I absolutely hated the map until I turned off the auto rotation. Once I knew which way north was on the map, I had an easier time orienting myself.
It does show you which way your characters are facing, but maybe only if you're zoomed in a certain amount.
The "white outlined areas are explorable" part wasn't readily apparent.
What wasn't apparent for me is that I could look around with the arrow keys. Aiming ranged attacks was irritating! Now we need to be able to move the camera up and down too, so we can get a better look around, or at least have a first person view to check for ranged attacks.
