Thats what I loved about eggwars, there was more than one way to play! I could use a fast pick to spleef people, bowspam, use redstone (my favorite was to make a tnt cannon to launch myself to the top of my base), but this new update removed the chaotic fun of old eggwars imo, In favor of subpar gameplay.As a person who sometimes liked to save up heavy armor before attacking an enemy team apart from also rushing time to time(for around 15 minutes grace period where the enemy gets iron armor).Loved bowspamming in attack and defense,loved tnt cannons and loved all sorts of weird tactics to play the game and at one point I even intentionally played in a way that I called anti tryhard(lol i know its stupid).I absolutely think this change is useless and just makes the game even more annoying to play.
There is no real use to killing any player as they can get the armor back so fast and it just turns into a giant stalemate that does not require any tactics or skill that can wipe out the enemy and neither can you fight against campers when you are sweating.It feels like I am playing ww1 simulator and I legit had a fight that was we bowspamming and doing 0 damage for 10 minutes yesterday.It was really stupid and I absolutely did not enjoy that even as a bowspammer.
Neither did sweating and rushing really work.In old eggwars if the enemy has an advantage like a sharp sword or diamond armored players and you manage to kill them you can severely weaken the enemy team and charge their base after destroying their main force. Now they can respawn and get iron armor in half a minute and I feel like I am playing a bad version of bedwars where you get attack by hordes of players constantly while you do not have the ability to use items such as tnt effectively to force them away from the egg(Its too expensive nowadays) when attacking others bases.
Where as in old eggwars(java 2017 era)even with the bowspamming you can gradually move towards the enemy egg and push their base and once you arrive, the victory has already been decided as after the fight the victor will either destroy the egg or push back and invade the enemy base immediately and break the other egg then their team.The new version allows for human waves tactics that are beyond annoying to play with.And basically no other tactics,cant spleef with the slow pickaxe,cant use redstone since its deleted,cant rush when the enemy uses the extremely knockback resistant netherite to swarm you to death and cant camp when your bows does so little knockback against netherite players(even the punch bow).
I seriously think as someone who played a defense and pushing playstyle a lot as well as every single playstyle you can ever think of this is the last thing we need and I rather see 200 sweats charge each others base,rushing is exciting and it has its fun parts.I seriously do not know what player the changes are catering for as most of the people I know quit the game once this update is out and I cannot find them in the lobby where as usually I can find ppl I know basically every two games.I am unable to find this interesting in any playstyle I can think of,I dont even think people that break the rules(hackers etc) would enjoy this except for underground campers which got like a extreme buff.
The crossbows are incrediately laggy and often malfunction and its accuracy is terrible.The enchants make no sense as if you want to break the enemy defense, you should be able to get special items via occupying middle that cant be farmed in their bases which promotes pvp (like a sharp sword and eff 12 pick that can definitely break the stalemate of no eggs breaking and if the enemy is stronger they can easily stop it as it takes a very long time to do so).Not get final kills as in a stalemate you wouldnt get any at all(And the stuff is so expensive that if you are able to get so many kills you wouldn't need the upgrades).
My opinion is to just revert the update before every top player that loves the game quits, you can see that in java edition as well and I really cant find that many og players anymore and it also did not save the server,instead it alienated the most dedicated supporters of eggwars.I intentionally came to bedrock from java just to keep playing the game I liked and now if I cant play it anymore(just like tower defense),I am sorry but I wont play cubecraft anymore and I will let cubecraft stay in my memories instead.