Midwich Elementary School (Silent Hill)

THE killer sided map. But can still have issues for certain killers (two levels and few stairs/connections). Gates are too close so last survivor is pretty much dead if hatch is closed. Pallets are mostly unsafe except for a few which especially in solos can be non-existent due to random teammates throwing them as fast as they can. Long hallways can be quite boring.

i like the toilet area with the optional way up/down and the breakable walls being able to create a dead end!

also, while i don’t have any knowledge about Silent Hill (never played nor watched a playthrough long enough) the details are GREAT from a horror point of view alone. Girl crying in the stall, corpse falling out of the locker, overall atmosphere and assets. The clocktower having the special chest is also a neat detail.

Probably one of the most killer sided maps in the game, if not the most killer sided. Tiny map, unsafe pallets, super strong 3 gen setups.

It's not really fun as killer either, the map is a mobility check. If you have a power that makes you fast, you win.

Awful map. Extremely hard to navigate with not a lot of great landmarks. Some of the rooms are identifiable but some rooms you just have no idea where you are in relation to the rest of the map (like the classrooms). The entire map is just an ugly brown, one of the ugliest maps in the game. I like the environmental clues that other maps like lery's or toba have to easily finding gens but for some reason, this map is lacking them.

Gameplay on this map is extremely tedious because it's just holding W to the next room/pallet. This one of two maps where you can have "chases" with survivors that last for a full minute without even entering chase because they're just so far away at the end of a hallway.

This map also has extremely awful killer prop placements for killers like xeno and sadako. Subway exits can be 3m next to a gen but IN A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ROOM, making it completely useless.

As we can see from it's high kill rate the map is generally rather killer sided, which is somewhat fair considering that most loops are not really good and the gates also spawning close together.

However from its basic design it is just the nr. 1 hold w map, if you spot the killer on the other side of the corridor just run, he will take the whole game to make it close enough to hit you, this map just favors the most boring playstyle there is... Because the loops itself don't offer too much. Some even bigger rooms just have nothing to work with, others have the worst pallets you have seen in a while, you cannot even blame survivors for pre running as many rooms are just guaranteed death unless the killer messes up severely.

Then the map also has the issue of accessibility, you may know a survivor is upstairs on the Gen as you can hear it, but it will take you forever to get there... The same goes for ways downstairs.

As survivor it is also annoying as you may the heartbeat but you not only don't know from which direction the killer is coming, you don't even know if he might be downstairs or not. So either you go outside the room to check both sides of the corridor, or you may be just up for a hit because he is closer than you thought, which is also not a great experience.

However then again, as with every indoor map we have the issue of tracking, if survivors decide to hide when you are nearing good luck, many good hiding spots, basically no way to see inside rooms, only the corridor.

The easiest way to fix some of the issues would be to open the corridors up towards the classrooms by either creating a window front, so you can look inside or create more opening to enter.

I dont enjoy this map for both sides, as killer I can oftentimes not find people, my go to tracking perk BBQ does never give value bc of the small size and as survivor it is just annoying to navigate and find things...

The list of issues this map has is just immense. The most obvious to fix would be more open spaces, less clutter inside some of the rooms, some stronger loops, maybe different gate spawns?

This map is one of the best killermaps in the game for many reasons:

1. Finding generators is extremely difficult for survivors because they can spawn nearly everywhere. This let's survivors waste so much for finding a Generator, especially in SoloQ when you cannot tell your teammates "ey Generator in chemical room is done" or "ey Generator in the middle of them map".

A way to fix this is to make the generator spawn more reliable or better hints from the environment that a Generator is there.

2. Many loops are a deadzone against many killers. Deadzonloops are okay but this map has too many such as the one in the chemical room, the one around the clock or near one exigate.

3. Speaking of exitgates, these are so easy to patrol and defend that the game is basically over against many killers when two survivors are left or the hatch is closed. The killer have a good light of sight in the middle to see both exitgates.

It would be great if fhe exitgates could switch on the map or if more lign of sight between these two.

4. Newer survivors struggle to oriented on this map. It would be great if the environment had something that tells the players better where they are.

5. It sometimes very difficult to go upstairs since there are only two ways. This goes for both sides.

There might be more issues with this map but I feel like these are the biggest ones that need to be addressed.

Short addition for my first post, for some reason hook spawns can be really messed up on the map, sometimes you cannot hook people as the hook gets blocked by weird clutter. Then there is only 1 hook in reach and if it gets saboed there is no where else to go to, so maybe check on the hook spawns on this map as well.

While Midwich is overall killer sided, it's still one of my favorite maps for both sides, even as survivor I like playing on this map. Unlike Rancid Abbatoir which is killer sided because of having too many deadzones, Midwich doesn't have that problem at all - there are plenty of pallets and resources for survivors to work with so I enjoy the challenge. The map is killer sided mainly because most pallets aren't very safe (but are still playable and aren't just free hits, which keeps the map fun for survivor), generators can be hard for survivors to find (less of a disadvantage at the current moment though because Deja Vu is very popular) and the exit gates are also closer together than most other maps.

There is one big advantage survivors do have on this map though and it's just how strong holding W can be, since you can just run down the corridors until the killer catches up and there’s no way for them to ever cut you off.

Hook spawns can be weird on this map though and could use some cleaning up. I've had games with hook deadzones or only 1 hook in a large area, often because there are other nearby hooks on the opposite floor so the game thinks those hooks are close enough but they actually aren't. On the other hand, I had a survivor game 2 weeks ago where there were literally 3 hooks in the same hallway downstairs.

If the hook near the downstairs bathroom gets destroyed on sacrifice, survivors going down in the back of the bathroom downstairs are often unhookable as it is sometimes the only reachable hook in that area.

I don't know how feasible this is but if possible maybe there could be separate hook balancing for each floor of the map (ie. hook placement on the 1st floor won't influence hook placement on the 2nd floor and vice versa)?

Oh, and Nurse on this map is beyond busted.

Yeah, more Silent Hill maps would be great.

Unfortunately it seems unlikely.

I kinda wish there was a feature or even a perk (which I gave a survivor version of Joey) that allows them to mark up to three objects the whole team can see which is similar to call outs for swf. This would also be excellent for newer players to recall the exact location of generators but it could be used for other things like hex totems. Maps could also be significantly better and easier to obtain in the blood web.

There is also the joke but imo absolutely essential survivor and killer perk called ‘where the swear word are the stairs’. The amount of newer players who get completely lost on two story maps is incredible. Midwich in particular for new survivor is bad for this because the killer can make the corners of each side of the map traversable for going up or down but survivors can only go up or down stairs in the corners that have them.

I think this is THE most killer sided map. Small, few avenues to switch floors, pretty limited pallets, breakable walls, and most of the windows are pretty weak without balanced landing. And yet, I find myself enjoying it as a survivor for its extreme predictability. A large portion of the map being relatively static makes it very easy to memorize where everything is, making this one of the easiest maps to learn

I only have 2 problems on this map:

1. Exit gates where the killer does not need to move to check both of them.

2. Finding gens sometimes (it's a lot harder for new players). We need the flickering lights please.

honestly this map could use a rework

take the existing map and expand it to a larger outdoor area, like the streets of springwood, but in silent hill, so the map could have more options and be more balanced

A very killer side map, every room has a pallet (sometimes good sometimes bad), but once you break it that classroom becomes completly unsafe and obsolete for looping. A map where is super easy to create deathzones.

Near perfection

The second best map.

The class rooms, long hallways with the Inner courtyard. Every room is unique. Not to forget the easter egg that is doable while doing the objective and you hear the bells mostly. Hidden Doorways and many places to hide. Nice balanced Landing and Lithe spots. Bad for scource hooks. Sometimes it's hard to find the gens but I like that.

I think it's nurse and basement sided and even then I like the map as survivor.