The Positive Thread

[Dreadz]

I'm with you on these wants. But how do you think you'd gear a map to be more balanced and not ranged favoured? What would the design be like, gimmicks, etc?

Volcanic Hearts currently is the most balanced map. It has lots of corners for melee to play around, the crystal doesn't move across long, empty sightlines and you can get behind the enemy team without completely exposing yourself. Newer maps need to be a tiny bit smaller with more obstructions/corners so ranged jobs have to actually position themselves instead of having free sightlines with easy escapes. As for gimmicks, all of them currently favour ranged jobs, but I have no idea how you could even make a gimmick that impedes both melee and ranged or even just ranged for that matter.