I believe this can be a great feature moving forward, maybe for Far Cry 6.
The Featured Maps section in the menus is already a great way to find awesome content to play but a lot of the time you find yourself having to go through several searches to then try to find more maps by the same author. If a map is on the featured maps section, then the author's other maps will generally also be really cool maps to play.
I feel it would be a good way to showcase some of the best creators the Community has to offer by having a Featured Creators section. You choose a creator from a page showing selected Featured Creators, select one which then brings up all their published maps which can then be played as a playlist one after the other consecutively without having to do any searching or setting up a different lobby (solo and coop maps), and also shows MP maps which leads to setting up a public lobby.
Yeah, for a next Far Cry, there really needs to be an appealing way to get playlists of good maps played in sequence. As-is now, playing other 'top' maps by selecting "play another map" will not take the user's preference into consideration and instead select a random map. Which could infact be a map the player already played before (sometimes even in the very same play session!). Having to return to a menu to browse/search for maps really feels like you're operating an administrative system rather than enjoying quality content fed to you.
I'd hope there'd be a more social aspect to it as well ingame. Like if your friends completed/liked/played certain maps/creators, you would also get that content suggested.
Nothing in a dedicated (Arcade) website, just easily accessible from the game. Maybe even make the campaign include specific daily quests, where part of the objective is to complete several suggested maps for a specific in-game reward.
I agree its currently a bit like this.Originally Posted by Steve64b Go to original post
My analogy would be if Spotify had no albums and you only saw recommended songs or had to search for individual songs. I generally choose music by Artist and listen to albums by my favourite artists.