Why just freeze and fire? Isa trains are just as bad for everyone. The real balance solution would be to eliminate/curtail isidas' ability to heal each other period.

Seems to me all this discussion overlooks one main issue. Do we all understand why the RK has always (in my 2 yrs in the game) cost triple what the other supplies cost? Could it be because the old RK was three times a valuable. Well, now it's not. So, developers you can't have your cake and eat it too. If the new RK is so good for game balance, then balance the price as well.

Thanks for publishing these guides. I hope they're widely read and will encourage greater use of these maps. They are among my favorites; I find them much more interesting to play than some of the common ones.

So you say there will be no nerf of Isida. That seems to mean that the game will become all Isida all the time since they're now essentially unbeatable. Thanks a lot for making the whole game no fun for anyone not Isida/

I'm experiencing the same problems but also a quirk. I play 2 accts. 1 generalissimo, 1 captain and I have this happen constantly with the captain acct. but fairly rarely on the generalissimo. Just finished a full CP battle on Lost Temple with no problem, but earlier today on the captain acct. I got "reenter the game error six or seven times in a 15 min. CTF on the same map. Does this make any sense?

This must have made all the vampires Isidas happy It's now buffed back to the unbeatable annoyance of a few months ago. I spent all last weekend in battles that were completely dominated by those little twerps and it was NO FUN. A particular problem is when bunch of them band together and run around as a train. Then it might as well be an all-isida battle and everyone else should jus quit and go to another battle. Good luck finding one that isn't bloodsucker infested though.

Great job on the video. More in-game video linked to the commentary would be good. And if Hazel-rah would only work twice as hard English would be nice.

About that critical error change; far from being eliminated I seem to be seeing it more than ever. Some maps (Tribute and Chernobyl come to mind) are almost unplayable but I'm seeing this everywhere. I was in a CTF on Serpuhov yesterday and about halfway through a 15 minute battle (at which point I was in 1st or 2nd place) the error message threw me out about every 30-45 seconds. After five or more tries (and having moved well down the leaderboard) I quit in frustration. So what's going on with this?

Agree with most of this but I've seen this map quite a bit actually in pretty much all game modes. From about WO5 to major general I think I was seeing this map almost every day. To me the problem it has is, while it seems complex at first it's actually sort of monotonous once you learn it. Anyway, I like the map and agree I'd like to see it more.

Well written, smart observations, kudos

Oh and, as a side issue, half the fun of driving hornet is the drift. Why must it become history?

Well written post (and analysis). Agree with swede1, this really seems to have more to do with revenue enhancement than rebalancing game play. Especially true of the supply changes. That said, if development doesn't make enough return on their efforts why would they keep the game going?