Kiting stuff, keep it here!

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Say what you will about first defence, like it or not it was the most played and popular map.  Maybe it was balanced in the players favor, but your talking about ONE map out of many.

Things cannot be balanced in favour of someone, it's the very definition of imbalance.
Reason why it was the most popular and played map is because it was hillariously inbalanced. People tend to stick with maps which give them easier victories (or a chance to get further than usual).
When you have a wide diversity of maps while players only cling on playing only on 1 or 2 maps, it's pretty obvious that those 1 or 2 maps are far easier to play than the rest of them. To get some balance you either nerf those few maps or you make all those other maps equally easy and it's pretty obvious which route the devs took.

Ask your self's this...Does having 1-2 good kiting maps really harm this mod???

I'm all for kiting as long as long as it's made harder. With current enormous ammo stacks, insanely high rate of fire, ability to outrun all bots and bots being outsmarted by average lemming, it's not really challenging nor skillful.