I hate the maps in mw3. everyone of is suited of cqc except liberation and even then it is a great map. they need to bring in maps like bog or downpour.

Mix - maps are fine. I know how to play then after 4.5 months growin to like most even Carbon!

I dont care about the maps being small, one of my favorite maps of all time is nuketown.

You spawned at one end, the enemy at the other, clean and simple.

i really miss maps like storm, crash, invasion, scrapyard. them maps on MW3 are to cluttered with buildings and the spawns are to close to each other, there are very few long sites compared to older games, if MW2 wasnt gubbed now i would go back to it straight away. there are maps on here that i like but none that tactually make me go YES ive been dying for this map all day

Nuke town was horrible IMO and Shipment was the smallest map in COD. Nuke town was a camp fest thanks to poor line of sight and 2 buildings. Some is more like firing range and the map is not bad at all. Shipment is still one of my favorite maps of all time because it was impossible to camp and while tubes and grenades flew in hchq it meant a 20 min non stop action map that made me love the fast paced game style. The maps in this game is actual not bad and seem to have variety especially with the new maps. I still wish they brought back shipment as a bonus map.

Being a former objective game player, trying to play objective modes on these maps is incredibly frustrating. It seems like on every singe map you can easily toss a nade from any point on the map and hit at least 2 of the 3 flags in Dom. In HQ it seems like many of the HQ locations have a minimum of 5 lines of sight to them, making it impossible to effectively defend for more than 3.5 sec. And as the OP stated, in SnD you can be across the map and flanking the other team in seconds on many of the maps.

That being said, if you arent playing an objective game mode, these maps can lead to fast paced, intense gunfights. Ive learned the maps by now, but dont really enjoy any one more than the others.

Every map has one of two major problems (or both). The first one being elevation. You can't have one team spawning high and the other team spawning low. The team with the upper ground will ALWAYS have the advantage, anyone who knows anything about strategy knows this. The second problem I think someone already mentioned, there's just too much stuff in the way. The movement in this game is way too sticky for there to be sooooo much stuff thrown in. Player bump is a problem, everyone hates glitching and getting slowed down because someone's running next to you. If the pathways weren't so narrow, or if there were more than 2-3 ways to cross the map, it wouldn't occur nearly as often

Just curious but has anyone downloaded one of the mod tools they use for level design?  I think it's called Radiant.  Any other 3D artist out there?

I also think the maps are too small/congested. There are a few maps with 1 or 2 decent lines but mostly I think they were designed with SMG's in mind, as they seem to be the more dominate weapons IMO.