NaVi lost Team Vitality in the semifinals of DreamHack Masters Malm 2019

In the game, each team must perform a specific task. And yes, since we’ve touched on the topic with new maps, we need to finish it. Well … In principle, they are just aesthetically tolerable. de_bank resembles the battle around Burgertown in Modern Warfare. On de_lake and de_safehouse you can arrange a confrontation both in a multi-storey building and in the area around it. But tactically they only repeat parent cards – and no more. Some of them are generally just cropped (for example, de_shorttrain is just an amputated piece of de_train) and made for a dumb meat action, which is more like Call of Duty.

What is really a pity is that Valve and Hidden Path missed out on a great opportunity to add classic maps – something that could repeat the legend of Office, Italy, Dust, Dust2, Aztec, Inferno, Nuke and Train. They could embellish the less famous, but still loved by players cards like cs_estate or cs_crackhouse. But instead … Those eight locations that were given to us are more like paintball arenas – too fast, relatively fun, but absolutely frivolous. No seriousness is felt. These cards lack something special, some kind of goal, or, at worst, at least some tactical complexity of their predecessors.