NEW HADDONFIELD IS LITERALLY WORST?

I do not find it to be a particularly well designed map for either side.

1: The map is MASSIVE - like, Red Forest levels of size, perhaps even bigger. It may not seem like it at first, but if you want to get from the back of the main building to the generator parked in the front room - you have to spend upwards of 10 or so seconds to walk there as killer. (That's nearly 46 meters!) While the direct distance is closer to 12 meters, having to walk around fences and go through several rooms and hallways severely hinders access.

2: Breakable Walls - Where are they? I thought those were supposed to be a big thing for new maps coming out. The primary method of designing loops is that a killer must preform a break action to make a loop weaker - but there are no breakable walls to truly allow this in many loops found in the houses.

3: House Infinites - Each house is designed with massively safe windows and incredibly punishing fences on the inside. A survivor vault in some areas can force the killer to take the window or legitimately abandon the chase. This was a primary issue with the first map, not sure why it's still the case. While taking killers like Nemesis, Demogorgon, Clown, or Cenobite may allow the killer to gain distance and tackle health states - I can't imagine playing this map on run-of-the-mill M1 characters. 4.6m/s is simply not enough to effectuate a hit with some of these windows and inner home loops - especially before the pallets are broken. The saving grace is that many of the pallets outside of the houses are not particularly useful and are hard to mind-game as survivors. Even the safe ones have very shallow hedges around them, making them pointless against Huntress, Executioner, and other such killers.

4: Gen Spawns - Seriously, who coded these things? It's hilariously bad for survivors, which is the only true saving grace for killer mains. I've played on this map for several hours yesterday and each match had a few generators bunched up so tightly it was hilarious. There's a gen spawn in the main building's living room - and one at it's front porch. It takes less than 2 seconds to change from pressuring one to the other. On three separate occasions, I saw these two gens spawn in conjunction with the playground gen next door as well as the neighboring backyard gen - creating an incredibly tight 4 gen situation. Pro-tip. Forget about all of the other gens as killer. Find your 3/4 gen setup and protect those only. Got a Pop? It can take over 24 seconds to walk to a generator across the way - it's not worth the time as much as 6 seconds of progress on a generator you're trying to defend. Survivors may have been given some super strong houses, but killers have been given the easiest 3-gen defense in DbD history.

5: Dead Zone Mid - There's a massive open area in the middle. Devoid of pallets and certainly devoid of generators. Killers that thrive on line of sight are going to have a picnic with this: Huntress, Nemesis, Nurse, Trickster, Plague, Deathslinger, and Executioner mains rejoice! But stealth killers and low mobility boyos are going to be slamming their fists into their keyboards. Ghosface and Onryo are the saddest little ones in the room. While half of the map being dead may make certain sense, and benefit killers - it's such a detriment to survivors that sensible lads are going to avoid it altogether. Literally. Survivors will avoid crossing the street whenever possible. The houses are incredibly powerful loops that can be chained together seamlessly, but the street has nothing of value to draw survivors out. The entire map is 3 lines of Kit-Kat with the middle one being a factory defect without a wafer, there's just nothing there to play around with. It's highly rewarding to catch survivors out in this place, but it's often more frustrating than it's worth. Especially since cocky survivors with good awareness will draw killers into dead zones to waste their time and pull them away from generators to create breathing room for their allies - meaning a survivor that starts to cross the street is more or less accomplishing the same as the ones who run into a completed gen area and hold W to the corner of the map just to waste your time.

6: God Windows? More like God Doors - The biggest problem of the houses are not the windows, contrary to popular belief. Especially when Balanced Landing is out of play, the windows are a hinderance, but not a deal breaker. At least, not by themselves. The major problem is that houses tend to have 2 doors - 2 ways to get in and out... that's it. If you are not by one of these doors, it can take several seconds to get into the building or - on the flip side - get out. 3 survivors choose to body block the main entrance? You need to get in there pronto, but hitting each one is going to take almost 10 seconds? Well, what are you going to do, go around? Going around the house can take almost 12 seconds! Upstairs chasing someone you don't care about - then get a notification that someone is working on a gen just outside the house? Have fun running the 30+m distance to get through a door. Either that, or you can run all the way to one of the windows, vault it, drop, and THEN walk around the house. There simply are not enough ways to come and go from houses - which makes the map feel so much bigger than it actually is... and matches feel much much slower than they actually are. Objective times don't change, but the time it takes you to walk from one side of a structure to another has been artificially lengthened. And to make matters worse, survivors always know where you're coming from. Trying to pressure a generator? No biggie, they know you're coming through the front door? What, don't want to use the front door and have them run out the back again? Going to have to cut them off and go to the back door to surprise them, right? Running the distance can easily give them an extra 8 seconds before you chase them away - that's a tenth of a gen for FREE.

7: Meyers Worst Nightmare - Ironically, this is probably the worst map for Meyers I can ever imagine. M1 phobic interiors, wide open areas in the mid that will cause him to instantly be spotted. 109% movement speed nightmare with the labyrinthine house design and fences. Massive dead zones that punish commitment. Safe survivor sightlines from generators in buildings, meaning you can't just walk up without them having a second or so to run. Pallet central outside that doesn't punish most killers, but will make Shape mains cry into their pillows at night. Generator locations so bad that you'd ball up your hands and cry out to God himself and ask why you weren't playing literally any other killer who could apply pressure to them. I haven't played Shape on this map yet and now I'm afraid to cue up as him in case I do. This design is, quite frankly, the worst thing for him. The only potential upside is the faster vault speed built into his T3, which would make him far more competitive in the houses that were clearly designed with inspiration from Fallout 2, because they're all Vault-City. But if you're that close, many other killers are already better options.

For the next few days, bring mobility and ranged killers for this match. You have a few seconds where survivors are forced to run towards windows - Huntress can give you a hit, Nemesis can give you a hit, Demogorgon can give you a hit, even CLOWN - in some cases - can give you a hit. The other half of the roster, however, will suffer greatly.

Good luck out there, and may God help us all!