Iwo Jima was already confirmed though.
D-day is going to cause problems because of how obvious it is that a big chunk of the population can’t play Conquest Assault. The changes to Hamada make it pretty clear that DICE now know it as well. Asking players to tough it out is fine, but all that will happen is that loads of players will wait to see if they’re attacking or defending before they quit.
Crete has no parachuting in the game, so I don’t know that I’m actually that certain about getting a proper D-day beach assault anyway.
Point Du Hoc might work, the cliff face and edge would have to be the allied deployment area with the German deployment being at the back with a battery heavy guns.
The thing that baffles me about this whole debate is ‘does it *really *matter’?
Surely, the important thing about a map is does it play well!
It’s actual location and/or ‘historical significance’ should be secondary to that.
I agree with you that the most important thing for a map is to be fun to play and not just tailored to the one play style.
But the game is sold as a WW2 shooter and it’s only natural that some players will want to see some of the famous battles in the game.
I can see it already … the entire German team using either gold-plated MG42s or Boys AT rifles, sitting in their bunkers all day. The US team getting constantly annihilated whenever they land on the beach, until they start spamming MMGs or AT rifles themselves. Everybody will ignore the objectives, and will instead try to one-up the enemy in terms of using the cheapest infantry weapons in the game. After a while, everyone will start spamming artillery and V1 rockets/JB-2 rockets as well.
It’ll be brilliant …
Exactly how i see it playing
Can’t be any worse than what maps we got right now.
Dice will take it as a challenge.
Don’t get the hate for the maps. Fjell excepted, they are all pretty fun.
Better than 80% of the BF1 maps and almost all the BF4 maps. Still have knightmares about the sniperfest Floodzone and the rampant campers paradise Locker. And the lame DLC maps. In fact I can’t remember the good maps on BF4. There were a couple but I only remember the dross because there was so much of it.
BF3 though I can remember all the good ones…