Personally, I agree that asymmetrical maps can be a lot more fun, but they are a lot harder to make good. So they shout a lot at devs, and devs respond but over-valuing their feedback, and boom, all symmetrical maps. Look at OTA, Painted Desert and Gods of War are pretty well balanced, but Plains and Passes, Two Continents, East Indeez and my personal favorite RTS map ever, Assault on Suburbia, all have just enough imbalance that 'pro' TA players don't like them and don't want to play them.
If I had to guess, I'd say that the biggest reason that symmetrical maps have come to the forefront is that most of the feedback that developers see is message board / social media feedback from competitive gamers, and those guys will hammer devs if maps are not perfectly balanced.
Great to see all the guys still putting work into TA mapping after all these years! (I was involved with TAMEC for a while) In this last case, you can even add an Ai as player 7, which will spawn in the middle of the map and will then randomly harass both sides!įCalt, those maps look very nice. The map is also designed to offer great teamplay, be it on 2vs2 or even 3vs3 (fixed start positions heavily recommanded for odd vs even - east vs west - teamplay). It can be played on 1vs1 (to enable fixed start positions is heavily recommanded), but it actually supports up to 7 players in FFA mode. I was about to rant about the amount of symetrical maps in this thread, then I remembered I had once made at least one symetrical map, then I realized it wasn't that symetrical, then I said to myself that symetrical maps that ain't that symetrical are better than real symetrical maps, then I decided to post a pic.Īnd my trolling ain't that off-topic as the map has actually just been released, but it's a fixed version of an older one I made long ago Only available in TA: Enhanced mod though (but I won't kill anyone for extracting it from the mod to reupload it as an OTA map - it is just that I won't do it, personally).
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