Matka Underground Map Making

[sweet schooner]

@vocal cave @lime talon Thread to document where we are

Links to imgur can work to share progress snapshots here

[lime talon]

I used sketchbook on my phone with a pen, so if any of you had sketchbook for pc I could just upload the file

[vocal cave]

Old map with info

[thorny breach]

Is the map multi lvl as silo?

[vocal cave]

yeah - best I can make is 5 levels

+2 : Subway Extracts
+1: Subway Entraces
+0: Subway Stations and Rail Tracks
-1: Tunnels / Old Bunker
-2: Sewers / Orange Card

[thorny breach]

Maybe having smth like this will be more understandable? Like each different lvl is placed in a row rather then in a mesh of lvls

[vocal cave]

I can make Isometric plans and divide sections by level

In addition to multi level in a line ye

[lime talon]

I'm pretty sure splitting it into 3 sections is fair, cause you got sewers, metros, and exfils

[vocal cave]

Old Bunker can go with Metro map

[lime talon]

Yeah, they on the same lvl

[thorny breach]

Havent played the map to say much about how it should look lol

[vocal cave]

I think your idea of side by side should work, then we can have additional isometric maps for the visual learners (me)

[lime talon]

Well, I drew my map based on how I saw it in game, I got shot so many times by scavs while drawing my map, but it's a really good navigator as long as you connect the numbers to the corresponding number

[thorny breach]

Yea we can basically take your map split it a bit more and then place it into a row or smth

[vocal cave]

@lime talon Good job on the bunker layout - I'll convert that to blocks and resize somewhere around what we've both got

[dawn steeple]

@lime talon i like the map, its better than @vocal cave ones ;)

[vocal cave]

Just wait until I finish V2.0

[dawn steeple]

Okokok

[lime talon]

I wish you luck with your finalization, I have no plans on changing my map, I'm done with it, so I hope your design goes well for you

[vocal cave]

Your map is a huge help! Thank you for your hard work

[lime talon]

Thanks, I died so many God damn times

I can't count how many times I'd be like "ok, so this goes here and leads there- oh shit I'm being shot at, gotta kill this scav"

[vocal cave]

Right? I got 28 fenix kills my first playthrough of the map

[lime talon]

Yeah, the scav spawns are good on that map, I told my homies that we're leveling up Minty to do that map, but since they didn't know it, they used me for Navi, lol

Me and them are gonna play today and get some scav kills

Honestly, I was thinking of adding the scav spawns too to the map, but they're literally in every room, atleast 2-3 of them, so I didn't even bother

[thorny breach]

Thats insane wtf

Prob the meta map for quest grinding

[lime talon]

One thing I can mention, in every major room, like metro 1, 2, & 3, and alarm 1, 2, & 3 and yknow the bunker and every big room in sewers, and on railroad 2 is where all the scav spawns are after my studying of the map over the hours I worked on it
They can spawn up to 4 scavs in one room, I witnessed 4 just marching in sync and being launched into the air because they were so close together, lul

I only get like 2-3 scav kills in silo, and I beat my average by entering a single room

[lime talon]

Yknow, thinking about it, that's not every major room, that's just literally every room

Except the first railroad

[vocal cave]

8.5K from Jiri no brainer

[dreamy wolf]

I can't post images

[vocal cave]

DM to me and I'll add here

[dreamy wolf]

Alr

I think it would be a nice addition to color code the different levels of the map, like dark grey for the low levels and lighter grey's for the higher levels.

[vocal cave]

Yep - I've got plans to section the map based on height, then also have another map with isometric views

Edits by Gem w/ more spawns and extract names for later reference

Here's a sneak peak of one of the upper stations I'm working on. Scale might not be super accurate but should be close enough

[sweet schooner]

Can any of the team here record a video of the following:

• Compass on in training mode
• Do a walk through best you can of the whole map. Dispatch scavs as you go
• Try to have smooth motion (not turn snapping) and scan every room

[dreamy wolf]

I'll attempt it

[sweet schooner]

ah, making progress beyond already. These guys work fast

[robust badger]

The boa with all the info💀

[dreamy wolf]

I just noticed cathedral and bridge might be the other way around but im not 100% sure.

I'll come back later with info

[vocal cave]

Thanks!

[vocal cave]

We gotta know all parts of the game lmao

[sweet schooner]

https://ghosts-of-tabor.fandom.com/wiki/Map:Matka_Miest_Underground

Go tag all the exfils and such!

[sweet schooner]

oops...whoever did orange keycard, please re-do that

[sweet schooner]

I think the next step after a lil break would be to take suggestions for callouts to areas on the map so they're listed and baked into the interactive map.

[dreamy wolf]

Alr

[dreamy wolf]

I came up with some callouts for locations so far

I think the station's callouts should just be their station name

Like stormetska station (i think that's one of the names) would be stormetska

[vocal cave]

@dreamy wolf There's two Staromenstska Stations, thinking we could call them by the extract names

[dreamy wolf]

So like cathedral station

And bridge station

[dawn steeple]

Or just simple bottom middle top

[lime talon]

There's a problem, before I finalized my map, that's how I named them, but how would you tell where you are by just saying that? Cause my current map already has a problem, cause if I'm in metro 1, how would someone understand what metro 1 is if they didn't study the map? I mean, my myself and my homies can understand it due to them constantly reading my map, but what if it were a new player, we need a good identifying name

[lime talon]

^ something like this is much better than my original ideas for the metros themselves

Also, considering matka miest has the buildings right next to their underground extract counterparts, it would make sense

[vocal cave]

I wonder if you can hear the bell at Cathedral Station (is there a bell?)