I'm not Katsu, but I wanted to share my opinion:
I think a lot of frustration with this new version of Eruption stems from the fact that A didn't really need changes.
In the past, I've been very satisfied with the defendability of A. It gives me a fair chance to have a forward and backward hold, and although it's sometimes tough to stay alive as a RED player, I find that very fun.
With that in mind, even though the changes you made don't feel like a backwards step to me, they also don't feel like an evolution, or different point. It just feels like there are more rocks now.
If you really want to make A more defendable and make people feel like the changes you're making justify tearing out a point they liked, I recommend going wild. You could do any number of things - I've illustrated a few of them in this diagram, those being:
- Block off the cart path with a building or rock wall or something that has skybox on it so demos can't spam over it (making RED players much safer)
- Reroute the cart path to not go through this building (probably a terrible idea)
- Knock through the nearby rock wall to give RED a place to watch the cave flank
- Add a ramp up to this newly-created doorway for ease of RED rotation
- Add health and ammo where the cart path used to be (again, makes RED much safer)
Doing all these things would shoot BLU's rotate times through the roof while keeping RED's about the same and reducing the time RED spends retreating to health and ammo, which would definitely make A more defendable - maybe far too defendable!
Oh, also, you removed the ramp between the extreme high ground and extreme low ground at B. I said I felt dubious about that change, but I never explained why, so here it is: That ramp can sometimes lead to BLU taking over RED's defense unfairly, but that's a rare occurence, and in the rounds where it doesn't happen, that ramp acts as a very valuable flank for BLU when attacking RED's backward hold.
