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I'd also like to see a castled city map.

that's also what i have in mind. where skill affects the environment like rook walking on the forest destroying all the trees LOL. or torch bearer changing the river to ice...cool!

but yeah sys requirements should be the same, i haven't upgraded yet, still running this on the lowest settings...ouch!

Great idea, but from our understanding during the beta process there are a few problems.  From what I recall, the supreme commander engine which demigod is based on, does not know how to take into account foliage in line of sight or ranged fire.  This is my understandingh of why we don't see maps like this.

I think my favourite map at the moment is the 3v3 with all the waterfalls etc. I'd love to see a map that appears part of the 'ground' and yeah was made to look like an actual real-world type environment. I don't really care about line of sight type things(though this would be good), more about the asthetics. It certainly makes the gameplay more enjoyable if what you're looking at is eye-candy opposed to an eyesore

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you're saying there's no "Higher Ground" thing? hmmm...WTH So that's the reason why all of the maps are so boring LOL. But yeah, background looks good, i like the "BROTHERS" map anyway. But it's way cooler if you can step on those skulls and unleash hell there...

i think its still better to have a more diverse map than those boring plain maps LOL. and how about a 1vs1 or 2vs2 maps

yeah the key point to bring this game to the skies is having a map editor.. that alone would OWN dota, the map layout has been the same since forever with minor changes

Yeah i mean basically not like the current maps - raised above everything - but a man that looks like it's actually on the ground. Where in between the lanes(that now might look like roads/paths) there's trees and interesting stuff. Ground that's not all 100% raised brick type surfaces, perhaps a river running through it etc - but you can walk through the river. All eye-candy. It has such potential for an absolutely awesome map design imo. Not a clone of the DOTA map, but in that same style - except applied to well, demigod.

To make a forest map fit in with the game, the solution is......

A big forest map on the back of a giant flying turtle :0.  That would be fun

It has to be flat though.

I'd like to see a floating islands map.

Like this but with multiple ones that have narrowish vine-bridges connecting them would be nice.  Could basically be flat.

The engine limitation is that things need to be flat..

is it possible to add those trees that it can block your vision if you're view is zoomed-out like bird's-eye view? or hmm how about using the trees (or stone whatever) as hiding place for ambush? that would be nice for team play...

It's already hard, some say, to click on stuff behind the Rook, and now you want trees to be part of the map-design as well? This will further make it impossible to find anything you want behind all the leaves etc.

I'm not one of them, just to let you know.

It's an engine limitation having to do with ranged units.  The projectile physics system can't recognize three dimensions so an archer will auto-attack through a cliff/mountain.  For multi-tiered maps to work you'd need to take out the ranged units or make the levels far enough apart than a unit on one level could never be in range of a unit on another level.