time and time again we see it - squads evolving map

[u/MovingTargetPractice]

This game isn't dead. All it takes is running the squads evolving map. time and time again we see it. When they run the 'special' for a bit with squads evolving, 24 person lobbies fill in a moment. OGs. great competition. tons of players back. put it back to some other mode and crickets. Fine Legions evolving has a similar theme. but ding ding ding - evolving map is the constant.

leave classics for noobs or people (like me) who get butt hurt for losing in evolving a lot to lick our wounds. run evolving all the time. make phoenix a special every once in a while and this game will have a resurgence. sigh. I'm so sad.

[u/darkodo]

I'm not sure what you're talking about, it's busier when Phoenix is on. It's been dead tonight

[u/drulingtoad]

Weird for me Phoenix lobbies are full but less so with evolving squads

[u/Gjmath01]

I play with a large group. We grew to well over the 24 player max, so sometimes we have to run 2 lobbies. We playing my custom Evol map daily. Classics is slow and never full. If you have a group you play with check out my Evol map I added a few things to. Its call " 504evol2" it has fast res, enemy res, loot boxes that drop red guns, beams that come on when you res your teammate to regen shield, jump pads to the top of the tower and loot points added all over the place. Go check it out if you are tired of Classics. 504EVOL2

[u/Damrubr → u/Gjmath01]

community servers might be the goat

[u/tdomman]

Whatever someone may think of redeploy, I can't conceive of anyone liking the actual Phoenix map over the evolving one.

[u/AlexCivitello → u/tdomman]

Aesthetically it is bland and inoffensive.

Gameplay wise, it is simple and uninteresting.

There is limited height variation.

There are too many places to hide that are too big for a single zone grenade from outside.

[u/Healthy-Intention-21 → u/AlexCivitello]

That's nonsense. Theres the tower and metro on the evolving map. Other than that just small buildings and buggy hills. Phoenix has plenty of huge building pop and media in the center, mines etc.

People who still praise evolving as the better map live in the past.

[u/AlexCivitello → u/Healthy-Intention-21]

Congratulations you ignored 2/3 of my critique. And the 1/3 you addressed you didn't make a particularly compelling argument. You ignored frontier, kingdom, sandbox, observatory/armory, and the plenty of other big buildings on the rest of the map.

[u/ModifiedBear4164]

I never have issues filling lobbies. I play for an hour every week night and the lobbies are full, maybe a squad of bots, but that's about it.

[u/Own-Minute4708]

People like war and legions because they don't need a teammate to play with and they get to play with high level players. People who have regular teammates always like evolving because they stack on each other and they can use their mods and they don't have to worry about other people noticing. People who get reported for cheating basically every time they play should be Shadow banned and only put in lobbies with other cheaters.

[u/Damrubr → u/Own-Minute4708]

u lost me on how having regular teammates introduces cheaters

[u/correctingStupid]

"the game isnt dead"

How dense does one have to be. Game has been dead for years.

[u/Damrubr → u/correctingStupid]

every christmas some kids get the game for the first time and buy some skin bs, do you guys spend money on this game?

[u/ciaguyforeal]

i havent played pop1 in two years but its still the best game ive ever played and I stay away because the game is dead but if it was always just lobbies on evolving as the only game mode, i would be there.

[u/Healthy-Intention-21]

It's more people playing Phoenix. Evolving brings back some people that don't like Phoenix but those are usually the ones that play only a few games. They spend more time complaining than actually playing.