not by any means. it would be nice if it took more than a speed packed light to rape a base, but you're never gonna see a decline in the number of mortar packing heavies if a team has its base up.
overall, spawning in light will help out the defense more than it creates a new offense. a more mobile player has a better, easier, and altogether more productive time on a spawn defensive setting (ie when your base is trashed). granted, defenses that relied on the buckler before are going to have to learn to MA/BB incoming opposition, but this is a step towards the direction of making the game more skills based. there have been so many whining and complaining threads that just about one thing or another is gay or newbified in T:V that wasnt in t1/t2, why in the hell would any vet complain about going back to the old, skilled way of blocking off incoming cappers/ho?
and yes, before ppl say it, i know that you have to get teh bb in to use a buckler block, but come on... the buckler shouldnt even bounce ppl back. go run into someone with a big wooden shield, and then run into them with your shoulder. probably negligble difference in how far they get bumped backwards. if a team needs the defensive crutch of a buckler, or a grapple/shield/buckler capper needs his buckler, they can earn it. having a little tougher, more skill based defense will help out in the long run, especially because of the mobility of the armor class now. being able to fly higher and farther will help out with most defensive aspects of the game, apart from being camped, but i went into that earlier... for the benefit of ppl that werent here then, didnt pay attention, whatever, camping issue: mortar will most likely kill both armor classes if it falls within a 10m radius of you. in the event that a medium lives through it, what then occurs when half your team respawns at the same time with that heavy still camping your spawn room? or hell, even heavy still within range of another shot? one disc, one hand grenade, another fucking mortar, any damage will probably kill you right off, leaving health kits for that camping heavy, more hand grenades, more discs... endless cycle. and then, once you get away from the heavy camping, then you go into the issue of defending your base/flag in light vs medium, where some vets have already said that they would prefer to defend in light due to its mobility and speed, rather than defend those things in medium.