I guess those are the very same things that are attracting me to this map. I know there's no way to really tell until we get it into our hands dirty, but I love the default design, the flat symmetrically divided surfaces, I like the open environment (it reminds me of Hang 'Em High meets Warlock meets Sanctuary) and the long lines of sight with sparse cover elements make me think that it'll play well from a competitive standpoint.
I think the map shouldn't be complex unless it absolutely needs to be. We have enough maps with rebar, crates, boulders, awnings, debris, fusion cores, trellises, sconces, buttresses, shelving systems, stairs, fences, lattice-work and all manner of physical elements which might look beautiful but generate somewhat inconsistent results in multiplayer gameplay. I mean sometimes it feels like I'm sifting through a trash can just trying to get from one base to the other -- an alien feeling I never knew from either of the first two games.
And to be fair, that might be cool for some people, but for someone like me, who admires the way a multiplayer map looks for the first nine matches sessions but requires the map to perform well for the remaining nine hundred, it's important that functionality is on the top of the list with art nested somewhere below.
The default variant of Sandbox looks swell to me. I really can't wait for these Mythic maps.
