EDIT: I'm glad that people feel the same way as me. I just wanted to bring up a legitimate concern of mine and hope that DICE responds and they seem to have a good track record about listening to concern from the community.

Also, I don't know if this is just me or not and I don't know if it's tied to this 30 second issue but doesn't WA assault feel...off now. Someone brought it up in the columns below and I totally agree but thought it was just me. I really have no clue what the issue is but it "feels" different than before. This is in all maps, even vanilla. I suspect that it is due to the lack of the big initial confrontation between teams where 20 people clashed against 20. Now you have people sheepishly skirmishing. What I said below in the comments " It sucks for the people how spawn in later for obvious reasons but for the people who spawn in initially there is nothing more immersion breaking or frankly boring than spawning in to the battle of endor, the battle where the galactic empire desperately took its last breaths, only too see 2 fellow rebels and lone storm trooper in the distance playing a game as inconsequential looking as a game of paintball..."

I want to thank DICE if any employees of theirs are reading this rant for the great game they've made but we would really appreciate it if things went back to the ways of old.