We have seen in all the past Battlefield titles and in many other games that Map design is the cornerstone of the success of that game. If the map design is poor: the game would become quickly boring and no fun.
If the map design is great then you end up with Strike at Karkand and Wake Island in Battlefield 2, 2Fort in Team Fortress 2 and Dust 2 in Counter Strike. All very memorable games which lasted a solid 5+ years and some still continue today.
With that being said I feel that it is our responsibility as the community to ensure that the maps designed for Battlefield 1 be on par with these epic maps mentioned above. What do you guys think of the map they show cased at the EA Play event?
I was a massive fan of the BF3 maps, both core and DLC maps. So much better than the BF4 maps. Need to go back to large maps with towns for CQB and open areas for tank warfare.
I must say that the map they showed had a good mix of CQB and open areas.
I completely agree. BF4 Mao design was atrocious. Maps like Dust 2 are perfect because they section off areas allowing skilled players to anticipate engagements. BF4 have overpowered areas that overlook more lanes than others. Map design is really terrible. I think Level caps only intelligent video covers this topic well.
I’m really hoping BF1 has better map design.
Levelcap on Battlefield 4 map design/level design:
That’s almost single handedly why I greatly dislike BF4 and haven’t really touched it for SO long. BY FAR my favorite gametype is Rush from BC and BF3…and the maps and Rush mode in BF4 were just…bad.
Majority of them were way too aimlessly sandboxy (probably going for the “scale” that everyone whined about with BF3…and catering towards conquest (which is fine…but I just don’t like conquest…too sandboxy and aimless unless you’re playing clan vs clan)…stupidly massive spawn zones (because everyone complained about spawn killing) and tons of dead zones…they just weren’t good maps.
The map they showed during the live stream looked pretty promising for conquest…not for tactics though. Won’t know till I play it though.
Levelcap definitely nailed it.