Here we have the classic forum snob- someone who thinks that his opinion and worldview are the only valid ones and anyone who expresses a radically different one is not serious, stupid, or a troll.
Maps are not completely aesthetic, as anyone who has played the game for more than five minutes can tell you. Which map you are playing on has a vast impact on your play style- I defy anyone to tell me Steppes or Vaux plays the same as Semosky or Sittard, for example.
Cold tech is an extension of that. It adds elements to the game that differentiate maps from each other and in particular makes playing on a winter map different in a practical sense from playing on the summer version of the same map. So yes, Relic might as well delete winter versions of maps because now there is nothing separating them from the summer ones except vehicle camo. Tell me, what difference is there?
Secondly, there is the immersion factor- some of us LIKE feeling that we're watching and directing an actual WW2 battle to some extent, and blizzards were a factor that had to be dealt with IRL in winter conditions. It was good that you had to do it here as well.
"Too silly of an outburst to take seriously" thanks for perfectly encapsulating your own post. Maps are maps... AND WHICH MAP YOU ARE PLAYING ON GENERALLY AFFECTS HOW YOU PLAY DOES IT NOT?
Le sigh.
I, who could care less, being simple and practical, see the map as the game board.
I dont like outside random interruptions in my strategy game. So do many other people; current blizzards (IN HOW THEY WERE CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTED) simply said, were very terrible and slowed down the game.
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SAID maps are completely aesthetic in terms of APPEARANCE (english). A winter map looks nice. Random blizzards as they are arent as well as deep snow... BALANCE of the map matters most. Repeated again.
As for nothing seperating winter maps from summer maps, what then seperates spring and autumn maps from summer maps?... Dont answer that, but the reason winter maps exist is to simulate a winter battlefield. Repeated again to emphasize: current manifestation of blizzards simulating something much more tedious and boring than a winter battlefield.
Immersion blizzards that do VERY LITTLE could still exist. Perhaps they could return if relic reworks it. Current past blizzards sucked (but still can be used in custom matches).
I dont want to antagonzie you, but please dont antagonize me. I simple found it the oddest overstatement to remove blizzard maps on the sole reason that the removal of blizzards should warrant a removal. Now is that not more silly than removing a map for a more gameplay based reason, like the map being allied/axis biased/ really bad, such as Stalingrad?
That is why your first statement of this post is very crude; you have conducted way too poor of a basis on the proposition of removing all blizzard maps as a result. And im not a snob, just an asshole. I attack things based on their validity, not because "my opinion is better/others are inferior". The moment you start antagonizing someone else, then you become the same and no one is the better.
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