A few changes to the Overlord map being tested at the moment. Previous changes can be viewed here.
Most of the changes involved flattening out the center of the map and removing some unnecessary vegetation, mostly in the hope to simplify navigation around the map. A few positions have been added around for passive scouts and other lightly armored vehicles however. The overall elevation of the beach has been raise, this combined with changes to the areas leaving the beach are hoped to smooth the transition from the beach to the rest of the map.
Glad the beach is being made a little more relevant to the rest of the map rather than where the tomatoes go to smash heads. Still not a good place to go because having the higher ground gives you a big advantage. Maybe scouts will go there to piss off their team for not spotting the enemy. Making the east a bit less corridor and less dependent on gun depression means more tanks can fight there, we might see a more even distribution of tank classes all around the map. At the same time, a flatter map does make artillery more dangerous so the chance of being rebalanced by wargaming’s interns has significantly increased.
It will be neat to see how the map functions after the changes have been made.
Beach is never where to want to be
lets hope they don’t fill this map up with kill zones and corridors.
I do wish they wouldn’t have this obsession with flattening maps. It’s much more interesting if there’s a point to having great depression on some vehicles, which pretty much disappears on the flats. There should be places you can go but have to be careful of for the momentary hull exposure, or to fire from behind if you can peek over it. Otherwise take it to the logical conclusion and all maps end up flat and boring.
How about they just remove the beach area entirely…thats the biggest problem with that map.
usually i dont go near beach, if im playing scout or td i will always go near the bunkers on 3-4 lines, but if beach is updated, running along its ridge might prove to be helpful.
happy that the elevation is reduced, but not happy that this map is still here.
Port is still a better map.
Beach 2017!!
This map is trash and the changes won’t help but keep it trash.
This is nice but I’d love to have new maps…
yeah…the beach needed to be elevataed in order to permit to the retards who jumped from the cliff no to die anymoore…
and if they elevate the beach they can baptize the map anyway because it will never have something in common with Omaha beach…
How about a real Assault variant … with 25 vs 5