What exactly caused the shift in mainstream FPS towards lower TTK and faster movement? I don't even necessarily dislike it, but its like the entire AAA industry experienced convergent evolution. Its kind of a bummer that things feel so samey.

I know some folks autistically hate BC2 due to some of the changes for consoles at the time, but it was legitimately an incredibly well designed game and what should have been the foundation for smaller scale maps in future BFs as player count and map size could grow with tech. The real failure in games immediately after BC2 was gun stats chasing what I assume was COD inspired TTK and accuracy.
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Its incredible how differently the game plays when the average damage of the guns is like 18. Combined with actual spread weapons actually felt like they had identity, particularly between weapon types. You can see them immediately start to creep up damage in the Vietnam expansion.
The game really suffers when you have the accuracy, firerate and damage to die mid range in a single server tick.