SouthpawLP wrote:Lab Map 3. Just... Lab Map 3.
It looks pretty. It looks like it's supposed to be fun to play... but it isn't. What went wrong with this map? I'll tell you...
1. Godawful spawns. You know the heroes' first spawn? You will respawn there constantly no matter how close an enemy is to that area. One time I got in a gunfight with one guy, won but had a couple bullets put in me, and then suddenly a guy spawns TWO FEET AWAY FROM ME and snipes me right in the back. Another time I was just shooting at one guy and then THREE of his teammates spawned behind him and they all gang-banged me and I couldn't do anything about it, especially when my Quick Boom grenade that hit one guy DIRECTLY IN THE FACE didn't do anything but knock me out of cover to help me get killed by four guys cuddling with each other.
2. Caters way too much to both sniping/camping, AND blindfire. You thought Lab Map 2 was a blindfire fest? GET A LOAD OF THIS MAP! Whenever I aimed my gun I would get a mediocre score on this map, but then I pull out Flynn's M9, Bargain, and Quick Boom, and then I go 19-4 with my 12th Rage medal ever. Snipers are also nearly impossible to defend yourself from on this map, due to a near lack of effective banking spots because of the curviness of the map (which also contributes to incredibly CLUNKY climbing). The cover is deceptively low, there's a chunk missing from the middle of the Tony Hawk skating park just to make it look like you've got cover when it's just there to make you have to tap X just to keep going forward, and all the blindfire and LAG I saw last night was embarrassing. A dude sponged five Para 9 bullets and three punches, but he just ROF Micros me for a quick second and then punches me while I roll. Disgusting. Blindfire hardly works for me when I try to actually put someone in my "lock-on cone" but when I see their M9 pointed away from me as they're blindfiring, meaning I'm NOT EVEN ON THEIR SCREEN, they still get me anyways. And then I go on the forums and people are complaining about the gun I was using which didn't even help me at all in those countless situations last night? BITE ME!!!
Lab Map 1 was great. Lab Map 2 was also really good. This map, though, is a McDonald's playplace piece of crap. Punishes people who aim (unless it's a sniper, which will then help you MAGICALLY get headshots on me even though the tracers were closer to my FEET, ONE KILL AWAY FROM A FURY), encourages people to blindfire, and the spawns are so godawful. I played Lab Map 3 for at least three hours, maybe even four hours straight last night. Verdict is in: I hate this map and I'm skipping Lab until Lab Map 4 because I am not playing Team Objective where everyone has Hammers. Forget that.
Hear hear, This is garbage, perhaps it would be playable if it had decent spawns. The first match was great but after that I had nothing but bad spawns and way too many camping nerds.
