Im all for a balance patch to wars, but as has been the norm with AGS (massively overtuned balance patches), making defense spawn in the fort is way overtuned. AGS always nerfs things way too much, instead of small amounts 1 patch at a time, like they did with the GA awhile ago, and the FS too, 15 nerfs in 1 patch instead of just… small nerfs and some wait too see how meta develops.
Lets be real: The only reason they are making defense spawn in the fort, is because those spawns already exist, and they do not have the resources of the fooks to give, so they just recycle spawns. how about making defense spawn behind ramparts? or on top of the fort wall? and then adjusting it further if there is a need for it… nah lets just do the lazy update and make territories musical chair for a few months until people complain its too easy to offense.
i agree the current war system is a bit too defensively skewed, however, the fort spawn makes it so that as soon as offense gets 1 point, they now spawn 2x closer to points than you, offense will now have too easy of a time.
I agree about offense spawning closer. I think the points shouldn’t be spawn points for anyone. I think both teams should spawn in their respective forts.
This post was amazing, completely agree the nerf is too much… Definitely should spawn at the ramparts or outside the doors? Imagine a long respawn timer on top of spawning in fort, if your team wipes once its done.
I love that AGS is listening about defense being too overpowered but I feel like after this patch, ATTACK will be too overpowered… I hope they find the sweet spot on these respawn locations.
You’re upset that it’s now going to be a more fair fight?
Defenders will still have an advantage if they’ve bothered to do fort upgrades, and now perhaps now they’ll need to actually defend their territory when influence runs happen.
Imagine needing a good plan to defend a territory instead of just throwing your life away over and over because you can just respawn at a point you need to defend.
Defenders have had it way too easy for a long time and raked in the benefits for barely having to show up. Now that it’s going to be a real fight I suspect there will be a lot of companies with millions in their treasury crying bloody murder.
I think I would be ok with BOTH sides to not be able to spawn on points (making things a little bit more realistic and forcing you to pay more attention to death) until all points are taken.
The current change instead is a nonsense, unbalancing things on the attacking side. There’s serious risk of changing things too much and losing even more player base.
They could do a lot of things to help attackers, included giving them good siege weapons instead of the current useless ones, maybe even stronger than defensive ones.
The reply above also contains interesting suggestions.
It’s like AGS didn’t even spend 5 minutes thinking how to improve the situation and just went for the worst solution they could make in those 5 minutes.
War design in general is lazy and wrong. It’s pretty obvious that it was implemented with minimal effort under a time crunch just for the sake of having a war/territory system
Them spawning in fort makes the 3 points 50/50. As both will have to run back to the wargrounds. Sorry you can’t see the bigger picture. But this will make it Company overall player skill vs Company overall player skill. No longer can bad companies be cushioned on defense bc of respawn on points.
You don’t need point A, B, or C to win a defensive war. All the matters is the fort. You still have the MAJOR ADVANTAGE of spawning in the fort during the last point capture. The attackers have to run all the way from outside of the fort back to inside of it.
If your team was evenly matched with the attackers, you 100% will defend that fort.
You are just upset, possibly because you are in a weak company compared to strong opposing faction companies.
There is more and more Attackers who flip territory since last patch . I noticed they changed how fast you capture point as same as OPR ( way faster than before ). Also attackers bow don’t rush for points but go for controlling spawn ( inside or outside forts) . I really have a hard time with this heavy nerf to defender. At the moment, if the attacking team is better than defensive team they will win territory .
its basiclly all an open field, stock respawns and 3 points + a fort.
no attrition. no strategy. no potential high ground and cover for attackers, all the same distance, zero fog of war, no decisions to be made besides go to a b or c and sweep.
the best thing to do is just gain momentum and pushtrough each point as fast as possible with grav well tactics and dumping large AOEs into clumps.
there are tactics yes. but only one viable strategy. and that is lame beyond all means for a WAR.
The real weakness of attacking forces in new world is that the only strategy we’re allowed is that of the direct offensive attack on a strongly held enemy position, while they’re ready for it, down the line of greatest expectation, against an opponent of exactly the same numerical strength that we have.
It’s a perfect storm of terrible military strategy. All of the worst options combined into one attack. It could only be worse if the defenders had a moat or an air force.
The only tools available to overcome the downsides of that terrible strategy are:
Coordinated tactical maneuvers on the small scale. (mobility)
Having better gear
Individual Player skill.
There’s all of one actual tactical remedy, the rest are circumstantial and generally out of the control of the general/shotcaller.
What I mean is if a company is really better than defender ( even on live server) , territory will swap. And yes better company / players should win . I just think they nerfing defense way too hard. We will see at end of March because we all know they won’t change anything from PTR
I won attacking war 3 days ago, and we lost 2 defending war this weekend also against better players. Good players / company don’t need this change Edit : I’m on Castle of Steel and a lot of calogonor pvp company came here and are really good , we will see tonight they are attacking EF vs OG CoS