[2019] Why were OWSF and 2km smoke firing removed from the game??

Heyo Captains,

Reading through this post I'm a little confused what OP is asking for.

The best place for information regarding this was the related patches 6.3 / 6.12 (Which was already referenced by various commentators).

With the Dev blog only starting in the 2nd half of 2017 there wasn't available additional media on this at the time. When the Portal got updated earlier this year, some of the original articles around the time did become unavailable (due to the sheer impossibility of going back and re-linking hundreds of old articles.

The basic premise of why OWSF / Smoke mechanics were changed was because they heavily impacted the game meta in a very negative way. We sought change to this, tested proposed changes, and then cleared them to be added to the game. While a lot of players found the change confronting to begin with, after the initial "sting" of it, many players agreed that it reinvigorated the game and prevented the stale "smoke camping" meta that had developed.

If you could provide some clearer questions I can try and provide further info.

Fem,