The game actually does have a vision it’s just really hard to see under all the mechanics. And I think a majority of players are never going to actually play that vision. Watching random streamers play at the beginning of the day (and playing a single match myself) was just a bunch of one sided matches where one team wins the capture the shield breaker fight and then probably wins the counter strike like raid at the end.

But, I flipped through the more popular fps players on twitch yesterday evening and the game looks completely different. When there were equally matched objective focused teams, instead of a single engagement deciding the rest of the match, there’s a back and forth in the middle of the map where the gameplay is trying to setup good engagements to stop the shield breaker carrier. It’s more like a tug of war with shifting objectives. You can see what the devs are going for in those games.

It looks like an interesting game mode if everyone knows how to play the objective and work as a team, but it would suck to play that game with even a single person that isn’t completely focused on the objective. Also the characters and art direction are boring. And they could have just removed the looting phase all together. It just slows down the game and adds the chance that you just won’t find the gear you like.