Heavy Medal is an awful mechanic, and has been the sole, stupid reason I've both won and last too many games. So many games are decided upon the melee using their LB on the person with 3+ stacks in the last few seconds of the match, then picking up the medals and running away.

The mechanic sucked to begin with, and to know that the changes are only getting MORE detrimental are very disheartening. This mechanic does not belong in PVP, as it punishes you for getting kills, and when paired with something like the melee LB, makes it so teams with absolutely no skill can beat teams that get ahead of them.

Honestly, the idea that medals need to be picked up is pretty bad to begin with. If you insist on keeping this gimmick in the game mode, just distribute the medals evenly across team members.