And that one thing is probably gonna stir up some people BUT I don’t really care, so here it is, when getting into a game and getting to the vote for a map and game section 9/10 times I will see everyone, and I mean EVERYONE vote for escort or hybrid maps over anything on the polls, like sure we get like 1 dude who wants to be “special” and picks push cause he’s quirky.
But like every time I see escort or hybrid maps like Eichenwalde, Hollywood, Dorado, ect. I can literally just sit back at my desk and know where we are going.
My only question is this… do people seriously STILL think push and control pushes are fun? cause I’m gonna be honest with you chief… the honey moon phase is over and I straight up HATE those modes and wish they could just be thrown in the dumpster where they belong.
I hope the devs either take the polls for these maps and make the other modes more fun, improve the maps a little better, OR they just chunk them out and we just get to play good maps and modes. cause everytime I see strictly push game modes on the list for QP ya I won’t lie I straight up leave the game and reque…
imo for escort/hybrid people are way more sensitive on which map it specifically is in high ranks.
There’s probably some regional variance too though, which would have been interesting to see from blizzard
As in personally I like flashpoint and push, and then maps like Dorado/Paraiso i’ll pretty much never vote.
Anyway even in unranked for me the votes for modes are pretty even I’d say, I see flashpoint / push played & voted a lot. Then certain maps can get just all votes, like KR or Lijiang tower.
Most high ranking players have played on most of the old maps for many years. Also payload/hybrid maps can result in overtime matches. Flashpoint, control and push always result in a winner by the end of the game. That being said I think the answer you are looking for is yes, people prefer to play what they like and enjoy.
If you don’t like non-escort modes then that’s fine, but in my experience over in QP? While it’s still the most popular mode in my anecdotal experience, I think a bit of escort fatigue is starting to set in. I’m seeing more votes start to go to other modes now. Yesterday I had a lobby where New Junk City got four votes, and one where New Queen Street beat out Hollywood legitimately.
Control maps will always be the best. But I swear, half the time that quirky person picks a cursed map like Aatlis (sorry) or Anubis, that’s the map we end up playing on.
Y’know a bunch of T500s don’t even play the game consistently, they just get the 25 wins to place and keep their spot and then play like two hours a week?
If you think you have to no life a game to get good at it, it’s just a sign of your own incompetence.
Yes, and I even like Flashpoint. But to me it is very map specific. I don’t like Aatlis on flashpoint at all. And I am not a big fan of some of the control maps. Control overall might be my least favorite mode aside from Clash, but I don’t hate it really.
Now on the flip side, while I do tend to prefer a lot of escort and hybrid maps, there are a few that are terrible. Havana is one of the worst maps in the entire game. It’s beautiful. I love how it looks and feels and back when they promised dynamic weather it looked really cool. But, both 1st and 3rd point are sniper playgrounds where you have to go uphill into a shooting gallery. That’s not fun. So I’ll 100% vote for push or control over that. But if you give me Hollywood or Route 66 then I’m going for those for sure.
Push I think is fundamentally flawed from a competitive state, but I do find it really fun. I have a super high win rate on push compared to other modes.
Even back when I was T500 and cared about comp, I have always hated all the “modes high rank players like”. No… they’re trash. Not all high rank like it. Idk anybody who does, personally. I hate flashpoint the most and clash is also crap. I’d rather have 2CP back than those. I at least enjoyed 2CP overall. At least coming back from spawn doesn’t take over a minute.
