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[Telmasa]

So, honestly, I don't think anybody is happy with the CW maps we have. Popular opinion seems to be quite low around the CW forums & elsewhere.

I've noticed that the new maps are HUGE. HUUUUUUGE. With lots of cool features, no "DOTA lanes", they're awesome.
And plenty large enough to handle anything CW involves - and that there even seems to be many locations that would be ideal for CW spawns, bases, objectives, and more.

A major point here is that there's more than enough room on both these maps to try "dynamic" spawnpoints, where the game sends your dropship to a spawn that it deems is the safest from the enemy team's current locations - it's logical, immersive, and the only real cure to the dreaded "spawncamp".
(obviously this means objective placement should be fairly central unless we get a multiple-objective system going)

It's a given that there's alot being churned out and worked on and moved down the pipe right now for MW:O - and that alot is getting due priority over revamping Community Warfare.

Meaning, CW players are pretty much stuck with what they've got for the next, what, 6 months or so? Wild guess at best really, but....

In the light of a Steam Release being a goal, amongst other things, I think Community Warfare would be better off dropping the current maps. Which, I know, there is a lot of effort that went into trying to remedy the problems, and sometimes it did work, and much of the maps *are* pretty, but there are underlying problems that can't be fixed without a full map expansion overhaul in the same tone as is being done right now with public queue maps.

[Spleenslitta]

All those unclimbable walls and gates (bottlenecks) just ruins CW for me completly.
Even if spawncamping was perfectly dealt with through a sensible mechanic i still wouldn't touch CW because of the horrible map designs.

They could sprinkle 1 million C-bills on every CW participant whether they lose or not and i still wouldn't concider touching it.
I haven't touched CW in a very long time and i don't see much of a chance that i will in the future if things keep going like this.