I don't know exactly where would be the best spot for A, but just closer. Anywhere closer. It's still a hike and a half away if you spawn over there, and then you just get immediately killed at a choke point.

I totally agree that it's worse now. If you cap A at all, it seems like it will always spawn you over there, regardless of whether you also have B and/or C. B might be a little easier to attack from the doors or heavy ammo spawn, but it is much harder to attack from the hallway just outside where it used to be. It feels like there are really only two viable routes in there now instead of the magic number of three that make control points feel much more balanced and fair.

As it's turned into a tremendous campfest where it feels like whoever can hold the interior wins.

Maybe they need to leave the control points unbalanced, keep them where they originally were. Instead, move the heavy ammo so that the team defending A has easier access to it. That way there is a slight advantage to the team stuck with only one control point?

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The sniper-block walls inside, that I get--but the new heavy weapon placement still isn't in a good place. It's just forcing players to go to a seldom visited part of the map. And the closed shutter makes the stuff really hard. I mean, if anyone goes after C, you're boned. And it's still there on SlayMatch, which means no escape route/cover when you need it. The extra barricades inside don't really matter that much--I actually got kills--plenty of them--walking up and down that hallway leading to the door at B. It could still spawn a problem.

I think it definitely still has problems, but I like the new layout a lot more than the old one. Part of it is not everyone online has adjusted yet. But even some of the changes have led randoms to play differently in a positive way.

Couple points, positive first:
* Going from A to C is much more viable now as the route is a little shorter, and much more direct.
* Heavy ammo near A is more accessible, a lot more people actually go for it so my team actually has heavy ammo when we're spawning at A instead of ignoring it.
* Sniping from around C is much more hazardous now as there is very little cover with the windows closed.
* The 3 routes to attack B all have open lines of sight on the capture point immediately when you get in the building. Which in turn makes it much more difficult to hold B than it used to be.

Negative:
* Choke-point door from A side door to B is still too easy to hold.
* Grenades aren't as good for clearing out B since there are more places to go from the point.
* A is way too open compared to how it was before.
* A is still much worse to hold than C.

There are others, but that's what I come up with easily off the top of my head.

I like the maps that aren't balanced with each point being equal. The fact of the matter is that having unbalanced maps makes strategy important, and the strategy for Blindwatch is clearly "Go directly to C. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200." That's fine by me. The team that starts at C only has a slight advantage over the team that starts at A in so much that everyone on their team needs to know to hold C at all costs and to not ever try to take A. It only takes one little goomba to screw up that plan.

I do hate the shuttered window though, and I 100% agree that moving point C further back made it easier to hold rather than more balanced.

Right now point C has far more access paths to point B than point A does. From C you can: Go through the lower door in back, up the stairs to B. Through the side lower door near C, past the heavy ammo, then up the stairs to B, Go through the side lower door near the old point C, past the heavy ammo, then up to B, up to the shuttered window, down the hall, through the door past old B to new B.

From point A you have: Through the choke point door down the stairs to B or Down the hallway past old B to new B. All other path options for A converge at the hallway, so they don't actually make any difference to enemy players holding the choke points.

If I had my druthers, I'd move the points yet again, to:

- Point A: On the ground below and behind the rotating turbine. It would invite grenades, but be more defensible and with blocked line of sight, enemies would have to guess if anyone was there or not.
- Point B: In the choke point at the top of the stairs. Remove the door from the top so assaulting players from A can throw grenades in.
- Point C: Where it was originally, under the sloped roof.

Heavy ammo spawns:
- Near Point A: Up and behind point A where the original Point A zone was.
- Near Point C: Inside the window above C.

Other geometry changes I would like to see:
- Remove the shutter from the window over C.
- Remove the door at the top of the stairs between A and B.
- Add an opening in the wall one floor directly below the door at the top of the stairs where you could jump from the blown-out lower floor to the platforms on the pipes by B. This route might need an additional platform added on the pipes, too.

Thanks to Gungable on Reddit for this.

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