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Making any assumptions about balance shortly after such a huge patch is an idea some may deem not very wise.
Anyone remember how in Starcraft 2 Terran were crushed by Zerg _all the time_ and literally did not know how to deal with infestors? R…

in NSL Invitational Grand Final goes Intercontinental! - NS2 Comment by cron March 2013

On several occasions UWE said they are not planning to license their engine as a business. Especially not as competitor to the big engines out there.

in CoD has better hit registration than this game. Comment by cron February 2013

I wouldn't exactly call VIM an IDE, but neat to see someone at UWE is using it. Way to go Steve!

in Indie Game Development: Hardware and Software Comment by cron February 2013

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Gorges running around is exactly what I want. If they have to place the cysts then they have to move out and be on the front and others have to protect them. This encourages teamplay, is more fun than sitting in the back healing st…

in It's time we start talking about the real culprit behind the horrendeous balance Comment by cron February 2013

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Then who determines how to spend the team resources? It is much harder to organize several gorges placing buildings independently from one another than having one Khamm making that decision and having the Gorges support his plan. T…

in It's time we start talking about the real culprit behind the horrendeous balance Comment by cron February 2013

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Indeed, that was part of my motivation for having the Gorge place the cyst instead of the Khammander.

in It's time we start talking about the real culprit behind the horrendeous balance Comment by cron February 2013

Some time ago, during the beta, I made the suggestion that the Khammander no longer places any structures but only evolves them from a basic unit (the cyst) that the Gorge has to place.
I don't remember much reaction to that, so I will raise t…

in It's time we start talking about the real culprit behind the horrendeous balance Comment by cron February 2013

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That is not entirely true, my i5 3570k runs the game with a max of 15 ms per frame, which is absolutely fine. If you think you need at least 80 FPS constantly than that is your preference to which I do not agree as mandatory for en…

in Are we ever going to get more options to get better fps? (UWE please respond) Comment by cron February 2013

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I would assume the spark engine is not streaming from HDD to VRAM but from RAM to VRAM. Texture streaming is essentially a memory management task in many engines. The two implementations I have seen so far were having the memory ma…

in Are we ever going to get more options to get better fps? (UWE please respond) Comment by cron February 2013