Just wondering if you like to play both the small and large maps or do you primarily play one size or the other? 

I am hoping that maybe in the future Capcom will offer map packs based on size.  Maybe two or three small maps in one pack and two large maps in another pack.

Me, I hate the big maps.  Out of all three map packs I have only played the larger maps once.  To me it's a waste of money.

I agree with both of you. Give us small map players some small maps. I love close combat fighting.
I hate to run the entire time on a large map just to encounter a few people and than die and do the same thing over again. Waste of my time because sniping to me is very boring. I have a hard time staying in one spot shooting fish in a barrel.
So yes give people the choice of what they can buy. Big map pack or small map pack. That would be great.

Ian Darkly wrote:

*ahem*

QFT

Let me guess, :rolleyes: you like to snipe?

I play all of the maps, but I usually try to play smaller ones like Pirate Fortress or Dilapidation not just because I'm better at them than I am with say, Frozen Wasteland, but because killing happens more often and even in team matches, you can rely on yourself to win.

As shoot-em-up as Lost Planet is, its multiplayer can be played with great strategy. Unfortunately, this untapped part of the game has been shot down 95% of the time because even though most people have headsets, they just don't cooperate. Only a few times in the around 500 (over 1000 by now if that connection problem never happened... ahem!) matches I've played have I actually experienced real stategizing between three or more people.

Organized teamwork seems to be crucial in larger maps, especially since they often have emphasis on VSes or sniper rifles, and I play them less often because not only do I really hate getting nailed by a ridiculously agile Hardballer, but because I know that the whole world (including me too at times) isn't going to be hardcore enough to care about every possible tactic.

Another downside is that because some maps are very large, it takes so much time and effort to be able to memorize weapon locations, spawn points, data posts, and the different tactical possibilities. I know Snow Infernus (aka The Nubbin) has the motivation to remember where everything is on the 27 billion-mile-long Canyon 810 (at least when on foot), but do the other thousands and thousands of people who play the multiplayer too? No.

Anyway, to stop this rambling, the thing that really makes large maps unappealing to me though is that they all have six layouts. It may be weird to say this, but I think there is too much variety. Six layouts to remember on Pirate Fortress is bad enough, but when there are six layouts on a huge-arse map like Ruins, I just can't take the time to know the level, and therefore I don't really want to play it all that often.  Personally I'd prefer a "standard layout," and then a bonus "alternate" one.

Ok, I'm seriously done now. :p

yeah but I'd like to beat that red headed step child (pirate fortress) with a stick:D