The new map can trivialize the entire fighting if you happen to get to the final spot and everyone else becomes marginalized from any change to get inside by being trapped by terrain, and that is so dumb, a team with 20 kills can lose to a team with 100 damage

Basic awareness of your environment and spacial relation to the ring and timer prevents this from happening.

@ChocotrocoCL No games are suddenly about map awareness - all games are already about map awareness, lol. It's an utterly essential skill for all games that have a map.

@ChocotrocoCL I think someone doesn’t have a full understand of what map awareness means exactly.There’s only one place on this map that I really hat for being too open; and that’s the purple fields outside train yard. It is waaaay too open in my opinion and could do with some cover being thrown in here. Even if it’s a relatively small compound like they had in Kings Canyon.What I think a lot of people also conveniently forget Is this EXACT argument was made on Kings Canyon! Has everyone conveniently forgotten they added ALOT of cover into open areas in a later update in response to feedback. Especially in the fields where Labs was eventually put.

@DarthVaaparYeah, I killed a squad the other day in the tunnel to train-yard area.The last ring landed on the trainyard.I saw two teams fighting outside the tunnel to the train yard. so me and my squad camped the fork to the tunnel.I took one side of the fork to the tunnel, and my squad took the other.We killed everyone running in from the storm to get into the train-yard.It was funny easy kills.It was like shooting fish in a barrel.Then we killed the last squad that decided to camp the trainyard.I used my Bangalore's smoke to exit the tunnel to trainyard.Then we wiped the floor with that last squad.We won that game. gg

@ChocotrocoCL One thing makes a huge difference between winning and dying to third parties: when to snipe. Just because you can hit one person for 92 charge rifle damage, doesn't mean you should immediately shoot them. This map is much more about awareness of other possible teams. Every game i have won on the new map (30 so far) has been with either:consistently team sniping individual enemies to death AND then pushingormoving to an advantageous position before taking "pot" shots at enemy teams.There are a lot of open areas where taking a sniper shot will instantly get your team sniped at from multiple locations.** Patience and position are key to this new map. You really cannot rambo anymore.

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DarthVaapar
7 years ago
Basic awareness of your environment and spacial relation to the ring and timer prevents this from happening.
hhnbbfggty66
7 years ago
@DarthVaapar
Yeah, I killed a squad the other day in the tunnel to train-yard area.
The last ring landed on the trainyard.

I saw two teams fighting outside the tunnel to the train yard. so me and my squad camped the fork to the tunnel.
I took one side of the fork to the tunnel, and my squad took the other.
We killed everyone running in from the storm to get into the train-yard.
It was funny easy kills.
It was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Then we killed the last squad that decided to camp the trainyard.
I used my Bangalore's smoke to exit the tunnel to trainyard.
Then we wiped the floor with that last squad.
We won that game. gg
ChocotrocoCL
7 years ago
if suddenly this game became about map awareness they would have removed every door that is so clearly placed just to allow you to walk in any direction without knowing the design of every corner, if anything this game was about rememering that the circle was closing soon, not about checking if you can access a 20 meters tall wall in the next two iterations of circle closing just because you couldnt revive your pathfinder or maybe he happened to use her ult in order to win a FIGHT, and what im describing is exactly what happened to me, a team with about 25 kills lost without having the chance to exchange bullets
MoNosDirtyGamin
7 years ago
@ChocotrocoCL it's because the new map is trash, this map specialised long range gameplay, theres no cover whatsoever when you're the last person alive, and you have to run away to heal, you end up running into 3 other squads.
Anlbrd
7 years ago
@ChocotrocoCL No games are suddenly about map awareness - all games are already about map awareness, lol. It's an utterly essential skill for all games that have a map.
ChocotrocoCL
7 years ago
@Anlbrd Nope, this game has escape paths in every general direction except for some tunnels and huge terrain walls which are clearly an accidental feature and imposibly a design element, also, if the developers intended to have any sort of terrain or map awareness other than the timer for the circle they would NOT make the AI tell you when theres other squad coming into the fights, thats exactly against any bit of map awareness, so you are clearly and deeply wrong
DarthVaapar
7 years ago
@hhnbbfggty66 It’s a battle arena with a contracting ring. What you describe ie excellent gameplay. Very nice.
hhnbbfggty66
7 years ago
@DarthVaaparXD...
you know what im talking about, the fork to the tunnel that goes to trainyard. huh
Battlefield awareness
😉
DarthVaapar
7 years ago
@hhnbbfggty66 I know exactly where you’re talking about. I died there this morning. 😆
tronic1987
7 years ago
@ChocotrocoCL I think someone doesn’t have a full understand of what map awareness means exactly.

There’s only one place on this map that I really hat for being too open; and that’s the purple fields outside train yard. It is waaaay too open in my opinion and could do with some cover being thrown in here. Even if it’s a relatively small compound like they had in Kings Canyon.

What I think a lot of people also conveniently forget Is this EXACT argument was made on Kings Canyon! Has everyone conveniently forgotten they added ALOT of cover into open areas in a later update in response to feedback. Especially in the fields where Labs was eventually put.