Probably everyone who played BTB a few times knows about this issue:
One team gets a Scorpion/Wraith, and the other team gets nothing…
I kinda thought this was fixed with Season 2.
Well ok, perhaps it was because there were mostly no Tank-Spawns at all anymore. This might just “felt” like it was fixed.
However, now they switched back to the spawn frequency of late Season 1.
Did this bring back asymmetrical vehicle spawns, aka was there never a fix for this issue?
Because last night I played a long and intense match of total control. We were in the lead, but then the other team arrived with a Scorpion. I was looking around and couldn’t find our team’s tank, as well. But ok, perhaps it was just destroyed quite quickly.
5 minutes later the other team showed up with a Wraith - and again there was no trace of a second one for our team.
“If” this is actually still an issue, then…ooof. What an embarrassment by the developers 
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Yes, there’s still dumb vehicle drops at random parts of the map. Sometimes one side gets all the drops sometimes they don’t at all. So if your team isn’t paying attention to vehicle drops at all, it’s entirely possible the enemy can grab both and just roll on your team.
Honestly, Droppods with Power weapons and Vehicle drops really suck. They need to not exist, period. Idk how 343 doesn’t realise that randomly dropping items into the sandbox is never a fun experience, and never will be.
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I don’t mind the weapon drops, it’s stops camping for weapons and reduces control.
But the vehicles, omg, get this one right guys.
Also, has another else noticed in fiesta we’re not getting tanks and wraiths as much anymore?
Its still an issue. Yesterday in a BTB match. The other team got a tank, our team got a rocket warthog.
Dont know how its supposed to counter a tank with a warthog.
Hopefully they balance it out better, it’s been an issue for a while.
I miss mcc btb maps with the spawns at each base at start of game already, wish they would bring it back even if they dropped by pelicans.
Just had this while playing with my friends, the whole enemy team got Vehicle Spawns & we only got a Rocket Hog to spawn, it’s absolutely not fun
Which shouldn’t be a thing. Arena shooters are about the map control game as much as it is just shooting and killing your enemy. If you feel so strongly about vehicles, why do you not feel as strongly about the weapon drops?
Do you like it when your team gets a Sword while the enemy team gets a Cindershot or Rocket? Like that’s hardly even fair especially for BTB. The randomness needs to go. It’s just not Halo, or Arena shooter for the record.
The sooner we go back to static spawns the better.
Forge will fix this.
At least I can promise you, when it comes out, I’ll drop some serious fancy but “classic” maps 
I’m ok with the weapon drops because:
A) they have limited rounds before they’re used up while a vehicle has unlimited
B) the drops occur in random location at seemingly random times with random items.
Hard to map memorize that, while the vehicles, you’re not only can memorize what time the vehicle drop is, but the spawn in the same place, so the enemy can easily push at the right time to nab them
C) the vehicles make a huge impact on the game, a tank can stay safe behind the line of combat and devastate at range, while the drops (with some exceptions) have to be engaged at the line.
But speaking of which, look at breaker in BTB. Breaker has sniper rifles as a respawning map weapon. That’s a terrible weapon to respawn on that map because breaker has only 4 channels of movement, and a player whose very good with the sniper can lock down 3 of the 4. With that weapon respawning regularly, that one player can dispportionately effect the flow of the game for the entire game.
It is awful. Today I was playing BTB CTF. My team was winning 1-0, and then, in the last 7 minutes the enemy got the Scorpion and the Wasp. We ended up losing 3-1. The randomized vehicle drops are awful, it being asymetrical is even worst since the game ends up deciding which team wins.
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Is this still a thing? It sure felt that way this last match I just played. It feels really bad when suddenly the enemy team is pelting your stockpile point with a scorpion from halfway across the map and your team doesn’t get anything.
Honestly this was an unfortunate idea.
Please let there be BTB Classic as a playlist.