I like RPD West wing as both sides and dislike RPD East as both.

Holding the middle area as a choke point to defend objectives and/or a hook is very powerful but not very fun to do or fun to go against. With RPD East, the game is mostly played on the blocked-off West side with a 3 gen. With the East side having the outdoor garden, doing the same on RPD West is not as effective, so the gameplay doesn't boil down to that.

I think the upstairs area on the east side for RPD West is the most fun area to loop, it has 3 weak pallets and one decent one but a lot of outplay potential. The windows at the office below it can be fun to play too. With certain killers where the front desk pallet isn't a guaranteed loss, mindgaming that is also pretty fun.

Both variants suffer from failing to find a balance between "god pallet" and "completely useless pallet that you can't predrop, camp, or loop". Special shoutouts to the pallet below the flaming helicopter and the pallet by the basement spawn on the west side for being absolutely garbage.

RpD is so boring, W holding simulator for both sides

Not a fan of the map on either role. It's very dependent on what goes on in the main hall.

When RPD first came out as one map, my Piggly Wiggly was like "Oh cool another inside map! I can sneak, I can ambush! Maybe some Amanda's Letter fun too sometimes!"

And then I found out it was far too big and miserable to loop as her, not even mentioning the Library problems etc.

Even with splitting the map in half it always feels much too large to keep up with, and kinda hopeless once you lose control over the central room.

Completely. As you enter RPD through the big front door, there's a door and another door a feet down on your left, and the same on your right. The two walls that are between those sets of doors are check spots where no matter which way the killer comes, you get a guaranteed like 20-second head start on them. Then you throw in a few god pallets, some which almost feel like they shouldn't be there. Like the god pallet at the top of main stairs that forces your camera/character into the ground, it seems, if you're breaking it from the stairs side. Or the pallet at the back side that's mere inches away from the door leading out to the back stairs, essentially forcing you to get stunned even if you try to move to the side, because there's not enough room to step back. Or that god awful designed window by the hole in the wall which guarantees a fast vault, or a safe medium vault, no matter how you run it, and which becomes a million times stronger if the pallet spawns alongside it instead of at the other wall of the room.

I genuinely don't understand how survivors lose on this map, in either iteration. It's happened to me plenty of times, don't get me wrong, but it never had anything to do with my performance. The average player just doesn't understand the gold mine of resources they have in this map, or in any map for that matter.

Love the theming of it. Always takes me back to playing RE2 as a kid.

Balance wise it is pretty killer dependent, but that is generally true for a lot of maps.

Dude, everything you post is so negative.

I'm a RE2 afficionado and RPD pre split was just as bad for survivors. Just a horrible, miserable map all round.

Also - RPD is pretty balanced. One wing favors killer slightly one favors survivors. Small, but strong loops and a lot of very safe gens.

Yes I love RPD, unironically it is now one of my favourite maps since the rework, though I do prefer West to East.

As killer I think there are some strong pallets but if you force them out of the way early it creates very unsafe areas. As survivor I am a balanced enjoyer and I know the map(s) really well, so I can generally do very well on these maps.

The only frustration I have is team mates who don't understand how important it is to smash out middle gens ASAP but this isn't exclusive to this map, it is just a frequent problem as usual.

Pig-, Sadako - main. Love it.

Even when playing survivor, I like playing on it for some reason.

Eh, I'm fine with it.

Thousand times better than Eyrie of Crows.

I love all of the maps including RPD. They all look so cool and I LOVE the surreal feeling they all give me.

I think RPD is a very interesting map because it has the least amount of RNG. There are no randomized tiles, not even windows. The only thing that changes is that a select few pallets can spawn in one of two places. This allows players on both roles to get really consistent and good at playing the map.

It is also a lot more balanced than it is regularly being made out to, having notable upsides and downsides for both killers and survivors (easy-to-control gen clusters, a lot of chokepoints with which to control hooks and gens, ambush opportunities all over the place; a fair few strong pallets most killers usually have to break, good opportunities to capitalize on distance, stealthing opportunities). As an indoor map it generally favours killers on average (gens being harder to find, the lack of info on the killer and other survivors making things even more chaotic than usual) and this shows statistically too, but a survivor group that knows how to play the map can definitely leverage some of its advantages to good success. I still want to see much more of this map in tournaments, as well as for BHVR to adopt this style of low-RNG layouts into some new maps.