Most favored / Least liked maps

[daki]

As there is rather limited discussion about maps, lets see what the community thinks about the existing maps.

Please choose 2 most favored and 2 least liked maps.

As the focus is on map design and related gameplay, amount of bugs on the map should not be a criteria. As an example, even though Islands of Ice is bugged as hell, I believe the map is quite good .

 

[krautjaeger]

To be honest all maps except 'ocean' just feels like the same map to me. Water, islands in the middle and/or variations on the topic. I have no real idea how to make interesting maps though.

[Exodude]

Do you have pictures that go with the names, because I never pay attention to the name of the map lol.

[Mindfulcrane07]

i could only vote for 2 favs so i will just say here i also like Big Race 

 

[daki]

Do you have pictures that go with the names, because I never pay attention to the name of the map lol.

 

Fair point

I will be adding them to the original post as I play the maps.

[OnboardG1]

I really don't like ocean. It's featureless, uninteresting and favours battleships too much. It reminds me of Prokh or Stalingrad: maps that screw one class hard enough to make you slap your head on the table. The same goes for New Dawn, which is poor for battleships. It's not good map design.

[ShipTheNutz]

Island of Ice.

Not a bad map, but slowly strating to ahte it when you get it 80% of times with BBs, maybe just my poor luck. 

 

Cry with me guys.. 

[Loopstahblue]

Despite the simplicity I like Ocean, this is after all a game taking part at sea and many battles occured in the middle of nowhere. Plus it makes it harder for people to hide behind an island for half of the game.

[Xerkics]

I dont think any of the maps i played are particularly good to be honest they are all missing something.

[DreadArchangel]

Islands of Ice, my most disliked map have to say, there is no need for it.

[Orlunu]

Ocean is the absolute best.  The people who are saying that it's too biased towards BBs just haven't learned to use positioning relative to other ships.

 

Fault Line is the absolute worst.  It has such stupidly cramped fighting areas.  My DDs do well in them, but they're far from balanced.

[Generic_Guy13]

Islands of Ice got some hate :L I love it in my DDs, but everyone needs to learn to to go to the ice pack on A point in a BB. You will get sunk there.

[Hanszeehock]

I think familiarity breeds contempt. When you get Fault line, domination mode, four times in a row, it's easy to hate 

 

[Kruzenstern]

I probably hate Fault Line the most, but only because it is almost always that funkiller Domination BS mode. The map itself is okay.

[VanZant]

 

In that Island of ice map all the depth perception is gone. You cant tell where one iceberg is ending and where the next is beginning. At first didnt even knew how to get to the A or D cap in domination mode. If you wanted a surprise map in which the ships just come out of the blue and surprise you well you did it with this one .

[Hero_of_Tython]

Island of Ice.

Not a bad map, but slowly strating to ahte it when you get it 80% of times with BBs, maybe just my poor luck. 

 

Cry with me guys.. 

 

You're lucky, I've only ever had it twice, and both times with a Carrier. All I seem to get is New Dawn and Fault Line, so I'm totally sick of them

[SailingDutchy]

i like all maps for so far

[Cattro]

Ocean is my favourite, the sky is amazing in it. But I feel most island maps are very similar and they bore you quickly. But again, I am waiting for the urban/coastal/harbour maps. It'll get interesting then!

 

[SBS]

I don't like the Ice map. Too many bugs on it and there is just too many narrow passage ways all over the place. It's lovely in my DD's but everything else it just bad. Doesn't help to get stuck on an invisible glacier or hit one when you think you got a clear line of fire.

[Loran_Battle]

Pretty much hate Islands of Ice... Invisible walls everywhere. Might be fun without the bugs, but even then. All the white screws up the HUD, so I can often not see where I'm aiming, nor who i'm aiming at (nor read the info when pressing alt).

 

Though thats a common thing: I'd love to be able to customize the color of my HUD. White often gets drowned out.

 

Love the ocean map! I really hoped they would put one of those in, and it is fun in my opinion.

 

Most maps are mostly the same though. No idea how to change that... On the other hand; at least there are different maps. This game got really boring when just playing domination on the fault line map day in day out (a few weeks ago)...

[MaxxyNL]

Which maps you like the most

1. North
2. Fault Line

 

Which maps you like the least

1. Ocean (useless map)
2. Islands of Ice (no space to move with BB's)

 

[Conte_Vincero]

I love ocean, it's great fun in my cleavland picking where to go into range, and then doing a highly complicated series of zig zags and twirls while firing broadsides. You also get much larger fleet actions which you don't get on other maps. I'm supprised ice pack gets so much hate. Admittedly I've never sailed a BB there, but if you don't go into the ice packs then surely you should find enough space? Either way, it's great fun for cruisers.

[Vanhal]

Ocean is the best. Just not in US DD. New Dawn return also pleased me very much, it was my favourite map in alpha.

I absolutely hate Islands of Ice (unless in destroyer), bugged map overflowing with choke points, screwing perception and promoting cowardice, because attacking is usually suicide. Not to mention i seem to get it constantly above the 6 tier. 

Also mildly don't like North, lately all the battles are either tower defense from ships packed in base or chasing running enemies on max range.

 

Suggestion: make a sunken city map "Ruinberg in a Deluge"

[anonym_u8iWTTjoJPWA]

Why not use some of the "good" actual battle sites, like Layte Gulf for instance or something set in the Med as the inspiration for the maps? Granted Open Ocean gets you quite a few historical battles on its own.. 

 

[SailingDutchy]

is the artic island map removed ?