The Better Highlands

Two falcons might be a little too much in my opinion. Snipers have 2 spare clips instead of 4? Didn't they already just have 2 spares?

 

Removing the shotguns was dumb in my opinion. They weren't really a problem. Maybe just upping the spawn times. The weapon complaining is the 2 rockets, fast spawning snipers which dominate, spartan laser, grenade launcher, AND plasma launcher. They just needed to remove a few and tone it down just a little. I think the neutral rockets was a great idea, and the laser was fine as it was, just found the plasma launcher unnecessary.

 

Agreed on all counts. Shotties were fine, CQB is rare enough as is and encouraging it with the current number of shotties is fine imo. Just up the spawn timers and re-jig weapons as tsb said and you'd be golden imo.

I'd personally like to see the Sniper moved from top tower on Attacker base as well. I don't like how you can literally stand right where it spawns and have insane line of sight on much of the map. If there are neutral rockets then moving it down to the level where they currently spawn could work, or possibly even further down in to the back of the base somewhere. It should be easily accessible off spawn but but in a place which encourages players who have just picked it up to venture other places than just top tower. Obviously it can and will be taken there quite often, but with neutral rockets then leaving the middle of the map open from the massive Sniper LoS from top tower will help even this initial rush on rockets up, and in general it just seems too easy to just sit where it spawns, control it and have a dominant position with it. Tell me, when you're sniped from Attacker base, roughly what percentage of the time is it from top tower? Now ask the same question of Defender base. Sure it's still high, but not nearly as high if you ask me. That big rock pillar next to Defender base tower really cuts LoS available to a Sniper up there.

Also, I assume you mean 1 spare clip instead of 2 on Snipers, rather than 2 instead of 4. I personally think 2 spare is fine, just up the spawn timers a bit to stop them constantly being in play. Long range sniping tends to eat up ammo a little more, and I think 3 clips is fair as long as they're on a 150-180 second respawn.

Not sure I like the idea of Falcons, especially two as Cart0graph said. Though I do see your immediate problem in that adding one is inherently unbalanced, I just don't personally feel they're that necessary at all tbh. Iirc airspace on this map is quite limited by soft kills as it is, and I like the ground-focused vehicle combat a lot. Hogs and Ghosts are my favourite vehicles by far, and they shine best when un-heeded by the presence of other vehicles. Plus, and this the biggest issue, cross map flag runs in a Falcon seem like they'd be waaaaay too easy. Those things are tough and even concentrated DMR fire from a whole team likely wouldn't kill it before it got back to base, or far enough to make the cap a foregone conclusion.

 

I hate to burst your bubble, but it's kind of absurd so say that after the map's been out for three days, you've made a better version than certain affinity could put together in a few months. There's no problem with making a new version of the map, but it's a big jump to come out here saying you've made a better map than people who make maps for a living.