I’m no expert but i feel the problem with Skyhammer is the very mario-kart feel it has doesn’t mesh well.
There needs to be a real trade-off for going for the hammer, as right now it’s pretty much all reward little risk. Controlling the hammer with certain classes is pretty simplistic too and rewards bunkers (read more defensive specs) more than anything as they turn what should be a 5v4 into a 5v3 since someone will inevitably gravitate toward removing them from the hammer.
Changing the hammer to a fixed spawn time to either force teamfights or splitting of objectives might help alleviate this, as would an ammo system or heat system of some kind.
Additionally a potential redesign of where the portal is located as well as where you can flee too from the hammer would go a long way in improving tactical decision making. If for instance 3 portals were on the map, 1 near each capture point you could make the decision to bail from skyhammer to rotate quickly and assist A or C as opposed to going through an obvious choke at B.
Glass Panels are the bane of this map, i would probably remove them. However, if you wish to keep them they need a serious tweak where in maybe only the hammer can break them.
Additionally bouncing pads, need the glider treatment where-in activation is client side not server side. This will help reducing some wonky bugs where you go up but not to max height.
The middle could probably use a bit less LoS as the sheer amount of LoS obstacles on this map is already high enough if you include the capture points.
TL;DR less banana peels and blue turtle shells. Make PvP the focus, not the comeback mechanics.
