I'm honestly baffled with the direction of CM during the last 2 or so years. Every single element of the game has been dumbed down and reduced in favour of PFC players.
Going shipside sucks? Gut the damage system, organ damage and delimbs are rare, IB is a joke.
Going to a medic sucks? Give every single person healing supplies and a lot of them, why not?
Xeno 1v1ing me with stuns? Guess what, now xenos have to bend over backwards to even touch a marine.
Req isn't sending anything down? No problem, grab what you need from
Every single change for the past 2 years has been focused solely on experience of the Squad Marine. And while I'm not against appealing to the larger part of the playerbase, why does it have to come at the cost of killing the server's identity? Playing Marine used to suck, that was the point. You ever seen Aliens? Xenos are the perfect killers, you're SUPPOSED to feel like the odds are against you. Getting game ended by mechanics sucks, sure but every defeat makes the eventual victory all the better. That's what the game used to be about.
But even ignoring the PFC here, why did every other role have to take a hit for it? All support departments took a massive hit. Medical is useless because there's little permament damage, Req is useless because rounds are short, Command is useless because the game flow is extremely static and losing the frontline means you lose the round. And xenos? Many people quit because of MOBA. I don't think the idea behind it was wrong but I'm not a fan of where we ended up with it.
CM being bad for PFC players was the entire point of the server, that was it's identity. That's why so many people made long term friendships here, that's where all the old memes came from. That's why it stood out among the other servers, because it tied all the roles together in an organic way and made people want work together. And now that entire part of the game has been reduced. In favour of what? Laggy, tile based twin stick shooter TDM, where nothing except left clicking enemy sprites matters?