I get it 343, you aren’t Bungie and you want this game to be more “chaotic” with asymmetrical maps and randomizing the weapon and vehicles drops every game. That is honestly fine, but for the love of god, can you not at least make it fair or balanced on the weapons and vehicles that spawn, as well as WHEN they spawn?
BTB is a casual gamemode that is meant to allow people to relatively relax and have fun; I get it. But nothing screams “this game is so fun!” than when you give the enemy team a -Yoink!- scorpion tank while your team gets zero, zip, nada because, well, F*** you that’s why!
Like seriously, I just got out of a match of BTB control, where both the enemy team and my team kept stalemating on the center zone. It WAS fun, trying to coordinate and strategize with randoms, getting countered, and then having to find another way to try and break past their line and capture their last zone. Then, halfway through the game of 0-0, you give the enemy team a -Yoink!- scorpion tank on their side of the map, while my team doesn’t get the pleasure of seeing a pelican fly over our side. Guess what happens next? Due to a lack of shock rifles and hydras (yep, the enemy base had shock rifles and hydras while we had the ravager and pulse rifle), they proceeded to completely steam roll our team. After 2 minutes of completely dominating us, a pelican decides to finally grace our side of the map with a warthog. THANKS 343. THAT WAS SO F***ING FUN, ESPECIALLY THE PART WHERE WE LOST SOLELY BECAUSE YOU HANDED THE WIN TO THE OTHER TEAM ON A SILVER PLATAR.
THAT isn’t fun! None of that random spawning is fun! Honestly, who thought that was a great idea? At the core, the idea IS fun, but you have to make it balanced! Roll the weapons for the map when the game loads (i.e. shock rifle or pulse rifle, BR or commando, Sniper or Skewer, etc) and then make it so that BOTH teams get the SAME weapons that were randomly selected for the match. Then do the same for vehicles. Roll the vehicles for the map when the game loads (i.e. mongoose or gungoose, warthog or ghost, wasp or banshee, scorpion or wraith, etc) and then make it so that BOTH teams get the SAME vehicles at the SAME TIME!
By doing that simple fix, you still get the randomness of “what vehicles or weapons will we get today on this map?” while at least making it FAIR. This game is already failing on numerous issues, and I don’t see this game surviving at all in the foreseeable future if it continues down this design choice. I am honestly surprised you reverted back to having spartans be equal (as in not have custom loadouts or perks), because with all the other choices you have made for this game, that was the ONLY one that actually considered game balance.