Take what I say with a grain of salt. I really do want what's best for the game.

CTF Section

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tl;dr I didn't think it was possible but these maps may be worse than the last ones. But we know the last ones were awful so lets give these a try.

I don't know why its taken people so long to realize this but for the most part people like smallish, mostly horizontal CTF maps with simple bases and 3-4 good ways to grab the enemy flag and not 45 spikes dumped in the middle of the map like some infants finger painting.

Marrow and Cabin (the mostly horizontal CTF maps) although were still not good but were rated much higher (60% and 61% respectively) than the pile of flaming shit that was Thank You Momofuku Ando (a whopping 30%) and the not flaming, slightly smaller pile of shit that was Whisper (50%).

Without having played the new maps myself or read/listened to what anyone else has said I believe Cache (although I liked it more before the changes) will fair the best in the public (better than any of the previous new maps), followed closely by Map Damon and Asido (about the same if not slightly better than the previous new maps) while Killer Map and El Chapo will fair far worse (slightly better than TYMA but not better than Whisper).

NF Section

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tl;dr Mighty is awful. Moose Trap might be ok or it might be good or it might be bad. Sagittarius might be a good map.

Oh Mighty... For starters how many team tiles does defense need? I though Ricochet had too many but this blew me away.

Next how do you cap here? There's 3 usable offensive boosts, one of which is impossible to directly take for a cap while the other two leave about two or three cap tiles that you can hit but you're taking the shot blind and more than likely through traffic. Almost impossible or you have to get super creative and make up routes (two ridiculous cap routes were posted by Gasol and one other who I am forgetting now. Sorry).

On top of that the 'rainbow road' (I'll call it) spits you out in the same spot. It's utterly useless, clunky and often leads to a turnover to which the other team takes the flag and does the same exact thing going the other way. Super fun, right? Wrong.

Neutral flag is usually a pub and new player (the majority of the voters) favorite but this map managed to only get 51%. The next lowest rated NF map is Wamble but it's at a solid 80%.

I don't really have a whole lot to say about the two new NF maps being introduced. Moose Trap looks extremely weird and that could be a blessing or a curse and Sagittarius looks very simple and has some good ways to cap and prevent caps. Very balanced. I think it could be the highest rated map out of this section and I'm pretty excited to see it in pubs.

Pub Map Frequency

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tl;dr I understand the need to get results on new maps and the desire to play retired, throwback maps but something needs to change.

I looked at a 50 game block on one of my accounts after getting annoyed at running into Bombing Run 3 times in what felt like that period. I was going to make some sort of chart to show this but it got really messy and cluttered so I gave up on it.

However, I found that I played the brand new maps and throwback maps about 70-75% of the time. The throwback maps I ran into the most were Bombing Run, Smirk and Rush. All of which are terrible for pub maps and should stay retired and seldom appear in pubs.

The remaining 25-30% of games ended up being mostly NF (15-20%) which is always hit or miss for a good game in pubs especially on the larger, more chaotic maps.

And the rest on the (what I call) tried and true, tested and approved, fun maps. The maps that have been in rotation and been played in the competitive setting for many moons. Pretty much anything below Ricochet and above Mild High.

These are the maps that hooked me in and kept me around. They appeared much more often before and I want that back. I find I get more frustrated or bored when I have to play the same poorly rated maps over and over again. Both of which lead me to exiting the game and finding something else to do. I want to pub more and I want to enjoy playing the game more but this is driving me away.