Where Are Pradesh and Red Desert in Rotation?

Hey everyone,

I wanted to bring up something that’s been bothering me for a while: the near disappearance of certain maps from the rotation—specifically Pradesh and Red Desert.

I’ve been playing consistently for years, and I honestly can’t remember the last time I got placed on either of these maps. In fact, I don’t think I’ve seen them in rotation for over a year now. Meanwhile, maps like Poland, Normandy, or Fields of Normandy show up on a daily basis.

It makes me wonder:

  • Were Pradesh and Red Desert quietly removed from the rotation or significantly reduced in frequency?
  • Is it a balancing issue (map size, spawn design, vehicle types, etc.) that caused them to be pushed aside?
  • Or is this just a matter of bad luck with matchmaking?

Personally, I really enjoyed both of these maps. Pradesh had a unique terrain layout compared to the usual European settings, and Red Desert offered a different kind of open engagement that felt fresh compared to the usual city-heavy maps. It’s a shame they’ve essentially disappeared.

So I’m curious: has anyone else noticed this? Do you still get these maps at all, or have they just become ghosts of the rotation? And if they really are out of circulation, would you like to see them brought back more often?

Maybe a Moderator or Dev could answer this question?

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Both maps are there:

Spoiler

pradesh
red desert

If you want to check other maps, simply go here:

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Yeah, oké. Thanks for the reply.

But i’m wondering why i haven’t gotten Pradesh for over a year now, eventhough i have liked the map Pradesh. That seems very odd to me.

Could you perhaps explain me why that is the case?

I did get them yesterday, wish I hadnt gotten the red desert

There are thousands of battles every day, I understand a certain number of those will be Red Desert or Pradesh

What OP was getting at is that the likelihood of getting one of the two seems very low compared to other maps.

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Yeah, not only that. But i know for sure i haven’t gotten a single Pradesh battle for almost a year now.

I actually got Pradesh yesterday, was a nice break from top tier MBTs being stuck in a shoebox.

Sadly it seems the overwhelming majority of players have these decently sized maps banned so they’re exceedingly rare.

I got a night battle on Pradesh yesterday, BR 10.7 :)

Not my favorite map in the world, the sightlines are too much in my humble opinion

Red Desert is goated tho

Edit: being able to see far is not my problem, it’s just that there’s no cover in between the two spawns on Pradesh it feels like. Whereas Red desert has many sand dunes you can move between

Can we trade? :)

My Japans for your Red Deserts

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Lucky you.

I’m getting the same maps every single time, i have reached the point that i will just leave the match before it even starts. Its getting extremely boring.

The only maps that i have been getting:

Ardennes (which i have banned now),
Test-site,
Seversk,
Sweden (Some times),
Abandoned Factory,
Iberian Castle (Although not a much as i used to),
and Eastern Europe (Some times)

I didn’t even know Port Novorossysk was still ingame.

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The single cap variant is diabolical, I hope the map designer steps on a lego

disgrace

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I JUST KARELIA, MY FAVORITE MAP!! (for real, it is my favorite map)

I believe that was the first ground map. I think it’s cool despite the small size

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Last pradesh on 1st page trace back to 2230
Last red desert on 1st page trace back to 2218
Last Poland/suncity/spaceport/ 2344 attica 2342 eastern europe 2331 normandy 2326

Pradesh and red desert should be sorta less seen indeed but not to my own record:


Not even once in these 2 wks.

The system is not broken btw:

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Just got Pradesh twice in a row, and as usual there was someone spawn camping the passage to C in the first 20 seconds of match, and clouds as usual making any sort of CAS impossible

they are far too rare tho.

ive now had more pradesh air matches in a week or so than i have in years of playing ground

What is the logic behind map selection? It obviously slightly biased from the start, given the ability to like, dislike, and ban maps, but there’s this paradox where maps hated by a large portion of the community (Advance to the Rhine, for instance) are chosen frequently.

There are also moments in both air and ground where I’ll get the same map over and over again, until it changes maps and the cycle repeats.

I remember being extremely lucky a while back to not only get a pretty full ground sim game, but also one at red desert. Whole lobby loved it, we all felt like we had to ration the match out due to how little it gets chosen as a map.

I’ve been at top tier for months now and have only gotten red desert 4 times, and I’m almost done with Rank VII.

I get how rare night battles can be, since a single player can prevent a game being at night, but it seems really really weird that certain maps have a higher likelihood of being chosen

After 9 months
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I got one round on Pradesh recently. Unfortunately it wasn’t very good.

The game sorely lacks good objectives to suit large maps. Cap the zone doesn’t fit well on large maps.