Seriously, ever since the random vote option introduced I haven’t played a flashpoint map, at all this season. It’s not going to hurt ya’ll to play it at least once. Stop picking King’s Row, Ilios, and Ligiang all the time! Change is good! Different maps are good!
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I’ve played alot of flashpoint maps compared to escort this season outside of rialto (I think i’ve played havana once)
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Change isn’t always necessarily for the best.
A lot of people avoid flashpoint because it’s more restrictive in who you can play than other modes are. For example, if someone is an Ashe main, they’re not going to want to play Aatlis or Junker Town since they will be locked out of certain points.
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I’ve been playing a fair amount of flashpoint on QP and Comp. Aatlis and Suravasa slap. NJC not as much but still fun with mobile comps
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People do vote for them. In fact, statistically, better players vote for them.
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you are something else in the whole copium gang.
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High ranks prefer them.
Real question: why remove QP Clash maps even though people voted them more than FP?
Why not re-add 2CP if you did a test for them and they were overwhelmingly picked (though it’s hilarious 5v5-only people have no idea how to play them)?
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Flashpoint maps are not bad maps, but I don’t trust my teammates on them. At least with Chokenwalde, I know where they’re going to group up, roughly. When is still between RainbowDashLover2678 and God.
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This, times a thousand.
(Though New Junk City is objectively hideous, probably intentionally so)
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I would like the maps go back to be just random. I do like play on kings row and eichensomething, but it gets exausting play on the same maps so many times. I think i got less mercys in my games today than repeated maps.
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I never got the hate for flashpoint it’s just a 10x better version of Control
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This. I miss Clash. There’s less variety without and the Antarctic rework has been meh.
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I also think it’s w/e, but didn’t mind the originals. Never really understood why they were disliked.
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Because after the first day people stopped picking 2CP and people were vocal on how they aged terribly. Since then the requests for 2CP trickled to almost nothing.
That was not at all my experience. They got picked nearly every time they showed up.
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It was the opposite experience for me. It was picked every time on day 1, but by the second day you would often see votes being either split or 2CP being outvoted by a large margin.
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I think with map voting, I don’t see the harm in adding 2CP to QP for a couple months (maybe add 4 tiles plus a Random) to let players actually learn how to play it and see how it does.
If it’s really not getting votes or people completely hate it, they can take it out after that. I frankly think they should re-add Clash. I’d pick it over Flash, Push, half the Defence maps, and definitely Horizon and Paris.
One thing though about OW players, we seem to (in general) despise change and are quick to complain.
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I miss that clash had the last point usually very hard fights, like in og overwatch comp. But the gamemode could also be a easy stomp since win a single team fight = win one point.
Blizzard has said flashpoint is the most voted game mode in higher ranks. So what xx9 said is correct, better players vote for them.
I was wrong, the second most voted mode after koth.
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Honestly with the voting changes in Season 2, I can’t really disagree that much. I don’t like 2CP and so don’t a lot of people, but with Landsliding you can have the proper lobbies vote for it when they feel like it and not have like 1-2 spoil 8 other’s fun now.
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