The pattern you will notice when comparing old maps with new ones: -new maps tend to be way more flat and with less terrain elevation differences. -new maps are way less open with all different kind of stuff (mostly strange looking rocks) preventing long range combat. Personally I prefer the old maps. I like mountains, terrain and open maps :P
Some of the old maps could be decent in today’s version. I do find that Blitz needs more maps. Games are “blitz” style, so when playing you generally see a big portion of the maps. It starts to feel a bit stale playing on the same maps.
I remember the very first version of desert sands when I was playing all those years ago. One thing that isn't really easy to see for all you newcomers is the fact that on the right side of the map, there was a massive almost vertical hill, and will alot of skill/luck, you could get up there and almost every time there was at least 1 person who went up there. Now this spot wasn't just high, it was like 4 times higher than the rest of the map. It was an easy sniping spot. The problem was however, was that once you got there, if there was anyone going desert, they would see you as soon as you got up there and then you would die instantly. also, this video fails to mention some other versions of maps. but in this instance this map. Wargaming kept accidentally making these amazing camping spots on this map for years until they finally patched them all
Forgot about it when at the time, but I should have added some footage of the sniping spots on Desert sands. The versions of the maps I missed that you are talking about are just when they did not have barriers? (Like Port Bay)
Bushka has a video on the ISU...getting it high high high up, ridiculously high.... I saw his video, soon after getting my ISU.....then went into practice room, and for the life of me could not find that dang spot.......lol...yeah I was a noob On dead rail, there was a high sniping spot around area 4 that had been removed......sk8t showed it in his video ...him using a Pz. Sfl. toaster TD Never found that spot accessible, either
I hate how they removed the elevation diffrences. The maps nowadays are just flat and symmetrical with big rocks all over the place so you are forced to do close range combat. The old maps were very open with mostly long range combat and lots of campers.
@@WEE9 if that's mostly because the more recent maps feel a little small, perhaps maps like ghost factory are pretty big, but other than that most other maps feel really small compared to the old ones (which i believe is a little better, because getting to positions a little later could give you much needed time to do stuff instead of just dying the moment you get to you position)
I don't understand why they're also removing the opening map theme.... Playing low tier was fun back in the days, now I play just tier X and suddenly got depression idk why I still play this game 😂
WG should really do an event where it’s just the og maps and og designs. I’d love to know how the game would play and feel on these older more open maps.
Dead Rail, an E-25 and the two wagons positioned in an arrow shape. This in a training room, this room named "! BUG ! kill = kick" and you're good to go. This is what I remember WoTB for...
It seems like blitz did the opposite of the PC version. Instead of making all the new maps hull-down meta, they instead made the maps much more flat so its more fair for everyone else.
Over by the windmill you could basically get on a ledge that had oversight of the entire map so if you were over there alone you could just camp and snipe people the entire game and they couldn’t do anything about it cuz that rest of the map was so open and flat😂
Only those from 5.5 forward won't realize this. Memories of from before then vague but still there. Matilda and T-28 Russian medium being among the only tanks to pen a Hetzer frontally, so much variety in early tiers, tanks which acted more like TDs than actual tanks, classic FT 17, etc. So much deliciousness to such a once good game. Like how our world used to be (politically speaking of course.)
Mirage really brings me to the days when I still played the low tiers, those days were really hard to earn new tanks which made me feeling so happy when gradually bought a new one. Ah, good old days 😔😢
Who actually remembers playing mirage?y’now,like rushing in the luchs,or sniping in the stug and drowning in the ocean in the top right corner,or even glitching with the train!!!
i miss these i dont even play the game much anymore, i just log on to see whats happening and exit out…this game feels off now, its so simular yet so different. idk if i will ever play it like i used to.
Lost temple and Mirage are being reworked indefinately, so they may or may not comeback. They are fixing the maps inorder to make them more balanced and suited for tier 10.
Been playing since release. My first battle ever was on original Rockfield. What a bizarre map it was back then. I remember the days of the crazy sniper hills you could only get to by tricky climbs. There used to be one on the far med corner of Oasis Palms. I remember climbing that thing in my T-18 and lobbing derp shells across the map. Ah, the nostalgia. Desert Sands also used to have some tall sniper hills by the rails where TDs go now. You'd have great shots, but if you got spotted you were toast. I miss the days when you couldn't camp and cap out on Mines. If anyone thinks maps are too corridor-style these days, you should have seen old Winter Malinovka. XD Wish we still had Lost Temple. It was a beautiful map, especially in its last iteration. Some of these maps don't seem like they changed that much when they got updated, like Dead Rail and Copperfield. Others are completely different Overall, I'm happy with the maps we have now. I think they're balanced better and make for more interesting gameplay. But I do miss certain things. And the nostalgia hits like a truck.
These old maps do be hitting strong, as a veteran of WoTB, I strongly miss those old maps. 😢
Me too the old lost temple
@@neilespora7670 I remember the old lost temple when it had those wings, and you either sniped for days off of them or instantly died
@@CasperTheRestless the mirage and the old music
Mirage, Lost temple :'(
Too
I miss Lost Temple and Mirage.
Yeah fookin WG they said they we going to rework it but they secretly deleted those maps
And added new graphics and tanks to keep us engaged
@@distinctjackal9016 Even I as a newbie remember Mirage. All the battles I've been trough on there. what a shame
@@distinctjackal9016 In think there will be mirage version 2
@@t-wotbIndonesia yeah but they are taking an eternity to rework it while they reworked mines in less than 1 minor update
I miss mirage
Being a player here for over 7 years, this video really brings back a lot of good memories. Thank you so much for making this.
The pattern you will notice when comparing old maps with new ones:
-new maps tend to be way more flat and with less terrain elevation differences.
-new maps are way less open with all different kind of stuff (mostly strange looking rocks) preventing long range combat.
Personally I prefer the old maps. I like mountains, terrain and open maps :P
samee
yeah but those old sounds should be added to the game
Yeah ik about lost temple but now ik how mirage looks like and it's really good
I like flat city maps
Man I’d’ve liked to play blitz back when they had the old music
Ye, then the music sounds like tankisch music. nowadays it sounds like some kids playing instruments
I suppose it fits the playerbase more then
the old music was WAYY better.
It was god like hearing the old music now the new music is just boring and repetitive. Theres nothing creative about it
So much nostalgia was my go to childhood game 🥲
Edit: Old wotb music probably one of the best up there w Minecraft
I miss vineyard at night battle,.. Everytime we shot, the gun will brighten our surroundings,.. it is the most unique scene before :')
How could I forget Vineyards!
there was vineyards at nigth ??? ( i only played for 3 yrs )
@@noxy175 yeah, maybe you can watch "wotb vineyard review" the only night map
@@noxy175 i found it, you can type "vineyard eye candy bushka" it's a video from 8 years ago from Bushka on Blitz
These old soundtracks brought me right back to being 15 years old
I loved the old Castilla track
back then when we get destroyed all the turret and engine doors that available are open :(
Playing the M7 on Mirage as a 13 year old at 3AM was truly an experience
wish these maps would be only available in training rooms
Great idea. Maybe we should mod the game a little to add them back
I already miss mirage 😓
same:(
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Some of the old maps could be decent in today’s version. I do find that Blitz needs more maps. Games are “blitz” style, so when playing you generally see a big portion of the maps. It starts to feel a bit stale playing on the same maps.
until 1-2 months ago I noticed one map was missing, I just learned even more said goodbye
what map?
@@twoegg11 I just noticed that some of maps were missing cuz I just play many times in all maps except for these tho
I remember the very first version of desert sands when I was playing all those years ago. One thing that isn't really easy to see for all you newcomers is the fact that on the right side of the map, there was a massive almost vertical hill, and will alot of skill/luck, you could get up there and almost every time there was at least 1 person who went up there. Now this spot wasn't just high, it was like 4 times higher than the rest of the map. It was an easy sniping spot. The problem was however, was that once you got there, if there was anyone going desert, they would see you as soon as you got up there and then you would die instantly.
also, this video fails to mention some other versions of maps. but in this instance this map. Wargaming kept accidentally making these amazing camping spots on this map for years until they finally patched them all
Forgot about it when at the time, but I should have added some footage of the sniping spots on Desert sands. The versions of the maps I missed that you are talking about are just when they did not have barriers? (Like Port Bay)
Bushka has a video on the ISU...getting it high high high up, ridiculously high....
I saw his video, soon after getting my ISU.....then went into practice room, and for the life of me could not find that dang spot.......lol...yeah I was a noob
On dead rail, there was a high sniping spot around area 4 that had been removed......sk8t showed it in his video ...him using a Pz. Sfl. toaster TD
Never found that spot accessible, either
I also miss when premiums felt more like a normal tank and to the unlearned were just some teck tree that you don't really know
rockfield, copperfield, middleburg, mines… grew up in those maps 😢
I hate how they removed the elevation diffrences. The maps nowadays are just flat and symmetrical with big rocks all over the place so you are forced to do close range combat. The old maps were very open with mostly long range combat and lots of campers.
Thats bad not good. you know there are still lots of elevation differences in for example rockfield or Middleburg
This is one of the reasons why I like Castilla, it's from the old WoTB age
@@seno.kurniawan a bit more realistic though
I really miss 2 Rockfield, Copperfield 1 and mines 1... A lot of memories
Great video man. I started playing in 2015 and the nostalgia is smacking me like a freight train right now
You can’t tell me you don’t miss old rock field theme.
My favourite old theme is the Castilla one
If your interested, I’ve started making nostalgic content and footage I can grab from the internet.
Old mines is just straight out of WoT pc, i wish they added these bigger maps back.
I hope they add back mirage and lost temple soon
Yes, but it looks like they won't add it in the upcoming updates till 8.5
They will, it said they are reworking them
i think they will add pbr map on those two maps alongside 9.0
Well its 10.3 and no sign of it , they scammed us
Probably they have forgotten about them 😢. No sign of them
Lost Temple and Mirage are so much better than Faust and Ghost Factory smh😭 rip my childhood
miss lost temple and mirage so much, they were such a fun maps to play
As a guy who hasn't played the game since 5 years this really hits hard
back then speed boost lasted 20+ seconds
man that old lost temple was so nice, and I remember having a 7kill with almost the world record damage on a bt-7 on mirage
SOOOOooo much nostalgia from Mirage with Cruiser III
Pra mim o mirage com 14TP MUITA NOSTALGIA
haha same! except for me it was the vickers medium mk3. Luckily i still have it but it doesn’t change the fact that mirage is still gone :(
0:44 I remember being the last person alive (1v1 situation) winning the match in my Tier 5 Churchill 1 against a Tier 8 Ferdinand. Good times.
I thought it was only +2 -2 mm as i remember, never fought a +3 , but dam thats cool
@@amberiscrowyou could have +3 if you were in a platoon with someone higher
The old maps were so much better 💀
No thats just because youve seen the new ones over and over itd still be cool though if we could have a game mode where we could play these
@@WEE9 if that's mostly because the more recent maps feel a little small, perhaps maps like ghost factory are pretty big, but other than that most other maps feel really small compared to the old ones (which i believe is a little better, because getting to positions a little later could give you much needed time to do stuff instead of just dying the moment you get to you position)
The old maps were based around the design of Wot PC maps, Canal and Castilla are the only 2 maps left in the game which followed that design criteria.
@@poikoi1530 Like Himmelsdorf feel small, but Mirage feels like WoT Pc maps
@@ChapCinematics Yeah
i miss these maps... i even miss the duck event. god i remember being at tier 3 when the dracula and helsing where released
I don't understand why they're also removing the opening map theme....
Playing low tier was fun back in the days, now I play just tier X and suddenly got depression idk why I still play this game 😂
WG should really do an event where it’s just the og maps and og designs.
I’d love to know how the game would play and feel on these older more open maps.
Dead Rail, an E-25 and the two wagons positioned in an arrow shape. This in a training room, this room named "! BUG ! kill = kick" and you're good to go. This is what I remember WoTB for...
these old maps looked more realistic for a World War related game
Wotb today feels like a game for toddlers
Yep maps like Faust and New bay are just stupid...
Thanks for the video, brings back a lot of memories. Love the old dead rail.
Adding the original soundtrack for these maps was the cherry on top.
5.5 and 7.8 are the reason i drink every night
Playing lost Temple in a chill room was so nostalgic…
I miss Mirage, I've played many times in it with my Char B1
Ong
This hurts a lot.
broooo Lost Temple was my favourite map
old versions of the current maps looks better not gonna lie
Old maps feel way more peaceful
After 3 years , for those who still stay here , our game , changed , very much . Good old days ahhhhhhhh
It seems like blitz did the opposite of the PC version. Instead of making all the new maps hull-down meta, they instead made the maps much more flat so its more fair for everyone else.
Unfortunately they shrunk most maps and removed some so they could fit more premium tanks into the game
to be honest, as someone who played Blitz at the beginning of it and never got into it, THIS is how I remember it
These maps look better than the new ones ngl
Why would they remove malinovka ver.1?! It looks way better than the current one
Over by the windmill you could basically get on a ledge that had oversight of the entire map so if you were over there alone you could just camp and snipe people the entire game and they couldn’t do anything about it cuz that rest of the map was so open and flat😂
lost tample and mirage will allways stay in the veteran hearts :(( i miss them so much
Nostalgia
Pura nostalgia cara, é de mim arrepiar, só de lembrar de época que comecei a jogar
i miss mirage soo much
Man those were some good old times (when wot blitz stopped looking so "old" I switched to WT)
Every our pain…. MIRAGE WE WANT YOU!!!
Man , the music is something else , they really paid attention
why'd they remove lost temple? the size was fine, it was fairly balanced and actually a fun one
Dude rockfield and lost temple were some of my favourite maps back then
mirage was the first map i ever played on :(
lost temple hitting with nostalgia i played on that map
this game used to be good back in 2015, now wargayming has ruined this game as well of course
Only those from 5.5 forward won't realize this. Memories of from before then vague but still there. Matilda and T-28 Russian medium being among the only tanks to pen a Hetzer frontally, so much variety in early tiers, tanks which acted more like TDs than actual tanks, classic FT 17, etc. So much deliciousness to such a once good game. Like how our world used to be (politically speaking of course.)
This video brings back so many memories with the old music
I miss the lost temple version two and the mirage it was one of the best map
Man i miss using my T30 in Lost Temple. The amount of areas and terrains where i could hide my hull exposing just the turret was ungodly 😅
Mirage really brings me to the days when I still played the low tiers, those days were really hard to earn new tanks which made me feeling so happy when gradually bought a new one. Ah, good old days 😔😢
Most of these maps are just either reworked, or revamp
is it just me or did the maps seem bigger, the older maps?
The maps definitetly seem bigger, but I think it is because they had larger elevation differences.
@@skeletalchild8011 interesting
@@skeletalchild8011 the old old mines (like 2 versions of the map ago)
it was bigger than its wot pc counterpart
As much as i miss the old maps the old themes bring back some good memories
Mirage and Lost Temple were OG maps, but when i saw the other versions of old maps i was schoked
WoTB in the early days aimed to be a direct mini version of PC WoT
Bring back old desert music 😢.
Mirage, i had so many battles on this map
God I have so much nostalgia for Mirage... rip to a true one
I miss the old music, more intense
Oh man the old loading sound tracks still slaps
not just the maps, but the old soundtrack
Epic
ah yes the old music just hits different, miss the nostalgia.
This is the game I fell in love with
the music awakens something i cant tell what but it does
While some maps are getting updated. Castilia is now way better and even Middleburg getting update in update 9.7.
I hope WG watches these kinds if vids and add few old stuff and maps back if possible 1 day will work too i miss them so much 😢😢
Who actually remembers playing mirage?y’now,like rushing in the luchs,or sniping in the stug and drowning in the ocean in the top right corner,or even glitching with the train!!!
I used to like driving around on that map with my M2 medium. The dunes were the perfect shape for that tank.
@@skeletalchild8011 YES,OMG YES
I never knew I loved mirage so much until it got deleted
Notice how every single map got downsized, such a shame. One of the reasons why canal is still my favourite map
dead rail has my kill records. 7 kills. 3 times. e100. miss the old days of only 9 tier 10's
The songs are giving me such nostalgic vibes
I hope they bring back Lost Temple.
Why wg remove mirage and lost temple??😟
Desert ( Map Mirage) e Summer Map (Lost Temple) Eram muito top! Eles colocaram de voltar?
i miss these i dont even play the game much anymore, i just log on to see whats happening and exit out…this game feels off now, its so simular yet so different. idk if i will ever play it like i used to.
I quit playing, the game was so much better before, nowadays you login and you get spammed with 10 offers and a battle pass video.
These musics.. good old time
Mirage and the lost temple maps will comeback in a while,
WG said that they are redoing them.
yeah but it has been 3 months now and yeah i dont think the change will be welcomed
@@CyrusWoTB yeah
@@UnhingedPookie hey mate sup
@@CyrusWoTBthe sky! thats whats up (jk, nothing much, u? )
u are aussie me 2
I miss the Mirage, good old times when i won a 1v3 in my Hetzer against a KV-1, Pz IV (G) and Stug III
i wish they would make bigger maps
Mannn that old good maps…WG put all back ti the game please
Im not that old in Wotb (playing since 2020) still don't understand why did they remove mirage and lost temple :/
Lost temple and Mirage are being reworked indefinately, so they may or may not comeback. They are fixing the maps inorder to make them more balanced and suited for tier 10.
lost temple and mirage, we miss you
The nostalgia man
Mirage was the best desert map.
How old you wana feel ah video... It was so long ago...
Been playing since release. My first battle ever was on original Rockfield. What a bizarre map it was back then.
I remember the days of the crazy sniper hills you could only get to by tricky climbs. There used to be one on the far med corner of Oasis Palms. I remember climbing that thing in my T-18 and lobbing derp shells across the map. Ah, the nostalgia.
Desert Sands also used to have some tall sniper hills by the rails where TDs go now. You'd have great shots, but if you got spotted you were toast.
I miss the days when you couldn't camp and cap out on Mines.
If anyone thinks maps are too corridor-style these days, you should have seen old Winter Malinovka. XD
Wish we still had Lost Temple. It was a beautiful map, especially in its last iteration.
Some of these maps don't seem like they changed that much when they got updated, like Dead Rail and Copperfield. Others are completely different
Overall, I'm happy with the maps we have now. I think they're balanced better and make for more interesting gameplay. But I do miss certain things. And the nostalgia hits like a truck.
the new winter malinovka has like a fish in the ice