Recharge is an instant classic. Aquarius is hot garbage. No cover, just open lines of sight everywhere with two crappy hallways filled with grenade spam. I like Bazaar and Highpower. The rest are just kinda meh.
I only really like Slayer, but my favorite maps are Live Fire (love the power choices), Aquarius is a fave of mine if I have to play CTF. I like Bazaar well enough. And honestly Behemoth when I have snipes lol
Streets is great with comms but otherwise I’m burnt out on it
I would say Streets because it looks super pretty with the Cyberpunky aesthetic and reflections, but I find it a bit too difficult to play on, due to the number of direction enemies can come at you from with no radar indication due to the poor short range radar in this game.
Behemoth is cool because it actually has vehicles unlike most of the other arena maps, and it looks pretty, but spawning on the outer ring sucks if the enemy all have BR and Snipers and a Ghost, and all you have is a pistol and AR on spawn.
Launch Site is pretty cool on Slayer, but I rarely get to play it on slayer, like 5 out of 7 times I get to play it (and it’s already the rarest map in the game) I end up with 1 flag CTF.
Fragmentation is a cool BTB map, but I don’t like BTB as much as Arena.
Live Fire is a really well balanced map, but not a big fan of the power weapon spawn choice of sniper/skewer on such a small map.
Recharge is probably my overall favorite thanks to a well balanced design and the sword/hammer spawn, the only one out of all 7 Arena maps.
Really happy to see Deadlock trending at the back of the pack so far. That map has potential if it ever gets BR spawns, but the AR/pistol starts and low number of BR spawn stations utterly ruins the map for me.
theyre all pretty cool and a great start, recharge feels the most unique to me, like it was a map from classic halo we never got to play.
however in the future i want to see something that breaks the mould. I want maps to change as i play it and everyone has to adapt on the fly. i want it to feel like the map has super soldiers fightting on it and things are falling apart in a controlled balanced design. I think a map can be made tthat has the replayabity of 10 normal maps, a map that will make standard maps feel dated.