Quote Originally Posted by RydiaFey View Post
I feel the same way. I wish 8v8 was still a thing. >.> ...
I disagree with this, because this is exactly how I feel the new 4v4 is. 8V8 was just a fast paced cluster of people diving in, hitting eachother until something dies, getting boxes if they randomly hit them, and having no true team-factor or tactic-based strategy. To me, this is what the new 4v4 is. It's literally just hit eachother with your 8 buttons until something dies. There's no way to communicate tactics, no real team effort, and as a solo player there's rarely anything you can do to 'carry' a game despite how skilled you are. With the addition of people raising on the spot they died in, there is no more retreat and, as such, it becomes merely 5 minutes of consistant fighting with no respite or way to think.

Alongside this, light medals punish the team who wins insanely. Get 3 kills very close to the beginning because you're team is simply better/more co-ordinated? Well, tough. Now the enemy team has 4 minutes of vuln down and you have 4 minutes of vuln up. Even as an amazing healer you will simply just run out of MP. It's gotten to the point where it's more valuable to lose the majority of your medals at the beginning and then just steal them at the end.