Maps you like but everyone hates (and vice versa, FH1 and 2).

[Fearbefore.]

The title should make it obvious, one of each from me -

I love vanilla Bocage. I get why everyone hates that map, I understand it, but the top flag (the little house to the north, which although I believe is a server side mod, both TDP and PFC use it) is my favorite flag in FH1. Whether you're German or American, there's a million different ways to defend that flag; Park a Jagdpanther in the trees to the east and light up any advancing Shermans, take a deployable MG and hold off any light vehicles, etc. I also love how when you can get two or three other people to defend the flag with you, there's a very Pavlov's House-ish feel to it, as you know you will have to deal with snipers, Stuka bomb/Thunderbolt rocket attacks, tank attacks, 222 raids, Schwimmwagen/Duck assaults, even arty assaults. In short, it's off the beaten path, but you're almost assured of action and you feel immensely proud if you hold out for the whole round at that flag.

On the other hand, I just cannot see the appeal of Pegasus Bridge. It seems like a country version of Arnhem to me, only without any of the Arnhem fun. Perhaps it's another map I don't fully experience due to the shittiness of this computer, but hiding in the bushes all day and having your head blown off by a sniper as soon as you peak out doesn't appeal to me. Yet time and time again, it's played over and over. Sometimes it feels like half the time I typed !nextmap Pegasus fh comes up.

What are some of yours, then.

[Ionizer]

I like Alam Halfa, but everyone seems to hate it.

I don't really hate any FH2 maps.

[Flippy Warbear]

In FH I hated or just not liked many maps...
In FH2 I only hate Aberdeen.

[Rawhide]

According to Wikipedia, if you measure the hate Flippy has towards Operation Aberdeen you will notice that you can fill-up almost the entire country of Ukraine with it.

On topic: I love FH2's Africa theater of war. Every single map, well not maybe Crete but that's the Mediterranean. I even miss it now when 2.2 Maps are everywhere.   

[Kelmola]

Love Aberdeen. Plenty of tanking and combined arms action - the battle for the central village is nothing short of epic, every time. And the rolling dunes mean that you might manage to creep into the flanks of an unsuspecting Grant, and instead of doing a suicidal rush with the satchel charge, you carefully snipe him with a few well-placed PzB rounds. If I end up on the British side, then rolling around in the nigh-invulnerable Valentine is fun, too. Or if your side gets the spotter plane, hope that a SL lands it to the enemy rear and you can spawn there, ready to backcap a flag.

Hate Giarabub. Too many dead ends and forced detours, plus I'm not so keen on infantry vs. infantry. Only fun there is either sniping the Vickerses with PzB or manning the PaK. Correction, the latter is not fun at all since the British mortars always target that, or if I'm a Briton who has managed to take it over, then a German kills me with the PzB.

[ajappat]

In FH2 I only hate Aberdeen.

One of my favourites 

[Flippy Warbear]

According to Wikipedia, if you measure the hate Flippy has towards Operation Aberdeen you will notice that you can fill-up almost the entire country of Ukraine with it.

What does the meter say about Flippy's hate level?

Its over 9000!

[Fearbefore.]

There does seem to be some truth to it, Flippy. From my occasional bored perusings of this forum you seem to almost drip angst, like some crazy, burning candle of hate.

[Flippy Warbear]

Stick to the topic, scumbag.

 

[von.small]

I awlays hated Gudal Canal - hate it hate it, sucks ass.

But I always love Reinenhbung [sp?] and whined like a little pussy when the server admin would change the map half ways.

I also loved is it Berlin Streets, not Berlin Upskirts, the one in the smashed up city, but TDP hardly ever put it in rotation.


[there is nothing I do not like about Fh2.2 - there is only everything to love]

[THeTA0123]

I like Giaraboob    but everyone is CHANGE CHANGE CHANGE, especialy  german people...........



GIARABUB>ALL

[Professor Anthrax]

In FH1 I LOVE Berlin Streets but even when I see it coming up on rotation on PFC or TDP it more often than not gets changed to something else at the last minute(I'm guessing this is because many others do not like it). Sometimes I'll only be sticking on the current map because I see that coming up...only to have it get taken away   (makes me miss the days when wolf had an occupied FH1 server. The admins did not willy-nilly change the nextmap. If you typed !nextmap at the beginning of a map, you pretty well knew that WOULD BE the next map).

In FH2 I would have to say one map I really like but others seem to hate(atleast whenever I see forum posts asking for people to vote for maps they like and it comes in near the bottom) is Mersa Matruh. I have always liked this map but it certainly does not seem to be a popular one. It seems to give plenty for both tanks and infantry to do. I Love fighting between those top three flags as infantry.

There's a couple maps in FH2 that make me want to disconnect when they come up so I guess that means I 'hate' them and those would be Alam Halfa and aberdeen. But I think most others hate those too, so they're not good examples of one's i hate but others love for the 'vice versa' part of this post

[Fearbefore.]

I'm assuming FH2's Aberdeen is nothing like the EA Aberdeen from FH1? I loved that map too, firing 2 pounder shells at Panzer IIIs that were just brown pixels in a beige haze was immense when you finally got a kill. Having 10 shells bounce off the front of your Matilda right in front of your face was awesome too.

[Ts4EVER]

I hate Aberdeen and Tunis. Tunis is more balanced now, but not more fun. Too spammy.

And I kind of like Alam Halfa, although I can see why it frustrates people. I like Mersa Matruh, but I'm not too fond of El Alamein.

[Ionizer]

I think people don't like Aberdeen because it has a very strong emphasis on Tank vs Tank combat, and the Allies have a bit of an advantage in that department on this map (probably didn't help when the 2 pounder got buffed up in 2.2).  Also, there seems to be alot of wasted space on the whole SouthEast quarter of the map.  It might help to put a flag other there at the landing strip.  Also, because there are only 4 flags, it stalemates easily and bogs down into tanks camping far outside flags zones, picking off any people trying to flank or drive from one flag to another, adding another flag might alleviate this problem.

Actually, that sounds kinda like FH1 Aberdeen.  Maybe that's why people don't like it?  IIRC, Aberdeen was also the first map announced for FH2, so maybe the Devs were just starting to get into the groove of the BF2 engine or something.

Then again, I haven't played any desert maps since 2.2 came out, so maybe it changed and got better.