EL ALAMEIN : Seriously? Giant desert sandbox?
Who in the world came up with this map??? It's one giant sandbox. WHY??
This looks like a test map. Why is it coming up more than any other map, all of a sudden??
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😕 are you.....are you serious? that map was around before smartphones and the dawn of the internet pal. it was the hourglass before we knew we (didnt) need an hourglass
I'm going to make the assumption that you never played Battlefield 1942.
With that said, could they have picked a better map to port to 2042? Maybe, but nevertheless, that's faithful to the original.
El Al was actually one of the most popular maps back in the day. Especially on Desert Combat.
Typical setup was almost pure vehicle combat. 8+ tanks/artillery and 5+ air vehicles per side.
Terrible. Absolutely terrible for infantry though.
- @killCAMPERS It’s one of the maps really designed for vehicle play, it was on 1942 and it’s used mostly in portal for vehicle superiority modes. Like Squid said it’s bad for infantry, but great for large scale vehicle battles.
Ahh, I miss Desert Combat, Forgotten Hope and a lot of the other mods that came from BF1942.
DICEs inspiration for Hourglass had to come from somewhere.... the map is one of the oldest BF maps in the franchise and 1942 played a lot different then what we have now so maps were a lot different as well...
Hourglass on the other hand is a disgrace and should be deleted as soon as possible@AnobixFaithful? So what. It’s like a default environment you drop in when you turn on Unreal Engine. Unless you’re in a vehicle you spend 90% of the match running between objectives. Yea. Seriously lazy work. Add more vehicles or take it out of rotation.
Original? Pfffft.
- @AngrySquid270 Well that’s my issue with it. There are hardly any vehicles in the current mode. If you’re going to provide a giant map with little to no cover, maybe add more vehicles. Original map or not, it’s a poorly implemented one.
@killCAMPERSit was like that in old bf, but with WAY more vehicles than the current default settings.
this map is ALOT fun with lots of tanks (and rush is also quite okay, but the first point is difficult to capture).
even the original el alamein fight was with multiple tanks and we now have max 2 per side, which is just not fitting at all...
I really hope this maps gets added to custom conquest for portal and we can play it with 48 tanks ingame, this would be pretty amazing
@killCAMPERS wrote:@AnobixFaithful? So what. It’s like a default environment you drop in when you turn on Unreal Engine. Unless you’re in a vehicle you spend 90% of the match running between objectives. Yea. Seriously lazy work. Add more vehicles or take it out of rotation.
Original? Pfffft.
I never said it was well implemented with the game rules. Just that the map itself is faithful to the original.
I completely agree it needs more vehicles.
