But - how significant are the new changes

[Mike Abberton]

While I never played EF, as I understand it, when the assault rules were changed it was in the presentation of an entirely new game, EFII versus EF. That's not quite the same thing as a patch to an ongoing game.

I am just not sure why something so significant was changed without making it optional. Imagine if CS had never included the armor facing rule, and then all of a sudden v1.03 came along and only had armor facing effects.