Thank you for your post. Dont feel bad about a rant cause I believe youve covered how pretty much everyone is feeling.
Yesterday I asked a community manager direct how to the devs choose maps?
I gave some examples but also specified that I wasnt saying hey make this map that I personally want, I was seeking to understand the developer’s thought processes.
Another point/question I had was I’ve noticed the game seems to focus on ‘generic’ maps like ‘snow’ ‘desert’ ‘Pacific island’ rather than real life battles or even locations in some cases.
We’ve all had various suggestions for new maps, or improvements of existing ones.
Every single one of these has so far been ignored.
As you mention we got this weird Rzhnev update that no one asked for, to that I would add the argument Ive made many times now how especially Tunisia and the Pacific, the maps are all same old, same old.
Myself and others genuinely forgot we had a ‘new’ Pacific map after like 5 days because it was so similar to existing maps.
My argument has always been, and I believe its a valid argument, that the devs really need to sit down and think about what would be a really good addition to the game.
For just one example: Pacific needs something completely different. Manila has been requested by the playerbase a lot and it gives Japan a new urban warfare map, plus another urban warfare map for Allies since USA-UK currently only has Omer.
I know the playerbase has been asking for USSR VS Japan for ages. Some have made valid points about why Manchuria 1945 might not work. However, the other option which Ive discussed elsewhere is to add Chinese squads as a part of USSR and Chinese maps and do it that way.
That would tick off both USSR vs Japan + a new faction (sort of) + Sino-Japanese War.
France is another nation that has been much requested, its very strange to me we have a BP M24/29 in USA (??) and a French Resistance premium squad, plus Moroccan auxiliaries premium, plus French weapons in Axis tree, yet no proper French squads, uniforms or (excluding Normandy) maps.
For myself Im sure many of you are familiar with my requests for freely available Commonwealth uniforms, including slouch/digger hats for Australians (remembering that these assets already exist, they just need to make them available in appearances).
Now I agree there are some more pressing issues, but I would hope people also agree that its pretty silly when the devs are supposedly “too busy” to add something as simple as a hat or British uniform with CANADA written on the side, yet have the time to do stupid events like Earth Shield with whole new monsters, lots of new appearances, new guns?
Modern war is more popular but same thing, new guns, new appearances, new tanks even; yet when someone requests one 100 round German MG, an M93 Mannlicher, a slouch hat, whatever it is, devs and their supporters are like nahhh cant do that, too busy.