I kind of wish they had waited on 1.11 for the BW proposal and let the new OBs do their thing first before saying that more was needed.

As someone else pointed out Skirmish has become even more one sided than it was before without the ability to lay out enough uplinks. One or two even well placed ones never really did the trick because people are always looking for and finding them.

I think the OBs would have been enough to prevent rooftop spamming, and EQ room spamming, but we'll never know because they combined all those changes at once.

Somebody could place one, and you would still call it spam. the only reason you dont like the tactic is because of your massive veteran sense of entitlement. You feel that if you secure an objective you are entitled to hold it/defend it according to how you want the enemy to present itself.

And frankly, putting an uplink in a place where its not easily destroyed and my team can keep pushing...is the entire point of non spam uplink placement. What would be spam is the 5 minute duration ones your squad places around them for temporary use.

I use my uplinks to help the entire team, you and your squad use disposable ones to help yourselves. So perhaps you should revisit the word "spam". Because 1 uplink that lasts all game is alot less wasteful than deploying your own squad level ones at every objective as you get to it. But then again, critical thinking is not found in bandwagons, so I dont expect you to understand.

Ill be honest, my biggest gripe is probably the bandwidth for remotes. i dont think there was ever a time when I had 9 uplinks or 9 hives active at once. But I always have alot of proxies out because it scares away tanks that it doesn't kill and it does kill the heavies in LAVs driving around. Also, the 6 bandwidth for triage hives is excessive. i know that was to prevent a heavy from standing on a ridiculous swarm of triage nanohives, but when used individually, they were good for proving relief to a wayward group of blue assaults/scouts/militias defending a random out of the way objective.

This change was done to stop people switching to heavy. The OB change was the one done for the rooftops, and ive been in favor of that because it balances things out; Rooftops are static and mostly exposed to the sky. The really tall buildings, the uplink flash can even be seen by zooming in with the overhead map. And 300WP a flux strike is not much. Just with those OBs right now, spots where i have to sacrifice a dropship become less viable and their cost prohibitive if I cant guarantee any kind of longevity for the uplink.

One thing is for sure though, my fits and tactics are going to need an overhaul if im going to survive under this new system.

There needs to be a place for both squads/teamplay AND solo players.

The reality is a lot of us don't have time for squading up. You can LFS in a chat channel, but if everyone is out, it could be 15 min to half hour before they can come in and pick you up. If you have time, you can wait around and hope that when someone is done with a game they have room in their squad.

I generally jump into squads in game, but sometimes they speak a language I can't communicate with or simply aren't communicating at all, which is fine with me.

I think it is reasonable to expect squad and team play in FW, but considering there isn't a squad free area, there does need to be some room for solo players in Pubs.

Not all solo players do not support their team. Before the BW changes, I would strategically set uplinks at several objectives if no one else was doing so. If we were redlined, I would cloak up and run past enemy lines, and drop uplinks near further off objectives to give my team places to not be spawn camped and attack objectives etc.

I don't think it is a move in the right direction to force players to squad up to be effective, anymore than it would be to penalize squad play, whether that was intentional or not.