Dude, I played ground closed beta. Even Carpathians was edited to be bigger today than it was in the past.
The smallest maps in the game are all legacy maps.
The largest ground maps in the game are all newer maps.
Red Desert being the largest map ever produced.
And the reason enemies reach your spawn “in minutes” is because vehicles got faster, & people prefer the legacy smaller maps to the newer larger maps so the legacy maps get played more.
And care to share how many flanking routes there is in ‘‘huge’’ Red desert map? How many flanking routes there are in edited ‘‘larger’’ Carpathians map, huh?? You completely ignore Carpathians had many hills that you can use to flank but they were blocked/removed all around the map and teams are forced into only three routes! The worst of all in ‘‘larger’’ Carpathians there is still less than 1 km between spawns and both teams can start spawn camping within TWO MUNITES!! Yeah, such a good thing they did by editing the map and teams reach enemy spawn only because ‘‘vehicles got faster’’, such a joke you are…
There are at least 5 flanking routes on Red Desert I’ve used personally.
There are 4 flanking routes on Carpathians I used personally.
If all you have are insults to those that like large maps & flanking, then why are you in this thread to insult myself & the OP?
Care to draw those ‘‘flanking routes’’ please i really wonder how there are so many of them? Or perhaps you somehow consider going straight in open field as a flanking route even if you end up destroyed vast majority of time lol! In case you really have no idea flanking route means low risk route that you can safely use every time not driving in front of 10 enemy tanks and all old larger map versions had them with hills covering the routes. Sure, those hills could be used for hill camping as well with enough depression but at least such larger maps were preventing spawn camping so it was actually more enjoyable…
I have no intention to insult anybody nor i did such a thing, it is just your inability to mount an argument. The old maps offered more for ground tactics with flanking opportunities and new maps or smaller versions don’t offer this. You gotta try way harder if you think otherwise.