I’m new to these forums and I’ve been wondering for a while why Bungie removed the space from Zealot? I loved being able to hop around in zero gravity while fighting people. I still love Zealot but it’s just not the same without the open space area.
Would it be possible to have both normal Zealot and Arena Zealot as two different pickable maps in MM?
The space area was extremely campable in Infection, which is why Arena Zealot replaced Zealot in Living Dead.
I’m not sure why it replaced Zealot elsewhere, but my best guess is that the space area only has a very limited set of entrances, all of which force an attacker onto a fixed predictable path – makes defending way too easy in any gametype.
> The space area was extremely campable in Infection, which is why Arena Zealot replaced Zealot in Living Dead.
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> I’m not sure why it replaced Zealot elsewhere, but my best guess is that the space area only has a very limited set of entrances, all of which force an attacker onto a fixed predictable path – makes defending way too easy in any gametype.
Just to slap an example in and is still exploitable right now, SWAT Hot Potato on Zealot, you can bomb to space and put it on the bomb plate or let the bomb blow up itself and it will spawn in space, if you get team mates covering each lift (Blue, Red & Gold) and you will be able to just camp and farm kills.
Everyone camped up there in infection. Arena Zealot originated there. Not sure why it was needed in the other playlists but Zealot is not a favorite to me. So I don’t care that much.