the old lobby made more sense to me.
imo, the best order of action would be:
1: vote for map
2: after the map is picked, some players will leave.
shuffle teams based on skill, then dont let anyone change their team.
3: let players see if theyre on the attacking or defending side. (???)
doesnt everyone pick mercs according to what map and side they play? is this some new game concept to send players blindfolded into a match? whats the benefit of this?
4: give everyone enough time to select mercs, possibly even let the map load and THEN synch all loadouts. sending a few bytes of data from/to all players doesnt take minutes, right?
i dont understand why sd cant get this right, is my logic weird? am i forgetting something?