[quote name='raiden_86']hmm well good to hear Studio & Encore are good, im looking forward to those. you have me worried about dat lava, its gotta be consistent or not at all. vertigo sounds like a sniper fest with smoke & dual band, kill confirmed might be interesting on that one.[/QUOTE]
I think this map is above and beyond better than the first. I personally wasn't a fan of the first. It wasn't so much that I hated the maps, I just thought the original maps were better (except for Aftermath which is probably my most hated maps right next to Seelow from World at War).
I mostly play Kill Confirmed, so here is my input on the maps based on that game mode, Domination, and TDM.
Studio really doesn't need much of an explanation. If you liked Firing Range, you'll like it as nothing has changed.
Encore is really good for KC and I'm not a huge fan of it for Domination. Can't remember what flag is which, but the one that is in the lower courtyard seems to have an advantage at getting B. To me it is one of the better designed maps with a lot of fighting in the middle, but very easy to flank on the outskirts due to not too many people watching them.
Vertigo is a very fun map for both Domination and Kill Confirmed and seems to be one of the better balanced maps for Domination. For KC, it seems like the opposite of Encore where most of the action takes place on the outsides. Also to the previous post, this wasn't the same map that was scrapped. The previous one scrapped was a IW map for MW2 that was supposedly scrapped for being too similar to Highrise.
Magma is another one that I think was well done. I can't really say I've ran into the problems that the previous post mentioned about the inconsistency of the magma killing you. I think I have died twice from it and both times I accidentally strafed a little too far into it while shooting at someone. It has decent sight lines and consists mostly of three main pathways of two streets and a rail line/platform. It is another map that can be easy to flank on if a team tends to overcrowd one side. I am also wondering what happened with the flowing magma though (besides the small river that is flowing consistently like a river through the center of the map).
I really don't see the "head glitch" that so many people talk about. On these four maps, I can only think of one spot and that is on Magma on the upper street outside of the only building you can enter on that side next to a gray box. I know there are some spots in the original maps, but even then I don't really have too much of a problem getting the people that try it.