The latest patch has fixed a lot of balance issues and I want to start by thanking the devs.
The problem with the current balance is the community abusing long range weapons.
This has always been a problem, and the problem is going to grow even worse now that prize fighter, flamer/incinerator have taken a big hit.
There is wide array of powerful long-range weapons
- shocktrains
- railguns/Zeus/trebuchet
- trident/Dragoon
- noricum
- vortex
This is leading to an entire community of long range players that sit back disengaged from all opponents, creating long, drawn out matches that are more about patience than player skill.
Another problem I would mention is that the speed of combat is very slow. Default gas regeneration is too slow to keep pace with weapon reload times, and the game is not very fast paced.