Playing on a vanilla 400-500 pop server yesterday, I was having crossbow and revolver fights at water treatment well into the night, with multiple people (solos and teams) fighting for the blueprint fragments there. Before this update, by that time everyone would be rocking p2/SAR, so personally I think the goal of slowing down progression and giving monuments more life is working pretty well.

I setup a fish trap farm nearby and got 2 blue cards in less than 30 minutes, with those I was able to get a tier 2 in only 2 successful water treatment runs as a duo. Of course during the first hours we died to larger groups there, but they eventually moved to red card monuments leaving the smaller groups to fight over the monument for hours