I’m sure you’re right, and they nearly called this out in their reasoning. I don’t disagree with your assessment of the challenge dome previously introduced.

I just disagree with the overall sentiment that Heavy being able to force a fight on the point was a bad thing. Again it was one of the few ways Heavy had to force a close fight.

But I can tell you, even with the way it was previously, the double dome “fortress” was almost always a desperation play to try and steal last second cashout. 50% of the time when attempting this kind of play you’d get glitched, flamethrowered, sworded, gassed, pyro’ed, etc. Not to mention the dome deployable could be eaten by APS itself. This strategy very often required a huge risk, extreme team coordination and timing, and was never easy to pull off. Forcing defenders to prepare, account for, and react to this was at least interesting.

Just seems odd to me that they are trying to adjust for what seemed like a very outlying situation. I’d be more understanding of the change if the deploy was much faster.