Tourney Finals Replays
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So if I am watching this correctly, The live cast shows all 5 games and surprise, surprise Russians win ALL 5 games and at least 1 Scout Car from the players in each game. I am astounded they have not fixed this crap yet. Ahwell guess we know who is OP in 1v1, not that we didnt know anyway. GG guys with the units or should I say unit you had available. WD Aimstrong.
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I am happy that the balance devs are good players themself who know the issues and communicate with us. Balance will improve over time, i am sure.
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I know this, I think its just crazy to have a Tournament worth decent money for a just released game where the balance is far less than perfect so soon.
How does it matter? Both players had exactly access to the same tools all the way. The winner is the one who played the bo5 the best. This is why we play bo3 or bo5 and not bo1. The game can be as imbalanced as it could be, this type of tournament will always be fair.
The only thing one could possibly blame affecting the outcome would be the random starting position on the map.
The balance only affects the fun/interesting factor of the games, and outcome of one particular game (which is an issue in automatch and bo1), but not of a boX series.
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The biggest problem looked like the early squad deaths from the M3 flamecar on retreat. Some of them were avoidable/silly attempt to get off faust deaths, others couldn't be helped at all.
There were at least two games in there where the German player could've won (Aimstrong in G3, where he didn't select a doctrine and kept feeding the SU-85 with PIVs and Sepha in G5, where he just threw away a Flammenwerfer at a key moment instead of killing a retreating guard squad), and one more where the German player just threw it (G1, where Aimstrong just built gren after gren after gren to deal with Sepha's horde of Scout Car Flamers and kept wasting fausts and getting grens picked off one by one).
Aimstrong's Guard Motor strategy is just phenomenally good - I'm not sure we've really seen a German strat at the same level yet.
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The issue here is the non-mirror bo1 and I agree this will never be perfect. Just could be improved a lot.
Also bo3/5 is not just to fight against balance issues but also to make the series more interesting and prevent upsets just like double elim does (but requires a lot more planning). Double elim doesn't help with individual series or even tournament balance in any way.
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Running a Tournament with Fundamentally one side being at a disadvantage and just making it about who loses the 'best' as Germans doesn't really equate to good game play. Defend it all you like but this is absolute fact. I am not American but I will give you an example from a real life perspective lets say the NFL Superbowl was best of 5 with only 1 quaterback available he plays 2 games for each side then 1 for the team who 'loses' the best. You see the problem here.
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Then you're really kidding yourself with a 30+ kill sniper, combined arms, the teching choices going T4 for that one SU-85 to then fielding T34/85's instead of spending all the fuel on the basebuildings.
Also Sepha doesn't usually just queue up that many M3s as he did in the first match, I talked to him after the liveshow, he had scouted Aimstrongs replays (not unusual at all in CoH's history of tournaments, might be worth looking into to make them private) and knew about the massive T1, and he decided a heavy investment of 100 fuel (I think he built a total of 5, might have been 4) to counter that huge T1 from Aimstrong.
All your facts you are claiming all over the forums about various things is all just theorycrafting at best.
TL;DR M3's are not an "I win button" even if they are powerful (and also on the choppingblock now most likely).
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That said I do agree it would be more fun and intresting for them too. And the fix are actually coming, so if that was the point of the discussion then we can call it done.
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