I really enjoyed Sacred Valley and Stalingrad, had some epic games on Windstorm and Minsk, and Mittengard was always a fast fun free-for-all. Would love to see all of them back!
This brings back so many WOT memories! I miss all of them but especially Swamp, Windstorm, Stalingrad and Sacred Valley. I actually loved the chaos of Mittengard as well! Would love to see them all back!
All maps except Port, Severogorsk and Mittengard would be nice to have back. most of them were pretty open in terms of maneuver warfare(a lot of possible approaches) and the memories made on these maps... Nostalgia hits hard 🥲
Good memories of these maps. Some I had even forgotten. I think that currently there is very little variety of maps, I think they should be rebuilt, remastered and included all back in the game.
Fair... and I agree about your point with regards to "variety". That being said, if we look back objectively and disregard the last two excluded maps (which were removed for political reasons, after all, and I am STILL surprised that they didn't simple re-name them), most of them would be god-awful in terms of balancing.
Tbh, I miss every single one of them. My all-time favorite was Northwest, because of the great heavy and medium tank brawls in the South/Southeast. Stalingrad, Dragon Ridge, Severogorsk, Hidden Village, and Sacred Valley were also some that I loved. Quite a few meme-worthy moments and fun stories occurred in my games on these maps. I wish WG would bring them all back in some shape or form.
You made me miss the good old days when you were facing almost only tech tree tanks, premiums weren't OP at all (slightly less efficient than tech tree but preferential mm), when battle lasted more than 4 minutes in average, when heavy tanks had armor that you couldn't pen frontally if you were a med or a light (you had to get their sides), but with weakspots that you could pen without gold if aimed correctly (meaning you had to take risks) Miss the 3rd server they opened for some weeks where you could play on a old version of the game (like 2011) 😢
Its sad how many maps they have removed and not brought back, these maps we have were some of the most boring that they left in. Kinda sucks to see these old fun maps they removed! Thanks Dez!
The maps are one big reason why many players left the game or are heavily discouraged. The problem the game has with the maps now is that they are stale, unimproved, and poorly designed. The laziness of the WG map dept (one part timer on vacation) is apparent when you observe the amount of unplayable areas on any given map.
Hidden Village was sort of cool because it was so different. It was WoT's first corridor map. They removed it pretty quickly because it turned out to be really bad, and then just made all the other maps corridor maps.
YES, YES, YES!!! Those maps were very much interesting than now! I demand a mode with "unbalanced" maps for players who love them! What a fun that was ... I miss them very much!
Some of these maps were much more interesting and playful and there was also a lot of fun to be had from the "unbalancedness": On the weaker side it didn't matter if you lost, but it was a challenge to win anyway! And on the stronger side you had the reassuring feeling of being superior, but it was a shame to lose anyway, it had to be avoided at all costs. There were always surprises on the huge maps and clever and witty players could often surprise the opponent, which was a lot of fun! It wasn't for very good players, it pushed the winrate down to around 50%, but it was great fun for most players! Therefore: please WG, introduce a new mode for "unbalanced" maps!
Loads of great maps that I miss playing. Many were removed before I was particularly experienced, so I likely played badly on them, but I enjoyed them a lot
Windstorm was amazing. I had my first mini-kolobanovs on that map. Got like 8 kills with the IKV103 right after I unlocked the derp gun on it. I was sitting on the church hill in the middle and was the last one alive on my team. The enemy kept coming at me one at a time and I correctly guessed where they were coming from each time. Very memorable map.
Sacred Valley, Windstorm, Stalingrad, and Kharkov are all maps which I would love to see return someday. If I had to just pick one though, I would go with Windstorm, as it is highly unique due to having a asymmetrical layout and was just fun to play in any class of tank. Would also like to say that if Kharkov ever returns, I would prefer it to be reworked to be more similar to the original map layout, as the amount of side streets in the city made it extremely fun to fight in, so I was very disappointed when the HD version removed them and also made the city smaller.
I would love to see them ALL (except for the double Ruinerg and Himmelsdorf) back in game. Together with a better MM please. The preferred map for return would be Sacred Valley.
ALL of them for me, except all-sniper maps and imbalanced win ratio maps. That includes double-tripple Ruinberg and Himmesldorf. variation of seasons is good, even if the map is exactly the same.
I would'nt have noticed they were the same maps at the time. Someone actually had to state that, and then I was like ''They are reusing the same map, hmm, I wonder other things about maps''
I miss Port, watching the arties reverse off the whart into the water never gets old, and there were some good battles to be had in the north east corner amongst the hills of stuf there. The bridge could also be fun depending on your tank and the other team. Komarin I also miss a lot, many good battles I had there. I had forgotten about the tank traps that actually worked, too1 :)
I played Beta and used to troll Komarin (I wasn't the only one mind) by driving my BT 7 to one of the bridges as fast as possible, getting wrecked a block the bridge. This was before you could push dead tanks and before they made the river fordable alongside the bridge.
Komarin, Severogorsk, South Coast and especially Sacred Valley from the time with no invisible walls and Stalingrad, all great maps imo and I miss them a lot
I want Kharkov again... because it was well balanced map in my opinion. Unfortunately can't say anything about older maps as I came back to WoT 2 years ago and from 1st adventure I remember introduction of Czechoslovakian tech tree.
... dragon ridge was the most interesting map for me (offerred different strategies, interesting places, etc.), but suffered by a lot of bugs (despite was updated couple of times)...
Sacred Valley was the map on the first video I saw of yours. The utterly hilarious T-95 review with you eating cookies and vacuuming crumbs, all the while waiting for the T-95 to rumble into battle.
I liked Windstorm, Stalingrad, Sacred Valley and Swamp. Fiery Salient was where I had my most embarrassing moment. I spawned in the North in my new AMC ELC bis, immediately turned east, went over the railroad tracks, and jumped into the middle of the river. Broke both tracks, and had forgotten a repair kit. Drowned 20 seconds into the battle.
I have fond memories of most of these maps, I started playing in patch 8.6 right before 8.7 when they added Severogorsk and the E 25. Many good memories. One map I almost forgot was Windstorm and I loved that map. Many, many memories and I would love to see most of these back with some proper reworks. Beats pulling another semi-historical map out of WG's behinds with boring corridor fights.
I basically like all those old maps and I do mis all of those as I used to have much fun playing those. If I had to pick favourites: Hidden Village, Dragon Ridge, Komarin, Hidden Village and Sacret Valley. What I btw never understood is why the alternate themed maps for himmelsdorf etc were removed. It would be cool to sometimes play a map with different seasons setting.
Do you remember nights when the server cluster would load up the themed maps as part of the hour block? Getting essentially the "same" map over and over and over....
@@justinhennessey2329 Well, I never really played much in the late nights so the excessiveness on that for me was not nearly as bad. But even outside of that, the curious thing for me is, I used to not consider that too much of a problem. Also, that has not really changed too much as far as I understood. Out of all the maps we have today, the rotation over a certain period is only a fairly small sample size from the entire mappool.
I liked the multi terrain levels of Dragon Ridge and Northwest. I agree one spawn had an advantage in Northwest, but I still liked the multi-levels of terrain. I also like Windstorm. Many areas for varying tank types to fight.
maps like Northwest now would be great as an assault only map where the stronger cap was the attackers spawn and the less defended cap was the one that had to be captured by the attacking side
Swamp and Dragon Ridge because they were both tough maps to play and took a bit more effort and usually lasted a bit longer. Actually I think they should bring them all back except Northwest for obvious reasons Mittengard and Port because of there size also shouldn't be brought back, this would give us more variety I also think that grand battles should open to tier 6 and above.
Each of them had their strengths, but too many were unbalanced. If they could balance it out, Komarin would be great, though Windstorm, Sacred Valley and Severogorsk would be fun too. I am hoping that we will also get Kiev and Minsk back at some point in time. Great blast from the past.
Idk why but windstorm despite unsymmetrical map, it's quite balanced (everytime I played in that map I never get 15-0 , 15-7 is the worst possible outcome) With each side have different advantage
Thanks a lot DezGamez for the great memories from when WoT was a great game, any of those removed maps (except for the nonsense duplicate ones) were a 100% better than some of the actual maps in the game.
Owh God the memories. Would love to see some of them reworked. I think it would benefit the mappool since we have been playing the same old maps over and over again
I start playing WG in April 2014 and your video bring back memories when I was playing some of these maps in low tiers tanks (3-5) when I was playing free account. Thank you 👍
I started playing when Dragon's Ridge was in the rotation. Damn confusing! Severogorsk with the hidden Sturmtiger inside a building. My Riley in a KV2. Windstorm saw my Foch 155 Radley carry in the city. These removed maps were reworked several times before deletion. Early Erlenberg, Province (11 kills) and Redshire, are totally unrecognizable from back then, compared to nowadays. Oh how the maps have changed. Murovanka and the Magic Forest, the AT2 dream. Mines & Prokhorovka haven't really changed much. Himmelsdorf is still such a classic but has had some huge changes recently. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Wargaming should do a weekend of old-maps only, in the standard mode, not a special mode. Afterwards we can vote for 3 maps to return (after some tweaks).
Nice blast from the past. I remember all those maps! Komarin. I really remember getting stuck on the stupid island because no one had a heavy tank to break thru those barriers.
I'm more in favor to bring back Erlenburg Circa 2017 summer edition. The map had plenty of fun gameplay both east and west of the center town due to many hills and valleys. This new flattened version with an sized up center town is a poor revamp of what was once one of the most fun maps to play
Sacred Valley, Swamp, Windstorm.... 3 maps that I don't understand why they took them out, especially this last one, the city was very interesting, several different streets, great for ambushing. But what caught my attention in this video were these old images, good memories, in fact it seems to me that the game was better before, today it has improved graphics and everything, but something about that time makes it seem better.
Sacred Valley and Swamp didn't feel that bad to me - both hard farm spots (especially swamp) but you can't tell me the gameplay on the new Airfield, Oyster Bay, Tundra, Berlin etc are fun?? Stalingrad, Swamp, Sacred Valley, NorthWest and South coast were solid man - windstorm was kinda fun, shame they removed em... kinda sad i can remember every single map
man, I still remember the big f-up that was the first itteration of Dragon Ridge. It was so bad most of the time both teams just agreed to go all mid and duke it out there, including arty.
Kharkov will always be my favorite map. The music, the 2 heavy tank lines with risky locations, wonderful medium tank battle spots and great TD/lighting spotting battles in the middle. This map has so many memories and I hope it comes back soon.
Sacred valley, swamp, stalingrad.. and windstorm.. those were the maps i loved the most... They still have a special place in my heart and they always will
would love to see most of these maps backs because maps these days just have 3 corridors where tanks dukes each other out and after winning a flank getting destroyed by all of the camping tds in the back.
Mountain Goating was so much fun. Miss it a lot because it allowed to counter some positions otherwise impossible to counter. Anymody remember Mines when you could climb and from high ground shoot the center hill? Or Winterstorm where you could drive around 3/4 of the map on the mountain range? Swamp also had some nice small climbs to counter regular positions.... Oh my, with they hadnt blocked it all on current maps...
I swear even if some of these maps were a bit unbalenced, the game would be like a 100x times better, just by bringing these old maps back. I love and miss them and I am so sick of the current Map-pool. It's unreal how everything feels the same right now
Windstorm, Swamp and Dragon Ridge their unpredictablility was fun. In the endgame you always needed to guess where opponents would be hiding/attacking from. These days most of the maps are: fight here and here and here.. arty is there and most TDs are hiding there. Not to mention the cheater slurs if you as a arty drop shells on the obvious hiding places and hit opponents. Like Prokhorovka, drop your first shell when its loaded on the railroad crossing on either side of the map is almost guaranteed some damage, time it with you teammates crossing that point to make it a bit easier.
Thank you Dez for this video! Great to see all of them rounded up. Brings up some memories. I think that all of them, except maps with just other season, should be reworked/balanced and put back in the game.
Dragon Ridge. Now I'm gonna see the rest of the video. The problem with Dragon Ridge, in my experience, was that in a battle when there were only a couple of tanks left in each side, it was virtually impossible to find them, it was a real maze.
So many maps should be brought back!!! I especially miss Port, it always needed to be bigger (it was a fun fast map), & Dragon Ridge. Swamp, Stalingrad, Hidden Village, South Coast, Komarin (epic map), Severogorsk, Sacred Valley, Northwest, Windstorm, Minsk, & Kharkov should be updated & brought back. Not the firey or snow versions of already in game maps.
Nice to see some old tanks again. Like the WT-auf and the IS-7 with the raised machinegun. I would like to see all the maps return except for the ‘dubble’ ones. Keep up the good work Dez and give us more trips to memory lane 😊👍🏻
The later versions of Komarin were very fun. they added more cover, lumps, bumps and buildings in the open areas as well as a few more crossings of the river and it was a playground for lights or mediums. the mountain goating on Sacred Valley (and Windstorm) actually got me to buy the AMX Chasseur de chars was great fun until they got deleted.
Except for the ones that were just graphical edits, I'd take any of these over the boring symmetrical maps they saddle us with these days. These maps were actually fun to play. And you forgot the original Provence, it was different enough from the current to be considered as a separate map.
I still remember when Dragon's Ridge was came in update 7.3 with badass music trailer video and so much KV versions. The map has some red screen bug that can't see anything.
Most of those maps prior to 1.0 I don't remember ever seeing. Dragon Ridge actually looks like it would be fun, as do most of those other pre-1.0 maps.
exept from the clone ones.. we really need most of them back ... you clearly see why they got removed. Because you had much more options to go than nowadays with all this corridor maps and limited access points.
I dont play WoT anymore, but i will never forget one game on Severogorsk! I was playing with TOG II and since the tank is very slow i decided just to drive on the frozen river bed and do whatever i can! Somehow i managed to get to the enemy base without anybody spotting me and capped the enemy base!
Man I miss Hidden Village, my favorite map ever. South Coast was pretty fun too, got my best ever spotting record in my Leopard back when tier 5 scouts could match with tier 10s.
Now that really was a stroll down memory lane! 🙂 I've been playing WoT since beta back in early 2011 and many of those maps were removed without me even noticing it (yeah, I very seldom read the update changes). Just now I realise they are gone. 😁 Some of them were very fun to play and some I hated. Thanks for bringing back old memories!
Mittengard still has a special place in my heart, back in 2015 I was just having fun with my low tier tanks on this map (I only had tanks under tier 4, I was quite bad 😅)
I love the maps in this game. Always my favorite types of videos. The old Kharkov battle intro music was so cool. The oldest vids I can remember is a TH-camr named SideStrafe and I watched him play on Dragon ridge.
I have fond memories from almost all of these maps! This was a great video idea for us OG player! Also: I was wondering why Kharkov was removed. I really liked that map!
Hopefully you enjoy this little memory trip. :)
Let me know which map you would like to see coming back the most and why?
Sacred Valley, it could be played by all classes and I enjoyed it a lot.......even when I didn't understand all the game mechanics yet :)
You forgot Minsk 😮
Possibly all of them, because they were/are part of our life and part of (old and better) World of Tanks!!! ❤
@@2308MCK Dez talked about minsk, it's the last map with Kharkov he talks about
i hope they bring back misk, karkiv, winstorm, sacred vally, hidden vallley and dragon ridege. they were good map honestly
I really enjoyed Sacred Valley and Stalingrad, had some epic games on Windstorm and Minsk, and Mittengard was always a fast fun free-for-all. Would love to see all of them back!
the sacred valley climb was insanely cool :(
I miss windstorm and minsk a lot too
Windstorm was my favorite because it's balanced but asymmetrical map
@@adanenedary7350 FR
Yep, plenty of old maps were great. But dragon's ridge is simply the goat of all maps in wot. It's such shame they removed it.
This brings back so many WOT memories! I miss all of them but especially Swamp, Windstorm, Stalingrad and Sacred Valley. I actually loved the chaos of Mittengard as well! Would love to see them all back!
All maps except Port, Severogorsk and Mittengard would be nice to have back. most of them were pretty open in terms of maneuver warfare(a lot of possible approaches) and the memories made on these maps... Nostalgia hits hard 🥲
Good memories of these maps.
Some I had even forgotten.
I think that currently there is very little variety of maps, I think they should be rebuilt, remastered and included all back in the game.
Fair... and I agree about your point with regards to "variety". That being said, if we look back objectively and disregard the last two excluded maps (which were removed for political reasons, after all, and I am STILL surprised that they didn't simple re-name them), most of them would be god-awful in terms of balancing.
Mittengard should back to t1-t3 map and custom battle
@@adanenedary7350 too bad there are pretty much no players on those tiers and the ones that are are sealclubbing with op premiums
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Great stroll down memory lane. Lot of memories on those older maps.
Miss Sacred Valley so bad, and somehow Windstorm gave me a moment which I really hard to forget it.. 😔
Tbh, I miss every single one of them. My all-time favorite was Northwest, because of the great heavy and medium tank brawls in the South/Southeast. Stalingrad, Dragon Ridge, Severogorsk, Hidden Village, and Sacred Valley were also some that I loved. Quite a few meme-worthy moments and fun stories occurred in my games on these maps. I wish WG would bring them all back in some shape or form.
You made me miss the good old days when you were facing almost only tech tree tanks, premiums weren't OP at all (slightly less efficient than tech tree but preferential mm), when battle lasted more than 4 minutes in average, when heavy tanks had armor that you couldn't pen frontally if you were a med or a light (you had to get their sides), but with weakspots that you could pen without gold if aimed correctly (meaning you had to take risks)
Miss the 3rd server they opened for some weeks where you could play on a old version of the game (like 2011) 😢
I hear you!! I really miss those good old times too!
it really steered away from this indeed - tech tree tanks are there now basically only to get to tier 9 and 10.
Its sad how many maps they have removed and not brought back, these maps we have were some of the most boring that they left in. Kinda sucks to see these old fun maps they removed! Thanks Dez!
The maps are one big reason why many players left the game or are heavily discouraged. The problem the game has with the maps now is that they are stale, unimproved, and poorly designed. The laziness of the WG map dept (one part timer on vacation) is apparent when you observe the amount of unplayable areas on any given map.
Hidden Village was sort of cool because it was so different. It was WoT's first corridor map. They removed it pretty quickly because it turned out to be really bad, and then just made all the other maps corridor maps.
not the first one - abbey, mountain pass for examble quite longer in the game and same shitty corridor map design
@@caesiummangel6622 Himmelsdorf.
@@SanguineMalcontent Himmelsdorf is probably the best city map in the game, it allows crossfire between flanks and is not exactly corridor-ish
@@StirbMensch So does Abbey, technically. Himmelsdorf is extremely "corridorish".
YES, YES, YES!!! Those maps were very much interesting than now! I demand a mode with "unbalanced" maps for players who love them! What a fun that was ... I miss them very much!
Some of these maps were much more interesting and playful and there was also a lot of fun to be had from the "unbalancedness": On the weaker side it didn't matter if you lost, but it was a challenge to win anyway! And on the stronger side you had the reassuring feeling of being superior, but it was a shame to lose anyway, it had to be avoided at all costs. There were always surprises on the huge maps and clever and witty players could often surprise the opponent, which was a lot of fun! It wasn't for very good players, it pushed the winrate down to around 50%, but it was great fun for most players! Therefore: please WG, introduce a new mode for "unbalanced" maps!
After almost 3 years of no playing i was wondering WTF were all the maps.
Loads of great maps that I miss playing. Many were removed before I was particularly experienced, so I likely played badly on them, but I enjoyed them a lot
Windstorm was amazing. I had my first mini-kolobanovs on that map. Got like 8 kills with the IKV103 right after I unlocked the derp gun on it. I was sitting on the church hill in the middle and was the last one alive on my team. The enemy kept coming at me one at a time and I correctly guessed where they were coming from each time. Very memorable map.
Yea, Hetzer was amazing on the map you could derp the lights and sometimes the mediums in the city
I remember now. That was one they removed, then tried again with. Maybe someone's working on it again now as we speak.
Sacred Valley, Windstorm, Stalingrad, and Kharkov are all maps which I would love to see return someday. If I had to just pick one though, I would go with Windstorm, as it is highly unique due to having a asymmetrical layout and was just fun to play in any class of tank.
Would also like to say that if Kharkov ever returns, I would prefer it to be reworked to be more similar to the original map layout, as the amount of side streets in the city made it extremely fun to fight in, so I was very disappointed when the HD version removed them and also made the city smaller.
I would love to see them ALL (except for the double Ruinerg and Himmelsdorf) back in game. Together with a better MM please. The preferred map for return would be Sacred Valley.
ALL of them for me, except all-sniper maps and imbalanced win ratio maps. That includes double-tripple Ruinberg and Himmesldorf. variation of seasons is good, even if the map is exactly the same.
I would'nt have noticed they were the same maps at the time. Someone actually had to state that, and then I was like ''They are reusing the same map, hmm, I wonder other things about maps''
I miss Port, watching the arties reverse off the whart into the water never gets old, and there were some good battles to be had in the north east corner amongst the hills of stuf there. The bridge could also be fun depending on your tank and the other team.
Komarin I also miss a lot, many good battles I had there. I had forgotten about the tank traps that actually worked, too1 :)
I played Beta and used to troll Komarin (I wasn't the only one mind) by driving my BT 7 to one of the bridges as fast as possible, getting wrecked a block the bridge. This was before you could push dead tanks and before they made the river fordable alongside the bridge.
Komarin, Severogorsk, South Coast and especially Sacred Valley from the time with no invisible walls and Stalingrad, all great maps imo and I miss them a lot
Windstorm too
I want Kharkov again... because it was well balanced map in my opinion. Unfortunately can't say anything about older maps as I came back to WoT 2 years ago and from 1st adventure I remember introduction of Czechoslovakian tech tree.
Imagine spending all that time working on Minsk then you have to remove the map because of war 😅
@@DV-1701 I'm pretty surprised they removed 2 maps because of conflict... but left USSR tech tree.
Kharkiv* actually
@@Bebrams_ Well, everyone calls "KharkOv" because of USSR legacy. Shame ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In its old version it was a very good map. Then WG added big open area for TD campers and made the map worse
... dragon ridge was the most interesting map for me (offerred different strategies, interesting places, etc.), but suffered by a lot of bugs (despite was updated couple of times)...
Yeah that's why it was removed, for some reason they could never fix the bugs it caused or if they did fix one of them a new one cropped up.
@@luketfer... exacly...
Yeah dragon ridge was nice but caused a memory sink they couldn't figure out.
I loved sacred valley and windstrom those climbs was amazing + respect for stalingrad those fly bugs was simply beautyful
The long climbs are a feature. Comradery or at least a hope for it. ;)
I miss them all! Komarin, Sacred Valley, Severogorsk, Swamp, South Coast - I remember a lot of fun battles from way back then.
Sacred Valley and Windstorm was amazing maps. I miss them greatly.
I miss mountian-goating on Sacred Valley.
Accitionally earliers: Erlenberg, Kharkov, Pearl River, Mines (Pagorki, Rudniki/Rodanki/Rodangi), Siewierogorsk, Lakeville and maybe more.
Remind me that i have been putting my time into this game for almost 11 years.... It is time well spent
Sacred Valley was the map on the first video I saw of yours. The utterly hilarious T-95 review with you eating cookies and vacuuming crumbs, all the while waiting for the T-95 to rumble into battle.
Nice video
I liked Windstorm, Stalingrad, Sacred Valley and Swamp. Fiery Salient was where I had my most embarrassing moment. I spawned in the North in my new AMC ELC bis, immediately turned east, went over the railroad tracks, and jumped into the middle of the river. Broke both tracks, and had forgotten a repair kit. Drowned 20 seconds into the battle.
removing Stalingrad is a crime
R.i.p.
I have fond memories of most of these maps, I started playing in patch 8.6 right before 8.7 when they added Severogorsk and the E 25. Many good memories. One map I almost forgot was Windstorm and I loved that map. Many, many memories and I would love to see most of these back with some proper reworks. Beats pulling another semi-historical map out of WG's behinds with boring corridor fights.
I basically like all those old maps and I do mis all of those as I used to have much fun playing those.
If I had to pick favourites: Hidden Village, Dragon Ridge, Komarin, Hidden Village and Sacret Valley.
What I btw never understood is why the alternate themed maps for himmelsdorf etc were removed. It would be cool to sometimes play a map with different seasons setting.
Do you remember nights when the server cluster would load up the themed maps as part of the hour block? Getting essentially the "same" map over and over and over....
@@justinhennessey2329 Well, I never really played much in the late nights so the excessiveness on that for me was not nearly as bad. But even outside of that, the curious thing for me is, I used to not consider that too much of a problem. Also, that has not really changed too much as far as I understood. Out of all the maps we have today, the rotation over a certain period is only a fairly small sample size from the entire mappool.
I remember all of those, that's crazy how these maps are just gone forever. Great video idea btw!
I liked the multi terrain levels of Dragon Ridge and Northwest. I agree one spawn had an advantage in Northwest, but I still liked the multi-levels of terrain. I also like Windstorm. Many areas for varying tank types to fight.
maps like Northwest now would be great as an assault only map where the stronger cap was the attackers spawn and the less defended cap was the one that had to be captured by the attacking side
Even just renaming a few maps an possibly changing a couple of buildings & statues would give us more maps..
Swamp and Dragon Ridge because they were both tough maps to play and took a bit more effort and usually lasted a bit longer. Actually I think they should bring them all back except Northwest for obvious reasons Mittengard and Port because of there size also shouldn't be brought back, this would give us more variety I also think that grand battles should open to tier 6 and above.
What a trip down memory lane dez, I remember all of these maps, and I would love to see them all back in the rotation
Each of them had their strengths, but too many were unbalanced. If they could balance it out, Komarin would be great, though Windstorm, Sacred Valley and Severogorsk would be fun too. I am hoping that we will also get Kiev and Minsk back at some point in time. Great blast from the past.
Idk why but windstorm despite unsymmetrical map, it's quite balanced (everytime I played in that map I never get 15-0 , 15-7 is the worst possible outcome)
With each side have different advantage
Thanks a lot DezGamez for the great memories from when WoT was a great game, any of those removed maps (except for the nonsense duplicate ones) were a 100% better than some of the actual maps in the game.
Dragon ridge is the map I would hope to see again in game, but then again might be just the nostalgia I feel when I see that map
Dragon Ridge was great for hide and seek games - it seemed a lot larger than it actually was.
Owh God the memories. Would love to see some of them reworked. I think it would benefit the mappool since we have been playing the same old maps over and over again
MITTEN GARD IS PERFECT
I start playing WG in April 2014 and your video bring back memories when I was playing some of these maps in low tiers tanks (3-5) when I was playing free account. Thank you 👍
I started playing when Dragon's Ridge was in the rotation. Damn confusing! Severogorsk with the hidden Sturmtiger inside a building. My Riley in a KV2. Windstorm saw my Foch 155 Radley carry in the city. These removed maps were reworked several times before deletion. Early Erlenberg, Province (11 kills) and Redshire, are totally unrecognizable from back then, compared to nowadays. Oh how the maps have changed. Murovanka and the Magic Forest, the AT2 dream. Mines & Prokhorovka haven't really changed much. Himmelsdorf is still such a classic but has had some huge changes recently. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Wargaming should do a weekend of old-maps only, in the standard mode, not a special mode. Afterwards we can vote for 3 maps to return (after some tweaks).
I definetly want kharkov to return
Amazing, although I had lots of breaks between playing I still remember every map
I forgot about most of those maps, idk what I would want back, but more maps would be good. Thx for the trip down memory lane.
That brings back a lot of memories. I was in an entire different place in my life back when I played on those maps
Nice blast from the past. I remember all those maps! Komarin. I really remember getting stuck on the stupid island because no one had a heavy tank to break thru those barriers.
Mittengard wasa great map for arty vs arty back the days. Lovely good old training room battles. :)
I'm more in favor to bring back Erlenburg Circa 2017 summer edition. The map had plenty of fun gameplay both east and west of the center town due to many hills and valleys.
This new flattened version with an sized up center town is a poor revamp of what was once one of the most fun maps to play
Sacred Valley, Swamp, Windstorm.... 3 maps that I don't understand why they took them out, especially this last one, the city was very interesting, several different streets, great for ambushing. But what caught my attention in this video were these old images, good memories, in fact it seems to me that the game was better before, today it has improved graphics and everything, but something about that time makes it seem better.
Sacred Valley and Swamp didn't feel that bad to me - both hard farm spots (especially swamp) but you can't tell me the gameplay on the new Airfield, Oyster Bay, Tundra, Berlin etc are fun?? Stalingrad, Swamp, Sacred Valley, NorthWest and South coast were solid man - windstorm was kinda fun, shame they removed em... kinda sad i can remember every single map
Dragon ridge was fun, stalingrad kharkov too. All of the removed maps were interesting and in todays meta it wouldve been an amazing map to play with.
man, I still remember the big f-up that was the first itteration of Dragon Ridge. It was so bad most of the time both teams just agreed to go all mid and duke it out there, including arty.
ALL OF THEM…i want all of them back to the game
The maps were so much better and more memorable especially when invisible walls weren’t predominant in the game
yes!!! so many of those walls that if felt like back to 7.6!
I think South Coast is actually overlooked a lot, I liked that map
I remember almost every map, but somehow the winter ruinberg and himmelsdorf hits me the most. Tysm for this vid
Kharkov will always be my favorite map. The music, the 2 heavy tank lines with risky locations, wonderful medium tank battle spots and great TD/lighting spotting battles in the middle. This map has so many memories and I hope it comes back soon.
Sacred valley, swamp, stalingrad.. and windstorm.. those were the maps i loved the most... They still have a special place in my heart and they always will
Port was one of my favorites. Loved the big bridge. I really miss that map
I miss climbing the mountains on windstorm. Most fun I've had in the 6 years I've been playing
would love to see most of these maps backs because maps these days just have 3 corridors where tanks dukes each other out and after winning a flank getting destroyed by all of the camping tds in the back.
Mountain Goating was so much fun. Miss it a lot because it allowed to counter some positions otherwise impossible to counter. Anymody remember Mines when you could climb and from high ground shoot the center hill? Or Winterstorm where you could drive around 3/4 of the map on the mountain range? Swamp also had some nice small climbs to counter regular positions.... Oh my, with they hadnt blocked it all on current maps...
Nice trip down memory lane. Miss quite a few actually. Thanks Dez.
I will never forget, Hidden Village was where I had my first "dramatic" game :D It was a 2 vs 6 situation which we overcome, both of us surviving :)
I swear even if some of these maps were a bit unbalenced, the game would be like a 100x times better, just by bringing these old maps back. I love and miss them and I am so sick of the current Map-pool. It's unreal how everything feels the same right now
I want all of them back to be honest.
Simply because of the strong nostalgia.
So many battles fought on these maps.
Reworked if necessary of course.
Windstorm, Swamp and Dragon Ridge their unpredictablility was fun. In the endgame you always needed to guess where opponents would be hiding/attacking from. These days most of the maps are: fight here and here and here.. arty is there and most TDs are hiding there. Not to mention the cheater slurs if you as a arty drop shells on the obvious hiding places and hit opponents. Like Prokhorovka, drop your first shell when its loaded on the railroad crossing on either side of the map is almost guaranteed some damage, time it with you teammates crossing that point to make it a bit easier.
Imagine removing These maps but leaving airfield
Thank you Dez for this video! Great to see all of them rounded up. Brings up some memories.
I think that all of them, except maps with just other season, should be reworked/balanced and put back in the game.
Thanks for this video, makes me smile thinking about all these old maps and the good times I had with old friends playing them 😁😭
Dragon Ridge. Now I'm gonna see the rest of the video.
The problem with Dragon Ridge, in my experience, was that in a battle when there were only a couple of tanks left in each side, it was virtually impossible to find them, it was a real maze.
All of them were very beautiful maps. I still hope this maps will return in the game very soon.
Komarin... some games would go for over 5 minutes before a single tank on either team was spotted.
So many maps should be brought back!!! I especially miss Port, it always needed to be bigger (it was a fun fast map), & Dragon Ridge.
Swamp, Stalingrad, Hidden Village, South Coast, Komarin (epic map), Severogorsk, Sacred Valley, Northwest, Windstorm, Minsk, & Kharkov should be updated & brought back.
Not the firey or snow versions of already in game maps.
Nice to see some old tanks again. Like the WT-auf and the IS-7 with the raised machinegun.
I would like to see all the maps return except for the ‘dubble’ ones. Keep up the good work Dez and give us more trips to memory lane 😊👍🏻
Windstorm and Hidden Village were my favourite maps in the hey day of WoT. Used to have very dominating games as Leopard 1 and STB-1.
The later versions of Komarin were very fun. they added more cover, lumps, bumps and buildings in the open areas as well as a few more crossings of the river and it was a playground for lights or mediums.
the mountain goating on Sacred Valley (and Windstorm) actually got me to buy the AMX Chasseur de chars was great fun until they got deleted.
Except for the ones that were just graphical edits, I'd take any of these over the boring symmetrical maps they saddle us with these days. These maps were actually fun to play. And you forgot the original Provence, it was different enough from the current to be considered as a separate map.
oh my god, the memories.. Bring back most of them. Komarin, Windstorm, Swamp, northwest, sacred valley, south coast!
I just tried out World of tanks for the first time in a couple years and it's so weird seeing all the maps I used to know and love gone
Such a beutifull and nostalgic video DEZ specialy when you are playng this game for 12 years it was awesome memory lane 😊😊
This was amazing. Brought tears to my eyes
I still remember when Dragon's Ridge was came in update 7.3 with badass music trailer video and so much KV versions. The map has some red screen bug that can't see anything.
Most of those maps prior to 1.0 I don't remember ever seeing. Dragon Ridge actually looks like it would be fun, as do most of those other pre-1.0 maps.
exept from the clone ones.. we really need most of them back ... you clearly see why they got removed. Because you had much more options to go than nowadays with all this corridor maps and limited access points.
I dont play WoT anymore, but i will never forget one game on Severogorsk! I was playing with TOG II and since the tank is very slow i decided just to drive on the frozen river bed and do whatever i can! Somehow i managed to get to the enemy base without anybody spotting me and capped the enemy base!
I was honstly really thinking about this a lot recently and then you dropped the video. Can you read minds? Timing was perfect, thanks a lot!
Man I miss Hidden Village, my favorite map ever. South Coast was pretty fun too, got my best ever spotting record in my Leopard back when tier 5 scouts could match with tier 10s.
Now that really was a stroll down memory lane! 🙂 I've been playing WoT since beta back in early 2011 and many of those maps were removed without me even noticing it (yeah, I very seldom read the update changes). Just now I realise they are gone. 😁 Some of them were very fun to play and some I hated. Thanks for bringing back old memories!
Mittengard still has a special place in my heart, back in 2015 I was just having fun with my low tier tanks on this map (I only had tanks under tier 4, I was quite bad 😅)
I love the maps in this game. Always my favorite types of videos. The old Kharkov battle intro music was so cool. The oldest vids I can remember is a TH-camr named SideStrafe and I watched him play on Dragon ridge.
I have fond memories from almost all of these maps! This was a great video idea for us OG player!
Also:
I was wondering why Kharkov was removed. I really liked that map!
both Kharkov and Minsk were removed because of geopolitical issues
Minsk and Kharkov were removed when the Ukraine Russia war started.
You know that russia bombs real-life Kharkiv for 1,5 years now, right?
I really miss Hidden Village, South Coast, Komarin, Swamp and Kharkov. But especially Hidden Village, one of the best maps ever in my opinion.
Windstorm and Sacred Valley were awesome aswell
Nice joke about Hidden village xD that map was terrible.
i would like to see Swamp and Windstorm on the rotation again. oh man I miss those maps so bad..
Thanks for this nostalgic video
WOW Dez...these maps sure bring back memories.
I loved all old maps. They were a soul of wot.
seeing old footage of the game just makes me sad how far the game has fallen