If the game is imbalanced, why are you adding new content?

Bacillus

Tweadle wrote: »

I'm not saying overall balance isn't important, just that it's hard to work backwards from it to fix underlying issues.

Agreed.

I'm not particularly concerned about extra content in terms of winrates and percentual balances in general. However, I very much hope that UWE puts enough of time and effort into adjusting, polishing and refining the already existing content to make it play out in more variable, fluent and satisfying ways.

I'm not going to have any say on whether the refinement process should be done before or after the content patch, but I definitely do hope that the existing gameplay gets some extensive love sometime soon.

Kouji_San

Frothybeverage wrote: »

If the forums are to be believed, the marines lose 9999/10000 games, mines are OP, Exos suck, ARCs are imba, and whips are too cheap.

If any game community or forum is to be representative, any game ever released is the worst game ever :P

Wake

If all the questions in this forum are not yet answered, why add some new questions ?

sharnrock

@op Why would you spend a ton of time balancing a game, then add more content that adds an imbalance? You don't ice a cake before baking it.

Locklear

They should continue with the content, it is good for the game's growth and gameplay. The balance is definitely a concern though.. the alien win rates are still shockingly high on ns2stats.org.

MMZ_Torak

Balance is an ongoing thing. It will be continually tweaked until the last server goes down. It is illogical to think that you can hold off new content until the game is "balanced".

schkorpio

"If the game is imbalanced, why are you adding new content?"

Gee i dunno, maybe because if the game is perfectly balanced adding more content will make it unbalanced again, so why not ad more features that lets the dev's play with more options to help with the balance