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?
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
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.
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:
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
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
