What if they just sat down and updated the Stalingrad map as a whole?
A way for breaching into the ground floor as well as proving there was a ground floor:
Windows leading to the ground floor, proving that not adding a ground floor was a mistake:
Long concrete lanes for offloading cargo from freight cars:
The Baramely Fountain is way too close to the Central Station:
All the buildings that are or should be in the Central Station map in Enlisted:
A sewer entry via an arty crater, thus proving no reason why the sewer system shouldn’t be in-game:
This is a picture of all the buildings beside the Central Train Station. I have circled the most important buildings, some on the Enlisted map (check marks) and some not (question marks).
This is a picture of the Central Train Station map in Enlisted, along with the buildings on its side. According to the image from the actual battle, it appears that the ginormous “X” building, Firestation (should be right on the corner of the 4-way intersection), a two-story brick building, and an entire street is missing.
Not to mention that the scale of the central train station is abnormally small for a supposedly large building. It could be because there is not enough map space, so they leave out any building that takes up too much storage and any important buildings they include; they go into Goodwill mode. If it is so, then the best option would be this:
- Make four copies of the entire Central Stalingrad Map
- Assign a team or one person to each copy of the map
- Each team or person will work on one of the sections (Communist Street, Gogol Street, Univermag, and Central Station)
- Each team or person will update the current buildings (scaling, architecture, placement in the map according to historical photos, sewer entrances/breaches, ground level floors, etc.), add in buildings left out in the previous version of the Central Stalingrad map, implement the sewer systems that both teams can enter and use, and add mounds of rubble at places that should have them (the pictures will help you)
- After each team or person has completed the revision of the section they were assigned and have double-checked it, then all that is left is the AI trail
It should not go exactly like this, and it probably won’t if it ever did, but it should be something similar to what I listed. When Central Stalingrad is updated and revised, it will be as if it was brand new. There won’t be a need for another map due to all of Central Stalingrad getting a revision. But if people really want a new map for the Eastern Front, give them Dominant Height and call it Mamyev Kurgan since it looks nothing like Hurtgen Forest.
If there will be any more updating and revising maps after Stalingrad, then focus on easy things that all in all require copying and pasting foliage (trees, bushes, etc.), putting down trenches or copying and pasting them, digging occasional fox holes, and changing land elevation first. The Pacific is a great place to start (Guadalcanal- Edson’s Ridge, Tenaru River, Henderson Field).
