The Jury still out .
If you progress incrementally you are bound to lose the parts eventually and you may have to sink a lot of resources 'to keep it going until you have to use anything else, 100% blue.
( this also could be affecting how people do their games, to be able to minimized the repairs cost in the end)
Even if you use a blue version of that same build you are bound to take some beaten from time to time, at the end you will have more resources , fun in a budget.
I see some tackers but i don’t see any protectors, why?
The starter build was just to jump start the thing, we are not supposed to keep using it
I’m doing ok with spitfires
It’s also bad, if at the end you get 1 vs 1, that means the game was balanced, most probably either build are in a sorry state, cabs burning, missing half of movement parts… it’s a coin toss.
Funny story, in one game where we had the upper hand, we lost it, in the end was between two guys with no weapons, missing half of their wheels trying to push the other guy into the acid lake…let’s just say i got older just for watching that 
Listen, just go with the flow, this mode isn’t the shark feeding frenzy i’m use to…and miss…more important than map awareness is team mate awareness, if you lose you lose, if you win you win.
You know? This mode lacks the point system ( which works like a charm, extremely well, let me tell you ), we should had been given orbs and no caps.
Yes there’s long range play but it almost always ends in a brawl ( you need the orbs for points, to not only win but to end well on the scoreboard ) you are in a competition with 11 players, half of them will try to take you down.
Plenty of incentives.
VS
That same lame BS where the two teams go cap the other base in simultaneous, than some of them will try to delay the progress, win or defeat it’s a waste of time with no action whatsoever in some of them.
In matches like that i wish the game disconnected ( network error ) …but no, that my friend, almost always happens when i’m in a raid, i don’t get the resources and lose my fuel.