Quote Originally Posted by Xeonerable View Post
It is indeed worse, the constant uptime of shards means that if you fall behind there's basically slim chance of catching up.

Then again I'm pretty sure SE doesn't internally test anything PVP related.
You have a better chance of catching up now because there are more big ice. All you have to do is actually pvp and deny the winning team access to big ice. Came back from a 400 point deficit the other day.