While winning Ground Assault matches has become possible again with the desync fix, it seems to be more difficult than it was prior to Hornet’s Sting. I have been in an abnormally high number of rounds which were lost during the last wave including one at Kursk which started the final wave with full tickets, although this one was (in my opinion) lost by a single player: the AA guy who thought it a good idea to stop shooting planes in wave 8. By the time he realised that this was a top-class bad idea, six bot planes had blown half the group to bits, and getting back in position without being splattered by one of 30 sniping IS-2s is not exactly easy - I was killed three times during this wave, once by a plane and twice by tanks while trying to get into a shooting position.
That’s the core of my question. In any match I’ve played over the last four days which ended with tickets drained during wave 11 (seven or eight, I think), the bots in this wave seem to be on steroids. Seeing five or six players blown up in the first 10 seconds of the wave, check, including the much-loved “bot places kill shot right the moment it spawns”.
Is that just my rotten luck or has anybody else noticed an uptick in last wave losses?