'Moving around the map feels better, the map itself is more interesting to traverse, the positions are way more defined in Monolith so it's meaningful to pick who goes mid, offlane, all different kinds of things,' he tells me. I asked Winston to give me a rundown of the key elements as he saw them and it was a snack bar of MOBA terminology and gameplay variables/objectives: As a result there is a LOT to get to grips with. MOBAs are complicated beasts at the best of times and one of the things Monolith is going to do is give the development team far more options when it comes to tweaking objectives and giving players ways to try to get the upper hand during a match. In terms of the other bits and pieces, it's harder to make a direct assessment of the changes both due to my lull in participation and due to the fact this is still a work in progress. I had to shake off a few direct hits from said tower and sheepishly walk back to the actual meeting point. Then I went into my lane at the start of the game and absent-mindedly ended up walking straight up to the other team's first tower because I was walking to where muscle memory told me the two opposing creep waves would meet. I haven't played Paragon in yonks and I thought I might not remember how big the previous map was. I played a couple of games on Monolith with some of the dev team and I'd say it's definitely smaller. The main goals were to trim down the size of the map (thus also eliminating the need for the travel mode aka auto-sprint which helped you get anywhere in a reasonable timeframe but messed with combat), offering more meaningful choices to players and bringing down the average length of longer matches. Monolith is replacing the older Legacy map as the team focus on improving the experience. Lead hero designer, Cameron Winston, is the one telling me about its development. Monolith is the rescaled and rebuilt map which each match of Epic's third-person MOBA is played on. 'Monolith is more than just a new map, it's really our reimagining of what we actually wanted Paragon to be in the first place and it's our better attempt at delivering that.'

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