I know that it's a common opinion that BF3 maps > than BF4 maps - and I agree (and with your statement) But BF4 had some awesome maps too - namely a bunch of the DLC maps, and things like Zavod and Parcel Storm
Aftermath had probably the most solid DLC maps I've played in a Battlefield game. Unfortunately I wish it had more weapon unlocks as the crossbow was a bit underwhelming when everyone was running with M16s and AEKs.
loved these little death zones like the small corridor thats next the the main entrance hall of metro. everybody just dumped everything to the other side of it
@@alexschneider8494 Plus proper LMG cover, you could wipe out dozens of enemies on one magazine and completely clear the way for your teammates. Loved doing that.
When I think about Battlefield the first map that comes to mind is BF3's Operation Firestorm. It has an awesome balance of infantry and vehicle gameplay
@@enjoi9970 Really enjoyed playing infantry in and around the oil refinery, the warehouse buildings closer to US spawn, and the outpost opposite side of the road from the refinery near RU spawn. Good blend of close/medium/long range combat with the ability to play inf-anti tank or a manpad squad to deal with vics
@@jaxastro3072 honestly me and my buds used to play as a Helo squad. Id fly the transport with gunners and the gunship would be close by, We'd orbit the refinery flags providing cover as the ground forces advanced, man that was a load of fun.
I will never forget the base jump on Damavand Peak during Rush on BF3. The feeling of jumping off that cliff into inevitable chaos is something I will never forget.
Pearl Market from BF4 is a personal favorite of mine. The close quarters alley's with long streets made for tons of class variety, plus some breathing room for SMG, shotgun, and pistol users. Not to mention it was the most fun map for its featured "Chainlink" game mode, a more strategy based version of domination that I wish would've been focused on moreso.
Pearl market is a massive underrated map. The whole dragons teeth DLC was fantastic, Propaganda gave me proper BC2 vibes in the village with two cap points.
Glad to see I'm not the only one that has this map as their favorite. I absolutely love PM. I have about 2k hours in BF4 and 500 of them are probably in PM lol. Edit: One of my personal favorites I was able to clip from PM. th-cam.com/video/noIya2EAXI4/w-d-xo.html
I have some very fond memories of the Close Quarters DLC from BF3. Ziba Tower, Scrapmetal, Donya Fortress and operation 925 were all amazing, especially since I love the infantry only combat.
totaly forgot about close quarters. man battlefield 3 was such a good game back then. nowdays a dont play any games anymore, they all just dont feel right anymore.
Paracel Storm, I think that was pretty iconic. The ship crashing in was always cool to watch and changed the game play for that last bit of the map time. Lots of fun.
Gulf of Oman and Strike at Karkand were my all-time favorites. I loved the little Easter egg in the BF3 version of Oman where you go to the roof of the hotel and can hear the BF2 music
As a Bad Company 2 elitist: Arica Harbour, Isla Inocentes and Valparaiso for Rush, all three had massively changing settings and flow to the Rush battles. Even the transport heli was insanely important to the success of the attacking teams, and was my favourite role, just circling around the enemy base, dodging RPGs, getting repaired by on board engineers, getting assists from the minigun gunners, dropping spawning squat mates on the enemy. BC2 just had THE most teamwork I've ever seen in an online game, you really felt satisfied when you saw the victory cutscene at the end, feeling the achievement of working as a team to get a hard=earned victory. For conquest, Heavy Metal and Atacama Desert were my favourites, just straight up tank on tank action with lots of sniping...
@@pepperachu felt like an entirely different game! People loved it because the music, graphics, U.I, voice lines, even the main menu was changed to fit the Vietnam theme, let alone a whole new set of classic 1960s-70s era weapons, gadgets, vehicles, character models. So much passion and effort was poured into the $15 DLC, I never experienced a DLC with that much attention to detail, hell some entire games don’t have that amount of effort going into it. It was a time when game developers respected and valued their customers. Last of its kind!
I was always a huge fan of Kharg Island from BF3. I'd love to see an update to that one. BF3 maps, for the most part, had the best stock maps in the series. Caspian, of course, is great and so was Operation Firestorm. All three of these maps offered great fun regardless of whether you wanted to play as infantry, tank, chopper or jet pilot. It's a shame they don't make them like that anymore.
Have no idea why but Kharg Island was my favorite out of all of the vanilla BF3 maps. It played out so good both in rush and in conquest. Oh, I loved the first point on rush, especially when you start on attack
I'd have to say Flood Zone from BF4. There was something fun about the layout and the flooded streets that gave it a chaotic CQB feeling, while retaining the medium-long range distances. It was a fun mashup.
For me Battlefield 3 has the perfect launch maps I've seen in Battlefield series, all 9 of them were good in all the modes especially Rush and TDM, I can't even count the hours I spent playing them without getting bored
Rush is still my all time favorite gamemode. I don't play battlefield anymore and a large reason for that is because they basically abandoned rush after bf3. I do have to shout out BF1's grand operation's mode, which definitely brought back some similar vibes which I loved
Iwo Jima would've been cool to include for this too. It's been remade quite a few times throughout the series. But man.. Strike at Karkand is my all-time fav
I know it wasn't the most popular, but back in Bad Company 2 days, Isla Inocentes was my favorite map. It still tops my list with many that you mentioned. It was the perfect Rush map and I think it could be adapted perfectly to work with Breakthrough.
I feel like Gulf of Oman is criminally slept on. For many of us, our first Battlefield game was the Battlefield 2 demo, and as a kid I probably played hundreds of hours on that single map without ever getting sick of it.
It was my very first Battlefield map I ever played on Battlefield Play4Free before I got BF3 on my 360. Absolutely lovely map, always has been one of my favorites even if the spawns aren't super balanced.
Maybe unpopular, but I absolutely loved Golmud Railway and Silk Road from BF4. Something about a massive sprawling map ripe for vehicles, but then with oases of infantry combat (Golmud's A, B, C points and Silk's D, E, F points) just screams Battlefield to me. Silk Road's D point itself was the domination/tdm map so you felt like you could switch game modes on the fly on that map sometimes, especially when vehicles were almost guaranteed to be destroyed if they tried to enter it.
Noshar Canals and Bazaar from BF3, Giants of Karelia, Siege, Gulf and the remade Dragon Valley on 4, The Somme on BF1, Downtown on Hardline.. Arras and Mercury on 5... All fantastic maps. The flow on battlefield maps is awesome. It's what keeps me coming back to BF4 on console. The hardcore community is small but the player quality is unreal.
An honorable mention would be "Propaganda" from BF4's "China rising" DLC. It was one of my absolute favorites, and i still remember getting my Bulldog and tearing people up. EDIT: The DLC was Dragons teeth, not china rising.
Still remember the 1st batch of Battlefield I ever played. Rush on Bad Company 2s Port Valdez. That map is engrained in my head as my favorite map in the series
Nice video levelcap, it hit me tight in the feels, the nostalgia, all those games, all those countless hours playing online with my friends, wonder where they all are now.
Bf4 naval map pack was amazing in my opinion. Maybe I like the boats going into gameplay. But one of the maps was built on a hill. Inside the hill was a huge base inside. It was insane
Naval Strike was easily my favorite DLC in BF4 and I'm usually not even a naval warfare fan but it was so fun, it was just a completely new way to play the game instead of it just being some new maps and guns and stuff
The map that sticks in my mind when I think of battlefield has always been Noshahr Canals. BF3 was the first battlefield and video game as a whole that I really got into. Damavand Peak and Kharg Island also quickly come to mind.
BF2 Strike from Karkand was a blast! That 1st point on the balcony was chaos with the amount of grenades that got tossed or running across the train tracks as medic were the good old days!
Forgot to mention other amazing maps from BF3, such as: Kharg Island, Sharqi Peninsula, Seine Crossing, Epicenter, Talah Market, Markaz Monolith, Azadi Palace, Ziba Tower, Scrapmetal, Bandar Desert and Armored Shield God, it was such an amazing game
Strike is such a BANGER map! EDIT 2: oh and Zavod... man Zavod is crazy good! EDIT: My personal highlight will always be Para Cell Storm from BF4... Not because of the gameplay, which was "ok" but because of the trailer they dropped back then. The BF4 Theme, the insane build-up with the boats and helis, it was INTENSE. And to this day i wont forget how i literally JUMPED out of my chair when they showed how the ship crashed onto the island - i'm getting goosebumps just by typing this. Good times!
Playing heli gunner and Jet in WAKE ISLAND map will always be one of my best gaming moments of my life. Those who didnt play them will never be able to experience what we experienced. It cannot be replicated ever.
karkand is the perfect infantry map imo. I really wish dice would make more tight urban maps but we mostly get open sightline maps like goldmud (worst map in BF history) .It' s crazy how we went from after math BF3 maps to the mid stock maps of BF4, like there wasn't a single map in BF4 until DLC that I was even remotely exited to play. this might sound weird but I miss the haze/fog old BF games had, they prevented players from being spot spammed across the entire map.
This list was def iconic to me, especially the BF4 ones for Shanghai, Metro, and Caspian, I also would add (I forget the name) the mountains from BF1 with the bunkers in the hills and the fortress at the end.... Especially when the back up blimp gets shot down... 2042 need stuff like this, I wished they pushed the levelution to the limits. I feel like every time the landscape changes, you can see everyone kinda pause, get extremely hyped, and then get a revitalized energy to fight harder
I remember playing battlefield 2 modern combat on my old PS2 and the maps were really good, unfortunately I don't see this game be mentioned anymore, it was a good game and I still love it.
That game was so amazing to my seventh grade brain. Unfortunately I never got to play Xbox live with it. But the single player was a lot of fun, Switching to different soldiers
@@SavingSoulsMinistries Switching between soldiers was a great feature in this game, allowing the players to reach distant locations to complete objectives.
@@srisaac I can’t believe more games don’t take advantage of a feature like that.. it really gave you the feeling of being a disposable susceptible soldier , Instead of The modern day “my soldier can take 20 bullets and you’re fine if you find a health pack/ Let your health regenerate” I don’t think I’ve seen anyone ever bring up this game. Thanks bro Much Love to you 💕🙏🏼🙏🏼
It's certainly not "iconic" but Downtown from Hardline was one of my favorites. Ziplining between the two buildings, from the top floor of the skyscraper to the rooftop of the smaller one, plus the Levolution event when the construction crane fell down and smashed into another building, creating a new route to a flag. Plus like Siege of Shanghai you could parachute off the tall buildings (except you had two this time) to the lower points for the urban combat. It was awesome. I always wanted to see Downtown come back but sadly it's really unlikely
One game that is often forgotten about, Bad Company 1, had great maps too: Ascension, an eastern european village, had great closed quarters combat. Oasis, a middle eastern town, also offered urban combat with a large road in the centre. Harvest Day, a central european farmland with a town in the end. Par for the Course, a golf course, pretty hilarious and awesome for tank gameplay. Acta non Verba, classic urban map, a city that is divided by a large river. 5 capzones, 2 on each side and one on the bridge.
Dude battlefield 3 was such a good ass game. I remember getting into battlefield from bad company 1 and 2. And everyone had a game they were good at in my family. My older brother was a pro at halo and as much as I tried I could never be quite as good. My oldest brother had call of duty. And when I played bad company’s multiplayer for the first time, I immediately knew that this was going to be my one game I was actually really good at. So I played both extensively as well as Battlefield 1943 for Xbox. Then the beta for battlefield 3 came out and boy did I know right then, it was going to be one of the best games ever.
Golmud Railway was definitely one I think could be considered a classic now, and one of my personal favorites, Propaganda from BF4, loved the Pyongyang setting for a map.
One thing I'd like to see in 2042 is a "meat grinder" map. Something like Op Locker or Metro2014. I still like the open maps, but every now and then the chaos of a meat grinder is just pure fun :) Thanks for the trip down memory lane LevelCap :)
You missed mentioning the wake island from the 1943 title they made to show off Frostbite 2. I loved that rendition most of all, it stayed completely true to the original while maintaining the destruction of the new engines. Putting craters into trenches was very marvelous.
When I think Iconic, I think Oasis, Metro, Seine Crossing, Ghost Town, Karkand, Rotterdam, Zavod. To say the least, I really liked a lot of the BF maps, even the ones people disliked.
Oh man 100% correct!! There are so many great maps. So many fond memories. I would love to see a re-release of all of them, especially the night maps. I would love to see a day/night cycle in Battlefield.
Damavand Peak, Operation Metro, and Grand Baazar was so fun for me! Tight fighting lanes and rush elements. Always loved parachuting into the next rush objective at Damavand Peak.
Metro is by far my favorite. Played countless hours on a 3500 ticket Metro no explosives server and it was just awesome. Admins were always there and so many new friends were made. :)
You simply cannot top BF3, no matter how good BF4 was (I barely touched it but watched a ton of gameplay lol) or how iconic BF1 was (I still play this gem). Loved this video man, so much warmth in my little belly from these 8 minutes alone 🥹
Bandar desert and its huge scale, back in bf3 time it was unbeliavable. Also bf4 dlcs have so much great maps. Like propaganda, pearl market, whiteout, hangar...
To me most bf4 base game maps and caspian border 2014 were so bad. They are the worst thing in the game: unnecessary map complexity. It all felt so cluttered and confusing. Some exceptions: shangai, rogue transmission. Even the "dragon valley" remake suffered from the confusing map design and overcomplexity. And lol'd at the absolute failed attempt to "replicate" noshahr canals in tdm mode.
Some of my best experiences in battlefield were in the smaller, choke point heavy maps. I have plenty of fond memories fighting through kill corridors and breaking through entrenched enemies. Maps like metro, operation locker, grand bazar, and damavand all managed to offer these amazing fighting lanes. Battlefield is at its best when you are surrounded by other soldiers on those hot, danger close engagements, where the suppression effect is almost constant and you're sitting behind tiny cover surrounded by med bags and supply boxes.
Metro and Paracel Storm were my favorite. I preferred the BF3 Metro map because you started out in the park. Also Noshar Canal. It was a great Rush map especially when you had to fight your way to the airstrip.
The most iconic for me was Suez Canal (Titans mode) from battlefield 2142. Perfection. Infantry, vehicle, aerial fights - had it all with the most fun gamemode ever presented in battlefield games
Man, there have been so many good maps over the years. Operation locker has got to be one of my favorites. There was also one I can't think of the name of in BF4 that was a bunch of small islands with a crashed plane in the middle. It was really fun for Carrier Assault, wish that was more popular.
Let's not forget every single BFH map literally. So many good memories playing around the Chinatown map based off BF3's Grand Bazaar,. Also Downtown LA where you could extract off rooftops or blow down a crane to get access points to it, secret weapons around the Cemetery and Alcatraz or even hotwire around the Everglades. Seriously slept on military-police game
Strike at Karkand is indeed legendary map from BF2! But for some reason I always get shivers when BF1's Verdun Heights map starts. It looks like real hell and you feel WW1 dark atmosphere while walking through trenches and bunkers.
I think I've never won a game on Siege of Shanghai. Every rotation it comes in my heart sinks. It's more fun in rush but there is even more dependent on your team's skill.
Really appreciate these vids, im in army a.I.t right now and we can’t have our consoles and they have my laptop in my personal bag locked up and i used to play battlefield everyday since bf4 came out and it’s really cool to watch these vids thanks
Silk Road and Guilien Peaks really were my favorite bf4 maps, it was always fun to rush the center point on silk road and get control of the bomber and hit multiple enemy vehicles. guilen peaks to me was a better inf only map than anything before in the series. I like the shout out you gave to a couple bf1 maps as that is my favorite battlefield. I kinda feel like that game had a lot of good maps for various reasons, not too many bad but nothing to the level of iconic like the ones you mentioned
All of these are great picks. I like grand bazaar and obviously damavand peak on rush with the BASE jump was freaking awesome. BF1 had some really good maps too.
Valparaiso, Arica Harbor and Noshar Canals the most iconic maps in my list, played those ones tons of hours back then! Atacama Desert, Kharg Island and Seine Crossing are super underrated but great in my opinion.
Battlefield 2 has always been my favourite so totally agree that it's about time Strike at Karkand is remade. I have very fond memories of Road to Jalalabad, Mashtuur City and Sharqi Peninsula from BF2 as well and would love to see them remade for nostalgia value :)
I love how the maps you just listed off at the end of the video were all BF3 maps. BF2 was the OG MW2 of the battlefield franchise. Even people who didn't play BF3 recognize those maps and can acknowledge how good they were.
Noshahr canals and Op. Firestorm are probably the maps I remember the most fondly. Noshahr TDM, I used to go 200 kills per round and Op. Firestorm was the first map I ever played in a Battlefield game. I would always go to the mountain and lay down C4 to blow up tanks and it was amazing.
I just miss battlefield 3 so much man, that game was so ahead of it’s time. If they remade it and improved movement and gun fighting that would definitely be my go to game.
Probably the maps I loved playing in the most was the BF4 maps, particularly the Infantry and ground vehicle maps of China Rising, and BF3's Damavand peak.
Golmud Railway? Was always one of the essentials for BF4 in my opinion. Great mix of infantry combat through villages, sniping from the hillsides, or vehicle warfare across open terrain.
Agreed, Golmud has almost everything - Tanks, IFVs, Mortar Truck, Attack Heli, Scout Heli, Transport Heli, MAA, Attack Jet & Stealth Jet. The infantry war on A & B flags is so much fun and you can even opt for long range snipes.
I have a bunch of beloved memories from operation Locker from bf4, mostly cause i never had the money to get dlc until i got an allowence one summer, but Locker was my second home in bf4.
They have so many maps that there were some that people never played on. I remember a map inside a mall, but nobody ever played on it so I never experienced what it would be like with players on it.
Thanks for the video! Love it or hate it Metro was about as fun as it gets. BUT, the most fun I've ever had playing BF was Hardline Hotwire on Downtown. Hopefully one of these days we get that game mode again!!!
Honestly for me, its Kubra Dam, its the memories as a kid flying through the tunnels with my parents watching me do it (I was probably 5 years old at the time) since then, that is probably the peak of my flying skills outside of BF2 lol.
Bf3 had the best maps ever, strike at Karkand, Grand Bazaar, metro, Damavand Peak, Noshar Canals, the aftermath maps, the close quarter maps. It's very sad to know that we will never have such a legendary bf game again.
The damavand peak helipad jump was top tier was always one of the last to jump just to watch the rest of my team deploy their chutes, still a core memory till this day 🫡
Bf3 maps were on another level, the aftermath dlc alone had 4 of the best maps in the series.
I know that it's a common opinion that BF3 maps > than BF4 maps - and I agree (and with your statement)
But BF4 had some awesome maps too - namely a bunch of the DLC maps, and things like Zavod and Parcel Storm
YES
@@rambo-cambo3581 bf4 dlc maps were awesome. Pearl Market, Lumphini Garden, Operazione Mortar, Hangar 21 and Guilin peaks just to name a few
@@rambo-cambo3581 ugh Zavod.
Aftermath had probably the most solid DLC maps I've played in a Battlefield game. Unfortunately I wish it had more weapon unlocks as the crossbow was a bit underwhelming when everyone was running with M16s and AEKs.
For me it's Damavand Peak, that one first time ever jumping out of the helipad was magic.
Playing that on Rush was something special
That map sold rush for me, it was AMAZING
always sad that that jump sequence was rush exclusive 😂
Damavand Peak on Rush, that jumping is sooooooooooooo historic!!!
back flanking with a little bird on rush.
I will forever remember those chaotic indoor metro gun fights with the whole team trying to breach a door at the same time
Operation Metro only Rush 24/7 300% tickers, I miss that a lot
Locker too. Fucking c. Lol Ahh, good times.
Players always made it a little harder than it had to be. If a decent amount of people equipped smoke, it was pretty easy to get past choke points.
loved these little death zones like the small corridor thats next the the main entrance hall of metro. everybody just dumped everything to the other side of it
@@alexschneider8494 Plus proper LMG cover, you could wipe out dozens of enemies on one magazine and completely clear the way for your teammates. Loved doing that.
When I think about Battlefield the first map that comes to mind is BF3's Operation Firestorm. It has an awesome balance of infantry and vehicle gameplay
Yeah one of my favorites, love the Gulf War feel to it
For me its Gulf of Oman from BF3, similar to Operation Firestorm it had a bit of everything in just the right balance.
Infantry wasn’t that amazing; too much open space
@@enjoi9970 Really enjoyed playing infantry in and around the oil refinery, the warehouse buildings closer to US spawn, and the outpost opposite side of the road from the refinery near RU spawn. Good blend of close/medium/long range combat with the ability to play inf-anti tank or a manpad squad to deal with vics
@@jaxastro3072 honestly me and my buds used to play as a Helo squad. Id fly the transport with gunners and the gunship would be close by, We'd orbit the refinery flags providing cover as the ground forces advanced, man that was a load of fun.
I will never forget the base jump on Damavand Peak during Rush on BF3. The feeling of jumping off that cliff into inevitable chaos is something I will never forget.
I think its cool but the way you cant move forward properly
Damavand Peak is indeed a GOAT map.
The only issue I had with Damavand was that the map wasn't really that fun after the jump.
Pearl Market from BF4 is a personal favorite of mine. The close quarters alley's with long streets made for tons of class variety, plus some breathing room for SMG, shotgun, and pistol users. Not to mention it was the most fun map for its featured "Chainlink" game mode, a more strategy based version of domination that I wish would've been focused on moreso.
Pearl Market is a top 5 map for me. One of the best infantry heavy maps they’ve ever made. I still rarely play it on BF4 now. Still holds up!
Pearl market is a massive underrated map. The whole dragons teeth DLC was fantastic, Propaganda gave me proper BC2 vibes in the village with two cap points.
That and Seine Crossing were something else.
I really hope they bring back Chainlink at some point, it's a brilliant spin on the typical conquest/domination style gamemodes
Glad to see I'm not the only one that has this map as their favorite. I absolutely love PM. I have about 2k hours in BF4 and 500 of them are probably in PM lol.
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One of my personal favorites I was able to clip from PM.
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Operation Locker for pure chaos. Loved the 24/7 servers. Also Golmud Railway, Operation Firestorm, Donya Fortress were great too
Still play those to this day on the regular :)
I really enjoy zavod 311. Perfect for close quarters bur you can also jump into a tank and be usefull. Also not to many snipers.
I have some very fond memories of the Close Quarters DLC from BF3. Ziba Tower, Scrapmetal, Donya Fortress and operation 925 were all amazing, especially since I love the infantry only combat.
yoo bro those 4 maps and operation metro are my favorite memories of my childhood haha. Those were the days...
totaly forgot about close quarters. man battlefield 3 was such a good game back then. nowdays a dont play any games anymore, they all just dont feel right anymore.
Gun Master on those maps was fun as hell.
@@ender003 Gun master Ziba and 925 yesss plz
Paracel Storm, I think that was pretty iconic. The ship crashing in was always cool to watch and changed the game play for that last bit of the map time. Lots of fun.
agree, great map!
Gulf of Oman and Strike at Karkand were my all-time favorites. I loved the little Easter egg in the BF3 version of Oman where you go to the roof of the hotel and can hear the BF2 music
Yes Sir! Gulf of Oman!
That is one of my favourites on bf4 👍
B2K DLC was just insane, specially for those who came from BF2. I just want to play those maps again so much
Grand Bazaar, great infantry fighting and the ifv's fighting around the edge with the rubble kills. It was a great small map.
Best infantry map of all time
And Seine crossing too!!
Chinatown from bfh is the same map
As a Bad Company 2 elitist: Arica Harbour, Isla Inocentes and Valparaiso for Rush, all three had massively changing settings and flow to the Rush battles. Even the transport heli was insanely important to the success of the attacking teams, and was my favourite role, just circling around the enemy base, dodging RPGs, getting repaired by on board engineers, getting assists from the minigun gunners, dropping spawning squat mates on the enemy. BC2 just had THE most teamwork I've ever seen in an online game, you really felt satisfied when you saw the victory cutscene at the end, feeling the achievement of working as a team to get a hard=earned victory.
For conquest, Heavy Metal and Atacama Desert were my favourites, just straight up tank on tank action with lots of sniping...
BC2 vietnam still the best DLC of all time. And it was 15 bucks too. What a time to be alive.
@@SuperWubDub I always hear about it, I'm bummed because I was way too late for the party
@@pepperachu felt like an entirely different game! People loved it because the music, graphics, U.I, voice lines, even the main menu was changed to fit the Vietnam theme, let alone a whole new set of classic 1960s-70s era weapons, gadgets, vehicles, character models. So much passion and effort was poured into the $15 DLC, I never experienced a DLC with that much attention to detail, hell some entire games don’t have that amount of effort going into it. It was a time when game developers respected and valued their customers. Last of its kind!
I was always a huge fan of Kharg Island from BF3. I'd love to see an update to that one. BF3 maps, for the most part, had the best stock maps in the series. Caspian, of course, is great and so was Operation Firestorm. All three of these maps offered great fun regardless of whether you wanted to play as infantry, tank, chopper or jet pilot. It's a shame they don't make them like that anymore.
Have no idea why but Kharg Island was my favorite out of all of the vanilla BF3 maps. It played out so good both in rush and in conquest. Oh, I loved the first point on rush, especially when you start on attack
I'd have to say Flood Zone from BF4. There was something fun about the layout and the flooded streets that gave it a chaotic CQB feeling, while retaining the medium-long range distances. It was a fun mashup.
Fun asf I remember using the A-91 with a suppressor and jumping off the ledges on C and B point and running around all over the stairs
I would've liked it more with out the buggy chain link fences.
I wish they put a bit more effort into flood zone rush. Still one of the best rush maps no doubt
My best bf4 map
Oooh, I had forgotten about it! The best levolution
For me Battlefield 3 has the perfect launch maps I've seen in Battlefield series, all 9 of them were good in all the modes especially Rush and TDM, I can't even count the hours I spent playing them without getting bored
This. I remember playing only rush for the first few months. My fav maps for this mode was grand bazaar, strike at karkand, seine crossing and metro.
5000 tickets on Firestorm conquest was a marathon session but worth it 🥵😄
Rush is still my all time favorite gamemode. I don't play battlefield anymore and a large reason for that is because they basically abandoned rush after bf3. I do have to shout out BF1's grand operation's mode, which definitely brought back some similar vibes which I loved
I'm not sure if we miss old BF or our childhood...or all together. But seeing BF 1942/2/3 makes me feel plenty nostalgic.
I miss old Battlefield. The ones you said + Battlefield 1
I just miss good maps tbh
I miss my young adulthood before I had real responsibilities, back when I could play BF for hours at a time.
If we could return to bf4 that'd be great
Iwo Jima would've been cool to include for this too. It's been remade quite a few times throughout the series.
But man.. Strike at Karkand is my all-time fav
Awesome on BFV ❤
Iwo Jima remake for bf2 (AIX2 mod) is such a crazy map
I'm happy someone brought it up.. Iwo Jima breakthrough is one if not the best BF experience as both attackers and defenders.
Iwo Jima was one of my favorites, too
I think Guilin Peaks from Battlefield 4 is very underrated. It provided heavy infantry combat without everyone being crammed into 1 or 2 lanes.
It honestly offers the best flow of any primary infantry map. One of my favourites too.
Agreed
This video makes me miss the good old battlefield days.
battlebit is a fun game
Loads of people are still playing
This is the exact feeling I got watching this video.
I know it wasn't the most popular, but back in Bad Company 2 days, Isla Inocentes was my favorite map. It still tops my list with many that you mentioned. It was the perfect Rush map and I think it could be adapted perfectly to work with Breakthrough.
I think it could. All of those jungle maps were fun.
That was the first map I ever played in a Battlefield game!
I feel like Gulf of Oman is criminally slept on. For many of us, our first Battlefield game was the Battlefield 2 demo, and as a kid I probably played hundreds of hours on that single map without ever getting sick of it.
It was my very first Battlefield map I ever played on Battlefield Play4Free before I got BF3 on my 360. Absolutely lovely map, always has been one of my favorites even if the spawns aren't super balanced.
gulf of oman its my favorite too along with dragon valley
Men battlefield 2 demo was my first battlefield’s experience the streets of gulf and the unstoppable comms will be forever printed in my soul.
Maybe unpopular, but I absolutely loved Golmud Railway and Silk Road from BF4. Something about a massive sprawling map ripe for vehicles, but then with oases of infantry combat (Golmud's A, B, C points and Silk's D, E, F points) just screams Battlefield to me.
Silk Road's D point itself was the domination/tdm map so you felt like you could switch game modes on the fly on that map sometimes, especially when vehicles were almost guaranteed to be destroyed if they tried to enter it.
Noshar Canals and Bazaar from BF3, Giants of Karelia, Siege, Gulf and the remade Dragon Valley on 4, The Somme on BF1, Downtown on Hardline.. Arras and Mercury on 5... All fantastic maps. The flow on battlefield maps is awesome. It's what keeps me coming back to BF4 on console. The hardcore community is small but the player quality is unreal.
An honorable mention would be "Propaganda" from BF4's "China rising" DLC. It was one of my absolute favorites, and i still remember getting my Bulldog and tearing people up.
EDIT: The DLC was Dragons teeth, not china rising.
@relax You are correct sir, i thought i had something wrong with my post when i was sending it, but couldn't see it :)
Dragons teeth was the best dlc they made for bf4 imo. Propaganda and pearl market 5/5
Best Map in BF4 IMO, a close 2nd is Pearl Market.
@@blackws12 Absolutely. And the best 2nd dlc for me is Final Stand 👌
Still remember the 1st batch of Battlefield I ever played. Rush on Bad Company 2s Port Valdez. That map is engrained in my head as my favorite map in the series
Nice video levelcap, it hit me tight in the feels, the nostalgia, all those games, all those countless hours playing online with my friends, wonder where they all are now.
I feel this. So many squadmates that don't login anymore.
Bf4 naval map pack was amazing in my opinion. Maybe I like the boats going into gameplay. But one of the maps was built on a hill. Inside the hill was a huge base inside. It was insane
Wave Breaker, from the Naval Strike DLC.
Naval Strike was easily my favorite DLC in BF4 and I'm usually not even a naval warfare fan but it was so fun, it was just a completely new way to play the game instead of it just being some new maps and guns and stuff
BF3 Metro, siene crossing, damavand and grand bazar on rush still hold some of the best memories with my old squad of friends.
Ziba Tower and Scrap Metal were two Close Quarters maps I really enjoyed, and Epicenter from the Aftermath expansion pack.
100 % agree here. Those maps is where I grinded the most and man they were fun.
The base jump on Demavand Peak in Rush! My first time playing that is in my top 5 gameplay moments of all time.
No one every include Camp Gibraltar in these lists but what a great map. Total madhouse grindfest.
The map that sticks in my mind when I think of battlefield has always been Noshahr Canals. BF3 was the first battlefield and video game as a whole that I really got into. Damavand Peak and Kharg Island also quickly come to mind.
Heavy Metal from Bad Co 2 needs to be on here. What a map that was.
Eh.
Still remember the days of calling in mortar strikes on that map as a sniper!
BF2 Strike from Karkand was a blast! That 1st point on the balcony was chaos with the amount of grenades that got tossed or running across the train tracks as medic were the good old days!
Paracel Storm. One of my favourites for sure.
Forgot to mention other amazing maps from BF3, such as: Kharg Island, Sharqi Peninsula, Seine Crossing, Epicenter, Talah Market, Markaz Monolith, Azadi Palace, Ziba Tower, Scrapmetal, Bandar Desert and Armored Shield
God, it was such an amazing game
Strike is such a BANGER map!
EDIT 2: oh and Zavod... man Zavod is crazy good!
EDIT: My personal highlight will always be Para Cell Storm from BF4... Not because of the gameplay, which was "ok" but because of the trailer they dropped back then. The BF4 Theme, the insane build-up with the boats and helis, it was INTENSE. And to this day i wont forget how i literally JUMPED out of my chair when they showed how the ship crashed onto the island - i'm getting goosebumps just by typing this. Good times!
Playing heli gunner and Jet in WAKE ISLAND map will always be one of my best gaming moments of my life.
Those who didnt play them will never be able to experience what we experienced. It cannot be replicated ever.
karkand is the perfect infantry map imo. I really wish dice would make more tight urban maps but we mostly get open sightline maps like goldmud (worst map in BF history) .It' s crazy how we went from after math BF3 maps to the mid stock maps of BF4, like there wasn't a single map in BF4 until DLC that I was even remotely exited to play. this might sound weird but I miss the haze/fog old BF games had, they prevented players from being spot spammed across the entire map.
Strike at Karkand always made my day! But there are so many. I played A LOT of Sharqi Peninsula and Gulf of Oman too... Great video @LevelCapGaming !!
This list was def iconic to me, especially the BF4 ones for Shanghai, Metro, and Caspian, I also would add (I forget the name) the mountains from BF1 with the bunkers in the hills and the fortress at the end.... Especially when the back up blimp gets shot down...
2042 need stuff like this, I wished they pushed the levelution to the limits.
I feel like every time the landscape changes, you can see everyone kinda pause, get extremely hyped, and then get a revitalized energy to fight harder
Monte Grappa is the name of the map. and yes it should be on the list 100%
Rush on Operation Metro, attacking, the loading music and all, it just had such a great atmosphere and "battlefield" feeling to it... goosebumps!
I remember playing battlefield 2 modern combat on my old PS2 and the maps were really good, unfortunately I don't see this game be mentioned anymore, it was a good game and I still love it.
That game was so amazing to my seventh grade brain. Unfortunately I never got to play Xbox live with it. But the single player was a lot of fun, Switching to different soldiers
@@SavingSoulsMinistries Switching between soldiers was a great feature in this game, allowing the players to reach distant locations to complete objectives.
@@srisaac I can’t believe more games don’t take advantage of a feature like that.. it really gave you the feeling of being a disposable susceptible soldier , Instead of The modern day “my soldier can take 20 bullets and you’re fine if you find a health pack/ Let your health regenerate” I don’t think I’ve seen anyone ever bring up this game. Thanks bro Much Love to you 💕🙏🏼🙏🏼
@@SavingSoulsMinistries Fun fact, if you lose too many soldiers you literary fail the mission lol
I played bf3 with you once years and years ago, reviving you in my squad was so cool. cheers dude.
It's certainly not "iconic" but Downtown from Hardline was one of my favorites. Ziplining between the two buildings, from the top floor of the skyscraper to the rooftop of the smaller one, plus the Levolution event when the construction crane fell down and smashed into another building, creating a new route to a flag. Plus like Siege of Shanghai you could parachute off the tall buildings (except you had two this time) to the lower points for the urban combat. It was awesome. I always wanted to see Downtown come back but sadly it's really unlikely
Downtown IMHO is miles better than Siege of Shaghai, which is very overrated
One game that is often forgotten about, Bad Company 1, had great maps too:
Ascension, an eastern european village, had great closed quarters combat.
Oasis, a middle eastern town, also offered urban combat with a large road in the centre.
Harvest Day, a central european farmland with a town in the end.
Par for the Course, a golf course, pretty hilarious and awesome for tank gameplay.
Acta non Verba, classic urban map, a city that is divided by a large river. 5 capzones, 2 on each side and one on the bridge.
Was glad to see Oasis and Harvest day make it to BC2. They were so fun.
Dude battlefield 3 was such a good ass game. I remember getting into battlefield from bad company 1 and 2. And everyone had a game they were good at in my family. My older brother was a pro at halo and as much as I tried I could never be quite as good. My oldest brother had call of duty. And when I played bad company’s multiplayer for the first time, I immediately knew that this was going to be my one game I was actually really good at. So I played both extensively as well as Battlefield 1943 for Xbox. Then the beta for battlefield 3 came out and boy did I know right then, it was going to be one of the best games ever.
Golmud Railway was definitely one I think could be considered a classic now, and one of my personal favorites, Propaganda from BF4, loved the Pyongyang setting for a map.
No Dragon Valley 😢. Awesome video tho! Those maps are truly iconic! But I personally would throw in Dragon Valley as well.
One thing I'd like to see in 2042 is a "meat grinder" map. Something like Op Locker or Metro2014.
I still like the open maps, but every now and then the chaos of a meat grinder is just pure fun :)
Thanks for the trip down memory lane LevelCap :)
Play the rush xl mode rn, and it's the biggest battlefield meatgrinder ever😂
You missed mentioning the wake island from the 1943 title they made to show off Frostbite 2. I loved that rendition most of all, it stayed completely true to the original while maintaining the destruction of the new engines. Putting craters into trenches was very marvelous.
Strike at Karkand is BF for me. Loved it on BF2 and BF3. Road to Jalalabad too was epic on BF2 imo.
Mastuur City was truly great too. Im glad you included SAK. That map never gets the love it deserves.
Battlefield 2 Strike at Karkand, gulf island, and dragon valley.
Kubra dam on bf2 was one of Mt favourites. Sharqi peninsula. Isla inocets. Suez canal. So many good maps
When I think Iconic, I think Oasis, Metro, Seine Crossing, Ghost Town, Karkand, Rotterdam, Zavod. To say the least, I really liked a lot of the BF maps, even the ones people disliked.
Oh man 100% correct!! There are so many great maps. So many fond memories. I would love to see a re-release of all of them, especially the night maps. I would love to see a day/night cycle in Battlefield.
Metro, Firestorm, Caspian, karkand, and Oman are my all time favorites. PanzerStorm, and Fjell are my current favorite for BFV
Damavand Peak, Operation Metro, and Grand Baazar was so fun for me! Tight fighting lanes and rush elements. Always loved parachuting into the next rush objective at Damavand Peak.
Karkand 24/7 2000tickets/ Inf only - Oh the memories...
Metro is by far my favorite. Played countless hours on a 3500 ticket Metro no explosives server and it was just awesome. Admins were always there and so many new friends were made. :)
Battlefield 3: Noshahr Canals TDM! Best map for TDM I ever played in BF game! Cannot believe you didn't include that one :)
Battlefield 3 has some of the best map design in FPS history. It's just a shame every Battlefield after could not meet that expectation.
Warlord from BF2 special forces comes to mind, Ghost town was also great.
You simply cannot top BF3, no matter how good BF4 was (I barely touched it but watched a ton of gameplay lol) or how iconic BF1 was (I still play this gem). Loved this video man, so much warmth in my little belly from these 8 minutes alone 🥹
Bandar desert and its huge scale, back in bf3 time it was unbeliavable. Also bf4 dlcs have so much great maps. Like propaganda, pearl market, whiteout, hangar...
To me most bf4 base game maps and caspian border 2014 were so bad. They are the worst thing in the game: unnecessary map complexity. It all felt so cluttered and confusing.
Some exceptions: shangai, rogue transmission.
Even the "dragon valley" remake suffered from the confusing map design and overcomplexity. And lol'd at the absolute failed attempt to "replicate" noshahr canals in tdm mode.
Sunken dragon sucks with its annoying and glitchy water gameplay, but it looked so good and iconic
Some of my best experiences in battlefield were in the smaller, choke point heavy maps. I have plenty of fond memories fighting through kill corridors and breaking through entrenched enemies. Maps like metro, operation locker, grand bazar, and damavand all managed to offer these amazing fighting lanes.
Battlefield is at its best when you are surrounded by other soldiers on those hot, danger close engagements, where the suppression effect is almost constant and you're sitting behind tiny cover surrounded by med bags and supply boxes.
Metro and Paracel Storm were my favorite. I preferred the BF3 Metro map because you started out in the park.
Also Noshar Canal. It was a great Rush map especially when you had to fight your way to the airstrip.
Grand bazar one of the most epic in rush mode , damavan peak are the few that got left out in my opinion but nice clip brother 🤜🤛💯
Being able to take the Striker MGS and wheel around at full speed on Bandar Desert was some of the most fun i've had while playing a Battlefield game.
The most iconic for me was Suez Canal (Titans mode) from battlefield 2142.
Perfection. Infantry, vehicle, aerial fights - had it all with the most fun gamemode ever presented in battlefield games
Sadly, not a lot of ppl these days even know 2142 existed. It was my favorite. But I preferred snow maps
Man, there have been so many good maps over the years.
Operation locker has got to be one of my favorites.
There was also one I can't think of the name of in BF4 that was a bunch of small islands with a crashed plane in the middle. It was really fun for Carrier Assault, wish that was more popular.
I lived on Operation Locker 24/7 Servers for over a year, definitely had its own type of “ only in battlefield” moments, similar to Op Metro
Strike at karkand was such a great time with my friends. Just loved it came up in rotation
Let's not forget every single BFH map literally. So many good memories playing around the Chinatown map based off BF3's Grand Bazaar,. Also Downtown LA where you could extract off rooftops or blow down a crane to get access points to it, secret weapons around the Cemetery and Alcatraz or even hotwire around the Everglades. Seriously slept on military-police game
I remember the first time I played Damavand Peak on rush in BF3 when I was 12 and jumping down the cliff for the first time… I had literal chills.
Strike at Karkand is indeed legendary map from BF2! But for some reason I always get shivers when BF1's Verdun Heights map starts. It looks like real hell and you feel WW1 dark atmosphere while walking through trenches and bunkers.
Seine Crossing from BF3 was my favorite. I think a version of Metro will be the "new" map for Season 5 of 2042.
I still don't understand how the older games look better than 2042
Great video! Love the editing
I needed some memory lane today. Thank you.
I think I've never won a game on Siege of Shanghai. Every rotation it comes in my heart sinks. It's more fun in rush but there is even more dependent on your team's skill.
Really appreciate these vids, im in army a.I.t right now and we can’t have our consoles and they have my laptop in my personal bag locked up and i used to play battlefield everyday since bf4 came out and it’s really cool to watch these vids thanks
Silk Road and Guilien Peaks really were my favorite bf4 maps, it was always fun to rush the center point on silk road and get control of the bomber and hit multiple enemy vehicles. guilen peaks to me was a better inf only map than anything before in the series. I like the shout out you gave to a couple bf1 maps as that is my favorite battlefield. I kinda feel like that game had a lot of good maps for various reasons, not too many bad but nothing to the level of iconic like the ones you mentioned
All of these are great picks. I like grand bazaar and obviously damavand peak on rush with the BASE jump was freaking awesome. BF1 had some really good maps too.
Valparaiso, Arica Harbor and Noshar Canals the most iconic maps in my list, played those ones tons of hours back then!
Atacama Desert, Kharg Island and Seine Crossing are super underrated but great in my opinion.
Not sure how Canals didn't make the list
Battlefield 2 has always been my favourite so totally agree that it's about time Strike at Karkand is remade. I have very fond memories of Road to Jalalabad, Mashtuur City and Sharqi Peninsula from BF2 as well and would love to see them remade for nostalgia value :)
Now I remember why I love Battlefield. Thank you ❤️
I love how the maps you just listed off at the end of the video were all BF3 maps. BF2 was the OG MW2 of the battlefield franchise. Even people who didn't play BF3 recognize those maps and can acknowledge how good they were.
Noshahr canals and Op. Firestorm are probably the maps I remember the most fondly. Noshahr TDM, I used to go 200 kills per round and Op. Firestorm was the first map I ever played in a Battlefield game. I would always go to the mountain and lay down C4 to blow up tanks and it was amazing.
I just miss battlefield 3 so much man, that game was so ahead of it’s time. If they remade it and improved movement and gun fighting that would definitely be my go to game.
Probably the maps I loved playing in the most was the BF4 maps, particularly the Infantry and ground vehicle maps of China Rising, and BF3's Damavand peak.
Golmud Railway? Was always one of the essentials for BF4 in my opinion. Great mix of infantry combat through villages, sniping from the hillsides, or vehicle warfare across open terrain.
Agreed, Golmud has almost everything - Tanks, IFVs, Mortar Truck, Attack Heli, Scout Heli, Transport Heli, MAA, Attack Jet & Stealth Jet. The infantry war on A & B flags is so much fun and you can even opt for long range snipes.
I have a bunch of beloved memories from operation Locker from bf4, mostly cause i never had the money to get dlc until i got an allowence one summer, but Locker was my second home in bf4.
They have so many maps that there were some that people never played on. I remember a map inside a mall, but nobody ever played on it so I never experienced what it would be like with players on it.
Perfect list, i had all of theese in my mind when i thought about iconic battlefield maps
Thanks for the video! Love it or hate it Metro was about as fun as it gets. BUT, the most fun I've ever had playing BF was Hardline Hotwire on Downtown. Hopefully one of these days we get that game mode again!!!
Honestly for me, its Kubra Dam, its the memories as a kid flying through the tunnels with my parents watching me do it (I was probably 5 years old at the time) since then, that is probably the peak of my flying skills outside of BF2 lol.
Bf3 had the best maps ever, strike at Karkand, Grand Bazaar, metro, Damavand Peak, Noshar Canals, the aftermath maps, the close quarter maps.
It's very sad to know that we will never have such a legendary bf game again.
The damavand peak helipad jump was top tier was always one of the last to jump just to watch the rest of my team deploy their chutes, still a core memory till this day 🫡
Golmud railway is where I spent 99% of my time in BF4. Loved that map