Dice, you didn't fix it. I don't think you ever will.

@Adamonic  The asset count limitation never made sense to me. Sure there may very well be a limitation but then at some point, the person in charge of map design should've said "we need to radically rethink how we design maps so that there will always be enough cover with our limited assets" it seems like this was never said, hence how flat and cover-less the maps were at the game's launch. Only after launch were map remakes considered with this philosophy in mind but even then, moving some assets around can only do so much if the maps remain incredibly flat, like they were copied straight out of Google Maps.

A flat map done right I would wager is Operation Firestorm. Each objective had enough cover. Each objective was it's own small plateau, some slightly higher than others. And then you had a mountain by each base. So it's not to say flat maps are inherently bad map design but that 2042 did them in the worst way possible.

And just for argument's sake, the out of bounds part of the maps are huge! Like ridiculously huge before reaching a point where you'll fall off the map into the void! All that wasted performance rendering land you'll never walk on.