It's thrilling, full of action and engagements, less boomy, and much more diverse.

What I suggest (which is nothing unique or mind blowing) is adopting the original hill of Gold Rush, where the gold piles where more centered, you can't just boom behind walls for 35 minutes, you'd have to fight for the momentum. The boomer has nothing to lose, since it's almost impossible for the aggressor to control the vast territories of the middle, gold starvation doesn't evolve into being a win condition, in fact gold is barely a factor, you have to get out of your mind to deny gold from your opponent, it's just a boom fest followed by a Treb Race once each player camped on a hill. That's in a high correlation to the boom mass TC meta of Arabia these days. DE devs made an overly simplified layout of the gold piles in the middle, making it extremely comebackable, forgiving and therefore boom-oriented.Įach player has a hill and a gold beneath to camp by using a semi-defensive Castle once they're done 3TC booming in their own corner. It's mostly about the middle, the gold, what makes Gold Rush an unique map, and not another version of Arabia. Yet potentially less wallable (blue's map). You can tell how broken it is, also take a look at the original woodlines. Here is a reference of the AOC original version of Gold Rush. They basically Arabiatize Gold Rush, made it extremely deserted (for some reason they really love the concept of endless amount of tiny woodlines, rather than fewer yet bigger woodlines), which by this point is quite expected, since they 'butchered' every map methodically into the same state, according the same principles. Gold Rush was one of the least competitive-oriented maps among the original maps, it was arguably the most chaotic map in the pool back in Voobly/HD/AOC, having a random generation of the gold at the middle and the layout of the hill could get really out of balance most of the times.ĭE devs fixed that, they definitely made the map more balanced and stable, but, it ends there. r/projectceleste - Age of Empires Online

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