I understand that map bans and more votes are a selling point for premium, but map likes/dislikes should be unlimited:
I don’t want this to be a whole thing about “eww, you like that map!?” or “how could you like that map? it awful!” but there’s probably no stopping it:
these are my liked, banned and disliked maps for GRB
My problem with this is that it doesn’t properly represent what I like.
For this, my opinion on 90% of maps is the same. I don’t really like Campania (Italy) but not so much to put it in my bottom 4, however as far as gaijin can tell I like it just as much as Test Site 2271 which I like but not in my top 4.
On top of this, we can’t vote for individual variants.
I hate Small Tunisia, but I don’t have it disliked because I also love the full sized version
Opposite for Ardennes, where the full sized one sucks, but the smaller one is IMO one of their best maps (low bar)
If gaijin let us vote for each map variant separately and vote on all maps, they would have a far better idea of what maps the community likes and dislikes
allow us to like and dislike all maps, but keep the map ban for premium as they need a selling point for premium in fairness.
and have all map scenarios and seasons as separate maps in the selector. poland winter is worse than summer even though the geometry is the same, the look is worse and camouflage works less
But allow banning all versions of a map with folders.
It can get a bit… ridiculous with 2 maps being almost the same in all the bad ways, but because it has a white coat of paint, you cannot actually avoid it.
I like to ban a map, if I get it multiple times in a row, especially if I don’t like it in the first place.
I wish you could make likes/dislikes for different BRs and select them like we have BR lineup presets. Some maps do not apply to my higher lineup, but they are still liked/disliked/banned, even though I would never get them at that certain BR.
In addition, it would be great if we had ability to fully ban map with all variations, able to ban 1 map (at least) without premium account and expand maximum bans up to 3 with premium account. For example, I hate both Vietnam air maps, but I can ban only 1 variation that depends on accessible BR’s.
this game should already have some fundamental changes in the way queuing and matches work
you should be able to pick which maps you want to queue for similar to games like csgo, pubg etc, literally almost every modern pvp game does it this way, the like/dislike/ban is too vague and doesnt feel like it does much to help you play what you actually want
most air maps should be scraped and make some actual realistic landscapes, how are there still houses randomly scattered on near vertical mountain slopes with no attention to detail in a 2024 game that is in top 10 most played games on steam, if individual modders can put together custom maps gaijin should have plenty of resources to give some extra (or more like beyond bare minimum) work into maps
last thing is more of a gameplay suggestion but i think a way to reduce top tier furball and spread out players across the map without increasing the map size and making the matches any longer is to have a few individual “priority objectives” in random parts of the map, not like current air objectives which dont attract players or fights towards them but actual important ones that dictate who wins the game if held, this could for example lead to 4 smaller hotspots with 4 players per each team instead of 32 players dead in the middle of the map, map size would also matter more since players would need to fly to specific parts of the map instead of bigger maps making no difference aside from taking 1 minute longer to reach the middle furball
