Well I have been taking the criticism on board and I am going to make some changes. I have to say though most of it has been pretty non-constructive and useless (not aimed at people who have genuinely suggested improvements!).
Posting pictures of people camping somewhere and saying 'MAP BAD!!!'... I mean people camp on every single map in the game. You get it to far worse degrees on other maps as well, FBTR ruins camp, teams camping on Ruins on the hill etc... It isn't possible to make a map where people don't do it, its a player thing, not a map thing, you could make a map which is literally nothing but a box with 4 walls and people would still run to a corner and do it. I don't think the rocks that people keep showing are some invincible fortress, it's a few rocks in a relatively open field surrounded by plenty of places the other team can set up crossfires from and move in from.
Rant over--
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Onto the map, I recognise it's harder for rangers on the map than what they're used to. The reason for that is that none of the cover available gives both excellent protection against cavalry (i.e. the cav can literally do nothing to you) and also excellent map vision. I don't think total protection and total map vision is something that is needed for the rangers we have today, the skill level is much too high and people can headshot at ridiculous ranges. As such all the cover gives less of one of those qualities.
The main thing I will be focusing on as part of the changes will be helping infantry, since I don't think the corridors of cover I set up are really good enough for them. I'm going to be adding a number of small steeper slopes which won't significantly effect what rangers can see or give cover, but will more heavily disrupt the cavalry and give infantry a better fighting chance in such areas. This will help the rangers to some degree as well as they will be able to move out better.
I will not be adding larger elements of cover for the rangers though, the situation on other maps such as frosty, ruins and FBTR is pretty grim when it comes to camping on hills and ruins and I think that's much worse than the cav usage seen on DV.
In the end though it's an open map and is always going to favour cavalry, as closed favours infantry.
