Originally Posted by
Pigeon
Ice is an arachic map made for long ago. It a map of stalemates and suiciding your whole force to prevent mass suicide on the ladders, or even more fun it results in a meta of rushing LZ2.
The biggest issue is this map was not built for the current design of how maps should be, or in other words telecommunications is the problem. With the deployable telecomm it made LZ1 and 2 viable but worse it made telecommunications on Ice pointless. Now look where it is, it is far from the LZ, but it was made like that with an purpose. You can not easily mega-fob on LZ1 as you can get cut off from telecomm and this back and forth would prevent stalemate hell, and LZ2 was just a mega-elevator drop effectively as there was no telecomm there so was more dangerous to deploy there and all. Since LZ1 is hell to assault aliens do not want to attack knowing it will be suicide against the full marine force and marines obviously dont want to go down because that is death.
Just remove this stalemate hell map it just too old for the current meta.