It is sad that many people consider getting lost annoying, for me that is a big part of exploration. Maps are way too powerful in most games, being highly detailed and constantly showing your position.
Thief and Ultima Underworld have two of my favorite mapping "systems".
i have a ptsd after playing Underrail without map
Same here, now i really want to try it out but i am afraid of burning out if EA doesnt have enough content.
I didn't mean to sound overly negative, and now that I've played the game a little the environments are easier to navigate as you memorize them. Still, the design in some areas as a first time player felt like playing Windows 3D Maze, meaning there's passage upon passage upon passage almost to the point of being needlessly convoluted. Which wouldn't be so bad if you had an accurate automap (that accounts for multiple levels stacked on top of each other), but you get a simplistic overhead view map, so you really have to memorize your routes because the map isn't really much help in many cases (although it does help a lot overall). Thief had the same idea with regard to maps (and the Monomyth map is better than many of Thief's maps), but Monomyth has a much larger area than any singular Thief map.
Rattower: i actually wanted to start with one more area but it needs a performance pass and some encounter reworks - nothing too tragic
Rattower: however, it is the one region i hate the most - so I will probably also streamline it a bit
Rattower: I get lost in it
And I built it
