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Worst map ever?

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Out of all current/DE, TAD, EP maps, which one do you think is the absolute worst? I'm only referring to maps that were officially used, either in QS back in the day or later on EP/in tournaments, not like Plymouth or Amazonia.

Can also distinguish between TP and non-TP.

I think Hispaniola (sea dominance, stupid turkeys, water laming, silly cliff, lots of reources = bad balance) and Sonora (no hunts, map screws, stupid cliffs) are my absolute worst maps.
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I was never very warm on Bayou. Turkeys hiding in water and a lack of space for buildings.
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Clearly texas.
Everything about this map pisses me off
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Bayou/Hispaniola on Vanilla were atrocious maps.
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What was the one in nilla where both players were up on cliffs where there was like zero hunt? And you had to go down to the middle. That one was the absolute worst. Although I fondly remember crossbow rushing and beating h2o on that map.
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Suzido wrote:What was the one in nilla where both players were up on cliffs where there was like zero hunt? And you had to go down to the middle. That one was the absolute worst. Although I fondly remember crossbow rushing and beating h2o on that map.
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Great Lakes summer was always the map that pissed me off the most, even though there are objectively worse maps
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Tbh 90 percent of RE maps could be in here becuz the res are so unfair. Even on the all so popular gp u could end up with 1 guy getting 2 fat Bison hunt under tc with 15 animals each while the other ends up with a 5 deer hunt...
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Hispaniola was so goddam awful...
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Hard to argue with Sonora and Hispaniola. Bayou is pretty bad too. Never cared for Siberia or Patagonia much either. Obviously vanilla Rockies is friggin awful.

Basically any map that greatly limits the amount of viable strategies.
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Sonora is just such a joke. Once started the game and had no hunt in my TC LOS. Just resigned, turned out my first hunt was like another screen away. Lmao
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Arctic territories, literally the stupidest map to ever exist.
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Hispaniola (Dishonorable mention to Summer Great Lakes)
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Btw, anyone who doesn’t pick an re qs map for this thread is either delusional or has never had to play on re qs maps.
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Tbh I hate Borneo too. Stupid map.

Yellow River as well
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Aussie_Drongo wrote:Arctic territories, literally the stupidest map to ever exist.
This is actually incorrect, Plymouth is, one player starts with +500f.
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dicktator_ wrote:Great Lakes summer was always the map that pissed me off the most, even though there are objectively worse maps
Worst part: beautiful water laming with towers on the island into monitors.
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I always thought Patagonia on RE had worse hunts than bayou/sonora
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people who quote hispaniola or sonora probably never played Rockies on nilla, seriously the map isn't even finished it's obligated to be the worst one there is no discussion
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Indochina.
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never liked amazonia. instant resign if that was the map.
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Ozarks
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dicktator_ wrote:Great Lakes summer was always the map that pissed me off the most, even though there are objectively worse maps
fun fact, you'd never know this because the map spawns so poorly, but there are supposed to be 12 mines in a 1v1

also, the summer spawn literally doesn't have a starting hunt coded into it xD
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Squamiger wrote:I always thought Patagonia on RE had worse hunts than bayou/sonora
i always felt that you had no choice but to go water with more whales than huntable animals

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