Season 3 is all about the new map. The map is big, which is good, however I feel that it ends there. I've ploughed into the new season heavily now, and I feel this single element is the only selling point. Vehicles are a big mix. Either invincible or die instantly. It's hard to guage which encounter will lead to which outcome, based on simple regular use. Jets have also been ignored again. Space to fly, but no loadouts or care regarding their use. There's still no aircraft training modes either. Team Balancing is somehow worse than it ever has been. A team of mixed lower levels Vs a solid team of 400+. While Golmud's size adds to the time a match takes, all other maps are still a mess of fast paced games that end extremely fast. This has now translated over to casual breakthrough, my shortest match being 8 mins.Netcode and Hitreg. Honestly doesn't feel much better than it was. Still plenty of deaths behind solid cover or through walls. Some of the Golmud Escalation matches are ending pretty fast too, resulting in mass team walkouts early on, which only speeds up the match ending. While I like the new map, it should've been a new, fresh map rather than a recycled one. Also, there needed to be more of these since the start, as once I'm bored of Golmud, it's back to the tiny roster of maps we had prior. While I'm sure the Devs are hard at work above on all three elements, we're falling into a very slow, drip feed of content. Here's a single new map. Here's a single new weapon or two. Then a couple of months later, here's a new temporary mode. It just feels like it's variety hasn't increased as of yet. I'm hoping this improved post S3 as there's still plenty of issues hiding behind the "big new map" that are yet to be acknowledged.

with the excessive buff to vehicles and over nerf to rpgs and at mines golmud is unplayable, and it already was a terrible map as a generality to begin with. think ive played it like 5 times and its easily worse than eastlands or blackwell fields (I said it)

i agree. contaminated in comparison to golmud is a lot better and even then i still dont like contaminated that much.

Golmud and the vehicle changes are the worst parts. The devs finally found a balance between large maps and constant action and now we're going backwards with oversized maps like Golmud and too many vehicles. Its impossible to avoid getting shot at by a stupid attack chopper or little bird or one of the dozen tanks on the field and thanks to the buffs to vehicles and nerfs to rockets its impossible to deal with them.

To be honest, I wish they had simply made a new big map, rather than recycle an old one. It feels a bit uninspired, and feels like it's pandering to nostalgia, rather than quality design, in order to sell more season passes.

New golmud actually sucks. It's ANOTHER team biased map by design. The only real difference is it takes even longer to get to OBJ but it doesn't really matter because some console is going to auto-aim you or a cheater will brain you anyways across the map so pointless.I mean really, why are they not breaking up the maps into engagement sections? They're too flat without enough real cover. I thought they figured out the zero cover issue in 2042, but run it back I guess.

MjrWalker

New Ace

21 hours ago

Season 3 further feedback - Golmud is the only good part.

Season 3 is all about the new map. The map is big, which is good, however I feel that it ends there.

I've ploughed into the new season heavily now, and I feel this single element is the only selling point.

Vehicles are a big mix. Either invincible or die instantly. It's hard to guage which encounter will lead to which outcome, based on simple regular use. Jets have also been ignored again. Space to fly, but no loadouts or care regarding their use. There's still no aircraft training modes either.
Team Balancing is somehow worse than it ever has been. A team of mixed lower levels Vs a solid team of 400+. While Golmud's size adds to the time a match takes, all other maps are still a mess of fast paced games that end extremely fast. This has now translated over to casual breakthrough, my shortest match being 8 mins.
Netcode and Hitreg. Honestly doesn't feel much better than it was. Still plenty of deaths behind solid cover or through walls.

Some of the Golmud Escalation matches are ending pretty fast too, resulting in mass team walkouts early on, which only speeds up the match ending.

While I like the new map, it should've been a new, fresh map rather than a recycled one. Also, there needed to be more of these since the start, as once I'm bored of Golmud, it's back to the tiny roster of maps we had prior.

While I'm sure the Devs are hard at work above on all three elements, we're falling into a very slow, drip feed of content. Here's a single new map. Here's a single new weapon or two. Then a couple of months later, here's a new temporary mode.

It just feels like it's variety hasn't increased as of yet. I'm hoping this improved post S3 as there's still plenty of issues hiding behind the "big new map" that are yet to be acknowledged.

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12 Replies

Raansu86
New Adventurer
1 hour ago
And yet the most popular and most asked for maps are meat grinders like metro. It's almost like the majority of BF players are infantry players that simply tolerate vehicle gameplay until it becomes intolerable because they become OP.
Also, BF is not a tactical game. It has 100% always been an arcade shooter like CoD, just with tanks and helicopters and better gunplay.
ninjapenquinuk
Seasoned Ace
1 hour ago
People want big maps like Golmud is because that is what Battlefield games are about. It used to be the case if you liked running around like a headless chicken pretending to be Rambo in silly outfits then you played COD, and if you liked a slower paced, more tactical, team based game that wasn't as brutal as milsims like ARMA then you played battlefield.
Raansu86
New Adventurer
2 hours ago
Painknight wrote:
New golmud actually sucks. It's ANOTHER team biased map by design. The only real difference is it takes even longer to get to OBJ but it doesn't really matter because some console is going to auto-aim you or a cheater will brain you anyways across the map so pointless.

I mean really, why are they not breaking up the maps into engagement sections? They're too flat without enough real cover. I thought they figured out the zero cover issue in 2042, but run it back I guess.
Ya, the majority of the map is just a big empty field. You spend more time running around than you do playing. I can't stand these maps and I don't get why people are asking for them.
Painknight
New Ace
9 hours ago
New golmud actually sucks. It's ANOTHER team biased map by design. The only real difference is it takes even longer to get to OBJ but it doesn't really matter because some console is going to auto-aim you or a cheater will brain you anyways across the map so pointless.
I mean really, why are they not breaking up the maps into engagement sections? They're too flat without enough real cover. I thought they figured out the zero cover issue in 2042, but run it back I guess.
MjrWalker
New Ace
13 hours ago
A large map doesn't necessarily mean a poorly designed one.
Golmud has lots of space around the objectives and to either side of the starting area which isn't necessarily used. Aircraft have plenty of airspace, but overall, it's still a bit bland as far as big maps go.
The battlefield 1 maps were a fantastic example of how maps could be big but still have enough depth to the design, whereas we've not seen that level of design in this title so far.
Raansu86
New Adventurer
15 hours ago
Contaminated is about as big as the maps should ever get. Golmud is oversized.
MjrWalker
New Ace
16 hours ago
While I'm not a fan of the medium size of contaminated (and how it was advertised with a picture of the mountains and bases behind to give the idea it's a "big map" when it absolutely isn't), I'd have to say it's better than Golmud in terms of design.
Golmud only had size and airspace, with the moving train going for it. The rest of the season and state of the game is just bland or broken.
d69fd7d9150d78c9
Seasoned Rookie
16 hours ago
i agree. contaminated in comparison to golmud is a lot better and even then i still dont like contaminated that much.
MjrWalker
New Ace
19 hours ago
To be honest, I wish they had simply made a new big map, rather than recycle an old one. It feels a bit uninspired, and feels like it's pandering to nostalgia, rather than quality design, in order to sell more season passes.
d69fd7d9150d78c9
Seasoned Rookie
19 hours ago
with the excessive buff to vehicles and over nerf to rpgs and at mines golmud is unplayable, and it already was a terrible map as a generality to begin with. think ive played it like 5 times and its easily worse than eastlands or blackwell fields (I said it)