Scale Megathread

Wow its hilarious how much the reduced scale improves the look of things! There should definitely be a serious re-think of the scale situation going forward.

I would also still like to see more variation in building size... give me my tech three power plants back

This looks much better...

I hope Uber takes a look at this.

+1

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who thought the scale of units vs. world was off by a noticeable amount. I mentioned the scale in my "Thoughts on PA" thread, although there were a few who thought I had no right to voice a opinion, being that I've never played PA and just observed its gameplay via YouTube videos. Shows how much they know....

I'm surprised that Uber didn't pick up on how noticeably off the scale of units are to the surrounding world. With all their top-talent game designers and programers from TA and SCFA, you'd think that just one of them would have noticed this and told the others "Hey, we need to correct this."

The game isn't close to finished. Don't be surprised if they reduce the unit model size.

Yeah. It may well already be on a list of things to fix for the dev team. I certainly hope it is anyway. I would be very disappointed if the scale doesn't change!

Completely agreed.

I've been seeing TV commercials of a movie here in the US that's coming out soon called "Pacific Rim". It involves huge monsters and super-sized robots piloted by humans. I can't help but think about PA when I see those super-sized robots stepping over large buildings.

+1

+1 agreed.
Now question is to know if the current scale is considered as being definitive or subject to change as far as Uber is concerned.

I'm pretty sure everything is subject to change at this point.

Maybe this thread could be turned into some kind of poll (Do you think current scale is
1) perfect
2) needs to be reduced
3) needs to be increased


The only thing i would like Uber to consider is how Supcom 2 ridiculous scale has been received as a very negative point by TA/Supcom Fans. This was not the main problem but it was the very first thing that led to massive disapointment.

If this thread exists, there's for sure a good reason.

Increased. I want super mega-lego tanks thundering by and dwarfing mountains.

I kid. I kid.

Decreased please.

That's actually a great idea for a mod. Like world 4 from Super Mario 3.

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i voted

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This is i think a good reminder about what Chris Taylor fairly recognized about overscaled units in Supreme commander 2 :

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1 ... es/c812jfl

"I wished we had pushed harder to optimize memory on the PC so we could have bigger maps... and we made the units bigger, and between the two, we basically f'd up the game."

hoppefully PA will not be f'd up the same way ...

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I seriously, desperately hope PA does not end up like supreme commander 2. God that game was a bitter, horrible travesty of a disappointment.

Anyway back on topic! Yes, units should be smaller, I voted!

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I'm not surprised at this. I think there was a SC2 mod that basically shrunk the scale of units. It was amazing how much better SC2 looked and felt when the units at a smaller scale in relation to the rest of the map.

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Absolutly.
However, Decreasing scale probably means you have to tune lots of gameplay elements.
It's not when you reach beta that you can consider to change all the stuff you have achieved so far.....

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alright keep this up, i'd like for the poll to get more results so that we can make things astoundingly clear

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A couple of members actually voted to increase the scale/size of units!

Godzilla here we come. Or is that Ultraman?