Moon Map Day 1 Thoughts
I played the new map for about 3.5 hours tonight. I enjoyed it a lot. I loved the oversized POIs. I loved the zip line things. This is going to be a great season for pubs I think.
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- @hayhor
Map is... acceptable. Loot feels thinner than ever. The guns I don't want are everywhere and the two that I do want are even harder to find than last season, or so it seems. The ziplines seem like fun, although also feel like a passive nerf for Pathy. But then everything does these days. The matchmaking seems to have decided that all thirsters be put in my lobbies and that's sucking some of the fun out of the new map, but I'm sure that will pass and I'll be able to be more objective. Or would care less if I had a triple take. @hayhor I'm loving it, the detail is incredible. Zip lines are fun and there's loads of loot. Movement and response times from a controller seem to have been improved.
I love the new map. Absolutely love it. Please erase all other maps. It's like they've designed a map ideal for my main skills (good at mid/long-range, good at sneaking up, average at CQC, poor reaction times).
After 50 or so games I've had six wins. My KDR for Season 14 ended up at 1.34 but for Season 15 it's currently 2.45.
Enjoying the new legend too. Because I play Fuse about 95% of the time I can only play legends with an 'offensive' tactical as when I play and see a knuckle-cluster opportunity I auto hit the left button, which is why anyone who plays with me when I'm playing Lifeline wonders why I pop the heal-bot out when there's absolutely no need for it.
@EdwardDLuffy wrote:which is why anyone who plays with me when I'm playing Lifeline wonders why I pop the heal-bot out when there's absolutely no need for it.
Haha, I am also guilty of this 😅
I am actually a little surprised most of the comments are quite positive, nice!
For me personally, I am not enjoy this map much at all. As far as I am concerned this map is literally Storm Point 2.0
We know the Dev's always mention not to rely on loot in bins.... that main loot is in buildings. With that being said, why is most POI's 80% loot bins with minimal ground loot.
Overall loot in general on Bowel Movement is awful. Played for 2 days, consistently awful. Like Recon said - can find all the crap loot you don't want and struggle to find decent or good loot.
I do not see the zips as a positive thing whatsoever. They divide the team on a regular basis. I play with randoms and these zips literally create even worse teammates disappearing. Once they are on it, they are gone. I don't want to navigate and strategize positioning and so on, relying on zips to get around counters those very things.
Too much foliage again same as storm point. Fine if you run a scan legend, but I do not and refuse to resort to scan legends to play. Its an integrity thing. I want to rely on skill and positioning, not a given hack which requires little to no skill. But for a non scan legend, I found areas of the map where on flat ground battling someone 25 meters away, the foliage actually surpassed mine and my opponents heads. Dumb! Guess this is where Advantage gets to have some fun.
I am surprised that considering the new legend in my opinion is best suited for close quarters combat in confined places like caustic - that most of the buildings are massive and not as viable to that characters kit. I assumed that based on her kit, Bowel Movement was going to be the opposite of SP and have many small buildings and many areas which would focus on CQC.
Anyways, it has some nice things but overall, Two thumbs down. I now am just waiting to play some Olympus.
P.S. - MM is awful out the gate.
Overall, I am already not feeling this season, and thinking I might uninstall till the next one. I still have 9K legend tokens, so if I want the season 16 legend (if they push another one) would not take long to get.
New character is meh. The whole point of the Ult was to block scans, but it doesn't work, so no point in using her.
Matchmaking is still trash. Should not be fighting prestige leveled preds with my new level 20 potatoes on my team. Should be a bunch of us similar level ~200 trash in my lobbies.
#FixTheMatchmaking!
And side note, I now see why everyone comes to this board for tech support. NO ONE PAYS ATTENTION OR RESPONDS in the technical issues forum. I posted a question there about why my menu cursor is drifting down when I am not touching the stick. Only happens in this game, not getting the issue in any other FPS with menus I play (Destiny 2, Cyberpunk 2077). But no responses.
I have "won" just one game so far, and that's in quotes because I died after getting one whole assist in ring 4 or 5, and then the game was won by our Bloodhound who for ONCE lived up to his name. So I don't count it when they had my banner but there was no respawn beacon in area and no one had a mobile.
- @Cheese9Man I think it could be entirely feasible to add a Zip Rail system to Storm Point, and this would improve its game flow overall. Obviously, this would detract from BM’s uniqueness so they won’t do that.
I too have been thinking about ways to improve SP. But I’m biased— I want to change SP to make it a better pubs match. It’s clear that they are dedicated to using SP and WE as the official comp maps. So ultimately, I think they do want matches to play out a bit slower and methodically.
I think they should just lean into the idea of dedicated pub and ranked maps.
Pubs: KC and Olympus
Ranked: WE and SP
I haven’t played ranked on Broken Moon so I can’t speak on it yet.
