Has anyone else noticed this?

Hell's kitchen, Muspelheim and the Danger room have all been removed as arenas you can fight in.

The danger room I think is still where the Gwenmaster fight takes place but it definitely isn't in the normal circulation anymore.

Why have they been taken out?

Comments

SkyLord7000

Danger room was never in the pool. Sometimes you’d see it in arenas, 100% of the time in the gwenmaster fight, and sometimes in 7.3.

I know much less about the other two maps

magnus_xix

Danger room was never in the pool. Sometimes you’d see it in arenas, 100% of the time in the gwenmaster fight, and sometimes in 7.3.

I know much less about the other two maps

I'm 100% certain danger room has been removed from the arena. By arena I mean the featured and basic arenas

Man_Bat

I encountered the Danger Room outside of 7.2. If this observation is true, my guess would be that it's part of Kabam's effort to fix the memory leak issues that they identified.

CoatHang3r

There have been a few posts about missing arenas from arenas, fairly certain I played in Hell’s Kitchen during the last map 8 cycle. It’s likely part of Kabam trying to reduce the frequency of game crashes.

magnus_xix

How does removal of arenas correlate with less lag and crashes?

CoatHang3r

Less things being loaded into memory before it reaches the critical point of a crash.

CoatHang3r

To add on about the crashes, for me they’ve changed from only happening on loading into a fight to also happening during a fight like when a special attack is used. I’m not sure this is a more desirable outcome since instead of having to load the game after a crash I now also have to reload the game and redo a fight.

Terra

Shame. I like the Hell's Kitchen map.

I'm one of the few that actually enjoy background stuff

personally I'd wish they'd add like champions doing random stuff in the background, (similar to Injustice) but not being able to interact with them

Renaxqq

Check out Brian Grant arena grinds. For 2h he is playing only in Meteor M arena. This issue started with November update. Arena stages aren't changing.

2StarKing

How does removal of arenas correlate with less lag and crashes?

Less active, simpler background environments put less stress on devices. Leaving more cpu/ram/etc for character movement and input processing.

ChaosMax1012

Why have i played for 4 years and don’t know what the hell hells kitchen map is?

Terra

Why have i played for 4 years and don’t know what the hell hells kitchen map is?

It's this map (I think) (funnily enough there is 360° videos on YT of the fight maps which I find cool)

GrassKnuckles

Ive seen hell's kitchen but not the other 2

Squirrelguy

Why have i played for 4 years and don’t know what the hell hells kitchen map is?
It's this map (I think) (funnily enough there is 360° videos on YT of the fight maps which I find cool)

This was definitely one of my favorite backgrounds. Personally though, I wouldn't love characters moving around in the background because I feel like it could definitely be distracting. Interesting, but distracting.