The in-game voting system of maps is enough to be honest.
Urban maps are nice when done right, such as Sweden though that one is huge…
All urban maps are better than Fields of Normandy, even Sun City.
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agreed we need more large maps for high tier gameplay, makes the matches longer and feel a bit more like a actual battle and not like a alley skirmish. i think gaijin could try and expand the large maps pool a bit there are several maps that are 4x4km like hurtgen and ardennes but we only have 1.6km or 2.1km layouts available
how i would rank the current 4x4km maps we can get in the current mm:
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european province offers the best of all the features we can have in a large map + featuring a large urban section aswell
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Surroundings of Volokolamsk is really good shame i rarely get in the mm good good foliage cover and offers decent terrain cover (would like a non snow version)
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fields of poland much same like european provinces but is a little to flat and lacking in cover imo
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sands of tunisia very fun map with the middle and right side, left side is lacking a bit and is a bit to open
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pradesh very underrated map offers a very unique gameplay compared to the other maps but its worst feature is the spawns in square 4B and 5B they are very vulnerable to spawn camping
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red desert kinda fun to play very situational and can feel a bit disconnected between each objectives
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maginot very open map with no trees as cover to hide movement moving between places feels like a death sentence sometimes
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fire arc yeah you can shot from spawn to spawn on the left side its pure ass
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It’s really not enough. Too many tiny city maps to thumbs-down. There needs to be sweeping change to the top tier map pool.
I dont like fields of normandy, but the urban maps are still far worse.
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god this map sucks so much
sands of sinai is probably my favourite of the bigger maps
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i absolutely hate CQC city maps like advance to the rhine, abandoned town, alaska, american desert (in top tier! in lower tiers its okay since all tanks are turtles) theres also some maps depicting ww2 battle scenarios that have no place in top tier lore-wise
there are some city maps that i like mostly bcoz these give you the option to fight CQC or surround the city to look for sniper spots (as it happens in poland where you can chill and have fun without stressing too much), it just makes me very anxious to know there could be enemy in all directions all the time as it happens when you venture too deep into the city labyrinth
when i get any of the cqc maps i just refuse to play and choose anti air defense instead to do some community service for the gentlemen CQC enjoyers who are marching towards the labyrinth
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Nothing a good pair of headphones and some situational awareness can’t fix.
Arguably the most visually appealing map too, even after all this time.
I ♡ Fulda
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You can frankly edit the title to remove the “top tier” bit - those maps are miserable at every tier.
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It really isn’t, I played a few matches with the BUK, and they were horrible, the vehicle is very big and the maps are tiny and horrible, I died in less than 1 minute in a match in a hurtgen forest to a Type 10 that shot near base C and destroyed my launchers on respawn, the only match that was pleasant with it was on a big map, since there wasn’t an enemy camping on my respawn in 3 minutes
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I still like the advance over the rhine but not at the upper level, man there are 16 MBTs killing each other around base A, if you are in SPAA you are prevented from doing everything because your radar is covered by buildings, but it is still a good map up to 8.0 at most
Thats why I like it
I agree with everything you said, Poland could be reformulated a bit, Maginot too and we could have more things like European province and Fulda
I think there should be a mix of close quarters urban and long range maps and I think right now its working well.
I enjoy City Maps more than those wide open ones where you spend more time driving around and looking for Enemies than actually fighting, have barely any Cover if any at all against CAS and can get shot at from any direction of the Map from 2km away.
And all this ODL make it even worse, i’ve had multiple Matches on large Maps where i went for the Objective maybe saw 1-2 Enemies there and then Match was already effectively over because everyone already leaved at that point.
I think its just a loud minority who want larger or exclusively large Maps because in 90% of times its just boring and or sucks to play on them.
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not that big of a fan of fulda tbh its very difficult to move between the different points mid game. Since its all open field between the points surrounded by foliage and hills to hide in
i try to but if i put too much focus on this i get jump scared by a sudden shell coming from nowhere which is even worse in realistic battles, i get jump scared all the time and gameplay turns to scary survival horror jumpscare
This can vary, with Soviet MBTs for example I like to flank the castle and base C, with leopards for example I find it quite comfortable to shoot from a distance around B since there are good positions for tanks like it and the abrams which have good turrets.
i enjoy the small maps aswell but they are a bit to much some times. what i would prefer to see happen is the RB matchmaker be split in two for the different types to completely not ruin the gameplay for either sides:
quick match: focuses on small maps and quick gameplay and short lasting games with same spawn system as now
EC/long match: larger maps with longer lasting games focusing on slightly slower gameplay with a new spawn system
At the higher level, like 10.0 and above, all maps should be larger than 3x3km. Small or medium maps could still come, but less frequently. I have a premium account and I marked all the large maps as favorites since I only play the higher level and I keep getting things smaller than 1km.
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To be honest, since gaijin is lazy, this would a good option , you really gave a cool idea, like the option we marked to play in smaller teams in realistic aerial matches, we could have an option like larger matches that would only have large maps, i would like it
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