Ancient Evil Pros/Cons/random thoughts for High Rounding.

Pros:
- Setup is not crazy annoying, at least how I chose to setup.
- The gauntlets are not crazy difficult to upgrade (the wind/tornado one probably sucks the most but if you do it first ~round 10 its not the end of the world.)
- The gauntlets (the wonderweapons) do not have crazy large amounts of ammo that makes camping ridiculously easy.
- They take a while to charge up, so they are not 'safety' weapons unless you predict ~1.5 seconds ahead.  
- Wonderweapons don't produce drops. 
- The shield spear does not produce drops while being instakill to (at the very least) the zombie it directly hits. 


Cons:
w/ the map itself:
- A solid amount of part memorization (I don't feel it to be as bad as DOTN, but pretty close with the number of locations to find the Dormant Hands to begin squiring/upgrading the Gauntlets.
- The Pegasus spear (a staff that acts like a Monkey Bomb that, when put down, summons Pegasis to come in and kill the zombies as they are attracted to it), is nice but takes too long to recharge.
- There are very few ways to earn drops, even early on. Either use a normal gun/the rocket launcher, a specialist (do they provide drops even? I'm not sure), or Wraith Fires/Pegasus.
- The two traps on the map are far apart enough to not be worth combining into one cool trap strat. Trap strat of the map will eventually be using one trap, most likely the Steam Bath trap. (pls call it TheTostySteambath for the meme)

w/ the current state of BO4 mechanics:
- The shield (at least on Ancient Evil) can cost up to FIVE THOUSAND POINTS if you break it and need a new one, resets to 3000 each round and builds up. Just normally repairing it regardless of damage it's taken is 2500 points. Like wtf?
- Gaining/maintaining points have always been an issue in BO4 regarding trap strat and this one is no exception. You're best bet is to just sit in the Marketplace where the shield is, keep as many doors closed as possible, and just run around however you please throwing shield spears until you need more. 
- Stamin-up has to be equipped. Its just too annoying to deal without. 
- Despawn mechanics. Enough said.
- Zombies trying to predict your movement. You can seem to 'outsmart' this if you stay away from the middle of doorways/seemingly sketchy, but actually safe movement. It's a weird thing to explain. 

tl;dr If BO4 hasn't convinced you to come back to BO4 yet, this ain't it chief. At least not right now. There's too many really bad mechanics to make the good ones stand out.