Profile of Nubb3r

Core Infantry/Small Team Weapon Spawn Points

• All Core Infantry Squads and Core Small Weapon Teams now spawn from its corresponding building rather than from Off-Map.

YES. This bugged me from the start. Most underrated change in the whole change log imo.

I personally dislike that the out-of-bounds map area is included in the tactical / minimap. I doubt that it was included so players can see the map entry points, because that is the only real benefit to it and sounds too reasonable to be true. Why include something useless that shrinks the minimap?

My suggestion would be that HUDs should be treated like faceplates or like custom huds in dota2. When I saw the faceplate design for the first time, I immediately got excited for custom HUDs, but got disappointed quickly. When you give them the faceplate treatment, you can sell them, streamers can show them off on their streams and the tryhards can make their own competitive and minimal HUDs in the workshop = everyone wins.

I also dislike how the resources are shown. Not so much their position, but the fact that they are horizontally aligned, this takes away from the usefulness of showing current status as a number and income as "+123". When hovering over the unit icons in tech structures, their costs show right above and you can tell easily if you can afford them, sure that's nice and all, but you shouldn't need this to tell. Besides, there is another way in the hud to tell you if you can afford a unit..

The last thing I want to mention is that HUD elements keep blinking and animating and it is irritating sometimes. Units in combat? Animated blinking crosshair. Unit surpressed? Animated and blinking exclamation mark. Anything happening ever on the minimap? Better have some circles flash and hypnotitize the players. Seriously, take a step back and look at a busy minimap, where units enter combat and resource points get capped a lot. Most of these things are being displayed in the event cue additionally. Sure, those things are important and all that, but when everything is important and starts to catch the players' attention so badly at once, nothing really is important and the only result is that the players lose focus.

Of course, you can get used to many things, but then why bother changing anything ever?
just my 2 cents

My opponent did. We have both become very stale in the mid-late game and I feel like I had it in my hands..

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Hey there, this is the first replay I'm posting.
I want to know how I can improve based on this replay.
I was tired and all, but I felt like I played ok for my standards.
Beware it is an hour long. Early and mid game went good, I wonder if I didn't close it soon enough. I felt like I was too conservative and turtled too much. Please have a look and give me some tips, because it felt like it was my game to lose.
Have a nice day!

What about splitting all the "freebies" into side tech, but meanwhile subtracting the side tech cost from the base tier price. Ultimately, the result would be the same, without difference in resources, but the time of arrival the features that are currently "free" is later. This would make repairs on t2 for example skippable, so a luchs could come earlier fuel wise. But what if the luchs was unlocked by the repairs? This would result in the luchs being a little later than normal. Of course, there are many subtle ways to tinker with fuel costs, side tech splitting/unlocking and building times, but I doubt that relic has enough patience and long term consistency/commitment towards these kinds of major (imo) design changes. Those take thorough evaluation, planning and observation. I don't claim to be super savvy of the balance meta right now, I haven't played enough at all to claim a said change in this or that direction might be good or bad for the game, I'm merely interested in the designing and balancing process and like to think of ways to manipulate tech trees/build orders and costs and to observe the result.