@ManicMossie Easily the worst gw map. The overall environment isnt that exicting to look at as the only backgrounds are bare hills and the inside of the map lacks what makes main street and driftwood good as we're in the city and beach pier setting. While gw1 verticality was dominated by peashooter/soldier it was the worst in wallnut hills as everything feels like its one story tall besides a few exceptions, it almost comes off like a bfn/bad gw2 map in that regard.
Certain teleporter spawns are awful and can be shot from the plant base or be easily camped, engineer no longer has the base clearing drone bombs and without deadbeard it allows plants to completely strangle hold the garden, some of the sightlines are so open that a good cactus can almost shoot you from another base with some of them.
They even reused music from seeds of time rather than simply reuse gw1 music. Some pots are missing and the spawn icons are bugged.
They shouldn't have held the poll on twitter only and put it in the game instead for the mass of active players to decide.
As you mention the mansion is still an absolute mess as they didnt even bother to try and find a way to reduce ability spam.
They kicked the gw2 cast out despite the fact that the gw1 cast was adjusted to fit in with them like soldiers long range capabilities being nerfed and engineer giving his drone to deadbeard as hes now the official sniper for zombies. The new characters could've even solved a lot of issues since corn and sb would reduce the annoyance of peashooters on rooftops, deadbeard would keep cactus at bay, and imp could push through the more stubborn points like the park. Instead they kicked out all of them because imp and citron wouldnt work in a few areas. They even killed solo play for the map because of it since they were to lazy to just add gw1 AI only (this ticks me off the most since solo play is one of the better things that puts gw2 over gw1). Maybe if bfn wasnt being rushed out right around the corner the popcap b team could've tuned it better.
Looking back i would've rather had them add an entirely new Gardens and graveyards map to gw2 so all the characters could be involved.
