What are your thoughts of Aerial Assist now?

[cmrnpizzo14]

Many people complained both publicly and privately that they did not like this game both in the beginning and throughout most of the season. These people often felt that the game was:

1.) Too defensive focused and just led to huge pileups instead of actual game play.

2.) Too reliant on alliance partners and not allowing a team to succeed on its own.

3.) Too complicated for referees that lead to many bad or missed calls.

4.) Boring and a step back from what Ultimate Ascent and Rebound Rumble brought to the table.

What are your thoughts now? Have your thoughts changed at all since the beginning of the year? Did you hate the game and now think its mediocre? Think its good?



Personally, I think that Einstein showed Aerial Assist how it was meant to be played with goalie bots in auton, 3 assist cycles with trusses and interaction from the human players on the side during teleop, and close games right up until the end. I liked the game from the beginning but I loved it after Einstein. My non-FIRST friend also loved the game. He said that it was difficult to pick up at first but that was from me trying to describe the game during qualification matches at an average regional. He picked up on more and loved it during elims.