I just went to start a new game and the Badlands map is gone?  Is it just me?  Thanks.

I don't know because I can't start a new game, but if so, good riddance. That map was a mad rush to get to the center and whoever could keep the center won. Not one of my favorite maps.

Badlands had very few games going. As we add more mapswe also want to increase the overall quality. Badlands was not quite there with the emerging overall standard.

aw, that's really a shame to hear. Badlands was probably one of the most balanced and fun maps I have played on for 4 player games. It's also good for 1v1 but not so much in a 3 way ffa.

I guess the reason why it wasn't so popular is because even though it was a really good map to play on it was a very large map and games on it tended to be very lengthy.

I would like badlands back and trade some other map for the spot like cruel intentions. I have a lot of hard time playing on that map with hover crafts zipping all over the place. It just doesn't seem to fit in for a pro map right now.

umm...badlands was the most completely imbalanced map there was, especially since the 'artillery hits back' change.  the first and third players had a huge and decisive advantage over the second and fourth players.

Dang, and I was just starting to like that map too.

what Simonz said

I liked that map a lot but I suppose the whole artillery firing back has offset the balance of the map by quite a bit.

Though you have to admit it was a good map before that patch. Well, I thought it was.

meh, even before the patch players one and three could still move their artillery forward and create a raider, and it would still generally be game over for the other player.

True.  I started playing in a few maps where 2 vs 2 worked good.  NW and SE on a team and NE and SW on a team.  This way each team had a chance to use that advantage.  Oh well, with a few tweaks that map could be balanced, hopefully it'll be back and better!