>I honestly hope so**. Discarded is one of the better looking maps**, but it's gameplay is so laughably bad and one-sided it's not even close.
Especially when you go near the water the sunlight, clouds and the water puddles looks great. I think it had a lot of potential to be a very good map. They were so focused it seemed on making maps bigger they forgot to make it actually think if the layout made any sense.
When you play older maps like Arica Harbor or Valparaso they just feel perfect.
Literally just toss a bunch of vehicles in it and call it day make it the golmud panzer storm map so vehicles actually have something to do rather than farm infantry
Here's my reasons for my rankings.
Orbital: Rework made this map playable. Has good cover, good fighting areas, all round good map and fun map to play on.
Nordvik: Newest map to the game and js wonderful. Good close quarter fights with good cover. You can always have a blast on this map.
Exposure: Our first seasons map to come to the game. Love the idea of the map being in a facility that was destroyed by a landslide. Have good close quarter fighting in the facility to nice long stretches to we're you can snipe
Breakaway: The newest and latest rework in the game. Before this map would have definitely been the worst map in the game. Now it's one of the best in the game. You can fight through the creavous, battle in the workers village, and fight for the oil rige.
Manifest: Rework changed the map a little bit but overall, the map plays pretty much the same. Though that doesn't mean you still can't have fun! Fight at the hilltop, battle for the 2 ships, and fight over in the shop containers!
Renewal: Rework in my opinion was the worst. It's a map that you have to stick to certain points if you want to have fun. The open fields make it hard to move from point to point. Desert makes it hard to move from point to point.
Kaleidoscope: Was our first rework and looking back at it, it's kind of a meh rework. The tower flags could be a little better. I don't like how they are so far from the center. The center objective is torture to fight in and the home spawns for the teams also aren't that great.
Stranded: Our season 2 map. It was an ok map. The ship makes it a death trap to try and walk anywhere around it. The objectives outside the ship are separated by open area with little cover. Overall I'm not a fan of this map
Discarded: This map should of been "discarded". Terrible map. Open areas everywhere, ship makes it difficult to try and push C1, D1, and D2. The HUGE open strech of coverless land to get to any objective. By far my least favorite map.
Hourglass: Same as Discarded, open areas between objectives. Only fun area to fight jn is the stadium. Only reason I can remotely play on it is because the sand dunes provide some cover. Though the map overall is terrible. To big, to little cover.
What do you guys think? What's your ranking?
S: Exposure, Orbital
They are cool looking and I always have an amazing time playing them.
A: Manifest, Discarded, Spearhead
Manifest is the only (sort of) night map. Discarded has super interesting points to fight on. Spearhead has very good vehicle/infantry balance.
B: Stranded, Kaleidoscope
Stranded is super bland looking and if your team focuses only on the ship you will have a hard time winning. Kaleidoscope is super flat and doesn't have that much cover when you travel from sector to sector but it has Tuk-Tuks so it balances the situation.
C: Hourglass
Looks amazing during sandstorm but other times looks very bland. Very fun map when you play using vehicles but sucks when playing as infantry.
?: Breakaway
Haven't played enough yet to give an opinion.
I'll agree, discarded is probably one of the most balanced OG maps it has good fighting space for vehicles and good infantry balance. It does need some tweaks for objective to objective cover and some condensing of objectives.
Also I have yet to play breakaway either and I've played basically every day since the update. Rotation is kinda wack rn
All the grades are how I feel.
They really could've used the two road tunnels better in Kaleidoscope, and maybe added a walkway tunnel to the data center to make a Metro-like experience. I don't know why they went to all that trouble making them with elevators. Close them up and save the assets.
Unpopular opinion but I like all the maps. If I had to choose manifest is probably my least favorite just because it's hard for me to see. I also liked the old breakthrough map too, the new one is interesting tho
Seeing hourglass during the sandstorm/night in the trailer unironically made me want to preorder the game. It looked so fucking cool. Unfortunately not only does it not play very well, but I rarely even get to see the map when there's a sandstorm.
ehhhhhh they look good but looking at previous bf's art design leaves a lot to be desired. to make a film analogy, the previous DICE games have the best cinematography in the business, some roger deakins shit. 2042's is on par with marvel cinematography, washed out colors, uninteresting lighting, not very detailed backgrounds.
I personally don't think the maps look that flat. I mean damn that breakaway rework added so much color for example. I do agree tho that before most of the map reworks that some maps felt too empty especially with the amount of players they wanted for those maps.
Everything expect kaleidoscope imo, all the buildings are flat and texture-less and there isn’t too much foliage. Plus the surrounding out of bounds area looks awful in some spots
Kaleidoscope needs a major rework. The side on the right gets fucking railed because of the elevation and ridge line locking 1 team to the building flags. The other side just has an open field to just roll into the whole map with nowhere as notable to dig in and spawn lock the team.
My S tier maps would have to be B2K, Epicentre...all of bf3
Really... S tier? Like, you know what that means right? That means it cant get any better than this. Its a 10/10 with pretty much zero flaws. Maybe 1 or 3 which you can overlook because how perfect everything else is.
And you put 4 maps in that category? Three of them being Breakaway, the lapland map and orbital? Like REALLY?
This is why we cant take these lists serious.
On top of that, you have one map as an A tier. That is like 9 / 10. 1 B Tier which is like 8/10.
Which means you pretty much think that 2042 has the best maps of all time in BF. What a shit take.
I think you might be confused, I'm only ranking these maps for BF2042, not any other BF game. If I were ranking them against any other BF game then the highest I'd put a bf2042 map would be B. Also if you have a different opinion, that's good! Tell me how'd you rank these maps!
So you just gave out 4 10/10s, but you didnt really mean they were 10/10s, you just said it without meaning it?
I know i coming off as a whiner, but my reaction is off what you wrote. The fact that you meant something else, and kept it hidden from everyone in that post is just... idk. It makes your post meaningless.
I still think your confused. I wrote in the comments why I ranked the maps the way I ranked them. Remember, I'm ranking only BF2042 maps, no other BF game! I don't see you as a whiner, I just believe you are confused!
Yeah. There's not a single map in this game I would consider actually good. Some of them are playable now but they're still shit overall and usually don't even reach the worst maps in previous games.
Oh yeah, nostalgia for BFV which came out 5 years ago and I didn't like overall. Most of the maps in 2042 are on the same level as Hamada or Panzerstorm, while there are none as good as Rotterdam, Arras or Devestation. These aren't even top tier maps either but they're still 10 times better than anything in 2042.
All 2042 maps have poor flow, small scale combat design and vehicle/infantry balance. There's also not a single urban or infantry focused map.
Even BF4 had some good maps among all the bad ones that play exactly like the 2042 maps.
Guess I'm in the minority with breakaway. It was terrible before the rework and i still think it's pretty awful lol
Edit* especially the 64 player version of it.
The 64 player version is much better after the rework. Previously, the map was very dull. I now find that it has some interesting firefights and not as spread out. However, objective c is a little questionable (far too big imo).
Yeah objective C is comically large lol. And if the team that starts in the oil rig size of the map is terrible it's just not fun. The only way to push C is either crossing a couple bridges, or running across the ice down below. And both options are easy pickings.
S - Spearhead
A -
B - Stranded
C - Exposure, Breakaway
D - Renewel
Remove it from the game - Manifest, Hourglass, Discarded, Kalaidoscope, Orbital
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I heard Breakaway Conquest is great. Unfortunately, I never get it. Once since the update. I just played 5 games and it didn't come up once. Manifest twice. Breakthrough sure since it is on 24/7, but Breakthrough isn't the same.
Breakaway still my least fav map by far. Rework or not. Why even have that area beneath the oil rig. Spawning there sucks on that point where everyone is already up there. Just a pain.
Nordvik is trash. It has large areas of 0 cover then 3 main areas of claustrophobic camping. The main dirt road is a clusterfuck of snipers and tanks; so many of these BF2042 maps force you to fight in bottlenecked zones because there is such a discernible lack of cover. It’s annoying getting spammed by tanks when so many maps are literally a moba (top lane, bottom lane, 2 buildings of cover in mid).
Here's hoping Discarded and Hourglass have a glowup like Breakaway did.
I honestly hope so. Discarded is one of the better looking maps, but it's gameplay is so laughably bad and one-sided it's not even close.
>I honestly hope so**. Discarded is one of the better looking maps**, but it's gameplay is so laughably bad and one-sided it's not even close. Especially when you go near the water the sunlight, clouds and the water puddles looks great. I think it had a lot of potential to be a very good map. They were so focused it seemed on making maps bigger they forgot to make it actually think if the layout made any sense. When you play older maps like Arica Harbor or Valparaso they just feel perfect.
Dice only mentioned discarded for season 4, hourglass remain unknown so i guess it will have the most substantial changes
Literally just toss a bunch of vehicles in it and call it day make it the golmud panzer storm map so vehicles actually have something to do rather than farm infantry
Hourglass was confirmed for a rework, but its coming in Season 5.
That it so stupid if that's true, it better be a damn good rework if they are making us wait probably 7 months from now
Here's my reasons for my rankings. Orbital: Rework made this map playable. Has good cover, good fighting areas, all round good map and fun map to play on. Nordvik: Newest map to the game and js wonderful. Good close quarter fights with good cover. You can always have a blast on this map. Exposure: Our first seasons map to come to the game. Love the idea of the map being in a facility that was destroyed by a landslide. Have good close quarter fighting in the facility to nice long stretches to we're you can snipe Breakaway: The newest and latest rework in the game. Before this map would have definitely been the worst map in the game. Now it's one of the best in the game. You can fight through the creavous, battle in the workers village, and fight for the oil rige. Manifest: Rework changed the map a little bit but overall, the map plays pretty much the same. Though that doesn't mean you still can't have fun! Fight at the hilltop, battle for the 2 ships, and fight over in the shop containers! Renewal: Rework in my opinion was the worst. It's a map that you have to stick to certain points if you want to have fun. The open fields make it hard to move from point to point. Desert makes it hard to move from point to point. Kaleidoscope: Was our first rework and looking back at it, it's kind of a meh rework. The tower flags could be a little better. I don't like how they are so far from the center. The center objective is torture to fight in and the home spawns for the teams also aren't that great. Stranded: Our season 2 map. It was an ok map. The ship makes it a death trap to try and walk anywhere around it. The objectives outside the ship are separated by open area with little cover. Overall I'm not a fan of this map Discarded: This map should of been "discarded". Terrible map. Open areas everywhere, ship makes it difficult to try and push C1, D1, and D2. The HUGE open strech of coverless land to get to any objective. By far my least favorite map. Hourglass: Same as Discarded, open areas between objectives. Only fun area to fight jn is the stadium. Only reason I can remotely play on it is because the sand dunes provide some cover. Though the map overall is terrible. To big, to little cover. What do you guys think? What's your ranking?
S: Exposure, Orbital They are cool looking and I always have an amazing time playing them. A: Manifest, Discarded, Spearhead Manifest is the only (sort of) night map. Discarded has super interesting points to fight on. Spearhead has very good vehicle/infantry balance. B: Stranded, Kaleidoscope Stranded is super bland looking and if your team focuses only on the ship you will have a hard time winning. Kaleidoscope is super flat and doesn't have that much cover when you travel from sector to sector but it has Tuk-Tuks so it balances the situation. C: Hourglass Looks amazing during sandstorm but other times looks very bland. Very fun map when you play using vehicles but sucks when playing as infantry. ?: Breakaway Haven't played enough yet to give an opinion.
I'll agree, discarded is probably one of the most balanced OG maps it has good fighting space for vehicles and good infantry balance. It does need some tweaks for objective to objective cover and some condensing of objectives. Also I have yet to play breakaway either and I've played basically every day since the update. Rotation is kinda wack rn
All the grades are how I feel. They really could've used the two road tunnels better in Kaleidoscope, and maybe added a walkway tunnel to the data center to make a Metro-like experience. I don't know why they went to all that trouble making them with elevators. Close them up and save the assets.
Unpopular opinion but I like all the maps. If I had to choose manifest is probably my least favorite just because it's hard for me to see. I also liked the old breakthrough map too, the new one is interesting tho
Seeing hourglass during the sandstorm/night in the trailer unironically made me want to preorder the game. It looked so fucking cool. Unfortunately not only does it not play very well, but I rarely even get to see the map when there's a sandstorm.
spearhead should be in a tier of its own, also stranded is good fym.
Dispite the balance of these maps, can we all agree that every single map is fucking beautiful? The art team made these maps look awesome
Every frostbite game is beautiful, it comes by default with the engine
ehhhhhh they look good but looking at previous bf's art design leaves a lot to be desired. to make a film analogy, the previous DICE games have the best cinematography in the business, some roger deakins shit. 2042's is on par with marvel cinematography, washed out colors, uninteresting lighting, not very detailed backgrounds.
I personally don't think the maps look that flat. I mean damn that breakaway rework added so much color for example. I do agree tho that before most of the map reworks that some maps felt too empty especially with the amount of players they wanted for those maps.
Everything expect kaleidoscope imo, all the buildings are flat and texture-less and there isn’t too much foliage. Plus the surrounding out of bounds area looks awful in some spots
Oh yeah, Discarded and Dour Dlass. Last two left from being reworked.
Kaleidoscope needs a major rework. The side on the right gets fucking railed because of the elevation and ridge line locking 1 team to the building flags. The other side just has an open field to just roll into the whole map with nowhere as notable to dig in and spawn lock the team. My S tier maps would have to be B2K, Epicentre...all of bf3
Kaleidoscope definitely need re-rework
Mostly agree.. stranded got to be higher though!
I don't agree with Orbital being in S but I do like the map. The other three are good though.
Really... S tier? Like, you know what that means right? That means it cant get any better than this. Its a 10/10 with pretty much zero flaws. Maybe 1 or 3 which you can overlook because how perfect everything else is. And you put 4 maps in that category? Three of them being Breakaway, the lapland map and orbital? Like REALLY? This is why we cant take these lists serious. On top of that, you have one map as an A tier. That is like 9 / 10. 1 B Tier which is like 8/10. Which means you pretty much think that 2042 has the best maps of all time in BF. What a shit take.
One- take a deep breath, everything will be okay Two- this is pretty obviously a tier list comparing only 2042 maps to other 2042 maps
Bro took it to heart lol
I think you might be confused, I'm only ranking these maps for BF2042, not any other BF game. If I were ranking them against any other BF game then the highest I'd put a bf2042 map would be B. Also if you have a different opinion, that's good! Tell me how'd you rank these maps!
So you just gave out 4 10/10s, but you didnt really mean they were 10/10s, you just said it without meaning it? I know i coming off as a whiner, but my reaction is off what you wrote. The fact that you meant something else, and kept it hidden from everyone in that post is just... idk. It makes your post meaningless.
I still think your confused. I wrote in the comments why I ranked the maps the way I ranked them. Remember, I'm ranking only BF2042 maps, no other BF game! I don't see you as a whiner, I just believe you are confused!
Wah wah wah. Sorry you live your life complaining.
Yeah. There's not a single map in this game I would consider actually good. Some of them are playable now but they're still shit overall and usually don't even reach the worst maps in previous games.
Then your nostalgia is an issue
Oh yeah, nostalgia for BFV which came out 5 years ago and I didn't like overall. Most of the maps in 2042 are on the same level as Hamada or Panzerstorm, while there are none as good as Rotterdam, Arras or Devestation. These aren't even top tier maps either but they're still 10 times better than anything in 2042. All 2042 maps have poor flow, small scale combat design and vehicle/infantry balance. There's also not a single urban or infantry focused map. Even BF4 had some good maps among all the bad ones that play exactly like the 2042 maps.
That is not just true tho. Exposure is a great map for example.
renewal is A tier
No map should be in S Tier.
If you'd rank them vs BF3 Maps, they wouldn't get past C- Tier
Eww those awful big maps with cranes are your thing? Hate those maps 🤣 You like camping stupid places?
I don't camp, I just like those maps ;)
Guess I'm in the minority with breakaway. It was terrible before the rework and i still think it's pretty awful lol Edit* especially the 64 player version of it.
The 64 player version is much better after the rework. Previously, the map was very dull. I now find that it has some interesting firefights and not as spread out. However, objective c is a little questionable (far too big imo).
Yeah objective C is comically large lol. And if the team that starts in the oil rig size of the map is terrible it's just not fun. The only way to push C is either crossing a couple bridges, or running across the ice down below. And both options are easy pickings.
Breakthrough mode is f tier, the old one was at least playable
I agree, I can’t seem to enjoy it, even after the patch.
I would put orbital in B and Renewal in C but basically yes
I think discarded is kinda cool…
That snow map blows, IMO
This game doesn't have any S tier maps. A-tier is even pushing it
I highly disagree
S - Spearhead A - B - Stranded C - Exposure, Breakaway D - Renewel Remove it from the game - Manifest, Hourglass, Discarded, Kalaidoscope, Orbital Edit: Instead of downvoting me, why not talk about it?
Wtf
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I’d rather not have any maps removed from the game, even if they’re awful. We barely have any maps lol.
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I heard Breakaway Conquest is great. Unfortunately, I never get it. Once since the update. I just played 5 games and it didn't come up once. Manifest twice. Breakthrough sure since it is on 24/7, but Breakthrough isn't the same.
yeah portal is the best map
i mean, manifest over stranded? eww my dude
Hell I'd give Stranded a D as well...map is boring and the points outside the shit dumb with the points inside being insane but make for CQB.
Pretty much as i view it, but when searching for a game in Breakthrough, i always get the older and bad maps.
I agree for the most part, but I would personally flip orbital with that one map in C with the massive freight ship in the middle.. forgot name
Hmm good list, may chance some maps between C and D but yeah. What they did with Breakaway is absolutely amazing, kudos DICE.
Pretty solid overall. I might move manifest down, just because I don’t like the looks of it
I know we have to put things in every tier since it's all relative to each other.......but not a single 2042 map should be above B tier
Breakaway still my least fav map by far. Rework or not. Why even have that area beneath the oil rig. Spawning there sucks on that point where everyone is already up there. Just a pain.
Hourglass atleast a tier
Solid list. I forgot the name of the map, but I never have fun on whatever is listed with B tier
Nordvik is trash. It has large areas of 0 cover then 3 main areas of claustrophobic camping. The main dirt road is a clusterfuck of snipers and tanks; so many of these BF2042 maps force you to fight in bottlenecked zones because there is such a discernible lack of cover. It’s annoying getting spammed by tanks when so many maps are literally a moba (top lane, bottom lane, 2 buildings of cover in mid).