In PvP, each map generally is split pretty evenly on what spawns for each teams side. But I’ve noticed that the battle rifle and commando can often have one on one side and one on the other? Is this on purpose? Because IMO the Battle Rifle in most situations will destroy everything the commando is good for…
It’s kind of like that Air Base level, where one side gets good vehicles and the other gets like… ATV’s lol…
It’s not always the case… Sometimes both sides get the same stuff. But I’ve seen plenty of situations where it does happen that one team gets a Battle Rifle in their Battle Rifle/Comando spot, while the other team gets the other option.
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They should leave the spawns as they are (random), but make them identical (symmetrical) for each team to keep it balanced.
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Good question. Been wondering the same in BTB.
Every Map has one team start with the shock rifle at their base and the opposite team only gets the Stalker Rifle.
That’s a one shot weapon vs a 3 shot kill weapon.
Seems mighty unbalanced.
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On the one hand, having a Shock Rifle/Stalker Kill Challenge and not having either spawn at my base in Deadlock but being able to sneak over to the other team’s base and take it is nice 
On the other hand, playing a game on Highpower where the Hydra will spawn at one base and having a Ravager at the other base on a very Wasp-happy map…hoo boy.
At the very least have both bases spawn the same weapons.
I doubt how that’ll work. The next weapon or the current one also changes? cuz maybe one team wont even use commando so will that team’s commando will be changed to br as well even if they dont pick it up?
At least for BTB, mirrored spawns with all weapons available should be the way to go.
Remember, this is not 8v8 anymore, it’s 12v12.
There are not enough weapons to go around if everyone wants to trade up, and even old Halo games have more than enough weapons for 8v8.
I’ve went and checked and noticed all BTB maps for each side have a total of :
2 Utiliy weapon racks (your plasma junk)
1 launcher weapon (Ravager and Hydra)
1 Shotgun (Heat and Bull)
1 SMG (Needler or Sentinel Beam)
2 Marksman rifle (Commando or BR)
1 “sniper” (Shock or Stalker)
There are so little weapons to trade around and most of these are kinda junk compared to AR+SK anyway.
Let me mention Deadlock too: randomly get either 2 BRs, 1Br 1Com or 2Coms like wtf lol. Everyone knows the Com is trash, gratz you just made one team actually unable to crossmap.
The way 343 designs the weapon spawns are logically sound : ONLY IF THESE WEAPONS ARE EQUAL IN PERFORMANCE, WHICH THEY ARE NOT.
Weapon balance needs to come first, but a good compromise is to mirror the spawns. If one side gets trash Commandos and Distuptors, the other side should as well.
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