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[The Silent Protagonist]

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I'm interested to see what the community as a whole thinks of all the maps. Lets not go into the map rotation because we all know that's a bit pansy, but instead focus on the maps themselves. Pick your most vilified and say why you hate it. Let it all out. I won't judge.

For me? Caustic.
It always ends up as a fracas around the caldera where everyone overheats (I know for a fact it's not just me ) and pussyfoots around the rim in a lumbering, metallic, bipedal, farcical imitation of whack-a-mole. The increased heat generation is not the problem, I think it's the only redeeming feature, but it does get tiresome when duels are often interrupted by mechs overheating trying to get that last alpha off to kill the opponent. Fights never flow well.

Plus, if I accidentally activate heatvision all I see is:

Edited by Lt XKalibur, 04 March 2013 - 04:53 AM.

[Sean von Steinike]

None. All. I like them all but hate them when I get them over and over and over again in a row.

[El Penguin]

River city night. Night vision makes my eyes bleed and I rather not be in thermal all the time.

I like the night feature of it being all dark but they need some lit up areas or else it's just thermal/night 24/7

Edited by El Penguin, 04 March 2013 - 04:15 AM.

[Budor]

Alpine. So boring. Nothing to look at. Just terrain.

[Grand Ayatollah Kerensky]

Alpine on conquest is literally the devs trolling us.

[smokefield]

any night map.

[Inertiaman]

I never figured out what part of that map being substantially brighter and clearer made it night.

[Arete]

River city night. Would be ok if night vision wasn't so horrible. And feels like I play it 90% of the time, even though I know I don't.

[Krell Darkmoon]

You should add a "None I like them All" to your Poll

[Joseph Mallan]

Hate caustic. The heat.

[jper4]

river city night followed by river city. we hates them! we hates them forevers!

RCN anyway as being partially color blind i can't really use thermal or night vision very effectively until i'm right on top of another mech (or see it fire- then i blind fire in that general direction and hope for the best- blue arrows on a blue background doesn't help either). river city in general i manage to find all the places to get stuck in.

[Slaytronic]

alpine simply because it breaks the balance of the economy the matches on that map are longer which means you get less for your time and seeing how the upcoming maps are bigger also i am thinking money changes will need to be made

[PanzerFurrry]

By far the worst player experience is on River City Night, folowing with the River City Day. The map is so small, it always degenerates into the same hectic clashes and LRM/PPC spamming with zero visibility and tactics. Map should be at least twice as large, with two rivers and and an islet for THETA waypoint.
Also, I can't even remember how many times I got stuck on lamps, buildingblocks, walls and whatever the architecture is.

[Inertiaman]

I think RC/RCN would be a far far better map with some custom game options - i.e. Lights only etc. Similarly if we had the ability to choose map or mech I'd probably enjoy alpine much more. Currently it's simply a very good reason to roll the 3L in all games just in case it pops up.

[Wolf Clearwater]

River City Night is by far the worst. Night Vision is useless, thermal is almost impossible to pick out friendlies and enemies. I call it Team Kill Night, I have seen FAR more TK's on that map than any other, which suggests that I am not the only one with problems seeing on that map.

Edit: poor spelling

Edited by Wolf87535, 04 March 2013 - 04:49 AM.

[The Silent Protagonist]

Krell Darkmoon, on 04 March 2013 - 04:25 AM, said:

You should add a "None I like them All" to your Poll

Done

[Odanan]

River City Night. It could be good to have a very dark map, but not with so many obstacles.

BTW: I love Caustic!

[loliza]

most hated map is the commodore 64 vision map also known as RCN

Edit: caustic is my favorite brawler cents have dreamy cooling effecieny

Edited by loliza, 04 March 2013 - 05:01 AM.

[Darwins Dog]

River City night. It's too likely to turn into a double cap rush, and for some reason it seems to come up a lot more often than the other maps for me.

[Chrithu]

River City Night.

Because it is River City (the problems of that map have been discussed a lot of time I won't repeat them here).

Because Nightvision simply sucks for working in a very strange way, like TOO MUCH HIGHLIGHTS, especially on this map, you can't for the love of god tell mechs from buildings most of the time if it wasn't for the boxes around them or the triangles above them. Simply put: Nightvision is currently in an unplayable state on all the maps and you must be blind to not realize this.


Next to River City and River City Night my most hated map is Forrest Colony (normal not snow, snow is fine and actually one of my favorites along with Frozen City Maps) because I still get those freaking HDR blackouts in brawls.