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Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2017, 14:39 PMMr.Smith

OKW was designed around an overpowering late-game, when they had a super-shitty early game.

As long as we keep throwing stuff that scales badly (e..g., too much, or too little) into the game, of course 4v4 will be a shitmode.

Do we really want matches to continue to revolve around a very narrow set of maps for a very narrow set of modes?

Changing resource income for 3v3/4v4 is a major interference in teamgame mechanics, and that might alienate a very large portion of the audience, which Relic might have every interest in retaining.

Putting a bar on how far certain things can scale is a no-effort interference with 1v1. This is because 5-star vet is already considered a statistical outlier (i.e., only ever happens when things go "wrong").

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2017, 16:10 PMOutsider_Sidaroth

Prokw is strong early and strong late, not a good compromise in my opinion, as they are like US but downright better outside of the now nerfed Rifles hit vet3 with double upgrades and light vehicle dominance with the nerfed Stuart.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2017, 11:01 AMMr.Smith

Simply-put. The game shouldn't turn into a constant uphill battle for faction X, just because Y made it to the late-game.

This isn't about balancing for 2v2+. This is about not throwing things in that deliberately sabotage balance for 2v2+, especially when those things add little/nothing to 1v1:

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2017, 00:07 AMMr.Smith

All 3 of us are of the opinion that games should not end because X faction survived until minute Y.

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2017, 17:52 PMBeefSurge

In different ways. For instance Sov has better lategame than Ost but this is based on doctrine, and Ost can compensate with veterancy abilities.

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2017, 21:10 PMMuad'Dib

But even in this real world, an indefinitely long game should be decided by skill. 'Army X is OP lategame but it sucks in the mid-game' is an example of two problems that don't cancel each other out.

But since this balance tended to work past a certain skill level, if at all, the myth was born.

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2017, 22:59 PMMr.Smith

There is absolutely no way we are ever going to bother balancing around 4v4, specifically . Making all factions converge to the same end-game strength is the only realistic way to allow balancing efforts to scale.

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2017, 15:39 PMMr.Smith

The design of CoH2 so far is:
- Ideally, all factions should converge to the same late-game strength