Available maps in vs AI mode

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Got a shock today. Warhead Junction! Followed by Cursed Hollow, Sky Temple & Dragon Shire. Don’t have time for another game today to find out if that’s the new rotation or if I’m out…

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All of a sudden my map rotation changed yesterday at 11:50 p.m. in EU 0o which is intersting because right after the patch my rotation was unchanged… :confused:

Before: Garden of Terror, Volskaya, Hanamura, Towers of doom
Now: Cursed hollow, Battlefield of Eternity, Blackheart, Volksaya

To be honest, I’m already sick of the new map rotation. Why? Because against AI the games on cursed hollow, BoE and BHB won’t last long.

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Same here. No change when the balance patch hit, but now it seems to have changed. I don’t have time to play today, but I logged in and started a game and it was Cursed Hollow.

Since my previous rotation also was Garden - Volskaya - Hanamura - Towers, I’m assuming this means I too have Cursed Hollow - BoE - BHB - Volskaya now.

Were you logged in and playing when it changed? So you know it happened around 11:50 p.m?

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Yes I played together with a friend. We played a few maps already in our rotation and prepared for garden of terror at 11:50 p.m. (CEST / Vienna) but cursed hollow appeared.

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Same 4 maps next day :frowning:

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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. :confused:

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You’re right. It’s like the blue ones are ignoring their own Forums, but I’m not a reddit fan :frowning: So I still have hope that someone will see it sigh

It’s really sad. I turned 38 this year and back in die 90’s the name “Blizzard” stood for quality but today: less so… :disappointed_relieved: Unbelievable this bug is still around.

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On Reddit, Blizzard explained that they are aware of the problem, and believed they knew how to fix it. As they say, they have not solved it yet because they wanted to perform more tests and be sure not to “break” the current system. Apparently, the map selection is not at all random, but dependent on multiple factors, and these make that in certain specific cases you enter a cycle of the same maps.

Hopefully they can fix it “soon”, playing like that is nonsense

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Just to confirm- Where did you see that on reddit? I’ve been stalking this issue pretty heavily since before my first post in this thread. I don’t see it on their “blue tracker” link in the side bar. There is a response further up in this thread that says pretty much that though, so I don’t disagree that we’re sitting in a limbo til Soon™.

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How long has this bug been going on for now? I remember something similar happening to me back in February or so. Came back a few days ago and have so far only seen 4 maps when playing alone VS AI. Played like 20+ games over the last few days. Has the bug been present during a whole five months now?

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This bug has been here now for almost a year if I’m not mistaken. In the beginning I wasn’t playing enough to realise it, and it was also more on and off. This thread was started in Oct 2018 and that’s also around the time I started really noticing the problem.

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“Easy workaround”… well. The offered solution in short is “play solo, co-op vs ai, until the bug goes away”. Hasn’t worked for me yet. Blizz is painfully silent in the thread. If i could get any traction on a post over on reddit, they seem to participate there more, at least casually.

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Painfully silent indeed! I wish they would at least try something… anything.

I can confirm that my rotation since the “random change” 4-5 days ago is Cursed Hollow - BoE - BHB - Volskaya.

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This might be bordering conspiracy theory, but what if the bug is in fact intended. I mean, what if having fewer maps adds less server stress and requires less maintenance, or something like that. Funny how the bug appeared right as they were scaling down development. And now they have for almost a year been unable to fix something which ran just fine since launch.

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I must admit the thought has crossed my mind too. As a way to “entice” people to play with real players in stead of the A.I. And that though has only crossed my mind because I’m used to Blizzard being able to fix bugs (at least bugs that are this game breaking) within a decent time frame. It just feels so wrong that a bug like this has ben allowed to stay unresolved for so long. :confused:

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Well, Just came back from a long break to find out I also have this issue. Seem to get different maps sometimes with the Co-Op feature, but solo is the same. Seeing as this thread is almost a year old, doesn’t look like it will be fixed. The A.I. seems to act more moronic from what I remember from the past as well lol. For instance one of the maps I am stuck with is dragon shire, all 4 bots just sit on one shrine lol. Shame, I liked playing with just the A.I.

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Sky Temple > Dragon Shire > Warhead > Cursed Hollow.

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I think Occam’s razor can help here. Simpler answer- it’s not a high priority for the team, there is no news or fix to share, so no need to comment on the problem. I posted a comment in on the recent reddit AMA and while the response was friendly, got the same reply- “We are aware of the issue and have a bug report in.”

I don’t know what other information we can give though- either people have the problem, or people don’t. That’s why i broke it down into what i thought were pretty exclusive and comprehensive categories. I don’t know what other cases they could find- the problem coming and going with regularity? Correct me if i’m wrong, but only one person has claimed to have found relief from the bug, only for it to come back.

I really don’t want to give up on the game. I’ve enjoyed it for a long while now. But between the still-derpy AI and constant map rotation that’s honestly making me stop caring about the unique objectives, i really am having less fun.

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I don’t mind if they wanna make only 4 maps playable at the same time, but please at least give us a new rotation of these 4 maps every few weeks?? I played 2 games on Warhead Junction but 42 on Battlefield of Eternity! This is driving me nuts … please help!

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Current map rotation for me:

Sky Temple > Dragon Shire > Warhead > Cursed Hollow