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I would love process to be replaced with Haunt or Lakeside.

But please, replace swiftwater with Viaduct pro, rc3, it’s a much smaller map, it’s DM, and it’s much funner to play and, heck, even watch for that matter.

I’ve never played haunt, but in general I feel it’s not the best gamemode for HL. And from what I saw from this video (cheers T-A!) it looks like the map layout will encourage spawncamping far, FAR more than, say, turbine, because the cap distance is so short. It’s about an 8-second run for the scout in that video, and he’s not going as fast as possible or necessarily taking the quickest route. So if you sat and spawncamped the enemy you could get four or five caps easily, something you couldn’t do in an equivalent time in turbine. And conversely, with your intel SO close to your own spawn it would be trivial to sit inside the house and just defend your intel, taking a few seconds to nip back into spawn when you’re a little hurt. Neither of these would be much fun to play or watch.

I really like swiftwater as a map, but it’s huge. Obviously teles help with that problem, but compared to the likes of badwater, the only time you have a massive walk, on offence or defence, is between caps 2 and 3. On swiftwater it’s a half-marathon from after cap 1 until (if I remember correctly) cap 4.

The A/D mechanic is my favourite for HL. I would really like to see gravelpit or steel back in the pool. They both bring something extra rather than the simple payload gameplay. Particularly steel allows for some great strategy and mindgame potential that many HL maps lack.

I’d like to see a ctf map beeing played, either haunt or converge as both bring some tactical and overall change to the usual hl maps.
Also replace Lakeside, this map is way too open and boring imo, maybe viaduct_pro instead? Gravelpit is ok but I’d also like to see steel beeing played again, good map
Both swiftwater and granary are fun in hl, wouldn’t mind them beeing in the pool

After some internal debate and based on your feedback, we’ve adjusted the provisional map pool to the following:

Week 1: Badwater
Week 2: Granary + Viaduct_pro
Week 3: Upward
Week 4: Lakeside + Granary
Week 5: Gravelpit

An alternative layout for Week 2 could be cp_steel.

Change week 2 granary to steel and I think we have a winner :)

Quoted from emb

After some internal debate and based on your feedback, we’ve adjusted the provisional map pool to the following:

Week 1: Badwater
Week 2: Granary + Viaduct_pro
Week 3: Upward
Week 4: Lakeside + Granary
Week 5: Gravelpit

An alternative layout for Week 2 could be cp_steel.

Looks quite good to me.

Quoted from TheSucker

The fewer maps that are played the more likely we are to see good matches being played on these maps, something I very much prefer over having a “diverse” map pool that leaves little to no time to create a good working teamplay on each map.

This is a good point.

Quoted from Monkeh

Make one process or gully, seems weird having the only repeated map a cp5.

I agree with this statement, there’s no reason to have granary played twice. Some might argue that 7 maps for 5 weeks is a bit too much. I don’t agree however, the hl seasons are really short and to compensate for that it’s only good that it has many maps.

Honestly, why would you remove haunt so quickly? I haven’t played the map yet but I assume most people are opposed to it because it’s unfamiliar. Gamers often prefer what they already know. Only a small number of players can really evaluate haunt’s gameplay and I doubt they are all represented here. As process has shown, sometimes new maps have to be forced upon the community, so don’t give up on it too easily please.

Although this is controversial, I would love to see badwater, one ctf_map (haunt/turbine), viaduct pro (replacing lakeside), pl_swiftwater_ugc (replacing upward) and one 5 cp map to be determined.