Hydro's a fun map but also a very poorly designed map that tends to only allow for 2 types of games, a steamroll where one team completely overwhelms the other, or a stalemate where both teams just end up stuck for the entire match until it goes to sudden death (the map with the death pit is rather prone to this), and sadly neither of these are particularly fun to play.
hydro... personally, i have a tendency to look back at it with rose tinted specs. it's fun enough, on occasion, but if it's in constant rotation then it gets old fast. it seems like the sort that SpApoints were made for - playing it every so often for old times sakes.
Main problem I had with hydro is that you play 3 stages 90% of the time, rest is almost forgotten. And map is really badly designed, just like dustbowl, where you fight in the same corridor for weeks before sudden death/time runs out.
Yeah- on reflection - maybe you are all right. While I do miss it I do, now I really think about it, recall a LOT of bad matches there. Oh well...
I do miss Hydro though, and it would be nice to see how the new engi (and upcoming poly count weapons) fair on it.
Yeah. Maybe something to look at as a one off sometime for those who are interested?
Egypt was a good map but was pretty biased against the attacking team (though this doesn't seem to stop dustbowl or gold rush from being popular ), but the new changes supposedly made it a lot better so maybe its time to bring it back on a trial basis.
It does look like it has changed a little and all I can say, to echo what Balls said, is that when I play it on other servers we never have any issues. Yes it requires a bit of team work but beating that concept into people can really be no bad idea