Anyone Else Find This Problem?

xioutlawix

<div class="IPBDescription">Regarding the new mini/popup map</div> For all the 1.0X maps, we learned them by being able to identify our location by scenery, then choose path to our desired destination.

However, with the new maps, all I've been doing is holding down mouse4 (which I bound to the popup map), and walking around that way, following my lil cursor as it walks along til I get to my destination.

Something makes me feel like I'm cheating myself in this manner. If I have to rely on the minimap completely to get around, and will most likely continue to do so at this rate, will I ever really learn the map? ie., be able to navigate it simply based on my surroundings?

Maybe its my personal interpretation, but I also feel like a lot of the new maps are very plain, several of the rooms look very much like any other, adding to the confusion of navigating without the minimap.

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Jabba_The_Hunt

yeah, I felt the same at first, but I slowly learnt just to hold the minimap down for a second while i get my barrings on where to go next, this way I still learn the map, and I think the new maps are quite good, although a few of them do look samey.

Snidely

I think you still learn the basic layout (I need to go down the corridor second on the left...) and because you can still see location name and "landmarks", you sorta subconciously know where to go. I've figured out mos tof the new maps, but only with the minimap's help.