This was such a shocker to me. It’s probably my favorite set of maps. There’s so many routes to take, virtually any hero can be good in them, the maps make a good usage of space… And yet, they’re never voted for. Really miss playing them. Why do people dislike them so much?
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Even before we get into gameplay, people don’t like control in general and visually it’s a blue wasteland
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Yeah, I quite like AP as well. The only aspect I don’t particularly dig is the aesthetic - icy wasteland plus generic base equals a bland look. But in terms of gameplay? I think it works well, with none of the egregious sightlines that certain maps have.
But then again, Oasis tends to get left out in the cold, too, so I dunno. Oasis is pretty, so it’s not all about looks.
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I like the idea of the map but it needs tweaks. more lights or something to make it less bland, its a very meh map.
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It’s too caged in with too many corners and lots of close quarters combat situations. Favors easy brawler heroes like Venture and Reaper. Not fun for me as someone that plays a lot of Widow and have to swap to Sym for these kinds of maps against certain comps. Same issue I have with Clash and maps like New Junk City.
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yea i think certain maps will be a rarity. havnt played that one in a while and probably wont for a while longer since never voted for
It has the most fun spawn rooms at least xD Punching penguins and fishing are my favorite activities
In fact, on that topic, I think fishing is bugged rn. Tried it last time with moira and it wasn’t working
The playerbase hate everything other than escort, half of them only vote escort because of herd mentality just boring NPCs, best control maps are always skipped to play hybrid or escort 90% of the time, I barely played the new map
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Me when Flashpoint wasn’t liked.
Open area? Yep
Lots of flanks? Yep
Any hero can find value? Yep
You’d think in the mode where “You have to walk sooooo much” the people who can aim would be happy everyone is distracted by “all the walking”
Not at all the case.
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I think i’ve played antartica once since map voting update, I already miss old quickplay
There’s one Antarctica round in particular that I don’t like where it’s all underground/ice. All the main avenues are cramped straight lines, except for the control point which is over-exposed, and the flanking routes are far too long to be reliable. If you’re attacking then you basically need some vertical mobility or speed to reliably get things done. I don’t hate the whole thing but that one really spoils it.
Stay back! It isn’t Bennings! 
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Yeah tbh I liked map voting at first, but it’s become sour quite fast for me. I think the idea is good, but there should still somehow be something like a 25% chance for each map to get chosen, regardless of votes.
I once played Eichenwalde 4 times in a row… I haven’t played new junk city once since the update. And I really wanted to see the changes the map got.
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Fine I guess il play mid row for the fifth time today 
“Mid” still means half of the other maps are worse. 
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Personally, if it was pitted against a push or clash maps, I’d choose it.
I actually like the map myself, except the Icebreaker Ship map, since the jagged edges all over the place mess up rollouts n stuff, and it also has a weirdly low skybox
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It just comes down to color scheme I think. The maps are fine but it’s just so bright.
Interesting. I got it twice in the space of 3 games yesterday.
ive learned that OW to people is apparantly pushing a payload
and that if its OW2 its “not liked” even if it is pushing a payload (they get outvoted compared to OW1 maps just about every time)
i put it in quotes because i think many times it doesnt have much to do with “not liking”, but rather some picks are just liked more and compared to those they arent liked as much
people love picking eichenwalde and getting full held on point b because muh payload, oh well i guess they can just have this highground
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