what has happened to building?

[Priok]

the best cover is just a 2-3 block thick wall with a trench behind it.

I think the dragging build really helped make building easier/more common, so that is good

[hindos]

I usually build very thick defenses, they can survive grenades and smgs. Even slow down spaders!

Building is still very much useful especially in flat maps, the issue is despite it's usefullness people prefer too BANG BANG BANG instead Thud Haarr Ploink. But if you are a builder you will notice that if there is cover built people will use it and survive longer, so a builder on a server is a silent benefit that noone notices but nonetheless essential.

Especiall in pinpoint I noticed this, I build on of them walls of doom with a variety of defenses, before my team was being slaughtered as they rushed forward. After I built it they all stopped suiciding and started killing the enemy.