ASL - Balanced?

[TheAceRabbit 16]

I hardly play ASL and noticed it's not played in general, being one of the least played game modes of the 6 currently. Personally, I almost never opt to play the red team, as they never seem to win. What are your thoughts on the mode? What kind of changes could be made to increase its popularity, or will people just never grow fond of it like ctf or tdm?

[sensei_tanker 3,098]

Honestly, it's not that bad. It's just that it gives out the lowest funds out of all the game modes except for TDM because all your points come from kills. A successful assault only gives you 4 points or something around that. Plus, it's a game where everyone on the defender side camps until the attackers are getting rekt, and then they unleash the onslaught by spawn killing everyone on the offensive.

 

On some maps, where the point is placed on the end of a map, it clearly favors the defenders more such as Silence or 2042. On others, such as Highland, where the point is placed right in the middle, it clearly favors the attackers more. 

[Heles 9,220]

Honestly, I dont think its really balanced.
Some players flavour diff team depending on the map. 
But its good they updated that u can't drop the flag for another team mate.

[LittleWillie 3,199]

Some maps seem to favor red others blue. It can produce good balanced games. But on some maps it does not seem to fit as well.  No I don; have a list ... well Osa.

[ThirdOnion 4,898]

I feel there should be more options. On some maps blue team has the advantage, on some maps red. I do not think it is balanced overall.

[railguniz4noobz 2,394]

Terrible mode. Its most balanced on the map it was designed for. On highland its practically impossible for blue to win, and the opposite on silence.

[The_Pakistani 16,768]

I hate it because

> You get only 4 points on attacking base

> You get destroyed, your team mates can't take flag

> You can't pass flags 

[Ninja 10,468]

It is balanced in some maps and in others maps it's absolutely awful. I personally think every map needs working on with different flag points, point positions etc.

[X-Toxical 174]

on Silence ASL, blue can just camp. Blue always wins. The map layouts are unfair. Also, fund is low

[Hancho 3,902]

I personally think ASL should be played in really big maps such as Skyscrapers, magistral, lost temple, Dusseldorf. They are massive maps especially Dusseldorf.

[LUCIFER1_the_dark 1,230]

I disagree with X-O's post.

The large maps favours blue team, and small maps favours red.

 

Probably maps that are dynamic should be preferred for ASL so both teams have equal level.

[nemoetnihil 388]

It was much better in its original version. You received lots of xp for capturing a flag, and the blue team could return them for xp. Now it is just lame, as kills are the only way to get xp. Especially now that the blue teams get points for kills. Though all that really did was make it favor the blue team instead of the red team.

[gokuMI6 1,290]

It is balanced when both the teams are full and are of similar ranks 

:ph34r:

[Do.Or.DiE 521]

Unbalanced, Unnecessary and also hard to get XP mode i have ever seen.

[austen_pierce 1,948]

I noticed Assault Mode used to give out nice funds. Not any more.

 

Rugby is the new hotness, so funds are higher there.

 

I’ve ranted on other threads about ASL balance being map-specific and others have made the same point above.

 

Tanki isn’t even talking about fixing this, although I do see unannounced changes to flag and assault point locations every once in a while.

[T-34-3m 360]

I'd argue Rugby is less balanced on every map, but ASL tends to vary based on where it's played. I sort of like that, I'm of the opinion that maps should have a sort of "flow" to them that remains a constant. There's always going to be a sentry in the intel room on 2fort, just like there's always going to be Shafts on Highways.