Wow, remember this map well, we didn’t even know it was deleted
It was a really good map. I say the game lacked something
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It had a few issues.
The largest one was spawnpoint location, and the amount of mud on the map. One spawn was placed on a muddy hill, which made it very slow to get out. The other was overlooked by the castle wall, which made it easy to spawncamp.
The other issues, was traction. Many hills were too steep to normally drive up, which made traversing the map annoying.
I want it to return, but slightly reworked. It was a decent map.
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Gaijin try not to make tanks horrible at climbing the slightest incline challenge (level impossible)
In all seriousness I feel the map could be easily reworked if they took the time for it. I sadly never got to experience it for myself as I treated tanks as the shadow realm back then but would love to see it ingame at some point
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It’s funny, I see a lot of hate for Fire Arc, but I love that map. Huge and open, with small terrain features to use for cover, and a smallish central town that’s well enough disjointed from the rest of the map.
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sounds like if the battlements overlooking spawns were inaccessible and the mud was normal terrian the map would be ok
It takes time to completely flatten maps and remove every item of interest & make them bland and boring.
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It had balance issues. Russians had terrible win rates on the map because it generally catered to best gun depression wins. As a Brit main it was rare to lose it unless paired with Russians. Many locations tanks struggled to get around in due to mud and steep ditches and it was often difficult to relocate across the map due to blockages and sniping positions and before long it always ended with spawn camping to win almost every time. It needs a lot of work before coming back.
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While we are at that topic, what happened to Volokolamsk? I have not been getting this map for a long time, it is very sad as i loved the slight hills, you could really benefit of the -15° gun depression of the Sturer Emil.
What i also realized is, maybe i love the older maps more than the new ones, is because of the feeling of nostalgia playing on these maps? Especially carpathia, karelia, and white rock forest.
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Even if it come back, I don’t think it will be changed. Just like both Volokolamsk didn’t change anything. But White Rock was actually playable and good…
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