Most Balanced Map?

[Gav]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Daqing Oilfields strikes me as very balanced, although it's by no means my favourite map... Both sides have equal numbers of vehicles, and all vehicle types are representated (jets, transport choppers, attack choppers, tanks, APCs, transports, mobile AA...) to add balance to the gameplay as well as to the teams. Both teams start with uncappable flags at opposite ends of the battlefield, with several neutral flags in between. Both teams have one flag close to their base that usually gets capped immediately, and then they're left with three flags in the middle of the map to fight over, all pretty much equal distances from the two main bases.

That map has air-power, chopper ownage, AA to fight the previous two off, armoured stand-offs between flags and infantry battles around the flags themselves. Sounds pretty balanced to me...

[Kattspya]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Zatar Wetlands.

Are you kidding me? The americans will always get the middle and helo first in the 16p and 32p versions.

[sidtherat]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

ranked:

zetar32 - maybe not so popular, but fun when 2 competent teams meet eachother. great king of the hill fights
dragon valey 64 - it sometimes ends as a carier rape, but still
shongua 32

these are the maps i dont care what team i spawned into - so bad, that zetar 32 is so rare, same as shongua [in all versions]

ghost town isnt balanced at all, choppers differ too much, same as AA vechicles - THE infantry killers at this map, linebaker HAS NOT a radar that obscures sights! sas wins this map much more often my experience tells

in the unranked world, i prefer karkand 32 with no tanks/apcs, each tiem ive played this map victory wasnt certain at all till the last tickets

[DOGGiE52]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

My vote is for Mashtuur City now that the BH and MEC Choppers are similar in usefulness (and they are both STILL very useful...all of the v1.0 BH whores just don't think so )

Give me a reason to start using transport chopper overall, what's usefull with them (other than transporting players) after the 1.2 patch?

[PBAsydney]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Songhua Stalemate / Masthuur

[sidtherat]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Give me a reason to start using transport chopper overall, what's usefull with them (other than transporting players) after the 1.2 patch?

transporting players is what these units are made for

not 'ill kill you all buahahaha' style adventures

[LoKi.]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Are you kidding me? The americans will always get the middle and helo first in the 16p and 32p versions.

Zatar is nice because each start with same vehicles... all flags are grey.... any team can get the middle 1st using a jet or transport helo. to spawn a squad in.

You fight for the flags if you win you get the prizes... more vehicles.

So the map is always won by the team with the better teamwork / better players...

[dpitty613]

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Mashtuur is probably the most balanced. One of my favorites.

[=IMO=THJones]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

I'd agree with mashtuur only if everyone is loaded into the game BEFORE the round starts. Otherwise it's a scramble to get the flags, and whatever team has the fastest computers on it will have upwards of 2 extra flags by the time everyone is loaded in. The game at Mashtuur is either a great battle, or a quick, decisive win.

excelant point this is why even though some people complain our server has a 30 second delay

i have seen many maps where the game is over before the other team even spawns and thats so boring to me

[vbl]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Mashtuur. One tank per side, too.

[The_Misfit]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

yeah, Mashtur for sure... But Zatar? you have to be kidding - whoever gets that middle spawn has 1 helo. Balance regarding helos would be a map like the 32p version of Daging, where each has a helo @ their uncappable...

[LoKi.]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Exactly and either team can take the middle spawn and the helo with teamwork.................

besides a jet can down a helo in 2 seconds these days there worthless

[Chowley]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

reasons?

:p I thought it would be obvious but seeing as you havent played it :p.

2 Uncappables. 1 apc and tank on either side. 2 Mobile AA at flags, 1 outside each teams base. 2 attack choppers at flags at either side of the map. You would have to play it really, its very well laid out. The two bases are at opposite sides to eachother with two oil platforms out on the water near to the bases as well, which are rarely capped and are an easy cap if you lose all flags. Its rare to have one team just owned totally.

Anybody else notice that most maps that are very balanced have uncappable bases and are very symmetrical. By symmetrical, I mean, you could put a mirror smack down the middle of the map, and be pretty close to reality.

Yus you said it.

[F-1]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Definitly Zatar Wtlands.
The maps is symmetric and there is no reason why someone can always take the central cp before the others.

[{wxc}panda]

Re: Most Balanced Map?

Mastuur is not that balanced if u ask me, US can ALWAYS get to Mosque faster than MEC. For US u just need to grab a hummv and rush down the hill , but for MEC u need to circle around the hotel building to get to the bridge then rush to the Mosque.