It was a star fortress castle…
The only thing I didn’t like about it (that most probably did :/) was that the fortifications were scaled for tanks, not realistically. There was no way tanks could drive on 16th century stone walls. Same problem Flanders’ “trenches” have, but luckily Iberia resisted doing that. Also making them look like ruins instead of an active “contemporary” defense… /rant
Hopefully they bring it back reworked and improved graphically.
+1 but fix the traction issues a lot of people whined about, in other words the issue with 70% of WT maps
Worst. Map. Ever. #GoodRiddance
Aral sea and red desert exist bro
I know, bro. My original statement stands, bro. White Rock Fortress is the worst map ever, bro. #GoodRiddanceBro
I unfortunatley never got to play it but have seen plenty of footage of the map in play and it really doesn’t look bad at all only really tripping up soviet and german heavies. nowadays with the higher mobility and better compression of low tier it will likely play better.
I like when people can’t seem to handle being called bro bro
Red desert is cool.
If i am in nato tank with thermals. Otherwise, it’s instant leave
I loved this map and was sad with its removal for rework just never to be returned.
Also, if you have issues playing on this map I would like to point out that I am a 0.8KD casual that is calling skill issue for not being able to figure out how to play one of the most versatile maps the game had.
Wanna snipe? : WRF
Wanna brawl? : WRF
Wanna flank? : WRF
Aral sea was my instant leave map for months. Red desert is so rare I play it for the novelty even tho its trash
Sure, if they improve all tanks ingame ability to climb inclines to a realistic and historical standard. Just use more slippery slopes for out of bounds areas and it should be fine really.
I don’t think it’s that the map is “bad”, not bad at all really. The thing is, when it was made, and several other older maps like Ash River and so on, “top tier” was about half what it is now in BR. Those maps were not made for higher BR’d, longer range vehicles at all. But Gaijin, using it’s “one size fits all” thing stuck BRs on there that in now way should have ever seen those maps. Later on they even made bigger maps and stuck BR ranges far too low on those as well.
Map sizes, spawn and cap point locations should vary a lot more than they do, this has always been a problem with map design and BR placement on some maps.
I mainly play Air AB and even there the problem is pretty evident. Nothing quite as much of a buzzkill and spawning on a map with your 4.7 prop line up only to realize . . .“this map is a jet map” . . . or trying to get ground kills in your 3.3 BR IL-2 on Rocky Canyon. . . . yeah . . . nah.
They get some of that sorted here and there, but it is still a persistent problem in almost every mode I play at times.
I don’t think there are many “bad” maps, but BR placement and the static locations of spawns & caps . . . just doesn’t work in many places
Something I personally would love to see being addressed at some point . . … Soon™
But we all like different things . … . this is the way
Afaik its out of rotation for now, few days (weeks?) back people noticed that there werent any matches played on this map since feb/march.
And i do not miss it one bit. Also no one said aral sea cant go to hell too.
Red desert is fine for BRs where most tanks have mobility.
will not be missed. By anyone.
I remember playing this map when I first started, lower BR’s it was utter chaos and fun
+1 we need
I miss that map. People overstate how much mud there was, it was a minor annoyance.
For high tier I love red desert, rare map that validates flanking and sniping ranges
at lower BR it was REALLY funny
white rock was around long before they oiled every map
Aha. Okay, so yeah… naw. It was a wretched map at any level in the past, and would only be even more so today (because everything gets worse in general the higher you go).