Empire State Conquest and Rush Mode

The Empire State map does not mesh well with Conquest mode given the small scale of the map. 5 capture zones are too many and the control of those zones constantly switch between teams without breathing space/cool down. I felt downhearted to capture a zone, but then a minute later see the enemies start taking over it. The intense fight did not pay off well. At least Conquest on other maps in the beta (Cairo, Liberation Peak, Iberian Offensive), the zones stayed with one side of a team for at least 5 minutes before a sneaky squad tried to (re-)capture them.

On other hand, I found Empire State enjoyable on at least Rush given that only 2 objectives are need to be worry about. I want to see more players in a match of vanilla Rush though. I found 16v16 to be a sweet spot for the baseline number of players as I remember switching from Bad Company 2 Rush that had 12v12 on the Xbox 360 to playing Battlefield 3 Rush on PC with 16v16. There was more action with 8 additional players without feeling overwhelmed.