What is your opinion on indoor maps?

Hammond Labs?

I personally love them, they look better and have a better atmosphere. It’s a nice balance for both sides.

However I do dislike Midwich, love the look but looping is dam awful, empty rooms and long hallways. Plus it’s dam dark.

I hate with all my strength. Haddonfield is horrible too

I don't like Midwich. Lery's and The Game are ok. Hawkins is my favorite Killer map in the game. Doctor's shock can turn the already unsafe loops into death traps.

Best maps in the game for horror immersion once you understand the map layout.

I like the game and lerys when I play stealth killers. I.e Jumpscares Myers.

Personally unless I'm playing gen grab wraith I don't like Hawkins

I can work with Midwitch on any killer but hillbilly. I don't see why people hate it so much.

Maps I really hate?

Fucking corn maps and Ormond

As killer, midwich is my favorite. The others are ok. Haddonfield is the worst for me. I actually love Yamaoka estates as Freddy since dreaming survivors glow and they don't always realize that.

Finding the last generator is hell

Every indoor map is terrible and whoever was the first person to come up with the idea of it and layered maps has my utmost hatred :)

Love them. I think they have a really different atmsphere, and the Game and Midwich have some of the best references to the source material. They're way more impressive to me than most maps that seem to have a heap of reused assets especially with multiple variations of the maps.

Not a huge fan of Lery's though, way too big and confusing.

Léry's: Good

Gideon: Good

Hawkins: Okay

Midwich: *throws out window*

assuming you can find a window there.

I like the indoor maps, both as survivor and killer. Midwich has to be played different than many other maps, and if you understand that, the killer never gets you.

Don't forget to make the Survivors find those totems while Killer has to deal with 4 god pallets.

we might as well just all settle down in the library and wait for the Entity to regret its decision to send us to midwich

IMO Most of the indoor maps are bad.

The reason for this is inherently how this game works.

Scott Jund explains the concept in depth in his video "The Strength of Holding W" found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fv1rD82kmM

Basically almost all the indoor maps except for the game have terrible gameplay because the prevalance of walls leaves almost no room for the killer to try and cut the survivor off. This results in boring game play for both sides. The most interesting point of the game happens when the survivor and killer are relatively close to each other with slightly imperfect information about each other because that's when the mind game dynamic takes place.

Indoor maps tend to cause this dynamic to be fewer and farther between because the information is either too imperfect leading to less educated guessing and more true guessing or having movement so limited that there is no way for a killer to quickly gain distance on a survivor who has extreme distance.

On a normal map like gas heaven, a survivor can run in a straight line to buy a decent amount of time sure, but obstacles means the survivor can't be completely effecient forever, allowing the killer to react and take more efficient pathing to catch up to them quicker. On midwich however, obstacles tend to actually make survivor distance effeciency higher, since the massive square nature means they can just run in a square completely effeciently and it cant take the killer 30 seconds to a minute just to catch up.

Hawkins is an example of the map with the first problem. Don't believe me? Trying playing against an object as freddy on this map. That's rough on almost any map, but on hawkins you can be practically untouchable due to the perfect information sheer amount of pallets. But that's needed becuse normally without that perfect information this map is just a guessing game, guessing which way the survivor/killer went to try and avoid going down for as long as possible, which is normally okay but the sheer number of possibilities created by wide spread pallets and line of sight blockers means you are often flipping coins in chase.

Midwich is an example of the second. The map is practically just 8 long hallways with a small square in the middle that's accessible from a parallel set of hallways. To make it even worse. 4 of these hallways are only accessible after going to a specific point (either a corner or a drop down) of one of the hallways. This means even though the map is quite small, it's effectively extremely large with no possibilities for cut offs. As a trade off for the survivors there are a very limited number of pallets, many of which are extremely unsafe. This results in bad gameplay because for one it takes the killer forever to even get to the point of looping a survivor because they can hold W and take forever to catch up to. and once they finally do, the limited number of pallets and poor pallet safety makes the actual looping unejoyable as well.Object on this map against basically any killer can effectively highlight this problem if used well.

Lery's is like a less bad hawkins but I still don't like it.

The game is actually pretty good for an indoor map because it uses mostly wide open rooms with mostly unlimited traversal and the traversal limitations are used well. With a large amount of stair wells and drop downs as well as only limited use of areas where both a big door and small door that connect a room being closed. That's not to say the map doesn't have it's problems and I certainly wouldn't call it one of the best maps, but it's one of the best in door maps.