Hi folks
I really am wondering: Why are Afghanistan matches so rare at higher tiers?
For me it’s one of my favourites, as it’s not flat as a pancake, and also now it’s look has improved quite a lot, but aparently everybody else hates it.
How so?
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I have nothing specifically against it, but I do have 2 things I dislike about it
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Being at high alt all the time heavily impacts FM performance, some aircraft are waaaaaay better suited for it than others. Some of my usual go to aircraft like the Tonka and Jag just get a bit floppy on the map. They handle sooooo much better at sea level. Let alone that some aircraft really struggle to even get airbourne with anything but a reduced warload. Bucs for example you have to run about half your normal weapons load to get airbourne.
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Clouds obscuring the runways. Its maangable but can be really annoying trying to land on an AF you cant actually see.
I also find the map a bit buggy with bases not working with CCRP, but thats not exclusive to Afghanistan.
im glad its rare. i hate high altitude maps. most of my preferred aircraft arent made for high alts at all
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I wouldnt say I hate it.
I rarely get to play that map bc of MM, and everytimes I get to play it, its in that big map mode that I hate because of the base/AI targerts emplacements.
A few hypothesis’:
People are afraid of the high altitude.
People don’t like that enemies can hide behind mountains.
Can’t control time of day or weather.
High altitude is objectively best, but it’s not easily shown.
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I love Afghanistan, haven’t played since the update but my biggest gripe before it was the convoys just sinking through terrain and sometimes they’d just despawn without clearing the objective properly. Huge pain in the ass.
My guess is that bombing bases is less convenient on this map, although I personally enjoy doing it with napalm particularly on this map.
I’m not sure what are thoughts on this map of PvP players.
It is indeed. Though, I’m not convinced that map aesthetics are a key factor in a game built around grinding and PvP gameplay.
The same applies to ground battles. Imagine if DLSS 5-level graphics became available to everyone tomorrow. I’d still expect most players to use settings that make enemies easier to spot.
Also, how many players besides me actually keep the “grass in the sight” option enabled?
I got to play its, its pretty good, not too much uneven terrain so its easy to multipath and plenty of mountain covers to hide, I like it.
You already know the answer lol
It doesn’t feel rare to me. I had 5-6 matches on this map last week at 14.0 BR