Why PW is broken:

[mousse]

I think it's fine as is. The map layout doesn't affect the gameplay as the teams swap places at half time so no team has an advantage for the whole game. I think the only bad game I've had was when the whole enemy team was mighties or burlies and they camped in the room with a heal point and a healer. They're hard enough to kill as is but with continual healing and a spot that couldn't be targeted directly there was no way anyone could do anything. The host rage quite after a few minutes of this and the game ended

Oh, and the unique background for the community feat? It is so worth it. I would have taken my time but I wanted the snowflake skin for the gatekeeper and I only found out about it at the same time as the PW feats.

[Akrium]

I think it's fine as is. The map layout doesn't affect the gameplay as the teams swap places at half time so no team has an advantage for the whole game. I think the only bad game I've had was when the whole enemy team was mighties or burlies and they camped in the room with a heal point and a healer. They're hard enough to kill as is but with continual healing and a spot that couldn't be targeted directly there was no way anyone could do anything. The host rage quite after a few minutes of this and the game ended

Oh, and the unique background for the community feat? It is so worth it. I would have taken my time but I wanted the snowflake skin for the gatekeeper and I only found out about it at the same time as the PW feats.

There is a problem with the switching sides thing... ppl quit out before it happens. Making the issue even worse. I don't see a reason to even have a switch sides moment with my setup. You can just make a round a set amount of time and never worry about people leaving during the team switch phase.

[Ghostbusttyler]

Matchmaking is also kind of a ***** for it. You either get on a team that is really good and just wreck the other team, or you get put on a team full of other people who don't know what to do and fall victim to campers, while getting spawn camped and you just get f'ed in the a the entire match.

I think that there should be a mercy rule in it. If the other team gets a certain amount of points before the end of the first round, the game should just end there because playing an additional round of loosing straight just sucks and gets boring and not to mention frustrating. I've never once seen or been on a team that has bounced back from a 2 or 3-0 round.

It might just be me, but I've noticed that there is sometimes a delay from being demoralized, to getting your weapons back today. the counter says 0 but I don't get my gear back until a few seconds after, leaving me absolutely defenseless and letting someone get an easy kill on me.

Overall, I think that PW is a flawed mode that pretty much comes down to luck on what team you get put on, but even then it gets boring winning or loosing for however long the match is.

[Akrium]

Well it is more team oriented than TDM. It is along the same lines as fumigation in that you need to flow and know where your team is going and where the other team is going. It requires a bit more out of a person and that is a lot to ask for when this game is silly fun and a lot of people play it just for that reason only.

So sadly there isn't much anyone can do to help you get a balanced team for the game. They do try with the match making system, and it theory it should work. Problem is it's all theory and there is no real answer to making it work 100% of the time.

People are dynamic in of themselves.. the game cannot predict when someone did awesome the last round and then the next they have their gf txting them non stop and they are not paying attention to the game as much and don't help. It happens..

[Hooligantuan]

Static Spawn Points are great, provided that there is a forward spawn point unlocked when teams make a certain amount of progress. In this case, once the battery is down, the securing team should start spawning mid-map, rather than all the way on the other side.

[Akrium]

Not on these tiny tiny maps. It gives a legit team the ability to just "pin" the other team into their spawn and just farm kills. This isn't fun or fair. Which has lead ppl to not playing the game. I see a serious drop-off in PW play after the feats go away. People are only doing it now to help them level this week, getting a card background, or some are the few that actually played it before the feats. Though they are complaining it has turned into just another TDM.

My idea of making the cap centralized would put EVERYONE closer to the cap point. This way everyone has the same distance to get back to it to either defend or attack. This would probably fix your issue of feeling like you should push your spawn closer for attaching the battery because you cannot get back and guard it.

[that_boi_cj]

What ever happened with working as a team, escorting the battery carrier, and defending the machine? If you all die and the enemy gets the battery, thats not the games fault.. Someone isnt doing their job.. Team games require mics imho unless your squad is really good.. You have to communicate it helps a lot..

[Siren]

Really what doesn't help is the spawn times. I mean yeah the randumbz don't help either & even though you can hold them off for a while it won't help since they'll keep coming right back within 3 seconds.
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Although sometimes you're spawned wayyy away from where battery is, lol (carrier, which is your teammate, is near the thingy to connect battery to, but you spawn way across the map and by the time you get their your teammates die and opponents have battery already).

[poorjonny]

I feel that there should be a bonus for killing an enemy standing next to your defense point regardless of whether or not they have the battery. I like to win games and play defensively.

[Akrium]

Yes but they do want to promote offense more otherwise games won't ever have a winner if you get good xp just never leaving your base.