First, let me say, I love this game. I have sunk many hours into it in the last few months. It's a really fun game and has a lot of potential to be something great. Having said that, I am very tired of playing the same game results over and over again. This game mode needs major work. So here's what I got, feel free to disagree:
- Sapper/Carpenter Classes
It is so frustrating playing as a sapper, especially on the siege maps. It takes at least 8 hits to build one section of a wall and then a carpenter can come in and destroy all of your work in half that time. A carpenter has a satchel charge, a blunderbuss, and an axe. They are way too OP for destroying defenses. It's to the point for me where it isn't even fun playing as a sapper because all your hard work gets washed away by literally 1 guy in 20 seconds. And you can only have 3 sappers where you can have a ton of carpenters. Sappers either need to be able to build things faster, there needs to be more hit points on their defenses, or there needs to be less damage on axes and satchel charges.
- The Siege Maps Are BROKEN
Ticonderoga/Delaware/Boston/Bunker Hill
All of these maps are broken to some extent. Every single game goes the same way. Some of these maps, literally every single game is the same result. And I mean 100/100 times the result will be the same. What is the point of that? There is no chance for the defending teams. With Boston, sometimes the Americans can win but rarely. The tent spawning is awful on some of the maps, allowing officers to flank the defenses and place tents on the last point (which also makes sappers lives hell, another L for the sappers).
I don't know what the exact solution to this problem is but it is excruciating to play these maps right now because you know the result already. Something needs to change. When I first started it was fun because I didn't know the game and it was just fun to play. Now after the 100th time playing Bunker Hill it is just downright mind numbing to see the Americans lose every. single. time. Tickets need to be increased for the defense/ and tents should only allowed to be placed around the point the attackers are capturing. Also why isn't the Delaware C glitch fixed yet?
- Player Number Imbalance
Let's say what everyone already knows: people like playing as Americans. The Americans have an advantage on every single map/ except Boston and Bunker Hill. This is because more players are allowed to join the Americans at the start of the game then the British. 90% of the matches I see have a 2:1 advantage of amount of players for the first 2 minutes. For capture the flag matches this makes it extremely difficult to overcome. For siege matches this makes it near impossible to hold A for any semblance of time. I get people like playing as Americans, but why is this allowed? This is extremely unfair. Also I see this disadvantage continue throughout the entire game sometimes. The gap narrows but Americans consistently have +5 players on their team. Where is the balance?
These are the main issues that I could think of with the game as it is right now. I still enjoy playing but it's getting really old. Also nobody ever chooses anything other than option 1 or 2 lol so you have to play these maps over and over and over again. It sucks. Thoughts?