They really baited us with Kaleidoscope and Hourglass, both were presented in the trailers as urban maps but all we got was completely open maps with a urban skyline in the background

I miss the Close Quarters DLC. It was a nice change of pace for Battlefield and the "micro destruction" was actually pretty cool.

Prise de Tahure is a map I enjoyed a lot. I agree that the lighting is terrible, though I think it adds to the atmosphere.

No one could make a more balanced map than Caspian Border. Infantry, jets, chopper, gun ships, tanks, sniper positions it had everything for everyone

Hourglass is one of the coolest-looking maps in 2042 (specifically the lit-up city during the sandstorm) and has a bunch of really great areas, like the stadium. It just came together so poorly with the giant open spaces and misleadingly-tiny city portion (the part people actually like). If they bring everything closer together and make the map feel more Shanghai than Sinai, I think it has the potential to be one of if not the best in the whole game.

For the most part, people love urban maps like Siene Crossing and Strike at Karkand, yet DICE didn't make any for 2042. I understand they are tough to balance for gameplay while maintaining a "real" feel, but they have too much potential to ignore as a developer.

Every launch map in bf2042

Kharg Island Rush was the best. I have great memories trying to land in the LAVs or trying to keep guys off the beach.

BF3s CQC maps are great with 8 to 24 players. Playing them with 64 players is insane. I hated Scrapmetal for a long time but now I love it. The verticality everywhere and the weird ways of moving around the map are great.

Metro was always a great break from the large scale maps like Firestorm or Gulf of Oman. I enjoyed flipping from being in such a larger scale maps to the thoughtless meat grind of metro and just farming kills. And once you pushed through the line it felt so relieving knowing your about to get that next flag wheather it be first flag from being spawn killed or the last one cause you are about to spawn kill

Holy shit, bf3 close quaters maps were so good on squad death match. So far ahead of its time. I hope they return, they are some of the best maps for small deathmatchs in all of FPS

operation locker always gave me my fondest memories. The explosions, yelling, and constant gunfire makes everything feel so great

Scrapmetal was one of my favorites especially for gun game. I guess everybody has their opinions on things but I would say a little more than half the maps you mentioned in this video were not bad at all for me.

With some maps it's purely a player count issue. I played BF3 on PS3 where the player counts are locked at 24 players and I loved every single map in that game (not Tehran Highway). The map design, of course, plays a part as well. As infantry, it felt more structured where you could easily move around the map and have intermittent firefights with enemy squads instead of being steamrolled by a wall of players. Infantry also had shorter routes between objectives that were innaccessible or suicidal for vehicles. Vehicles instead had more expansive, but longer routes which provided access to objectives; allowing them to pick off straggler infantrymen and to have uninterrupted vehicle vs vehicle firefights. Basically, vehicles and infantry were kept segregated until it mattered. Caspian Border and Grand Bazaar on conquest small are good examples of this. When I played some of the same maps as part of the second assult dlc on BF4, there was simply too many players. Movement was restricted, firefights felt chaotic and vehicles were bombarded with rockets. This has only gotten worse on games like BF5 and 2042 where the map design is incredibly open and lazily designed. My guess is that it's just to facilitate high player counts without having to put in the work to build proper lanes and pathing between objectives. Personally, don't get the buzz with high player counts. It just seems like a forced marketing strategy instead of a well implemented feature.

Damavand on rush was peak, jumping off the edge with your team while Russians are firing on you was a blast!

I like how we just don't include Hardline.

This is why Dice needs to create a portal map editor so the community can do their work for them in creating great maps....just like they did back in 1995 to 2000 in the game land warrior by Nova Logic before battlefield ever existed

I hope for hourglass they take some of those skyscrapers and knock them over into each other. It would be cool to have one or two buildings that you fight your way up like a ramp, moving between rooms to get to the top. More interesting than what they have now

I miss 24/7 locker in the new game, I still find myself going back and playing it to this day. I love Metro and Locker, and the lack of an infantry map for 2042 is extremely disappointing, especially with the lack of servers as part of it.

I was getting so nervous as he was playing my favorite BF4 maps before saying Lancang Dam

Am I the only one mad for Portal not having Metro map?

Scrap metal on console was really fun!! Looked amazing too!

Strike at karkand and road to jallalabad are my favourite maps of all times. Strike was decent in bf3, but even better in bf2 with the larger map size. As an infantry player I realy miss the city maps.

Operation Metro was unbelievably fun in BF3 for me! I would often play on Metro 24/7 custom servers for hours at a time. Good times :)

Lancang Dam was great for TDM, Domination, Capture the Flag, and SDM. Conquest and Rush were another story.

I can’t think of a more underrated map than grand bazaar on Battlefield, three the tight alleys that didn’t allow for vehicles were perfect and it still had decently long site lines. I remember every class mattering on that map.

Man this just makes me miss my original three battlefields. BC2, BF3, and BF4 are just unmatched to me, I would love to see dice remaster one of them to get the player base back.

Altai Range was great for rush. The long engagements across the valley with MMGs was fun, and pushing up the mountain to the station had a classic WWII feel to it. My least favorite map was probably the China Rising map that took place during sunset and had the really tall, skinny mountains. The lighting made it really hard to see targets, and explosions blanked the surrounding area out, which compounded the terrible lighting issues.

Hourglass was the first match I got put into when 2042 came out. Just running from point to point made up 90% of the match. I haven’t played another match until recently

Siege of Shanghai was still a phenomenal map for me despite many players thinking differently in my BF circle. It had plenty of ways for vehicles and infantry to interact, it had aerial combat and light naval combat. There were an abundance of areas for infantry-only encounters, a central infantry zone with helicopters blasting out windows. Clear sight lines for sniping battles between objectives and lots of high ground for others to get the advantage in situations. Various battle scenarios… multi-level parking garage between two large condos with room for infantry and vehicles to conflict. • An underground art exhibit with destructible support structures collapsing roads. • Two symmetrically designed bridges with an underground portion for infantry, interactable barrier for temporary vehicle stopping, and a TOW for each bridge for a quick pop on a vehicle or low-altitude helicopter. • A giant tower that has destructible supports turning a high rise infantry fuckfest, with helicopter shenanigans sprinkled in, into dusty ruins with low line of sight, easy contrast for outsiders and helicopters to barrage, and an objective the naval units can fight over. • A mini-shopping center with three levels, a rooftop with glass walkway to shoot through, a second floor with the flag and two escalators on either side, and the bottom floor which is a central path for vehicles to pass through and shopping centers for infantry to fight for. • Finally… hmm I forgot what E objective was…

I said it on your poll yesterday but I'm honestly surprised there was no mention of the Armored Kill DLC from BF3.

Hour Glass Map from 2042 was not only a bad design, but it was literally making 2042 unplayable for me when the game first came out. Every single time the map came up, my keybinds were reseting. Id reset them and after a few minutes they would reset to default again. That bug was so annoying in the end i stopped playing 2042. Did tney ever fix that bug or was that something unique to me cause none of my friends had it?

Gulf of Oman is one of my all-time favorite Maps the way the city buildings are laid out. And when they brought out China Rising on Battlefield 4 I was so mad because of that Sandstorm it ruin the map

It really depends on what gamemode people prefer too. Hourglass is pretty bad, but i almost always play Breakthrough, i've heard conquest isn't too bad. On the other hand i feel that the Breakaway rework has been such a horrible experience for Breakthrough that whenever i see that map load in i know the attackers have free reign untill the final sector. In BFV i played a ton of Squad Conquest and Breakthrough and it really made maps like Fjell feel fun to play on, clear alleys with decent flanks where 1 person could do much provided the person played well. And in BF2 there was conquest assault which often resulted in attackers roaming the backlines never seeing any opposition. Maps like Karkand and Jalalabad really had great frontlines but once the attackers were in the city it was hard to keep track of where they were.

Fjell 652 may not be great, but I do love the round start music. It's so perfect for the map.

I actually very much enjoyed scrap metal. It was a kind of map where map knowledge really let you shine by finding tricky gaps to nail people through and clever jump shortcuts to get to places without going through the expected choke points. As for Altai Range, there’s actually a very good reason as to why I didn’t mention it in my least favorite maps when you polled us, and it’s because it’s so boring that I forgot it even existed! I definitely would have brought it up if I remembered it

BF3:Aftermath were some of the best infantry maps. There was just great interatction between tanks and infantry. Tanks werent OP because there were always nice hidingplaces. The infantry-only maps just had so much detail in them. I never really liked BF4s maps. Either its a clusterfffff infantry only, or i get demolished by vehicles, since im not really into vehicle gameplay.

As a rush only player in bf4 I hated Paracel storm. The match rarely ever made it past the first mcom set as it was incredibly easy to defend.

And this is why Zavod 311 is the best map. Golmund railway fucking blows

@1:25 that sandstorm is BEAUTIFUL IMO. Like, it looks really freaking good as it's rolling in....and I love Hourglass/Fjell/Altai :(

Fjell was a amazing map. There are tons of AA guns on the map that you can build that players never really did unless was the one on D. I think there are a lot of flanks here C there many options E there there two-three routes D has two routes B has two routes one being a massive downhill run towards it. If your good with the aircraft this map was fun. This was one of my favorite of bfv.

IMO the last point on hourglass is the best point in the entire game. The rest of the map is bleh, but I have by far the most fun fighting through that wide city street, car to car and stuff.

Honestly bf4 China rising maps were the most fun I’ve ever had in a Bf game till this day! Launching dirt bikes with my mate across the map will come unmatched

Scrapmetal was amazing, it had plenty of outplay possibilities. If you found it chaotic and unpredictable -> skill issue :P

Hot take, I wasn't mad to see any map in BF4 unless night maps were forced into a server's rotation. Can't say the same for a lot of different games.

My favourite map is Pearl Market for sure. It's a tight infantry experience without just being another meatgrinder, there's endless flanking options and it's downright impossible to get boxed into spawn or a single objective like you can in other maps. It's the perfect map for smart objective play, because there's always an out you can take. Least favourite is Lancang Dam. Terrible layout, the AA can baserape from across the map, and as infantry you're locked into a tiny number of dedicated areas lest you get farmed by LAVs, helicopters, or harassed by snipers. Even with other bad maps I can say there's fun to be had, but I don't think I have ever had fun playing Lancang Dam.

Man I loved Fjell, that was a fun one. You could use any weapon you want with success it didn’t cater to one play style

In BF2042, I love Hourglass and its sandstorm so much, in BF1 I love Prise de Tahure, it was one of my favourite maps

Can't stand flashpoint. Terrible map.

Everytime I load into Hourglass I just wonder what they were thinking. It feels like 3 different maps that are difficult to traverse between. Forget it if youre an Infantry player

Couldn't agree more with Fjell, what made it even worse was when they introduced the calls -ins so as well as getting plane farmed the whole round once squads had enough points you also had to put up with artillery and V1's slamming you as well, a total shitshow. Hamada would be a close 2nd.

Lancang Dam was one of my favorite maps for sniper battles across the water. Absolutely loved that map.

Knew that video was coming after your community post

Hourglass would be an epic map if they: 1) get rid of sandstorms/tornadoes completely and bring back full building destruction like BFBC2 or Levolution Siege of Shanghai building collapses. 2) offer a day/evening/night setting to put more emphasis on the city lights (like the trailer) 3) add base camps or points of interests between the stadium and city because it's a death trap if you're just infantry and running around to the next obj.

Prise de Tahure is one of the few BF1 maps that will cause me to leave the server if selected. It's pretty much an orgy of jump scares, spawn camping, and blowing yourself up on tripwire bombs. It's not unsalvageable, but it's best played as a hipfire map, pretty much limited to SMGs, shotguns, and the Burton LMR.

Best map ever: Fort De Voux on operations

Mount grappa in bf1 on breakthrough was one of my least favorite would suck being the attacker and all the defenders would sit in the bunker and nade spam and couldn't cap that point but could cap the others than would have to wait to get the blimp but if ya had a bad piolit still wouldn't win

One of the big issues with Lancang Dam is how open the sky was, plus the fact both spawns were visible to each other. Mean you had a lot of annoying things going on .

Siege of shanghai in bf4, basically unplayable nowadays unless you're one of the two players on either team farming everyone else in the attack heli

My least favorite map was definitely operation mortar from bf4. Outside of the fort on the top, the map feels very open and extremely favorable towards vehicles

I'm surprised silk road did not make the list. But my least favorite has got to be paracel storm

Fjell 642. I remember so many times of popping in on a spawn point and instantly having to shoot back through the fog at muzzle flashes and tracers, fishing for hit markers. I agree with the criticisms of the map but I have to admit the madness was really fun sometimes. The flying was intense too. Dogfights always spiraled down into the mountain ranges and there were always people crashing and burning while trying to shave the rocks to lose a tail.

You're having a Conquest player point of view. Lancam is a really fun Rush map. Depending of course on the experience of the players it can be really fast or really difficult.

I’m glad to see you didn’t think any of the Hardline maps are bad. Lol Hands down my favorite BF game. Hotwire was so much fun

every single bf5 map

As someone who only played BF3 on console, I had never even conceptualized 64 people on Scrapmetal and I do not intend to

Kaleidoscope was such a let down when I first got to know the map. NONE of the skyscrapers collapse and it just feels like an empty fish bowl with 1 big building in the middle.

Me who loves Lancang Dam and Altai Range... so confused.

Battlefield 2042 is the only battlefield that feels like a chore to play for me :(

Absolutely hated lancang dam. Glad you mentioned bf1 circle running simulator, it's the main thing I remember about the game.

I wish there was more conquest maps. Hourglass is such a cool map on paper, but it is almost unbearable to play.

All of the ones you mentioned i agree with, additionally.... Personally, I hated playing Verdun Heights on BF1. Especially as an attacker during operations. The first point was so difficult to get into because of the open space between the spawn and the objective. Then trying to get up the hill was just such a chore. That being said, it was the map that I got my highest record on a single round attacking in operations at 99 kills and 31 deaths.

Every time someone says Hourglass is the worst map in 2042, I question whether they actually think that or not. Because its just popular to hate on the map, even though there are so many worse ones. The only thing that makes it bad is how far you have to run from each objective to the next, but apart from that I think each location plays extremely well.

How am I alone in hating BF4 Flood Zone? Rooftops were hell with so many elevations to get sniped from, there wasn't enough transport once the levelution hit, so you're basically cycling E-D-A.

One of my favorite maps that seems to never get brought up from BF3 is Grand Bazaar. It has a very heavily infantry-focused center with large road stretches across the exterior of the bazaar that could shoot down into the core of the map. Loads of intense engagements on it. Should reinstall BF3

Zavod 311 in BF4 imo. There's a lot of things I dislike about this map, like low visibility due to all the trees and bushes, people hiding in them all the time, having to watch out for like 12 different angles as you could get sniped from a dude on the roof of the opposite building or your own building in the centre of the map or by someone camping back near the tanks or in the bushes near the sides. Or you get RNGed by some dude whos camping behind the staircase in the underground part of the middle area who chooses to pop his head out to shoot you while you're tryna figure out where you're getting sniped from

The lankingdam map from BF4 was great for people who were ready to adapt to it I adapted to every place now for the sake of my team to win the match for them that's what made it fun for me yes I didn't like the island 🏝️ much but I would go there take down whatever vehicle, sniper, or chopper that was on it and capture it for my team every time the challenge made it fun

I honestly think most of the 2042 maps really suck, the worst is absolutely hourglass with all the issues you mentioned. I played Rush on it the other day.. one of the points were 500 METERS from the spawn with absolutely 0 cover for the entirety of those 500 meters. Renewal is almost just as bad, i just hate it on every gamemode, on breakthrough its just damn near impossible to take the first objective. First because the main spawn is far from the objective with just the solar panels for cover which doesnt help much since you can get shot from so many angles. When you spawn on one of the objectives (maybe even both, only observed this one one) you spawn way up on the hill to the left where the entire enemy team can see you, 150 meters or so to the point and again, NO COVER. The spawns have not been considered at all for these gamemodes and the map design for anything other than conquest is just so terrible. Some maps also need a balance change, the attacking side just have so many tickets that its impossible to even try and defend most of the objectives on breakthrough which is a great gamemode otherwise. I hope they can sort it all out eventually because these spawns and terrible design for these gamemodes just kill the enjoyment entirely.

I actually found Fjell in Battlefield V one of the most fun base maps, was like Operation Locker for BFV

*2042 - Stranded/Spearhead -* Both plays horribly and feel extremely one sided. This does obviously depend on the team, but usually these maps are never fun to play at all. *BFV - Narvik -* As a Norwegian, this hurts to say but I never liked this map. If you didn't camp the bridge and you tried to go anywhere else you'd get sniped at or spotted for the tanks and aircraft. Air warfare was fun on it though. *BF1 - Argonne Forest -* Could either be extremely fun and I'd go 90-8, or we'd get demolished and spawn camped. I felt this map always ended in spawn camps after just a couple minutes. *BF Hardline - The Block -* 50% of the map is a sniper lane, the other half is a shotgun fest. *BF4 - Giants of Karelia -* I never vibed with this map. It was vehicle warfare and Havoc supremacy. *BF3 - Seine Crossing -* It grew on me towards the end, but I despised this map with every fiber in my body in the beginning.

bf2 maps need a comeback. karkant in the big version with destroyable and repairable bridges was a lot of fun

I have played only Battlefield 4 here, so take this comment with a grain of salt. My biggest gripe with Battlefield 4 maps was how extremely open they we're which pretty much favoured players who are waay too skilled with vehicles, which was a disaster for someone who likes playing infantry. Operation locker was a memoriable map for me but at the same time the chaotic nature of the map felt very overwhelming, it was who gets the fist peek and shoots first wins, which turns gameplay into this sort of; You spawn, run for 5 seconds, either get 2 or 3 kills or no kills at all and then die, in a very short span of time, which makes the gameplay way too uninteresting in my opinion.

Probably too soon. But I wouldn’t mind a battlefield 1 part 2. Especially as we saw how well they handed near future of 2042

Close quarters dlc on console was so amazing. I miss Bf3...

Hourglass being so disliked by everyone makes me feel like either I am crazy or that every one else just doesn't know how to play. I suck at vehicles and almost only use them for transport, but I still somehow NEVER have a boring round on Hourglass. And I spend the least amount of time in the stadium sector. So I really feel like either I or every one else is missing something. Hourglass' big issue is that its different parts are disconnected. You have the Skyscrappers, the Village + highway, and the stadium. Once you learn to treat each of these as a separate map which you can only move between if you have a vehicle (which, this game allows you to call-in almost whenever you want) all of your problems with the map will basically go away. 128 players is more than enough to make it so each of these individual sectors have enough action to keep you busy and keep you playing the objective by attacking or holding, and if you get exposed in the larger open areas and have to actually fire back...then maybe pick a good mid-range weapon?? The games have enough maps where basically anything other than an SMG or a Shotgun is useless, why is it seen as illegal and a game design sin to make a map where the optimal weapon is mid-range??? Hourglass is unfairly hated. It's not perfect. It's not one of the best 3 BF2042 maps, but it's okay and I've reached the conclusion that people just hate it because that's the popular opinion everyone has.

I’d give anything to get back grand bazaar. That map was so well balanced, and had so many cool angles and nooks and crannies.

You can definitely tell with 2042 they tried to design maps for the extraction game mode, and then plopped capture points around them to shoehorn in their standard game modes, and like with specialists, it didn't work out. The whole game was made around the extraction mode. And it died on arrival lol.

Honestly I hate Discarded way more than Hourglass and think it's worse, but Hourglass is definitely not far behind in second

You'll never know the true chaos that was The Block 24/7 High tickets servers on BF Hardline

I get this is all opinion and everything but Lancang Dam? That map had engagement areas for combat at any range you wanted. Want to snipe? Go up in the rocks or on top of the dam. Want close range? Go inside the buildings of points B and D. Want open field elevation change combat? Go to the island. Want some vehicle action? This map has land air and sea vehicles to chose from. Claiming this map is bad due to design is like claiming subway sandwiches are bad due to their contents, my brother, you picked what was on the sandwich.

You should do a video on what makes battlefield 3 stand out graphically, it still looks AMAZING in the footage that you displayed in the video

I love Locker and Metro because the pure chaos gives me endless amount of adrenaline and I love every second of it

i think they should look at battlefield 1 desert m aps as an inspiration for Hourglass, They should add trenches, battle scarred areas, make it smaller, lots of rocky outcrops etc.

Omg, Altai range - more than 1 AA available, as a jet pilot, this was pure nightmare fuel

What the hell!! Altai Range and Lancam Dam is one of the best maps!! Check the servers today. Especially Lancam Dam maps are always full of players!

all maps for Rush in BF4. The positions of the M-Coms especially in Pearl Market always favored the defenders. It was a funnel of death just trying to get to one.

Caspian Border and Sharqi peninsula are some of my favourites. Gulf of Oman is another one that combines open spaces for vehicle combat with more cramped areas that allow infantry tactics. But the US can get pushed off the map and get base camped on the carrier.

The point on Scrapmetal is exactly why I love that map but usually hate operation locker and metro. In both maps you almost inevitably end up in a stalemate in indestructible corridors, while scrapmetal was way more dynamic in the flow, even on 64 players.

I think Hourglass (conquest) needs to be played with a different more methodical mindset. I personally really enjoy it and it feels like a traditional BF2 map. I have never experienced the common complaints of getting sniped constantly or trekking between objectives on foot. You can often stay in one or two sectors for an entire round. If you want to travel somewhere else, there are always abandonned LATV-4s and civilian transports lying around or you can call one in. Also don't immediately deploy as infantry at the beginning of the round; wait to spawn on the transport heli or until your team captures a flag closer to the action. I hope we'll still get at least some 2042 style maps in the future Battlefields. They scratch an itch that I don't get with other maps.

Panzerstorm can piss right off, with how OP tanks are in BF5, that level is beyond a joke