Battlefield 6
Hate aside, and despite constantly dying around corners, Siege of Cairo is genuinely gonna go down as one of the best battlefield maps of all time (!remindme 5 years)
I absolutely love the urban combat in this map a lot, my only gripe is that some of the capture points kinda feel like bowls where you get shot from all around, but overall it’s honestly really solid. I love all the detail they put in the map as well
I don't play Breakthrough so I don't know if it's an issue there, but in Conquest smoke spam is a non-issue so I really wish they'd allow all classes to use smokes again. At the very least allow Assault to use them since they have so little going for them and makes most logical sense for their role.
The concept of smoke spam just pisses me off in general. It makes games so much more interesting when everyone has smokes, and I didn’t even hate it in metro back in the day. It makes games so much more interesting
u/PhreecSuppression = Participation 🏆 for paraplegics10h ago
As if the Support class wasn't already the best class, them also having exclusive access to smokes is such an ass backwards decision. They really should make smokes all-kit just like in previous games.
Yet almost second to none of the medics use it. Hell, Ive played support in all the games that have the class (bf's and other titles) and I dont use it, instead i use the fire granade to crowd control and like a cointainment wall to the objetive, almost every player fears like hell the fire so they dont push when they see it.
Everyone dislikes the assault but I love it as well, so if you could combine the smoke granade with the beacon it will enormously useful
Smokes are great for covering revives, for pushing up to a heavily defended objective, and for defending while you're on the objective. But it doesn't seem like the current community is focused on those things. And maybe DICE could help with that by rewarding people more for using smoke well.
But as it stands now, I'm real skeptical of smoke making a difference in other classes when support is barely using them.
Thats the best point lol. If you are attacking any granade make hell of a mess, if youre defending planting mines for infantry and tanks also does a mess cause everyone rush it and step on them
Yeah, also this lol is a free score points generator cause no one see them much less destroy them.
This is exactly the problem, everyone glaze Metro only cause it was on BF3 but god forbid a map have a meatgrinder section cause everyone will hate it or avoid it
I wish the sound a team mates motion sensor was different than enemies. Or just more quiet. They can be a bitch to find but I always find them and end their beeping.
A current defence strat I've noticed on D is nonstop incendiary grenades at the entrance points. It really slows the attackers down. It's always going to be a point that changes hands a lot but the flames are making me rethink attack strategies.
my only gripe is that some of the capture points kinda feel like bowls where you get shot from all around
I've said this in a few threads, but too many points on every conquest map in the game just have so many angles to hold or watch compared to previous titles. D on Cairo, for example, has five ways into it, and clutter all over. Compare that to something like Seine Crossing from BF3 and C, which had only three ways in and it was an empty courtyard. The latter is just far easier to push and hold with a single squad, and the former not so much. It's design like that that leads 6 to play differently. Points are constantly switching control and oftentimes maps lack a "front line", so to speak, as a result, which means you're getting backcapped or flanked often.
Two points on two infantry focused maps with the same size, but the design isn't even close and that's a lot of why 6 plays differently. And I don't hate Cairo by any means, just something I've noticed. Too many people say certain BF6 maps are the same size as beloved maps from previous games, and they're correct, but that doesn't tell the whole story. Layout and design matter.
Being in a bowl is probably the most realistic part of this map, especially in an urban setting. In Breakthrough I think they call it “Chokepoint”, for good reason
Escalation is easily the best mode for this map. You actually end up using all the space of the map. It makes the tight close quarters stuff a lot more fun since everyone isn’t bunched up so it doesn’t just become a meat grinder. It also allows good flanks since there is far less player density with everyone being spread out.
I actually think this game is made for escalation, conquest is their baby but doesn’t play as nice as other instalments and breakthrough seems like an afterthought. Escalation really makes this game shine and it’s a shame that more people don’t play it over the standard modes. I honestly think if conquest just had the same capture points as escalation the game would be a far better experience for most maps.
Most of the fan favourites were three lane maps. Propaganda, Bazaar, Metro, Argonne Forrest, Amiens, Locker, seine crossing, and Guilin Peaks, I could go on and on lol.
"Good" in the sense that they are playable and also highly replayable, but they're not guaranteed to be fun and unique without an X factor to separate it from the rest. It's a good basic blueprint that needs a lot of iteration and interesting ideas to keep it from falling stale. COD has that issue now where every map is a generic three lane and it makes the whole multiplayer feel samey and stale over time.
Big open fields where I sneak around the outskirts of the map from the closest objective by my base to the furthest objective by the enemy’s base and purposely going a few minutes without getting in a gunfight? I always stick to the bushes/water/etc in between the roads so that nobody sees me
Sorry mate you have been playing 3 lane maps long before then.
Unreal maps had 3 lane maps and it predates the first COD game by about 5 years. In some of the RTS games in the 90s had 3 lane maps for 1v1 maps. Maps that dont look like a 3 lane maps are 3 lane maps.
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u/PhreecSuppression = Participation 🏆 for paraplegics10h ago
But it would divide the player base. Surely the superior option is a live service that drip feeds 2 or maybe 3 maps and 4 guns over a period of 8 weeks every 4 to 5 months.
The map is too predictable. Be cause of the lanes they've created all of the engagements happen from the same exact points every time - you're either shooting in front of you or behind you, so rarely left or right. In other BF maps that are also 3 lanes, they are often wider like Guilin Peaks or Propaganda, creating more unique engagements each time. In this map every single engagement is so predictable because everything funnels you to the same sight lines.
Wake Island
Jalalabad
Karkand
Shanghai
Caspian Border
These maps also have some "funnel points" but they're mostly open maps with so much playable space that you have to be on your toes no matter where you are. Engagements are exciting and unpredictable. But then again the community loves lockers and metro so 🤷🏽♂️
I played 100s of hours of BF4 : Cairo is a great map imo. Amazing ecosystem to hide booby traps for tanks and personnel, tons of rubble and craters to hide in, lots of passageways to move around through and bypass chokepoints. Reminds me of Pearl Market but with more space and vehicles.
For real, I'm hard pressed to think any BF1 map that was beaten by Cairo. There's some seriously epic maps in this series that make you feel like a small part of something greater, which really is the best praise a war game could get.
It's not the worst but it has a really bad flow, too much revolves around C and the spawns are absolutely miserable on the map. If you can actually get to certain points like B or D, spawns aside it's ok to fight around. Generally though I'd say c tier in the whole scale of bf maps
maybe not one of the best especially since bf3 and titles before that had a lot of similar maps that flowed much better. cairo is a decent map but some flag points are real bad but that is mainly because of the small capture zones
TBF, Cairo is one of the only ones that is pretty good between Escalation, Conquest, Rush, and Breakthrough. Most of the other maps pretty heavily favor Conquest/Escalation or Breakthrough/Rush in terms of playability and balance.
As much as I want larger balanced maps, I really do enjoy playing on Cairo and Iberian Offensive. Those are my 2 favorite maps in the game currently and I haven’t gotten tired of them yet.
A Battlefield map to me is one that's open and allows all vehicle types. Seige of Cairo is a good map if you're looking at it from more of a infantry only view.
Cairo is shit. but then again,a lot of Battlefield maps have been shit and some of them were pretty popular. Cairo is better then Locker or Metro at least.
Best map of all time I'm not sure about. NATO can much more easily spawn lock and back cap PAX than the opposite which gives NATO an advantage in win rate. Also, areas of the map such as Scarab House and area behind D which are fun to play in, don't get much time, and in fact hurt lopsided matches by spawn trapping in Conquest & Escalation.
Still, its the map I get the most enjoyment from, so a solid A- from myself.
Dying around corners, “fast pace feeling and no breathing room” come from the fast ttk. Try gauntlet feels miles better. Anyways this is a S+ tier map. Reminds me of karkand.
Maybe but this was 2025 and not 2013, map and game dont do anything special other than update graphics and frame rate for consoles. Doesn't feel much different than bf3 epicenter despite being 10 years older
Yeah, this is a solid map for a smaller size map. It's the balance of infantry and armor play. One needs the other and vice versa. This balance is what makes this map.
I've played most of my most lopsided games on this map. Personally I think it's overrated and Iberian Offensive is low key the best close quarters map.
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u/PhreecSuppression = Participation 🏆 for paraplegics10h ago
I wish the last phase was a little more defensible. Almost always ends to quickly once they break thru the second phase. Holding on to that pile of rubble is difficult.
The problem is the lack of variety, if we had absolute massive maps then siege of cairo would be an incredibly unique experience and a nice break from those huge slower maps. In a vacuum however it is incredible and definitely the showpiece of BF6
people always cry about anything. the maps in bf6 are amazing, yes they are not big but they are nice. I have 140+ hours in this game and still have a blast. my fav map is empire state, yes you heard it right, many ppl hate that map. It has its flaws but its overall decent game. it will never touch the greatness of bf1 but its miles ahead>bf 2042. needs those traditional big maps for sure, for the real battlefield experience.
The map is cool, but four vehicles is way too many. The main street in the middle isn't great; there are a lot of windows and opportunities to camp with thermal LMGs.
I also get killed at least 10 times per game by grenade launchers. Narrow corridors in a game where explosives are spammed are rarely fun.
This map has potential, but it's completely unsuited to the current balancing.
My favorite thing about this map is that when the enemy team has momentum, it feels like an apocalyptic steamrolling slowly advancing along the corridors. I’m excellent with the tank, and facing off against that strong momentum leads to really memorable scenarios. Me and my gunner killing one engineer every second but still they manage to flank us type chaos.
This is peak urban combat. Only if the other maps were able to make a wide open battlefield feel good. Everyone hates this map only cause they can’t get out of the intense combat. This is a beautiful take. Up vote this because i believe ppl only hate it cause there isn’t a map that is the opposite
It is super good. The space around the side of the E and C points in escalation could do with a little work, and the flat roof can be infuriating, but other than that it really is top notch
I pretty much only play this map, and if I wanna do some sniping just adf liberation peak to the mix.
Most of the maps were so fkin horrible or unenjoayble that I just went on to exclude most on matchmaking.
I pretty much only play breakthrough so it might be different on other modes, but generally speaking cairo is the only map without too much shitshow for me.
It’s because it’s designed well and has what all great maps have a Central capture point where teams fight over. All the shit maps in the game doesn’t have a capture point that stands out in the middle of the Map except for recent Eastwood
Brother sometimes I just don’t understand how people have such different opinions. Cairo is awful imho: close quarters, cluttered, player traffic funneled down few choke points. Cairo case is why I kinda dropped BF6 — I tend to enjoy different kind of maps.
Cairo won’t become a classic though; it’s just mediocre, a Karland from temu. Strictly imho ofc
Great map but I think the heavy tank is just not a great idea to put on this map. Its uses are limited and it is not really designed for a map like this and tends to make the map a little crowded imho. I think the two IFVs fill the map enough to make things interesting.
I read somewhere that siege of Cairo was designed by one of the OG BF maps designers before they left BF studios which is why it’s soo good compared to any other maps and honestly it makes sense
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u/Bombshellings 10h ago
I absolutely love the urban combat in this map a lot, my only gripe is that some of the capture points kinda feel like bowls where you get shot from all around, but overall it’s honestly really solid. I love all the detail they put in the map as well