Map showcases should stay (for achievement purposes)
Feel free to educate me if I'm wrong, but I feel like these don't impact queue times too bad. If we just had a rotating pool that was on when no other events are on I feel like this is a good compromise to help people get specific maps they want for achievements without needing to buff map offerings again. I'd be willing to wait and then sit in a longer queue to get that awful outbreak breakout achievement on RPD.
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It is a nice feature, but like 2v8 I think there has to be a time when it is not available. It is more fair than the old map offerings since both sides know the map they will be going to. Hopefully many are able to get their RPD achievement today/tomorrow!
Our of curiousity, how do the queue times feel on the Map Showcases?
Very short surprisingly
The map showcase queue times are typically 1-2 minutes for killer but normal queue time for killer is 5-8 minutes now instead of 3-4
I was just wondering why these showcases are happening. I thought there would be changes but there weren't any?
The Walking Dead chapter came out a year ago in July 2025. Til today (August 2026) I haven't finished the achievement where you have to do the main building gen and escape on Fallen Refuge because I played this map maybe 5-6 times since release as survivor xD. Either modes like 2v8 kept me from doing it or I wasn't able because no gen spawned in the main building during the birthday event. Somehow I never get Fallen Refuge. I even tried to get it by using the Withered Isle offering but zero chance. Unfortunately, I have the feeling BHVR pushes some maps more than others because I get some maps or realms way more often than others.
That's why the map showcase should be permanently between event modes.
All maps have an equal chance now by default. Fallen Refuge is one of the smallest and therefore deadliest maps in the game. Best thing is indeed to wait for the Map Showcase when it comes along. Good luck!
I like map showcases, I was only able to get that Greenville cinema achievement that way, as this map never shows up and with nerfed map offerings there's still 3 other maps in the realm which could trigger.
Map showcases from time to time are a nice feature and I need one for RPD that lasts at least 3 days for that horror "open the gates 20 times" achievement, please!
Personally, I really dislike the map showcases. They're not a good enough reason to split the queues and they make the match-making for the regular mode much, much worse imo.
I would honestly rather they brought back the old map offerings than see regular map showcases become a thing (and I hated map offerings with a passion).
You're confusing the map showcase with 2v8, Chaos Shuffle etc. Queuing into the map showcase is like playing with crossplay off. There is hardly someone playing.
Are you so sure about that? I guess it's possible that not many people would play it, but if that's the case, then why bother with it anyway? Suggests there's not much call for map show cases among the wider player base.
The only time I've jumped into a map show case is when there's been a new map and I don't recall having to wait a long time to get into a game, so there must be a decent number of players over there. Might be different for new maps, though. But even with that, I still rather they just boosted the new map for the regular queue like they used to do.
I'm not an achievement hunter, but I've still managed to get most of the map related ones just through normal play (including recently getting the main building gen on the Walking Dead map completed and escaping). The only one I haven't completed yet is the RPD one, but I've got decent progress on it so I'll get that eventually. It's pure luck with what map you get, so I do sympathise a little, but I also think achievements are not meant to be easy to get and some should take a while to complete.