They already base maps on IRL locations. Hurtgen, Port novo, Stalingrad, and abandoned town are all based on real locations.
Making maps for WT from scratch would be difficult, but I believe that it can be done better, and that old maps can be made better too.
Those would be gigantic even scaled down, we need EC to be the default game mode at that point (and I would be for it). Keep these quake maps in arcade.
Players aren’t Gaijin, and @Exocetta for WT maps to be “COD” they’d all have to be Berlin sized, which is banned from top matches currently.
Urban combat are the thing most tankers from every nation irl want to avoid much as possible but seem Gaijin really don’t know how tanks combat actually works it common knowledge even two years old kid know that but gaijin don’t
It hugely benefits the USSR TT due to how many IFVs they run. More than any other nation. Plus USSR had defense in mind. Sit and camp is a big part of their defense plan. They aren’t designed for offense, as you can see from the nearly 10,000 losses in the last two years.
Open maps would benefit countries like Sweden, Germany and USA because they could do what they were built to do.
From all other nation Sweden are the only nation who can beat Russia in it own game due to they are using Leopard 2A5 with heavy armor and spall liner for German it take 2A7V to able to do that while Sweden had three of them
And cost them become most OP nation in the game because RU main can’t just shoot anywhere in the hull and win
Ahhh but that knife fight close quarters combat keeps the queue times down and Gaijin are nothing but slaves to their queue time obsession.
Sprawling open maps with hull down positions just encourages camping, static long games which is definitely what Gaijin do not want.
Not to put ideas in their silly little heads but the next move would be a shrinking zone like the plethora of first person shooters, herding you into that kill zone to shorten the match time, and if you do not move you get destroyed or kicked from the match.
Sarkasm?
Otherwise quite contrarty, soviets builded their tanks to concquer western europe an their tanks are ment for an assault.
Western designes were ment for the defence, sit behind the ridges in hull down positions and making as much damage as possible on advancing soviet mechanized troops.
Have you seen the current situation in Ukraine? They certainly weren’t built to conquer anything. Can’t even defend much less. The russian invasion has turned into the russian defense.
Western designs HAVE conquered. Western tanks are the only tanks to have pushed forward and conquered in modern history.