Tier 3 Scenarios: Mini Reviews
Skereye is Rank 24 now, Renown 18. I took a break from Scenarios for awhile but the last two days I've put in some good hours at it to catch up my Renown.
Just like Tier 2, I think my natural tendency is to knee-jerk dislike a new Scenario until I've got the hang of it, heh. But I've been in all of these a number of times now and have had good times and bad in each. Here's my take:
Tier 3 Scenarios in order of preference:
- Doomfist Crater - I loved the two Tier 1 maps with the stationary flags. It's great to fight around the flag pole without having to interact with it. Doomfist has one central stationary flag point, plus three pickup objects (sort of like Mourkin Temple).
Doomfist Crater is my preferred Scenario by far. I also love the terrain, the elevated ramps are great, getting knocked off removes a player from the fray without destroying them either. There's also plenty of opportunity for line-of-sight tricks.
- Black Fire Basin - Classic Capture-The-Flag. There's enough distance to bring mounts into play, which should disappoint me as a Squig Herder but I don't mind that so much. Maybe it's because I love getting up on the Order's ramparts and shoot down at them in their own flag base.
- Highpass Cemetary - I like this one just because the esthetics are so good, the volumetric fog looks great amongst the tombstones. The game mechanic is similar to Khaine's Embrace in Tier 1, but it's a smaller map.
- Tabalec Dam - I'm still lost on this map and I think I will be forever. It's large and I never feel involved in the whole blowing up of the Dam / Windmill. Still, it's not annoying either, as the most open map it's great for skirmishing.
- Tor Anroc - I stand by my decades-long belief that throwing people into lava is the most overused and lame mechanic in all of videogamedom. Soooo tired of lava. Whether my side wins or loses, it's just not very entertaining to chase someone carrying the bauble on open ground surrounded by fiery pits of death.
- Lost Temple of Isha - It's capture the temple then hold it. Great idea, I thought at first. Except it's so easy to defend with the layout. Whoever gets there first wins. I've never seen anyone lose the temple once they've got it and everytime I play someone else says so in scenario chat. This map desperately needs something like the ramparts I mentioned for Black Fire Basin.
Overall, I'll have to say, I still enjoyed Tier 1 Scenarios best. I wish Mythic had made Scenarios inclusive, added maps and still allow you to play the earlier ones (only within your Tier of course).
Tier 2 grew on me, maybe Tier 3 will, but even with more maps to choose from the Scenario quality IMHO is tapering off a bit. The variety is nice though, all of these maps are very unique choices.

