Guide To Playing On Highland Map
Overview: The Highland map is well-known for its fair battlegrounds and unique features. Though it was created around 2010, the map didn’t gain popularity until it gained the Night Mode feature for the 2013 Halloween celebrations. Many top clans use this map as a way to train their XP/BP skills. With its many hills and bushes to hide behind, it is a great choice for a sniper. Highland can also be used a parkour map, as there are many buildings and obstacles to get onto.
Battle Modes: DM, TDM, CTF, CP
Size: 16 Players, 8v8
Tactics
DM
Highland DM is very rarely seen in the battle list, however when it appears, it usually a highly intense battle. With its many obstacles to hide behind, the best options for turrets are Railgun, Shaft, Magnum, or Striker.
When it comes to hulls, you will want a high-armored, low-speed hull. The best choices for hulls are Viking, Dictator, Titan, or Mammoth. The best places to camp are shown below:
The best places to camp are shown below:
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While Smoky and Hammer aren’t the worst turrets for this map, but they lack the attributes of a turret that is good for this map. They do not have splash damage which is a crucial feature of any of the best turrets for this map. Isida and Vulcan are the hardest turrets to use and succeed with in this map. These turrets lack splash damage, and are harder to focus on enemies. With Isida’s low damage, this turret is not best suited for DM. Vulcan on the other hand, is also not a great choice due to the amount of time it takes this turret to start shooting. Its slow rotation speed makes it tricky to kill mass amounts of opponents. If you use any of these turrets, I suggest staying back, away from most enemies, as you will most likely be killed if you go into the action.
Wasp and Hornet are not good hulls for this map because they have small amounts of protection, making them easier to be killed on the battlefield. Also, due to Highland’s small area, speed is not a priority. Hunter and Viking are decent choices for this map because they have enough protection to survive, but also have a good amount of speed to escape deadly situations.
CTF
CTF is most the common mode for the map Highland. The most common Highland CTF battle is 4v4 XP/BP. XP means Hornet-Railgun and BP means Wasp-Railgun.
When being a defender, there are 4 vital positions to keep in your control. They are:
Red Side:
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Blue Side:
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The places where supply boxes drop are also good places to keep in your possession, as controlling them can make you tank harder to defeat. The drop zones for this map are:
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CP
CP mode in this map is unusual as the points are in different positions than most maps. Instead of a point being in each base and a point in the middle, this map has a point in each team’s camping positions, as well as a point in the middle. It is important in this mode to capture the point in the opposing team’s base, while also keeping control of the point in your team’s base.
When it comes to what equipment to use, I suggest using a heavy tank and high-damage turret, as the map is small.
Magnum, Railgun, Shaft, and Striker are the best choices for turrets as they can kill multiple tanks and unleash massive amounts of damage. If you want to be a team player, however, Isida is the perfect choice because it can heal teammates who are trying to capture the points.
When it comes to hulls, Viking, Dictator, and Titan are the best choices because they have sufficient protection, but do not lack in speed.
TDM
TDM is the least-popular mode for this map. When playing this mode, though, it is important to keep control of the drop zones, as well as kill massive amounts of tanks.
Magnum is the best choice for a turret as it can kill all tanks as soon as they materialize. Isida can be used to heal teammates, preventing the opposing team from pulling ahead.
The best hull for this map is a highly-armored tank, such as Titan or Mammoth, as both provide the best attributes for a camping hull. Viking can be used to succeed, however, as it provides enough speed to get to a drop zone to steal the supply.
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