If you want to have FFA fine, but I’m getting sick and tired of all these beautiful maps exclusively coming to FFA. Black Forest, Castillo, Chateau Guillard, Eco Point Antarctica, Necropolis, Petra, and now finally Kanezaka.
That’s 7 maps, there’s 29 unique maps in OW. Why is a game based on cooperative play, a game that Blizzard at one point said FFA wouldn’t even work with, have 24% of its maps exclusively for a game mode the average player will never play? Stop wasting resources on FFA and concentrate on the actual game that people play. You can always section off a part of the map for the FFA audience, heck with how many you’ve done that for by now I bet there’s more FFA maps than normal OW maps at this point.
Just think how much more variety in maps there would be if there was 7 more maps in the QP/Competitive rotation.
EDIT: Statistics of those that participate in FFA is 3%.
Because death match is very popular to play while waiting in queue. It’s a core component now for warmup and it needs extra content too. And besides we have no idea if this map really took “extra resources” from anything. Could’ve just been a side-gig from other devs.
There’s plenty of none FFA exclusive maps, you don’t need to build a map from the ground up for FFA exclusively, just section a part of a new map off and slap it into FFA. FFA shouldn’t this level of resources poured into it in a game like OW.
everything I’ve read in this post is one person complaining about having pretty good content (and a lot of lore) after a 2020 of challenge-only events.
it is no mystery that we will know everything at blizzcon but some whining after a long time of silence is … an insult
kanezaka was a personal project from a new dev they hired to kind of demonstrate his ideas, and when they saw his prototype design they loved it so much they decided to make it real. I doubt it costed as much dev resources to make kanezaka as it did other maps for that reason.
between covid and ow2, the devs are probably working really hard, we’re just not able to see it at the moment and probably wont get to until early 2022 lmao
Eco Point, Black Forest, Castillo, and Necropolis are elimination maps
So really not that many resources have gone into these modes. And why shouldn’t they have their own maps? The regular maps don’t suit these modes, especially elimination since the regular maps aren’t symmetrical.
3v3 Elimination
6v6 Elimination
Mirrored Duel
Literally all custom games
Just because they don’t make something for the core gameplay modes doesn’t mean there aren’t communities that want and are appreciative of them. As a workshop creator myself I’m very happy with it being a deathmatch map - there’s normally a lot more you can do with deathmatch maps.
Would rather not have more terrible sectioned-off stock maps like Blizzard World and Paris in FFA. The only really good maps introduced that way are Eichenwalde and Hollywood.
Actually 2CP maps were in the FFA All Maps rot at one point but they were too big to be fun and too horizontal to be cut to an acceptable length. I imagine KOTH maps have a similar problem.
