>m-m-muh realism
What kind of fucking scenario is this game even supposed to be? Americans fighting around the world with illegal russian porn uploading? In conveniant 5v5 groups? If they aimed for fucking realism why didn't they give it a realistic goal - blowing up a weapon cache, killing a VIP, hostage situation. It's even more gamey than fucking Counter-Strike/Pavlov where the bombsites and maps are full of envoirmental storytelling and as terrorist you're actually commiting acts of terrorism, not fucking squatting by your IGG-Games server and dozing off waiting for DEVGRU to arrive, they were supposed to be here 5 minutes ago.
Why not give it a gamemode that works, fucking copy something from Insurgency, CoD, BF, anything. There are plenty gamemodes where communication, nades and shit are still key to victory, Onward just forces you into using them because the odds are stacked so overwhelmingly against attacking team it's a desperate attempt to survive right from the beginning.