Yeah. It didn’t help that a lot of the horde pugs were also in T2 gear making it harder for a lower tier premade to overcome the gear advantages. These also suffered from not having any of the best sweaty rankers as well which is currently an issue, but not the issue with the map. I honestly think these early premade struggles were a precursor to how things work if you don’t have your best players there to carry team fights. Without them, it becomes a lot harder to overcome some of the map disadvantages. And they exist people. Honestly, I wish there would be an honor boost to AV along with removing the start location respawn option. I think that would bring the sweatiest alliance back to the BG and make the game even enough that these complaints die down and we can get back to having contested matches.
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Edit: There are a couple other small change ideas that have been tossed around that I also like. I.E. slight delay to horde cave opening to make first team fight at FOS and randomizing start points though that last one is probably a fairly large change.