What better way to start of a Christmas list with a partial ice map that’s inhabited by Volvidon! That thing wears it‘s Christmas hat like a Champ and I very much respect it for that.
Yeah, honestly the citadel is probably my favorite Rise map. I find it to be one of the best of the "ruin" archetype of maps that sometime appears. Do agree they could have done more with the ruins in terms of destructible/interactable environments, but I am nevertheless glad to see it here kicking off the Christmas list. I do hope that one day they will do an expanded version of the map more in vein of the Wild's maps. Could make the town feel more like a proper castle town than a tight little villager behind big walls. Looking forward to hopefully seeing more of my favorite maps
I feel like Sunbreak was testing out two different map types with Citadel and Jungle. I honestly love them both for different reasons but wound up liking Jungle more for how compact everything is.
I do love how it has the 2 biomes and 3 actual sections for the 3 lords; the foresty bit with the sap zone for garangolm, the icy maintains with a cave and bits for lunagaron, and the ruins for malzeno. I love maps that blend 2 biome types really well and this did that pretty well but also added a man made bit as a bonus. I like the doors that reveal little secret areas if you blow them up with bombs, it's a nice touch. That one area in the, what is it, south west where it's just a huge pain to get to took me a while to figure out on my own. There's also the cave that you access by climbing up a broken tree in the sap zone to then fall into it because it's hollowed out. This map shines best, visually, at night but of course it does. The point is to fit with the gothic horror themes of the expansion. Saying it goes a little too purple is fair though. Yes, some monsters do not fit this map at all.
Definitely the best map from Rise aside from the two Arenas. I love anything medieval themed, and it's monster variety, and the Three Lords make it even more of a stand-out. It's like a miniature and more natural Guiding Lands. The only gripe I have is that Garangolm and Lunagaron didn't get their own themes.
Not even gonna mention the MAJESTIC crashing waves in The Citadel? What the Citadel honestly needs is old defenses that you can use. Make it a request, make people discover them, but give players an old dragonator, some cannons, rock or log slide traps, and a bomb platform.
Honestly surprised this wasn't top 3; for me the only real issue was the many cramped arenas, which it often feels the monsters favor over the big open areas. Never minded the saturation but I like my bright shiny colors
It is a cool map yeah... but my bias wants me to say that the reason this map is peak is due to the "MH1's Old Swamp" vibes from the purple fog area (I'm hoping for that swamp to appear in this series). A forest mixed with a swamp mixed with a tundra is really cool and allows ice monsters to roam a more varied environment (ice monsters aren't locked in one single map of the entire game yaaay).
HO HO HO ITS THE HUNTIST TIME OF YEAR WITH WILDS JUST AROUND THE CORRNER EVERYONES PUTTING PRE ORDERS AT THE TOP OF THEIR LIST BUT DONT FORGET TO BRING THAT HUNTING SPRIT AND BRING JOLLYNESS AND HUNTING IN YOUR LIFE LET EVERY MONSTER ENJOY YOU AND MERRY HUNTMAS KIDS ahem in all seriousness thanks for making this Conner and merry huntmas hope all your hunts are successful
I’m surprised there’s no mention of the music, since I feel that adds a lot to a maps character. In the case of the Citadel, I think the theme fits it very well, has a proper majestic medival fantasy feel to it. I mostly asociate it with Garangolm and Lunagaron when listening to it
Personally this is tied with hoarfrost reach for my favorite map, I prefer rises style of having ruined structures rather than worlds maps being only nature and I love the style of the ruined church it gives me breath of the wild vibes, snow levels are always my favorites and I love the snow area way more than the frost islands in rise which would be in the bottom 10 levels in the series for me
The Citadel being this low shows how stacked this list is going to be! Each of the three sections could have been perfectly fine maps but The Citadel manages to merge them altogether with surprising skill and it creates one of the most impressive and interesting maps in the series. I do think because of this map variety, the monster roster is pretty bloated. That’s an issue with rise in general tbf, with a lot of monsters being in maps they should not be in, but The Citadel is especially bad with that. I should not be able to fight Goss Harag and Pyre-Rakna within the same non arena map. But still, Citadel is a fantastic map to start this list on.
Okay, that example of Pyre Rakna and Goss on the same map made me realize just how weird and bloated this map's monster roster is. As bad at it is though it's not the first time lol. In 3U monsters like Barroth, Uragaan, and Diablos could appear on the Deserted Island of all things through Moga Woods expeditions. That mechanic confuses me so much lol. Like, just why?
Maybe the night's purpliness isn't just a pretty decision, but...there's any chance they received feedback about the shadows in specific, of base Rise, i had problems with them, in specific, seeing things in them, they're too dark. This being the big climactic area with the vampire monster there's more focus on a night fight, so they pay even closer attention, and maybe they found fighting Malzeno in a black night with the too dark shadows a bit too difficult?
You'd have a hard time convincing me that any Rise map is better than the Citadel. Overall, I'm not the biggest fan of Rise maps though. My feelings about them are connected to my feelings about Spiribirds and endemic life in Rise, and Spiribirds are just... awful. I hate them. But the Citadel is pretty good despite that. The ice area of it is the best in my opinion. No, I'm not just saying that as an excuse to talk about Christmas and Christmas hats! But now that you mention it... it's the perfect time to join the W.C.H.A.! The swamp area is then 2nd and the actual castle area is 3rd in my opinion. Hey, would you look at that, that's the same order of my liking of the 3 Lords! One thing I really wish was better about the Citadel is that it feels like you hardly ever go to the 3 Lords "nests" besides Lunagaron's (that's part of the reason I like his area the most). Garangolm's nest especially, it feels like you hardly ever go there. And I'll also forever be mad that Shagaru is a roaming monster in this map. But overall, the Citadel is easily the best map Rise has to offer.
A very deserved placement in my books. And a great thematic fit too! Christmas will be upon us in just under two weeks and although it certainly won’t be white and snowy everywhere you can never be too careful. Best stay warm during the winter and what better way to do it than with a Christmas hat! The World Christmas Hat Assoziation would be glad to have a nother member. Unless of course your staying in the Savanna for the Winter. But I hear powerful creatures have been discovered in that area so…ahhh… I don’t know where I’m going with this but you are more than welcome to let your Forokururu wear a Christmas hat in these times.
What better way to start of a Christmas list with a partial ice map that’s inhabited by Volvidon! That thing wears it‘s Christmas hat like a Champ and I very much respect it for that.
Glad to help out. And thank you.
Yeah, honestly the citadel is probably my favorite Rise map. I find it to be one of the best of the "ruin" archetype of maps that sometime appears. Do agree they could have done more with the ruins in terms of destructible/interactable environments, but I am nevertheless glad to see it here kicking off the Christmas list.
I do hope that one day they will do an expanded version of the map more in vein of the Wild's maps. Could make the town feel more like a proper castle town than a tight little villager behind big walls.
Looking forward to hopefully seeing more of my favorite maps
A wild's sized map with structures and shit would go nuts
I feel like Sunbreak was testing out two different map types with Citadel and Jungle. I honestly love them both for different reasons but wound up liking Jungle more for how compact everything is.
I do love how it has the 2 biomes and 3 actual sections for the 3 lords; the foresty bit with the sap zone for garangolm, the icy maintains with a cave and bits for lunagaron, and the ruins for malzeno. I love maps that blend 2 biome types really well and this did that pretty well but also added a man made bit as a bonus. I like the doors that reveal little secret areas if you blow them up with bombs, it's a nice touch. That one area in the, what is it, south west where it's just a huge pain to get to took me a while to figure out on my own. There's also the cave that you access by climbing up a broken tree in the sap zone to then fall into it because it's hollowed out.
This map shines best, visually, at night but of course it does. The point is to fit with the gothic horror themes of the expansion. Saying it goes a little too purple is fair though.
Yes, some monsters do not fit this map at all.
Definitely the best map from Rise aside from the two Arenas. I love anything medieval themed, and it's monster variety, and the Three Lords make it even more of a stand-out. It's like a miniature and more natural Guiding Lands.
The only gripe I have is that Garangolm and Lunagaron didn't get their own themes.
Not even gonna mention the MAJESTIC crashing waves in The Citadel?
What the Citadel honestly needs is old defenses that you can use. Make it a request, make people discover them, but give players an old dragonator, some cannons, rock or log slide traps, and a bomb platform.
Yeah I wish the actual citadel had a little bit more combat presence. I think there's some missed oppurtunity
Honestly surprised this wasn't top 3; for me the only real issue was the many cramped arenas, which it often feels the monsters favor over the big open areas. Never minded the saturation but I like my bright shiny colors
It is a cool map yeah... but my bias wants me to say that the reason this map is peak is due to the "MH1's Old Swamp" vibes from the purple fog area (I'm hoping for that swamp to appear in this series).
A forest mixed with a swamp mixed with a tundra is really cool and allows ice monsters to roam a more varied environment (ice monsters aren't locked in one single map of the entire game yaaay).
HO HO HO ITS THE HUNTIST TIME OF YEAR WITH WILDS JUST AROUND THE CORRNER EVERYONES PUTTING PRE ORDERS AT THE TOP OF THEIR LIST BUT DONT FORGET TO BRING THAT HUNTING SPRIT AND BRING JOLLYNESS AND HUNTING IN YOUR LIFE LET EVERY MONSTER ENJOY YOU AND MERRY HUNTMAS KIDS ahem in all seriousness thanks for making this Conner and merry huntmas hope all your hunts are successful
We love the Citadel. Shout out to my Blood Moon enjoyers
I’m surprised there’s no mention of the music, since I feel that adds a lot to a maps character. In the case of the Citadel, I think the theme fits it very well, has a proper majestic medival fantasy feel to it. I mostly asociate it with Garangolm and Lunagaron when listening to it
Personally this is tied with hoarfrost reach for my favorite map, I prefer rises style of having ruined structures rather than worlds maps being only nature and I love the style of the ruined church it gives me breath of the wild vibes, snow levels are always my favorites and I love the snow area way more than the frost islands in rise which would be in the bottom 10 levels in the series for me
Good picks
The Citadel being this low shows how stacked this list is going to be! Each of the three sections could have been perfectly fine maps but The Citadel manages to merge them altogether with surprising skill and it creates one of the most impressive and interesting maps in the series. I do think because of this map variety, the monster roster is pretty bloated. That’s an issue with rise in general tbf, with a lot of monsters being in maps they should not be in, but The Citadel is especially bad with that. I should not be able to fight Goss Harag and Pyre-Rakna within the same non arena map. But still, Citadel is a fantastic map to start this list on.
Okay, that example of Pyre Rakna and Goss on the same map made me realize just how weird and bloated this map's monster roster is.
As bad at it is though it's not the first time lol. In 3U monsters like Barroth, Uragaan, and Diablos could appear on the Deserted Island of all things through Moga Woods expeditions. That mechanic confuses me so much lol. Like, just why?
Lol yeah the monster roster here has a couple of problems
CITADEL MY BELOVED
The citadel is a really cool map but its issues hold it back which really sucks.
Yup a few notable issues on a really fuckin cool and ambitious map
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Maybe the night's purpliness isn't just a pretty decision, but...there's any chance they received feedback about the shadows in specific, of base Rise, i had problems with them, in specific, seeing things in them, they're too dark. This being the big climactic area with the vampire monster there's more focus on a night fight, so they pay even closer attention, and maybe they found fighting Malzeno in a black night with the too dark shadows a bit too difficult?
You'd have a hard time convincing me that any Rise map is better than the Citadel. Overall, I'm not the biggest fan of Rise maps though. My feelings about them are connected to my feelings about Spiribirds and endemic life in Rise, and Spiribirds are just... awful. I hate them.
But the Citadel is pretty good despite that. The ice area of it is the best in my opinion. No, I'm not just saying that as an excuse to talk about Christmas and Christmas hats! But now that you mention it... it's the perfect time to join the W.C.H.A.!
The swamp area is then 2nd and the actual castle area is 3rd in my opinion. Hey, would you look at that, that's the same order of my liking of the 3 Lords!
One thing I really wish was better about the Citadel is that it feels like you hardly ever go to the 3 Lords "nests" besides Lunagaron's (that's part of the reason I like his area the most). Garangolm's nest especially, it feels like you hardly ever go there. And I'll also forever be mad that Shagaru is a roaming monster in this map. But overall, the Citadel is easily the best map Rise has to offer.
WOOOOOOOOO CITADEL WOOOOOO
I love this map so much
Badass map
I did enjoy this map alot, but screw who ever put the Endemic Spider underground in the old Mines
And people say Rise's maps are shallow!
A very deserved placement in my books. And a great thematic fit too! Christmas will be upon us in just under two weeks and although it certainly won’t be white and snowy everywhere you can never be too careful. Best stay warm during the winter and what better way to do it than with a Christmas hat! The World Christmas Hat Assoziation would be glad to have a nother member. Unless of course your staying in the Savanna for the Winter. But I hear powerful creatures have been discovered in that area so…ahhh… I don’t know where I’m going with this but you are more than welcome to let your Forokururu wear a Christmas hat in these times.
@G1eatShad0w ...Ok
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They're really not
Idk map.
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