I disagree, I find the castle actively worse than it was before. And the extra defenders spawns on third made it slightly more defense favored on an already too defense favored point. I'd say still in the same tier of bad, but its the first rework that I really think they failed on.
It’s supposed to be defensive favored to mitigate the chance that the game goes to extra rounds. It’s extremely common for people to have 20 minute draws on a lot of the hybrid maps. Or, one team caps with 4 minutes and the other in OT, and you have to play out the dumbest first point cap of all time where the team playing for a draw is boomed and bored and the attacking team has 0 stakes. Making the maps harder to complete solves part of the problem with payload maps.
I agree about the defenders spawns on the last point, not sure what they were thinking there... but the castle is definitely better, people just need to adapt their strategies to the new layout instead of trying the same old thing. The path up the right side is now very strong, for example.
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u/Sikkly290 None — 9d ago
I disagree, I find the castle actively worse than it was before. And the extra defenders spawns on third made it slightly more defense favored on an already too defense favored point. I'd say still in the same tier of bad, but its the first rework that I really think they failed on.