My thoughts on multiplayer public (not tried 5v5 clan stuff): You say balancing is available but it isn't really effective. You have to wait until the entire round ends before spawning. On a 5 life attack and you join in defence, you're waiting - spamming chat etc. until the game ends. You should be...

All working now, downloaded something this time

yep, still not working after clean install

Anyone else with update issues? It seems broken, maniaplanet won't update, it now won't start at all
The launcher kept saying, update requires restart, so click the button and it quits. Steam just keeps validating files.

Going to delete entire install and try again..