Map rankings by difficulty

[jhheight]

Hallo, wanted to know your guys' opinion on difficulty of all official maps. I will post a list below of how I ranked them myself from my experience. I ranked them by how hard it is to complete them on Brutal ASBI with a team of 4 players. Feel free to discuss my ranking or create a list yourself. Here's my list:

Different map difficulties (scale from 1 to 10, 10 - hardest):
Jacob's Rest:
Landing Bay - 3/10
Cargo Elevator - 3/10
Deima Surface Bridge - 2/10
Rydberg Reactor - 3/10
Syntek Residential - 4/10
Sewer Junction - 1/10
Timor Station - 4/10
Area 9800:
Landing Zone - 6/10
Cooling Pump - 4/10
Power Generator - 4/10
Wastelands - 4/10
Operation Cleansweep:
Storage Facility - 1/10
Landing Bay 7 - 2/10
U.S.C Medusa - 2/10
Research 7:
Transport Facility - 2/10
Research 7 - 2/10
Illyn Forest - 4/10
Jericho Mines - 4/10
Tears for Tarnor:
Insertion Point - 7/10
Abandoned Maintenance Tunnels - 3/10
Oasis Colony Spaceport - 7/10
Tilarus-5:
Midnight Port - 6/10
Road to Dawn - 5/10
Arctic Infiltration - 4/10
Area9800 Landingzone - 6/10
Cold Catwalks - 5/10
Yanaurus Mine - 4/10
The Factory - 4/10
Communication Center - 7/10
SynTek Hospital - 6/10
Lana's Escape:
Lana's Bridge - 7/10
Lana's Sewer - 6/10
Lana's Maintenance - 8/10
Lana's Vents - 6/10
Lana's Complex - 5/10
Paranoia:
Unexpected Encounter - 4/10
Hostile Places - 4/10
Close Contact - 5/10
High Tension - 9/10
Crucial Point - 3/10
Bonus Missions:
Bonus Mission 1 - 4/10
Bonus Mission 2 - 4/10
Bonus Mission 3 - 4/10
Bonus Mission 4 - 10/10
Bonus Mission 5 - 10/10
Bonus Mission 6 - 10/10
Bonus Mission 7 - 10/10

[Ax-now]

Midnight Port 7/10 imo, Communication Center not so hard, its a big map but with lot of safe spot
so idk if its 7.

[jhheight]

hm i think all lana's can also be 1 lower

[Booyah]

Nice work. I thought about rating them as well but points will greatly differ depending on people you play with. Different people willl struggle with different maps. For example, Lana's Maintenance can be quite easy if you play it with people who completed it houndreds of times. High Tension used to be much harder before people learnt the most effective way to play it. Now you can make it on a first try. Sewer used to be much easier in the past.

Everyone will rate some of the maps differentlly. I think it would be better to put them into 3 categories:

Easy:
-
Medium:
-
Hard:
-

It'll decrease the subjective opinion on them. People will still place some maps differently depending on how good they are at playing them but it's gonna be much more accurate.

[jhheight]

Alright, I agree, 3 categories would make more sense. That said, that's how I would rank them by 3 categories (also, easier to harder from top to bottom):
Easy:
Sewer Junction
Storage Facility
U.S.C Medusa
Deima Surface Bridge
Transport Facility
Research 7
Landing Bay 7
Crucial Point
Abandoned Maintenance Tunnels
Landing Bay
Cargo Elevator
Rydberg eRector
Medium:
Lana's Complex
Arctic Infiltration
Bonus Mission 3
Bonus Mission 2
Cooling Pump
Wastelands
Lana's Vents
Power Generator
The Factory
Timor Station
Unexpected Encounter
Hostile Places
Bonus Mission 1
Lana's Sewer
Yanaurus Mine
Road to Dawn
Jericho Mines
Close Contact
Syntek Residential
Illyn Forest
Cold Catwalks
Syntek Hospital
Landing Zone
Area9800 Landingzone
Hard:
Lana's Bridge
Communication Center
Insertion Point
Oasis Colony Spaceport
Midnight Port
Lana's Maintenance
High Tension
Bonus Mission 5
Bonus Mission 4
Bonus Mission 6
Bonus Mission 7

[jhheight]

But at the same time it feels a bit incorrect putting Sewer Junction and Rydberg Reactor or Lana's Complex and Area9800 Landingzone in same category.

[Booyah]

I would probably place eRector in medium. Rest is noice

[ν]

From easiest:

1. Jacob's Rest - easiest campaign to learn, has fewest swarm
   
2. Cleansweep - Short, can do last mission fast with fire nades
   
3. Area 9800 - just a little harder than jacobs
   
4. Tears - fun and requires a bit more teamwork I think
   
5. Lana's - Sewer and Vents is hard with people who don't know it

I don't really have the names/missions memorized besides jacobs rest soo

[Booyah]

Actually, Cleansweep campaign is the easiest one

[Ax-now]

I agree, the ASBI PRO Challenge has a huge influence on map difficulty.

[Booyah]

Rating is gonna be different for almost every challenge.

[Ax-now]

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