I have seen people criticize skull town and fragment as gun run maps. I disagree they are bad. Both offer multiple ways to play. Skulltown you can play height as much as you want but you can also roam the ground floors as a defensive character. Fragment has two POIs, stream building and train station. So if a defensive team is owning streamer building, you can fight the other teams at train station and leave them to sit there. I play path and caustic on both without issue. These are two characters at the complete opposite end of the spectrum.Haunted estates though only has the one major POI. People run at the middle and top of it like bugs to a light source. The only other option is to sit outside it and try and pick people off. It lacks variation. If you a a defensive character you have trouble just getting to a point to setup. If you do setup eventually you are overwhelmed and now have to try to get there again. Mobility characters can get around on it best but even they get shot from all around. It feels like for me Fuse is the only character that is fun on the map. And this is only because you can stand outside and spam knuckle clusters, which is pretty cringe.Moving forward I would avoid having any map that has one place that you know would be the spot everyone flocks to. Gardens, with the boundary being before ultimate height, would be a much better map for gun run than estates. A place like solar array would be more fun as well.

Solar Array and Cargo Hold are still my Gun Run recommended maps.

@pandareno1999 Roofs on Skulltown are easy. Just go up on the skeleton and you have a perfect view of all three rooftops. That's my main complaint about that map, that North spawning teams have the advantage at the beginning of the game. If I spawn on the North I'm gonna have +3 kills in the first minute after making my way up there. Spawn on the South and you have to rotate to a decent spot or pick up scraps. Super imbalanced map.

@hayhor This map is a caustic mains dream playground. Try taking over the middle building in the tower in haunted estates. From there as caustic, you set up one gas trap at the end away from the stairs, and one at the entrance by the stairs, both must be slightly hidden. From there you can go into the plant in the corner by the stairs, and just pop out whenever somebody gets slowed in your gas. Even if they take the time to aim at the bottom, that’s enough for you to pop out and get the kill while they’re distracted. If you get killed and someone takes over the middle middle house, throw your gassy ult in and thrive in the chaos. I am able to consistently get over ten kills for my team this way. I saw one guy doing something like this when the gun run map was released, but they did it poorly, and only hid in the plant, I perfected it.Ps don’t have any glowing skins, gun skins or heirlooms, the plant is dark enough to mask you, as long as you don’t glow, and have a relatively dark skin. (Tho skin in the shop, or the battle pass works great for this) best wishes and happy gaming!

@BigMacAttack8u Hiding and waiting for cheap kills is not peak play for anyone or any legend.

@hayhor The point of the game is kills, it’s not cheap, it’s smart.

Haunted Estates is a Poor Gun Run Map

27 Replies

CCbathwater
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
Oh yeah, if you're playing Caustic and you sit in a corner with a trap - hiding, and you still lose to Green Widow Lifeline, despite shooting her in the back at first... I will bag you.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@CCbathwater And you should. I bag them when I kill them as Fuse. lol
Redmattgame
3 years ago
Haunted Estates for me is certainly the worst map on Gun Run for a few reasons mostly because the map is just too small to do anything other than to kill then be killed or vice versa within moments of respawning,HE seems considerably smaller than the other 2 maps Fragment & Skull Town.Secondly despite Haunted Estates being a night-time map the colouring is awful particularly in terms of visibility of enemies in the various rooms dotted around the map where all enemies are effectively black in colour in a black background & works well for players who love hiding in those dark corners (a map that only benefits therma scanning characters it seems) .Thirdly the Haunted Estates location isn't even what I would consider one of the better POI's on the Olympus map to base a map on.Off the top of my head I could think of at leat 4 or 5 POI's that would make for better maps ie Rift Aftermath,Grow Towers,Bonzai Plaza,Docks,Super Carrier/Arcadia.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Redmattgame Please no to grow towers. Unless at least 2 are in the map.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
Good lord, imagine Grow Towers rotating around, with no loot pills for cover and nine enemies. That sounds like something from Dante's Inferno to me. At least it might be easier to get off of the Charge Rifle, Triple Take and the 30-30, lol.
Cheese9Man
3 years ago
Solar Array and Cargo Hold are still my Gun Run recommended maps.
pandareno1999
Hero+
3 years ago
I played several rounds tonight on Estates where all of the action was on the periphery. They were really good. Also super fun for me on this map is how much you can grief the "middle" players with Fuse. Great suggestions, @Cheese9Man.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@pandareno1999 The only way I can play the map is as fuse. And that's the issue. One playstyle. It stinks and if it becomes permanent I'll play something else when that map rotates. It's basically the SP of fun run for me now.
hayhor
Hero
3 years ago
@Cheese9Man These would be good. Both have different pois within.
dSKyNafinchin
Hero
3 years ago
@hayhor I have to agree. We still had some fun matches on Estates, but me and both my buddies definitely prefer the other two maps. We stuck to the perimeter, and rarely went into the mid tower, but that tended to have us netting kills at a slower pace than the top team, since we were usually the only team doing that.

I feel like Artillery or Hydro could be fun maps, as long as both big buildings are included. That would allow for some pretty fun fights. Your two suggestions would be fun as well