It’s been a while now and we’ve had a chance to play it thoroughly.
I enjoy the atmosphere and setting, and I’ve had some fun games on it.
That being said, it seems to be quite similar to D-Day: you either have a great game or a terrible one, depending on your team.
I enjoy playing it but opportunities for doing very well seem to be limited to a few particular tactics. Perhaps that’s just a side effect of the Invasion/Assault game mode.
i haven’t played on it yet, due to me taking a break until berlin exits CBT, but i like the idea of it
outside the not well so thought HS 123 in normandy dealing with p38s and p51s, i guess the map it’s cool. a bit too much open in terms of lacking cover, and spawns are basically next to each other.
but yeah, it can be fine and looks amazing past the 3rd objective.
I like that you can kind of flank the opponent. It’s almost just a runway, almost everything happens on one side next to it. But there is still the other side many seem to forget. So I get into my tank, stay on the unpopular side - and shoot them like they want to be shot because they mostly just run straight down the runway (or other - popular - side, next to it).
Never managed to take off with an airplane there so far. Did you?
I like the idea that this is possible though.
It’s much fun there but hard most times to defend all of it. It’s a good atmosphere after all.
If you ask me, we need more space to go left or right - not just right into the fire. For all maps.
The only problem I see with it is that the hangars are way too open from above. It’s extremely easy to dunk bombs into the hangar and clear it out in seconds.
The matches are largely decided by who has the better and smarter CAS pilots.
I think it needs some tweaks and improvements.
Most matches I’ve played on it are hopelessly one sided, with either the Allies rushing really fast and steamrolling the Axis.
Or the Axis trapping the Allies in the first hanger and easily slaughtering them before they can take the first point.
It doesn’t help that it’s really easy to camp the hangers and pick people off in the open as they try and run inside.
You can also do that as Allies, by killing Axis units as they run out of the first objective hanger. It’s easy to get loads of easy kills just shooting into the small hanger door, to the point that it feels very broken.
The first two objectives are on mostly completely flat ground, with very little decent cover (especially if you try and run across from the other side of the runway).
They need to add more cover via large bomb craters/wrecks so that it isn’t so easy to pick people off as they try and move around.
It’s probably my least favourite map, because when the team you are on is awful you know it’s going to drag on for ages.
I really like it, its different from the other maps.
What I like less is what Owl said, the hangars are a bit to open from the top. Good players can exploid that and clear them out in one go. If that would not be the case and the hangars had a bit more clutter then it would be a cqb heaven.
If inside would be truly inside and not so open to bombs I think it would be my favorite map.
My main problem with this map is lack of depth of the combat area. For example on the first point the grey area for the germans starts in the next hangar, it’s maybe 50m from the objective area.
Second problem is the secondary mision, it’s great idea but poorly implementded. It’s impossible for defenders to do anything to stop the enemy, while for attackers it’s turning the game into singleplayer point and click.
Other than that I think it’s quite a nice map. Although I haven’t played it much.
Intensly satisfied both times I have won it! 