My problem with this was as such: I've had my Ice Breaker for weeks (before Xur). I have played with scout rifles since launch. I have long been the dedicated sniper role, and prefer to sit back as far as I can and provide sniper support. One less player on the field to distract enemies, but providing deadly snipes and saving people's skins by sniping what's sneaking up behind. When I got to the Templar fight, the first thing I did was try to find the safest place to use my scout rifle and tear apart the hordes of Vex. Shortly after, the hobgoblins spawned, and I immediately turned to figure out a way I could get up there to snipe. I found a lovely perch on the left, just above the hobgoblin that spawns, and everyone knew what I was up to. One person warned to not die up there, they couldn't safely get up to me, but I had it covered. I could reach two oracles, all four hobgoblins on the left, and could regularly shoot the boss. Sure, I could be shot back at as well, and I had little to no cover from anything, but I could safely survey the whole field, and play my unique sniper role. This was no attempt at cheese; this was one person in the fireteam taking a dedicated sniper role, a role that is partly necessary in team mechanics. We tried figuring out if there was a cheese method of fighting from these platforms, but we couldn't really handle the oracles, and most people couldn't shoot anything. Unless everyone had snipers, everyone was perched all around the map to handle the oracles, and everyone could self revive, a very team-based effort to make a party of snipers work... this method was just absolute crap. So I, the dedicated sniper in our regular VoG fireteam, have lost out on the ability to snipe. The Ice Breaker doesn't let you change scopes, so it's best used from long ranges exclusively. This was one of the few times it was useful: taking the high perch, not dealing with ammo, and sniping down on everything, the way the Ice Breaker was intended to work. I would have to take a weaker zoom sniper, and have to deal with reloading and enemies around me as I try to snipe. There aren't many places in the game where you can use the Ice Breaker effectively. Now it too has been nerfed in the VoG due to restricting sniping like the enemies are allowed to. PS Someone clearly put the pillar on the left to get up to the platform there. That pillar is short and provides almost no sort of functional cover or other design elements; it's clearly a stepping stone. Someone designed the map so you could get up there and snipe with the snipers or fight them with shotguns or melees if you wished. Now someone else has realized that's there, and told players "No". Now enemies can still spawn up there... But players aren't allowed near. Kinda unfair, don't you think? Provide a stepping stone for snipers to snipe from where snipers snipe, but don't allow snipers to snipe where snipers snipe.