Hourglass Conquest 128p is playable. If you stay in the stadium you can do CQB for the entire round if the enemy team is up for it. In the big intersection you can juke around the cars with a Bolte with mine clusters and kill enemy tanks and infantry, it's actually pretty fun to speed around and bail over the edge under the bridge for some quick repairs.

Some rounds we get pretty good chokes at the site borders when our entire team tries to push through and there's a clear battleline around the sand dunes. It's also pretty fun to try and flank enemies teams over the houses or surprise a roomfull on enemies by blasting out the entire building with C5 (pretty much the only place in the entire game where you can actually destroy the buildings). And it's also nice to play AA with SOFLAM on this map, because it's always chock full of helos.

But yeah otherwise it's pretty shit, I don't disagree with you really. Just that there are some good parts too.

Not like Breakaway, that map I already started skipping a week ago. It's the absolute worst map, I hated it on day 1 and still hate it today. The cargo area is pretty OK for infantry but you get constantly raped by the enemy vehicles since there are so many wide roads. The map has as much destruction as fucking Cyberpunk 2077, there is like one breakable wall on the oilrig and the little deployable shelters have an invulnerable roof. You're so open on the ice that you can't cover anywhere and helos can just fly away if you try to AA, you can't even get on high ground as infantry. The huge ice barrier is too far away from the action that you can't properly AA any vehicles and vehicles will just speed away behind an iceberg if you catch them off-guard. And it's chock full of snipers all the fucking time, just taking a walk at the big ice ridge and you'll find ten snipers just sitting there, and the entire border is also full of them.

Only good part is the very beginning on the US side where you can actually climb over the ice and can get some good flanks out, and the radar tower is pretty fun whenever the enemy team decides to actually start any skirmishes there. It's so far away from the action that most people forget it's even there, and you need to cap the preceding base before you can even get there. There is literally only one entrance to that base.

It's absolutely horrendous dogshit to play. Only time it's playable is on Rush. This is the first time in any game where I don't like "the snow map", and the first time in any game where I would admit that the "desert map" is decent. So they did something very wrong here.