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Thanks! That holes are gonna be fixed. This Beta is worth itself.

So it really will take us to another planet?

lol... Go on, I dare you.. Tell us where you come out!

Just try to reach the promised land and you will see, you've been betrayed.

Not sure if this thread is the right place to ask, but I briefly checked the Odessa map and noticed that in many villages in the southern part of the map there were no buildings at all. The village looked like a village when flying high enough, but when flying closer to ground I saw the whole thing was done with textures. Buildings were "painted" to the ground. This is the way it's going to be?

I don't have the patch yet but if there are two versions of the map and one being for online play its possible this is the reason.

I just flew Bessabaria (sp). I was flitting around Odessa, having a ball. I didn't notice what you're mentioning _sim. I even saw a nice soccer field..... no painted on cities or tiled cities.


There is an online and an offline map, Icefire. That's probably what you were seeing _sim.

Yes, the name of the map is Odessa_Online, so that Online must be the reason. I wonder if they have removed objects from some parts of the map or few objects from all parts of the map?

Knightgames: if you want to see those painted buildings, here are some grids where I saw those:
Chilia in AV2
Regele Carol in AT3
Ciisia in AS7

The map itself is huge, so there must be all sorts of new things there. I noticed an airfield near Odessa that has fence around it. The runway isn't that long, so it is possible to crash your plane into that fence or the buildings in the other end of the runway. Especially when landing a damaged plane.

The online versions are indeed striped off every object, except inside the red marked area on the navigation map. There is also a full version, mainly meant for offline play, which contains objects everywhere. Of course it can be used online too, but for better playability we made the online versions as a bonus. The areas around Odessa and Iasi where - as I understood - the sites with the most combat events in WW2.

This map itself indeed is huge one in size. Therefor we couldn't build such dense cities like on the slovakian map. Even with the existing low objects density, we have set up, we have nearly the same total object count as Slovakia. We went onto the limitations of the game and had to make such compromises.

P.S.: its around 350x300km in size.