Why are most servers running Barracks exclusively?

[Manzuk]

The reason is because it is nearly impossible to switch to another map on the map vote.


They didn't keep the old RO way of map voting, there's only one to select, and you have to scroll to the others... problem with that is it bugs out and brings you back to barracks.


Only solution is to play on non-TWI servers that have a map rotation and no voting, that way at least you can play the other 2 maps with only having to suffer through barracks one map out of three.

 

[nebsif]

Nope? The only server that tracked stats for me was a TWI 24player 24/7 barracks lame F*&&^*^!@

 

[DiedTrying]

This has made the beta almost unbearable.

Any good server is running this map...over and over and over and over and over.

Plus it's taking forever for the maps to load, and sometimes no servers show up after I leave a server. Then for whatever reason my interest stops working and I have to restart my modem...

didn't have this issue a few days ago...

 

[hockeywarrior]

Also the voting process is wonky, and makes it really hard to select different maps.

-Paas

This. Barracks keeps getting played because the mapvoting is essentially broken with the latest patch and makes it nearly impossible to vote for the map you want. As a result, only Barracks shows up on the list of maps when in reality you can scroll down and select others. It's just a broken system.

 

[Oghier]

The default option needs to be 'random map,' and the list needs to show all the options at once. Otherwise, we'll rarely see any other maps.

 

[Coreldan]

I'm wondering this as well and it's majorly pissing me off. It's a nice map, but not so that I wanna loop it 24/7 -_- I go on a server, play two rounds of barracks, this is cool. The map changes, we get the loading screen. "Destination: Barracks" NOOOOOOOOO!

I switch servers and note that "ok this has barracks too but itll actually probably change this time around". Play 2-3 rounds, map change into Red October and then I get the bug that I lose sound till I restart client -_-

I just stopped playing for today

 

[LordKhaine]

The main problem I have is that barracks runs at a notably lower frame rate than the other maps. Stutters a bit too at times. Yet the others run fine. Oh well.

I suspect the reason barracks is so common is that it's an easy map to grasp. And it doesn't really require any grasp of complicated tactics to win it. It's a dead on engagement over some houses. Nice and simple (yet effective).

Grain has some pretty tricky objectives to cap, and some restrictions and rules defining reinforcements such as lock down/2nd floor cap etc. And the ease of camping the spawn doesn't help either. As for red october, I've only once seen a game progress past the first objective. That turned out to perhaps be the most fun game I've yet had in RO. But it doesn't change the fact the other 2-3 times the attack has stalled either after the first objective or before even capping that. Which tends to kill peoples appetite for it.

 

[Sheps]

I was in an official TWI server earlier and there wasn't even an option to vote for a different map. The vote screen would come up but nothing was actually there.

Not to mention Barracks is about the worst map of the three, performance wise.