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They are working at intended.

If you are being targeted in red circle, and then run away, you gonna be chased since you were targeted during previous "searching-target" run.

For a moment I thought it's a bait thread but it seems you are serious

Come on guys just stop this.

Australian magic, if you don't like the map just veto it. Wher is a weak faction now.

Tric thanks for puting new maps ingame.

I did but the problem is, now I have to veto 3 new maps (would like to veto four) so I need to use for it 1 veto I used before for other maps - which means, no matter what I have to have in map poll maps which I hardly dislike or which are really hard for Ostheer.

Still I don't get why so many closed-city maps?
6 new maps:
Essen, Refinery, Market, Caen*
Westwall - really good map with open space as well as close combat sections.
Forest - still haven't played.

*It's city map but way better for balance than other.

So 6 maps - 4 city maps, 1 half city (really good one), 1 I havent tested.

Okay. Lets see.

It is difficult, okay. For all sides. So one unit has problems.
But i'm not sure that the AT gun is the only answer on Essen against vehicles. Mines at the factory doors and PzSchrecks are working good. I have already seen a number of games where mines killed or cast out the T-70 and/or Stuart. And Hans showed the PzSchreck power on the map. So perhaps it is no ideal for AT guns but there are other weapons - and that is the point where we have to change from map design discussion into gameplay balance.
And by the way: I think maps like crossing in the woods and crossroads have the same problem with AT guns.
By the way: U ever tried a Puma on Essen?

Thats a problem i already reworked a bit. I want to keep the collapsed factory design with all the debris and objects but i have reworked both factories to enforce light vehicle gameplay and make at guns more efficient.

I think it is the first time someone is complaining about the sniper on Essen? Why is sniper "not working"/"impossible to use". Because of the cqc parts? Well. Perhaps Ostheer can work without sniper?

But that is a gameplay balance issue and not a map issue. And i cant understand why everyone is obsessed by the idea that all maps have to be done around the current balance. With the next balance patch everything could change. So we have to rework all maps for the new balance patch or is it in indicator for a current balance issue. I think it is an balance issue because factions like Ostheer will always need tactics to defend against close combat tactics.

Map issues are - basing on my point of view - pathing issues, unbalanced cover, sector layout and all this stuff. But it cant be a mapping issues when close combat units arent able to defend themselves against other close combat units (aka PzGrens vs BAR Rifles, ectpp). It cant be an map issue when the AT gun is the only counter against T-70 or Stuart (why is Schreck not working? Is T-70/Stuart too strong/too early on the field? What would happen when u play without both tanks on Essen?).

I can see that is sometimes your personal point of view to decided what is gameplay balance and what is map balance. Thats something i can accept and understand. But i cant accept when u ignore the questions you imply with your questions.

Yes, using AT Gun is hard for all sides but opposite to Ostheer, SU or USF don't have to rely on it.
Sure, there are other weapons but both should be viable. Sometimes my army composition needs mobile AT, sometimes more powerful stationary but it's up to player what he needs, not up for map.
No, I don't use mobile defense.

Good to hear that.

Sniper is hard to use because if plenty vision blockers, corners, not clear line of sight, obstacles while sniper is key for Ostheer in current state*. Ostheer can work with sniper but in current state efficient sniper is kinda the only way for Ostheer to stay in game. But when it's hard to make sniper efficient, just like main-line infantry, well it's gonna be really bad for Ost which leads to insta veto such maps.

*You gonna say that it is balance issue just like Ostheer infantry vs SU or USF.

But here is a thing. We know what problems Ostheer has, we know it's not going to change so why introduce map which makes those problems even bigger? Balance won't change by 180 and we all know this so it's partly balance issue, partly map issue.

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Also Stalingrad was removed for a reason. It was becasue Stalingrad favoured certain factions (SU) leaving OST without any chances vs Shocks, KV8 into IS2. And now we have closed city maps all over again

And that is the result of 3 pages and endless twitch, steam and chat discussion?
Mapmakers wont use the "free content" argument to defend themselves against any criticism.
We need constructive criticism to work on our maps but till today there is no constructive criticism at all. Look at this thread. 3 pages of one-liners and useless arguments (the fog, i dont like cqc maps, urban/industrial maps are crap, ectpp).
I was attacked for Essen so often (someone seen the Dane stream?) but i got only a small number of useful feedback.

How can you say that there was not constructive critisim if I literally pointed out why Essen isn't balanced map.

I pointed out that using Pak40 is very hard, factories are too closed, sniper is kinda impossible to use or infantry doesn't stand a chance vs SU or USF.

If that's not constructive critisim then I don't know what is

But when Tric says that: go and make your own map,
it does not help and it's excalty what skemshead said.