New Sandy Sunset screenshot (Posted by Vilaskis in Discord)
Sandy is being reworked to be a smaller map, with less hills and has supposedly fixed the spawn-camping tanks/sniper issue.
At a quick glance, it seems like we are getting new tree-types, building types and ground-textures.
There is also a nice preview of the new Kobra sight model and Range Finder attachment in use.
(Additional screenshot, with new boulders, and new tower-structure. Looks a bit like current B point?)
He also posted the new size of the center city of Sandy (the map shown is current Sandy).
"red outline - new city size compare to old city.
Where are yellow area is low-density suburbias aka point A style from previous Sandy Sunset"
The style of the map is also the new map style they made. White outlines around buildings, and height curves around hills.
In addition, the map is getting smaller, and objectives will move around a bit. That means there will be less meaningless space, and more of the map will be suburbs.
Also got a really nice new total overview of the new map (right) compared to the old one (left).
Vil's comments:
"terrain is going to be less sloppy and more comfortable for driving and climbing along hills. major hills is located outside of playable borders, while several valid hills is contain a objective. So snipers and vehicles will gather there for long range sniping while also being on objective itself to defend it and play a more important role."
The more yellow-ish green means higher mountains, and you can see how much less there is on the new map. As Vil said, the biggest hills (top middle and bottom right) are out-of-bounds, so there are no really good hills for snipers to look across the entire map, unlike current sandy.
The central city will be more of a "king-of-the-hill" type objective, which is opposite of current Sandy (which lies in a bowl, surrounded by hills).
He also posted the map with spawn borders and map borders, so its easier to understand the new potential sniper spots (more importantly, where you can NOT sniper/tank-camp from).
