Maps Likes and Dislikes

[runawayfast]

Me and my pal have been playing Wows since beta I try to play every day. and every day we have the same discussion day in day out. We absolutely hate  The map Strait  there is no room to maneuver in a cruiser or battle ship as soon as you press W you spotted (bb's and cruisers) i play lots of DD and sometimes struggle to fire any torps for the sake of not hiting friendly ships.Is this just us 2 that finds this or is the same feeling apply to everyone ?

 

The Islands map I love but you only get that map in low tiers.Its great fun jumping from island to island WG please make a bigger version of this map for the higher tiers

 

 

[Tyrendian89]

a map without any interesting features, just a random smattering of islands without any structure to them? no thank you. I like it well enough for lower tiers because it keeps things nice and simple, but only there.

I don't really have any particular like or dislike for any maps any more, all of them play fine imo as long as you don't get them several times in a row. I used to hate cross-spawn Hotspot and Trap Zone with a passion, but both of those are gone these days, and Hotspot itself has been patched into a very good map in general.

[BadGene616]

Strait and hot spot both feature split starts for the team. Can't say I'm a big fan of either. It is an improvement from the old crossed spawn hot spot though, that was very painful at times.

Islands of fire (mordor-on-sea) is pretty but I see so many examples of poor play on that map, the meta is still a bit unformed, north spawn especially with BBS going to die in the top left.

I like ocean, and two brothers is a classic.

 

Thankfully ships isn't like tanks with totally corridor maps and there seems to be a lot more situational differences. 

 

A channel between islands can be a sneaky place for a cruiser or DD but can also be a path for a bb squads push. Most Mays have a meta but there is a lot of fluidity. Cause of the water ;)

[Korvettenkapitaen]

a little more room for BB to manuever would be nice, as some of them are realy slow in her turnrate.  starting at T6 (maybe 5) the maps should be a litte bit more bigger (more place) at the start point.

[runawayfast]

 definatly agree

Korvettenkapitaen

 

[runawayfast]

taking badgenes point on two brothers.. i have to disagree with you mate Ive never seen anyone have a good game doing down the middle on TB  I could be wrong would love to see replay / youtube and jingles would probably buy you a t8 premium ship if you did

 

[BadGene616]

taking badgenes point on two brothers.. i have to disagree with you mate Ive never seen anyone have a good game doing down the middle on TB  I could be wrong would love to see replay / youtube and jingles would probably buy you a t8 premium ship if you did

Woah, my lack of punctuation there really crossed the message!! *Shame*

God no that channel is only for very late game maybe for a suicide decap. I was actually thinking of the channels between islands on north or similar, nice and wide, usually a DD and cruiser playground but when three BBS come streaming through and shatter a flank can be nasty.

[Trigger_Happy_Dad]

I like Strait, no sailing around for several minutes but instant action.

 

I have no problems on this map with cruisers / BBs.....

[JaceUK]

Dislike . . . Ocean!

 

How can it even be called a map? Where's the World of Tanks 'Field' map? ;)

[Smeggo]

I don't like Fault line - unless I drive an Atlanta or DD

[Cosseria]

Strait has too much land taking away useful surface in the E and W points. Also there's no middle term between being totally exposed in the middle of the sea and being completely cut off the action by the bulky islands. The cross spawn with all that land in between means that the battle is fought by 2 vs 2 teams. The map is a bit better after the patch has dug a channel in the E Island but I still dislike it.

[fletch67]

I wonder if they could make a random map generator. no two games would be the same !

[Pastaiolo]

Only map i don't like is Two Brothers.

[MrFingers]

I've got no issues with certain maps, but it becomes VERY boring and annoying, if you keep getting the same map over, and over, and over, and over again. Maybe a new script has to be written, that prevents players from getting 3 times the same map in a row. I don't mind waiting a bit longer for that in cue.

[Surmaaja]

In BB:

Best: Ocean/Strait

Open maps are great for Battleships IMO.

Worst: Fault Line

Manouvering and pushing is hard without very good support. Everybody tends to bunch up at left flank.

 

In CA:

Best: New Dawn

I find New Dawn to be the most balanced map overall and makes CA gameplay very interesting.

Worst: Ocean/Strait

Most of the times you are fighting in the open, if BBs refuse to tank the shots you'll be focus fired to death.

 

In DD:

Best: Fault line

Easy to roam around the map within cover of the islands, not to mention the infamous torpedo valley.

Worst: Would've said old Hotspot because badly mirrored spawns, maybe North now because chokepoints are kinda narrow so you run into gunboat in IJN DD quite easily.

 

Overall I'd say New Dawn is my favourite map for all classes, I feel like it's reasonably well balanced. Ocean is the map I dislike the most generally for it's uninnovative gameplay.

[runawayfast]

Strait has too much land taking away useful surface in the E and W points. Also there's no middle term between being totally exposed in the middle of the sea and being completely cut off the action by the bulky islands. The cross spawn with all that land in between means that the battle is fought by 2 vs 2 teams. The map is a bit better after the patch has dug a channel in the E Island but I still dislike it.

 

My thoughts exactly mate

[Admiral_noodle]

I love strait. Nice focussed early battles and interesting strategies in domination over the all important caps.

 

Fault line I hate and always have. It's hide and seek foubd islands and often dull for a bb. Can't work out how to play that map.

[anonym_MfZ6T7iwWpUC]

There isnt any map I dont particularly like. But I have to say, just recently I have been having problems with Two Brothers, for some reason.

[M4R4Z]

Dislike . . . Ocean!

 

How can it even be called a map? Where's the World of Tanks 'Field' map? ;)

 

World of Tanks has been ruined by stupid maps, lots of bumps. hills and corridors added, now it's become "World of Corridors". Hopefully WoWS will not. Ocean is a good map. Also, most of important naval battles were fought in open sea.

[redhydra2015]

Me thats depend what kind of ships

 

for americans bb who  tier 7 and below who are of compact dimension, well armored , slow but can make tight turn and has shorter range than their japanese counter part, i prefer to play on maps like new dawn, fault line, solomon island and two brothers where there are lots of island to take cover, especially since its harder to retreat from a fight on open water with an american bb. 

 

Same opinion for playing cruiser who has vulnerable citadelle like some of the japanese and german cruiser like konigsberg where i can use island to protect my broadside while i angle on a ship

 

i have however a better appreciation of big open maps with less islands when i play a japanese bb who tipically are longer, faster and has better range but has a longer turning radius because they they can more easily dictate the pace of a battle without taking cover behind an island to avoid concentrated fire

 

i am however not a big fan of north with the 4 control points

[gr0pah]

taking badgenes point on two brothers.. i have to disagree with you mate Ive never seen anyone have a good game doing down the middle on TB  I could be wrong would love to see replay / youtube and jingles would probably buy you a t8 premium ship if you did

The middle is often noob/suicide territory. But I've seen plenty of good games/plays from going down middle.

 

One of my most resounding losses on TB came from the most super random heavy push through mid with 3 BB and a smattering of CA and DD. Our entire team (split between west and east as usual) just went WTF - and got capped super fast. Whole game over in like 5-6 minutes. 

 

Another good-ish game of was me in Ognevoi. I noticed a Fuso "sneaking" it's way through mid, so I plowed in there and nuked him (torps), quickly followed by a duel with his accompanying Minekaze (guns) and pure momentum carried me into enemy cap where I was killed by a lone Farragut (flesh wound torps). So in less than 3 minutes I killed three full hp ships. Of course my team then absolutely super derped and lost, but that's another story.

[EmilyFara]

I have to go with what most people seem to be saying (or it might be my personal bias)

The map I least enjoy was Strait. While in theory the fights can be fun but in reality 1 side gets completely roflstomped. You often see half of the map move to join up with their friendlies somewhere else, and more often then not you see the friendlies defending your home flag 'retreating' to the friendlies that are pushing the enemy flag leaving the home flag open for the taking. 

 I've even seen situations where the allies E went to 'reinforce' their allies W, and the allies W went to 'reinforce' their allies E. Thus everybody ending up in the middle behind those islands -_-.

Ah, and how many times you see 1 poor low tier BB being matched against 2 higher tier BBs on this map? And then I dont mean matchmaker fuckups, but positioning fuckups.

[anonym_gCiyicUsNYGl]

the map based on some place near canada.

 

it's called shutter i think? i might be wrong on the name but it's a map that is too small and too populated with islands

[Cosseria]

I think Straits exacerbates the issue of teammates quality and MM. You start off with 2 separate teams that can't work together and the weakest side is going to collapse quite fast, usually losing a CV in the process. Then the roflstomping side will join its allies and wipe away the rest of the enemy team. If the two sides want to join early in game, they either get overexposed in the middle channel or cut away from the action sailing in the narrow channels behind.

I think I've lost count of how many times I found myself alone as the last survivor on that silly map. It's too complex a map for the lower tiers it applies to.

[wongman66]

I think Straits exacerbates the issue of teammates quality and MM. You start off with 2 separate teams that can't work together and the weakest side is going to collapse quite fast, usually losing a CV in the process. Then the roflstomping side will join its allies and wipe away the rest of the enemy team. If the two sides want to join early in game, they either get overexposed in the middle channel or cut away from the action sailing in the narrow channels behind.

I think I've lost count of how many times I found myself alone as the last survivor on that silly map. It's too complex a map for the lower tiers it applies to.

 

I am hating this map with a passion. 90% of the time4/5 ships instantly head for the middle, and BBs then get picked off by torps in the narrow channels. And becasue you get spotted so early you initially concentrate on the immediate danger to avoid fire and see what you can hit then look at the minimap, your team has deserted you.

 

Tried typing in chat before battle to stick together, -still they desert you. Type nothing still they desert you.

 

You cannot win surrendering so much of a map in the first few minutes.

 

If they have to split the teams, do it all north or all south.

 

This map is OK in ranked becasue all 7 spawn together.