Rush works best IMHO if teams switch sides as often players quit when they are on the "difficult side", which is often defender side, but also greatly depends on the map dynamics.
I like the idea of playing the same map twice as it gives me the chance to have the same players for two rotations, versus throwing me back into MM system and scrambling the players. What makes Portal great is TDM keeps the same players on the same server, so get beat up one round, you have a chance for redemption on the next map.
Just like in real sports, teams change sides to make it fair...⚽🏈🏀🤔
I agree it is more fair, but I much preferred switching both map and teams that was introduced in BF5. The last thing I want after a long slog on some map (any of the long Pacific maps in BF5), was to play the same map again.
Switching to a new map is a breath of fresh air and more enjoyable to the overall play session.
I'm annoyed so much design knowledge is lost to DICE with every release, where they'll fix things in past only to reintroduce the same problem in a new release.
Swapping sides for BT and Rush have been like this before. It guarantees that a defender will get to be an attacker at least every other round. Right now it is defender 10x in a row.
The map swap should occur after every two rounds, however, since it is MM, there is a chance you will get the same map.
@StormtrooperDan wrote:I agree it is more fair, but I much preferred switching both map and teams that was introduced in BF5. The last thing I want after a long slog on some map (any of the long Pacific maps in BF5), was to play the same map again.
Switching to a new map is a breath of fresh air and more enjoyable to the overall play session.
I'm annoyed so much design knowledge is lost to DICE with every release, where they'll fix things in past only to reintroduce the same problem in a new release.
I can see where you're coming from, but look at it as a perspective thing. Sometimes playing the same map from the opposite side is desired. Especially if it is one that favors the other side. I think that some balancing and such may be useful, but it wouldn't be fun to be swapping sides of A/D on different maps where you end up with the short-end-of-the-stick after each one based on luck of rotation.
Yeah getting stuck on a bad rotation of maps would suck as well, but there is a fix for it:
Loop through all maps switching teams between attacking/defending with each match, at the end of the map cycle flip teams so both teams experience attacking/defending on all maps.
Map 1: Team A defends / Team B attacks
Map 2: Team A attacks/ Team B defends
Map 3: Team A defends / Team B attacks
Map 4: Team A attacks/ Team B defends
-- End of map cycle / flip teams
Map 1: Team A attacks/ Team B defends
Map 2: Team A defends / Team B attacks
Map 3: Team A attacks/ Team B defends
Map 4: Team A defends / Team B attacks
One of my friends mentioned that twice on the same map might work for Rush, where matches are relatively short (20-30 mins). But on Breakthrough where it could take 45 mins for a match, that's 1.5 hour on the same map. Players are not going to enjoy that.
This will be another annoyance that's introduced by the dev team but never fixed again.
@StormtrooperDan wrote:I agree it is more fair, but I much preferred switching both map and teams that was introduced in BF5. The last thing I want after a long slog on some map (any of the long Pacific maps in BF5), was to play the same map again.
Switching to a new map is a breath of fresh air and more enjoyable to the overall play session.
I'm annoyed so much design knowledge is lost to DICE with every release, where they'll fix things in past only to reintroduce the same problem in a new release.
That was the only time I enjoyed breakthrough, back in V on the Pacific maps when they first launched and I really liked switching between attack and then defence.
Had some epic long battles on those maps in breakthrough.
I prefer longer to shorter round times though because it allows more time to try different playstyles in the same round and I would prefer more tickets in AOW conquest than we have now.
i'm good with attacking and defending on the same map as long as we don't keep getting the same 2 or 3 maps when playing vanilla AOW. if we rotate through all the maps it's fine and i like it
DICE TeamThis is only for Breakthrough and Rush, and does not apply to Conquest. The change isn't about playing the same map twice, but rather to enable you to play as both Attacker, and Defender in a given round which was frequent feedback we've received.
