Summary
- Players in Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 have created “skip lists” due to polarizing maps.
- Unpopular maps like Lowtown and Nuketown are insta-leaves for many players.
- Scud, another disliked map in the game, has been criticized for its design and gameplay.
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6’s maps are some of the most polarizing in franchise history. As is so often the case, some maps are more popular than others, but the divide seems bigger than ever this year.
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Now that the dust has begun to settle, around two months after the game launched, players have started to develop their own ‘skip lists’ and have been sharing the maps on Reddit that they refuse to play.
Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 Players Share The Maps They Won’t Play
The discussion was started on the Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 subreddit by user ExpensiveLeg939, who shared that they refuse to play Hacienda, which was added in Season One, due to the fact that it has “way too many campers.” It’s a very valid point, but was far from the most popular in the thread.
Lowtown
While Hacienda failed to gain much traction as an ‘insta-skip’, one map that did was Lowtown. The discussion around the partly submerged map rose to the top of the thread, with one player saying, “This is the answer. Lowtown is not fun.”
Some were willing to give it a pass in the game’s traditional modes but for Prop Hunt, Lowtown was almost universally hated. “I don’t mind Lowtown for regular game modes. But Prop Hunt, it’s an instant leave,” said one player.
Nuketown
Surprisingly, the fan-favorite map Nuketown was another popular pick as an ‘insta-leave’ map, or at least a map players don’t like playing.
In the discussion, WafffleProfessor said, “I don’t leave any matches based on the map, but I sure am sick of seeing Nuketown,” to which AtlasExiled replied, “With how bad the majority of the vanilla maps are, it feels like this game is shoving Nuketown down our throats.”
YeezusKeroro perhaps summed up the general sentiment around Nuketown best when they said, “As it stands, it’s a meat grinder on par with Shipment. You can’t move an inch without being in five different sight lines. I think I prefer Rust.”
Scud
Arguably, the third most popular pick in the thread was Scud, the Iraq-based map.
“I hate Scud so much. Absolute disaster of a map, no rhyme or reason to any of it, and a bunch of s**t in the way of everything. It’s got nothing going for it,” said dylthevylan. It was so hated, in fact, that one player said it belonged in the “top 10 worst CoD maps maybe ever.”
While these three were certainly the most divisive, maps like Red Card, Protocol, Vorkuta, and Babylon popped up multiple times during the discussion. It’ll be interesting to see which new maps come later in the game, and if they’re able to change player sentiment.
Forced to go rogue. Hunted from within. This is Call of Duty: Black Ops 6.
Developed by Treyarch and Raven, Black Ops 6 is a spy action thriller set in the early 90s, a period of transition and upheaval in global politics, characterized by the end of the Cold War and the rise of the United States as a single superpower. With a mind-bending narrative, and unbound by the rules of engagement, this is signature Black Ops.
The Black Ops 6 Campaign provides dynamic moment-to-moment gameplay that includes a variety of play spaces with blockbuster set pieces and action-packed moments, high-stakes heists, and cloak-and-dagger spy activity.
In a best-in-class Multiplayer experience, players will test their skills across 16 new maps at launch, including 12 core 6v6 maps and 4 Strike maps that can be played 2v2 or 6v6.
Black Ops 6 also marks the epic return of Round-Based Zombies, the fan-favorite mode where players will take down hordes of the undead in two brand-new maps at launch. Post-launch, players can look forward to even more exciting maps and groundbreaking experiences dropping into both Multiplayer and Zombies.