3D overworld map in the live video now

We will not. Per the last official statement, we arnt expecting to see it until R7 at the earliest.

 

That is not a problem. The map cometh is what matters

 

I'm confused is it going to be an open world game or is going to be like over view map style and you travel by clicking on the map?

 

The latter.

The world is not a single contiguous map. When you enter a hex on the overworld map your character is sorted into a copy of the local map (be it a section of forest or a town, or what-not) where you can interact with the environment and other players.

 

While that quote was accurate at the time, Chris is planning a dev hangout on Tuesday where the plan is to build out a map. His plan is to build something in real time using suggestions from the community, then to include it in R6. If I remember right it isn't meant to be the main map, but accessible via a command switch. Maybe if things go really well, he'll surprise us and make it the main map. One can hope, but at a mimimun we should have something to play with in R6.

 

I believe Chris was referring to a "scene" map (such as a new swamp map, or a mountain map), not the Overworld map.

The option he mentioned about providing a switch to enable it was a means to access it if you entered a specific hex (if it turned out being less polished then he expected).

 

Now: "On-the-Fly Level Creation and Map Design with Chris Spears".

 

Thanks!