I was tossing around the idea of potential maps from existing Battlefield games, when I realized how good the idea of remastering Operation Metro could be. Now I know what many of you are thinking “Ugh not again…”, but let me explain my understanding. France as we should all know played a fairly big role during the First World War, and at that time Paris had just finished in 1900 the first rail line in the metro. So my idea revolves around a very early development of the metro, with all of the equipment for tunnelling and such just lying around (as the main core of the metro was only completed 1920) and this would be a good opportunity as well to open up the map above the metro for some kind of urban fighting also implementing ways to relieve the choke points in the map. It would be so cool to see a 1918 rendition with no elevators/buildings/assault rifles. It would change the way the map would be played dramatically, and might actually make for some interesting gameplay. What do you guys think? Let me know below and any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. Also let me know what maps you think would make good remasters.
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I was thinking that it would have the expanded park area and a whole map layout above the map. And with a WWI setting there will be much less automatic weapons, which would change the run and gun/spray and prey gameplay to a style of which we really haven’t seen before. And given the real Paris metro was under construction at the time the openings to the tunnel in my vision would be much more exposed. Although this would also require a dramatic change in objective layout especially for conquest, I think for a 5 flag map, #1 to be in the Allied spawn courtyard/park area (as seen in BF3), 2 inside the metro, 3 and 4 in the area above the metro, and 5 in the opposition spawn street area as normal. I think the divide between the upper 2 objectives and the one lower would be a good incentive to prioritize controlling the above objectives as opposed to just the underground one. And having an area above could allow for the British Mark IV tank and the German A7V tanks to go head to head and hey maybe even aircraft flying above?
Seine Crossing 1918
Another map possibility would be a remaster of a fan favourite from Battlefield 3, Seine Crossing with much of the aesthetics remaining the same. Although think about running around a war torn down town Paris in 1918 with early age cars, and horse carriages abandoned in the middle of the streets. Seine Crossing was a very popular map in Battlefield 3 due to the well made level design, and that made this an obvious contender to be remastered and again due to it taking place in Paris, France it would fit perfectly with a remaster of Operation Metro (1918), maybe for the sake of a fictional background story it could be named The Battle of Paris.
Armored Shield 1918
Here is a map from Battlefield 3 that flew right under the radar, Armored Shield was a really large and open map, and from what I remember playing the map I remember trying to use the craters on the ground as makeshift foxholes and thinking on it now, It would be yet another good map that would fit with the style of Battlefield 1. While also being somewhat realistic as the map itself was based in Russia, and that would work for a map based upon the Eastern Front. It would also give the Germans an upper hand if they had the use of the A7V tank, but of course they were slow and the main gun was only forward facing, which would allow for the Russian team to flank them easily. An alternative would be to have the Ottoman Empire combat the Russians which would mean both teams would not have a tank as an advantage.
Metro should have been opened up more in bf4 to include the park area behind the US spawn and the tunnels should have continued into the streets on the RU side. Maybe include seine crossing on the top of the metro. But it didn’t. So please. No more metro.
That is something that I was referring towards, I was thinking that it would have the expanded park area and a whole map layout above the map. And remember there are much less automatic weapons to go around and which could really spice up the gameplay. And because the metro would be under construction the openings to the tunnel in my view would be much more open. And the idea of seine crossing above would be really freaking cool! Also it would require a dramatic change in objective layout for conquest, I think for a 5 flag map, 1 to be in the Allied spawn courtyard/park area (BF3), 2 inside the metro, 3 and 4 in the area above the metro, and 5 in the opposition spawn area as normal. I think the divide between the upper 2 objectives and the one lower would incentivize in controlling the above objective as opposed to the underground one. And having an area above could allow for the British Mark IV tank and the German A7V tanks to go head to head and hey maybe even aircraft?
That is your opinion, although restating the same point does little in the way of helping me identify ways of properly implementing it though.
Exactly and that is what I was trying to address, by opening the surface area above the metro and placing changing the objective count inside the metro to just one thus placing the other above. I believe the gameplay would shift from being primarily interior combat to primarily exterior combat.
Interesting as the idea may be. The issue I see is that you’re asking for a map involving urban warfare in Paris and in particular the still being developed metro beneath the city, yes? Well last I saw. There was never any real fighting that ever came close to Paris during WWI. It was all done in the eastern sections of the country. And while the Germans had intended on reaching Paris so they could not have to do a 2 front war, their plans ultimately failed and they never even reached the city.
Again, a matter of authenticity. Perhaps one could argue a much smaller map and player size where it’s French soldiers versus German/Austrian saboteurs?
I to have thought about this, but judging from EA’s comments regarding the game and from the info in the trailer we know that this is going to be at least somewhat set in an alternate history setting. But yes an invasion by the german and autrians could be a great Idea.
Agreed, Operation Locker It would make for an interesting map, maybe re imagined somewhere on the Western or Eastern Front, in the form of maybe some kind of bunker, or an old defunct fictitious castle of some sort, but with the same map layout besides becoming more open with more flanking opportunities, to accommodate the bolt action gameplay.
Exactly. Like an old bunker with improvised dug in tunnels. I also think a locker style map would be excellent on a vietnam battlefield game for the same reason.
