Worst Multiplayer Map of All Time
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What!? I think it's easily the best map in BF3 and maybe the best map I've ever played in any game. The only complaint I can kind of relate to is that it can be quite uneventful with the 24 player limit on consoles but other than that it's the closest to perfection I've seen when it comes to map design. (I'm referring to conquest on consoles)Deadlock Radium said:
Operation Metro and Grand Bazaar on other hand are just horrible. They're trying to deliver the fast paced close quarters action of Cod but with map design worse than any map even in MW3 (more of this in a second) and frame rate, lag, and controls that just aren't suitable for CQB.
The reason I compared Metro and Bazaar to Modern Warfare 3 is because it has the worst map roster of any game I've played. Dome, Downturn, Bootleg, Carbon, Hardhat, Outpost and Mission are terrible and many more are just about decent. Black Ops had the same problem to a lesser extent but what made it almost worse for me is that the maps I hated (Summit, Nuketown, Firing Range) were everyone else's favourites and got constantly voted instead of the maps I liked. I should probably mention that I play(ed) search and destroy almost exclusively since that affects the gameplay and map dynamics considerably.
If I had to choose one map that beats them all in utter shittiness, I'd say... Operation Metro. Like many have already said, on top of the very narrow and linear structure with a couple of nade spammy chokepoints, it's also ridiculously unbalanced. On top of having shorter way to the B flag, it's way easier for the Russians to push through if the Americans somehow manage to capture B. While the Americans have to advance through one narrow set of escalator or one flight of stairs (the chokepoints mentioned earlier), Russians have the luxury of three doorways that aren't at all as camp and nade spam friendly as the routes Americans have to use. What makes it even worse is that everyone else seems to love this map so it can be difficult to find a server where I don't have to touch this piece of shit.
Edit: I can't believe I wrote peace of shit
Goddamn Rainbow Ride! I could not stay alive on that for any meaningful length of time at all. And continuing the Rainbow theme and the falling off, Rainbow Road.ReadyAmyFire said:These shitholes
Rainbow Troloload indeed.
Agree. I've seen a lot of terrible maps, but I'm pretty sure that one reigns supreme in the land of awfulness.Promethax said:
A good half of the CoD black ops maps almost all the MW3 maps and to finish it off highrise uncharted 2/3
'Industrial' from Goldeneye 007. It's so big, and all the rooms and stairways look the same so I tend to get lost. I sometimes run around for 5 solid minutes until finding something to shoot (Provided the game hasn't got the max. amount of players, which it usually doesn't.)
This, I don't know how many times I've screamed "NO DON'T GO UP THE LIFT!!" at my friends while playing that map. The worst part is how damn popular it is. I wouldn't actually consider it the worst map though.The Lazy Blacksmith said:
OT:For me that honor would go to the "Blood Gulch" style maps every Halo game has, now granted my complaint is more based on my individual skill than the map design itself but it's just not fun getting splattered/sniped every life. Also the fact that when an enemy team member has a ghost he's unstoppable but when I have one it gets blown up instantly.
I don't know if this counts but the Isle of Quel'Danas in World of Warcraft, at least during the release of Burning Crusade a few years ago. On a PvE relam there were no problems at all unless you were coming out of a BG and still flagged for PvP. But on PvP realms, it was chaos, all day, every day.
As for FPS maps, I disliked Complex on GoldenEye 007. When it comes to CoD4:MW, I think I enjoyed playing on all the maps? I loved those maps, probably my favourite multiplayer maps of all time.
As for FPS maps, I disliked Complex on GoldenEye 007. When it comes to CoD4:MW, I think I enjoyed playing on all the maps? I loved those maps, probably my favourite multiplayer maps of all time.
Either sword base or campdown. They were both just awful maps that promoted mindless grenade spamming and unskilled CQC weapon whoring.
Although Epitaph from H3 and Burial Mounds from H2 are also in contention
Although Epitaph from H3 and Burial Mounds from H2 are also in contention
Default Forge as a ranked map in Halo 3. It's good as a base for the Forge mode, but the default set-up is freakin' awful.
Following that is Isolation, which is abysmally designed - the central hill allows you to control the map through both Power Weapons, and you can grenade down at your enemies and kill them with height headshot advantage every time. Also it's ugly as heck.
Following that is Isolation, which is abysmally designed - the central hill allows you to control the map through both Power Weapons, and you can grenade down at your enemies and kill them with height headshot advantage every time. Also it's ugly as heck.
If your top lane isn't retarded, being the 1 in a 1v2 is actually an advantage- they're usually trying to share farm, meaning you're outfarming them, and while you basically have to concede that you're going to lose the tower fairly soon, your jungler basically has free reign in their jungle, making his job easier. I love playing Malphite top v 2 because I can just run up, punch a minion, run away, and have my shield regen for the next last hit while they're wasting mana and last hits trying to harass me.NameIsRobertPaulson said:
I actually have a hard time playing AD carry mid, because your squishiness means that a burst mage can knock you down pretty quickly if you try to harass. Although MF's early game is really strong, so I suppose that would tend to counter it.
Going back to Dominion from earlier quotes, it's a terrible game mode in terms of competitiveness because the champion balance is designed for summoner's rift, so certain champs (vayne, jax, cough cough) tend to get pretty ridiculous pretty fast if they play competently, but it's certainly fun.
Face3(maybe face2, i can't remember) from Unreal Tournament 2004, Face Classic was the map I had the most fun on in that game, it was basically two big towers, with one massive arched bridge in between them. On the bridge there was nowhere to hide, and nothing but a single health pickup right in the middle, the towers had 3 levels which looked out onto the bridge, each with sniper pickups.Inevitably, all games descended into chaos, but that was what made face classic a brilliant map.
Face3 took the same layout as classic, only the towers were shorter, and the 'bridge' in the middle was a massive network of paths with trees and other random stuff in between, so all of what made classic fun, had been removed.
I vote for this simply because it was a map that was trying to pick up on the popularity of a previou map, but just failed so, so horribly because it changed too much.
Face3 took the same layout as classic, only the towers were shorter, and the 'bridge' in the middle was a massive network of paths with trees and other random stuff in between, so all of what made classic fun, had been removed.
I vote for this simply because it was a map that was trying to pick up on the popularity of a previou map, but just failed so, so horribly because it changed too much.
I see your point there, but I usually do quite well on the American side of Operation Metro due to my commanding playstyle. When I get to do game-changing decisions based on how the other team is playing, and serving commands through the chat that people actually follow, then I am truly happy in my pants. Though when I (very often) am placed in a team full of people with team play as the last priority, and the objective being a foreign word for them, I really start raging at the game. If one tries to play by the objective of Metro, it's kind of cool thinking of the whole invasion-esque appeal that you get from playing as Americans, due to the Russians having "control" over Paris at the time. It feels sort of realistic in some sort of way.Sande45 said:What!? I think it's easily the best map in BF3 and maybe the best map I've ever played in any game. The only complaint I can kind of relate to is that it can be quite uneventful with the 24 player limit on consoles but other than that it's the closest to perfection I've seen when it comes to map design. (I'm referring to conquest on consoles)Deadlock Radium said:
Operation Metro and Grand Bazaar on other hand are just horrible. They're trying to deliver the fast paced close quarters action of Cod but with map design worse than any map even in MW3 (more of this in a second) and frame rate, lag, and controls that just aren't suitable for CQB.
The reason I compared Metro and Bazaar to Modern Warfare 3 is because it has the worst map roster of any game I've played. Dome, Downturn, Bootleg, Carbon, Hardhat, Outpost and Mission are terrible and many more are just about decent. Black Ops had the same problem to a lesser extent but what made it almost worse for me is that the maps I hated (Summit, Nuketown, Firing Range) were everyone else's favourites and got constantly voted instead of the maps I liked. I should probably mention that I play(ed) search and destroy almost exclusively since that affects the gameplay and map dynamics considerably.
If I had to choose one map that beats them all in utter shittiness, I'd say... Operation Metro. Like many have already said, on top of the very narrow and linear structure with a couple of nade spammy chokepoints, it's also ridiculously unbalanced. On top of having shorter way to the B flag, it's way easier for the Russians to push through if the Americans somehow manage to capture B. While the Americans have to advance through one narrow set of escalator or one flight of stairs (the chokepoints mentioned earlier), Russians have the luxury of three doorways that aren't at all as camp and nade spam friendly as the routes Americans have to use. What makes it even worse is that everyone else seems to love this map so it can be difficult to find a server where I don't have to touch this piece of shit.
Edit: I can't believe I wrote peace of shit
The reason why I hate Caspian Border as of just now, is because I usually end up on teams that are not to keen on teamwork, and usually just run around, being targeted by snipers, tanks, helicopters and jets, therefore reducing the number of Ticks we've got by a billion/minute. It's frustrating on every map, but this map just seems to take the cake, as I usually play with a Cobra RDS, Foregrip, TacLight AEK-971 on almost all the maps[footnote]It's a really good and versatile combination.[/footnote], but on this map I am forced to switch to longer distance-sets like the SV98, and since I don't have the Straight Pull Bolt (I suck with two-shot snipers, as I usually just hit on the first shot), and therefore just end up being brutally raped by anything.
Also, people who are really good with helicopters seem to be ending up on the enemy team EVERY DAMN TIME, while we have idiots that crash.
Funfact: This one time [SUB]At band camp[/SUB], a player on our team left his tank in the middle of enemy territory. And not just once, no, he did it TWICE. And no one on my team were able to use AT-setups, so the enemy had TWO more tanks than they started with. Now just imagine the horrible and brutal capture point-rape they ended up dealing out as candy in a kindergarden. I almost punched my monitor in rage due to that guy's stupidity. And he wasn't even doing it on purpose to help the other team. He did it because he thought he could kill more people with a sniper in close combat than with a big-ass massive fucking M1 Abrams!
Doublecross in TF2.
Besides being a lag fest of a map, the intel room was far too easy to lock down with not enough routes to flank them with.
Besides being a lag fest of a map, the intel room was far too easy to lock down with not enough routes to flank them with.