause yet.
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Re: Map in Early Winter / Winter / Late Winter

Postby shubla » Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:24 pm

loftar wrote:
Fostik wrote:Map is saving snow minimaps only when there are no alternative
Normal tiles cant be overwrited by snow.

Actually, that is the intention, but I noticed myself this winter that there seems to be some bug with the new minimap implementation that overrides that sometimes. Should definitely be fixed, but I haven't found the cause yet.

Doing the thing suggested in the OP would fix this as well.
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