The Plant Struggle Is Real
I don't know why, but over the past several days, where I have mostly been on plant teams during Turf take over, the plants can't seem to win. Not just losing the game, but rarely even making it past the first base. I can't tell you the last time I've even seen the end stage of Lunar base because whether I'm plants or zombies the game almost never gets that far. Again, it's usually halted on the very first map. The problems the zombies had with the winter map (not being able to get past the first base) seems to have shifted to the plants now.
It got so bad, I even tried playing Turf take over on Zombie University map solo just to see if plants could take the first base when all players were "equal", that is no special abilities. To try and approximate human players I played 4 matches on craaazzzy and all 4 times the plants couldn't get past the first base. Then I played as Zombies on craaazy figuring defense should be equally as hard. But nope, it was easy as pie to defend the first base and Zombies won every time. I then switched to hard mode on the same map, and again, 3 out of 4 times the plants were stopped dead in their tracks. One of the times we got to the second base, but lost there.
Another thing that concerns me is the lack of team rotation. After one round, anyone who stays in the lobby should automatically switch sides, but that's not happening. More often than not, I end up on the same team as before. Which makes no sense. Gameplay wise, why would you expect a different outcome if the players in large part are going to be playing on the same team? You also don't give the losing team the opportunity to see if they can win when the roles are reversed, if you don't reverse the roles. Granted, I do see a couple of people ending up on the opposite side, but I don't know if they are manually switching or the game is doing it. But whatever the case, the game should swap everyone on the next game start.
