they also affected the medals required for quick boom, creepy crawler and a few other things. All in all the whole setup is fine, they addressed a preference issue for the game however there's more important things for them to work on. Lag, weapon balances, the inability to re spawn in hunter arena, groups separating while finding players, ect.
also the retro maps are all cool except the fort, it's not built for UC3 and most people will get their shit stomped by Fal-SS/ Dragon snipers on the upper levels and molested by RoF kal-7's and revenge grenades in the corridors underground.