Been having this issue since April. I see there is no fix still… This game is bleeding players. Things like this doesn’t help.
Not to get everyone’s hopes up prematurely- but the bug isn’t present in the PTR right now. Last time i was testing, the PTR had a different set of four than live, but was still bugged. Now, first six games, six different maps.
The AI seems a lot better now too? Haven’t seen dragonshire so I don’t know if they still latch on to one point endlessly. But the AI listened to calls to attack, defend the immortals on boe. Defended core instead of completely neglecting it, sometimes as opposed to never.
Come try PTR, now’s our chance to get some extra insight into this issue.
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It could be that the data on your PTR account is different from what you have on the live server, because the 4 map issue is an on and off thing, and different players have different map pools when the problem is present. And since players differ in levels and other stats, that might be the cause why they don’t share the same pool together.
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I agree, the difference could be related to PTR account vs live account. What gives me hope is that the bug was there for me on the last PTR, and this time it is not. I’ve only logged in to the PTR these two times. Is it still bugged for you?
I’m no expert, but that sounds like quite useful information to me. They must have some idea of what changes took place around that time, so they can narrow down where to look? One would think anyway… But it’s been quite a while since we saw a blue post, so who knows.
they fired the guy that knew about those changes.
As I mentioned it is an on and off problem, one week you might experience the bug, and in the same “reset” (weekly hero rotation) with the brawl rotation the problem might completely go away. I’m not really surprised you experienced on the PTR and now it suddenly stopped. With the right circumstances or by playing affected players it is certain it will start happening again.
To clarify my flavor of the bug- aside from patch-related changes to the 4 map rotation, i don’t believe I have been symptom free of the bug since before the toys event. It isn’t a comes-and-goes problem for my account.
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I’m hoping that it will automatically change when the Mecha event ends? Monday then… hopefully ;~;
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Same here! There were two days either just before or just after the toys event where I suddenly had full map pool, but since then it’s been a 4 map rotation constantly.
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Ditto. Dragonshire, Warhead Junction, Sky Temple, and Cursed Hollow. Nothing else.
First few games, Solo w/ AI Teammates, after the new patch. Blackhearts > Alterac > Towers > Garden > Sky Temple > Warhead > Alterac. With very little fanfare- Could it be…?
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I can confirm that the map pool seems random for me too. I also tried to quit a couple games in the beginning and that resulted in a different map the next game. It’s been a long time since I’ve experienced this, but last time it happened it lasted only two days. However, I hope this isn’t just a random “bug” but rather a deliberate attempt at fixing the issue?
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This has been a problem for months now and it ruins my player experience. I play on my own vs the ai (so 9 ai) or i team up with my sister and play against the ai with her. Both of us have been stuck in this 4 map hell for months now and are sick of it. I haven’t seen some of the maps for what seems like an eternity now. Why can’t this be fixed?
Apparently I have the same as Elyxia and Sletch. Maps are random. So far I played 6 matches and I got different maps. I hope that since Qhira patch this bug won’t return.
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Also random for me - hopefully it won’t come back this time! 
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Still true since this 8/6 qhira patch? Completely understand your frustration. I’m hesitantly hopeful that they’ve fixed this now. But if it’s still broken for you it might help blizz to know, if the bug isn’t totally squashed.
finally, seem to be fixed, no more four-cyclic…
20 games since patch, 11 different maps (no Towers or Battlefield yet), don’t seem to be in any order. Is anyone still stuck with 4?
Maps still seem to be random for me. Even after todays bug fix patch. I’ts been ages since I’ve had a random map pool for this long. Hopefully it stays that way. There is no mention in the patch notes anywhere that this was deliberate, so does anyone know if there has been any “blue comments” on this anywhere else?
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None that i’ve seen. You’d think someone would want to take credit for the fix 
The HotS subreddit has a ‘blue tracker’ on the sidebar which keeps track across the forums/reddit/twitter/youtube. I’m not sure what the forum rules on links are, but it’s overstalk dot io, and there’s a heroes tab at the top. They’ve mentioned some impending AI improvements too.
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