Tonight I tried to play for 10 minutes on the TDM map and couldn't stand it so I shut off because it was the map for an hour.Can we please just get all 4 maps on half hour rotation? This way if you are like me and have restricted play times you can at least get a couple games on maps you enjoy.Other shooters like SW BF2 do this. Why can't apex.

@DoYaSeeMeI really don't care about content creators. Most just make high damage high kill game videos. The other are doing ranked games so they are on storm point.And this isn't tricky or a hard concept. Other games have done it for years. As it is now you have to wait at least an hour for the other map and if you aren't a fan of either of these you are going to play something else.

@hayhor Or just make it to where we can choose which map we want to play.

@hayhor Well, doing map rotation right gets trickier with each new map added. A 30 minute rotation is too short, while a complete cycle of 2 hours is pretty long already. I would feel pretty annoyed to wait for 1.5 hours just to play 30 minutes on Storm Point, especially if I'd be a content creator / streamer.

@DoYaSeeMe Somehow other games with giant maps are able to do it. BF2042 which has gigantic maps and 128 players in a match will have 7 maps when it launches tonight. As I mentioned SW BF2 rotates you through maps almost every time you press play into a match. I'm not buying it is too hard to do. I just think they are featuring the last map with a major change and the new one for some reason. Heck last season we had all 3 in rotation.

@Redmattgame The game has worked fine for me. When they had 3 maps rotating it worked fine too. Multiple maps rotating faster will not cause issues.But as you say, WE for 1 to 2 hours in a slot where I only have a couple hours to play already has me playing less.In the past they forced 2 weeks on a new map and it was too much time. I just want options. And since I know they'll never allow me to pick, a half hour on each will give more options.

Please put all 4 maps on half hour rotation for pubs.

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DoYaSeeMe
4 years ago
@hayhor Well, doing map rotation right gets trickier with each new map added. A 30 minute rotation is too short, while a complete cycle of 2 hours is pretty long already. I would feel pretty annoyed to wait for 1.5 hours just to play 30 minutes on Storm Point, especially if I'd be a content creator / streamer.
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@DoYaSeeMeI really don't care about content creators. Most just make high damage high kill game videos. The other are doing ranked games so they are on storm point.

And this isn't tricky or a hard concept. Other games have done it for years. As it is now you have to wait at least an hour for the other map and if you aren't a fan of either of these you are going to play something else.
DoYaSeeMe
4 years ago
@hayhor If it isn't tricky, why don't we have it? Why wouldn't they just push a few buttons and cash in more $$? Everything's there, all that's needed is a config change, right?

There's always a lot more stuff going on behind the scenes. For example, I haven't seen any talk about how servers handle the switching of the maps. Do maps need to get uploaded to servers each match? Do all maps get uploaded at once and stay in memory of a server during the whole period it's borrowed from the cloud?
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@DoYaSeeMe Somehow other games with giant maps are able to do it. BF2042 which has gigantic maps and 128 players in a match will have 7 maps when it launches tonight. As I mentioned SW BF2 rotates you through maps almost every time you press play into a match. I'm not buying it is too hard to do. I just think they are featuring the last map with a major change and the new one for some reason. Heck last season we had all 3 in rotation.
DoYaSeeMe
4 years ago
@hayhor Hybrid cloud vs fully dedicated servers. Win some lose some, you can't have it all, everything is a compromise. Let's see how able is BF to scale and at what costs.
Redmattgame
4 years ago
Just adding Worlds Edge on rotation with Storm Point is just going to have me playing Apex a lot less this season & to add insult whenever I've loaded Apex to play over the past few days it seems WE has been on a 2 hour rotation.Has Respawn lost faith in Storm Point already or are they just playing fiddle to keep pred teams happy by just adding WE.
But in all seriousness can Apex & their volatile servers handle a 4 map rotation because as I've been playing the game currently the servers have caused the game to play like garbage with missed hit-box damage so much rubber-banding going on they may just as well add bungee jump mode.
dSKyNafinchin
Hero (Retired)
4 years ago
@Redmattgame I thought Storm Point and WE are the only two maps currently in rotation? They had it on only Storm Point for the first week or two, in order to showcase the new map. I'm just glad Olympus is gone for now. I hate that map, Lmao
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@Redmattgame The game has worked fine for me. When they had 3 maps rotating it worked fine too. Multiple maps rotating faster will not cause issues.

But as you say, WE for 1 to 2 hours in a slot where I only have a couple hours to play already has me playing less.

In the past they forced 2 weeks on a new map and it was too much time. I just want options. And since I know they'll never allow me to pick, a half hour on each will give more options.
damsonwhufndthis
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
@hayhorhow about put 2 maps rotating in pubs and the other 2 in ranked?
hayhor
Hero
4 years ago
@damsonwhufndthis No. Some people don't play ranked. And a rotation would be hated by everyone playing it.