This week brought us the reveal of a second map in MechWarrior Online. Â Frozen City! Â From the preview, it looks to me like what I picture Tharkad in the winter to look like (based on all the descriptions in the novels)…Granted, it’s not Tharkad…but it still looks pretty awesome.
Here’s the PC Gamer video trailer of the new map:
PC Gamer interviewed Russ about the new map as well. Â I’m not going to copy/paste their whole interview.. but heres a snippet:
Could go into more detail about how snowstorms will work on Frozen City? If there’s a storm, will it be affecting the map globally, all at once, or will it be a localized event? How much variance is there in the strength of the storm? Will there be light storms and heavy storms?
Bullock: Right now it’s a fairly random process. These are all values that we can tweak, and we’re testing it right now in the closed beta environment. But right now it comes out globally on the map, and then recedes on the map. You can never really know when the storm is coming or isn’t coming, it’s just one of those random elements right now. You could be running around and sniping enemies at long distance, and then all of a sudden the storm just comes in and forces you to go into thermal mode. Right now it’s really a random process.
So head on over to PC Gamer and read the whole interview… and then start counting down till we’re able to get into the game…