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Thread: Mirror Match13 Feb 2013, 23:39 PM Jump back to quoted post13 Feb 2013, 22:46 PMTychusFindlay i don't know if i want to pay $60 for one match up. Anyone buying vCoH did just that. (is it 60 or 50?) I'd rather have one excellent match up than three that average around 'ok'. You might call it pessimistic to think that having mirrors would hurt the gameplay of a mixed match up, but I think that's just being realistic. Just look at CoH1. We simply aren't big enough to have the same kind of support that blizzard can give to SC2. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match12 Feb 2013, 15:26 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Feb 2013, 08:36 AMSanchezIR Now back to mirror match and people not locked in the box - a thought to consider: Mirror matches gives a great tool to balance out and develop the metagame. Players, in the process of learning and competing, sooner or later WILL find imbalances and easy/cheesy tricks/strats/builds. This fact was proven on so many levels and points in time of the CoH metagame development, that I think its out of discussion. Now without mirror matches, these players are pretty safe, focusing on the single (most) imbalanced faction, staying there on the giving end. Mirror match will not allow that, as they WILL ba matched against the very same faction, with the very same cheese. Time to try the recivieng end, fellas, no more safe spots. Actually the opposite is true. Without mirror matches, those players would be forced to learn both factions in order to compete (by far the best argument against mirror matches tbh), while with mirror matches they can compete only having learned a single faction. Also, the same 'cheese' strategies that work in a mixed matchup do not necessarily work in a mirror matchup, in fact I'd say it's very unlikely they'll be getting a taste of what they're doing to the other faction. An additional thought to consider that I've yet to see anyone bring up would be expansions. While we can't assume anything, it feels very possible that in the future we will see expansions that introduce additional factions into the mix, just like with OF. With mirrors enabled, I don't see that ever being remotely balanced. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match8 Feb 2013, 16:27 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2013, 14:57 PMRonald Dumsfeld Very much in favour of mirror matches. It will lead to a much better Well we certainly hope so, but that conclusion's based off nothing. If they're balanced, varied, and fun, then yes it will lead to a better game. Otherwise it won't. more balanced Does enabling mirror matches make it easier to balance the German/Soviet matchup? Yes? How? No? Then it's not more balanced except now there's the addition of having to balance mirrors as well. One might even say this makes it 'less balanced'. and, this is important, less homogenised game. Again, this is only a plus if the mirror matches are interesting. If mirrors are exciting and fun to play then absolutely put them in the game, but don't put them in just for the sake of putting them in. It needs to be just as solid a matchup as a mixed army game. At this early stage it seems silly to be dead-set on having or not having them yet; we just don't know what they're like. In: Lobby
Thread: Sega Buys Relic30 Jan 2013, 20:35 PM All the site needs is an ignore button and people can stop whining about other people. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match22 Dec 2012, 17:35 PM Just the fact that Relic still doesn't know if they want to include mirror matches indicates that the game was not designed with them in mind. If mirror matches include several viable strategies with each faction, as opposed to a race to see who gets the first "Shock Unit X" to decide the game, then by all means include it. In: Lobby
Thread: Mirror Match20 Dec 2012, 03:52 AM Well if mirror matches are included, I hope that top players will still try to play well with both factions. I sure will! In: Lobby
Thread: Active spectator mode coh2?19 Dec 2012, 15:40 PM Spectating shouldn't have to be a 'high hope' for a 2013 game. It should almost be a given. :/ In: Lobby
Thread: ALPHA test FORUM18 Dec 2012, 21:41 PM Not sure how forum access would make the lag/fps issues more bearable, but yeah I posted within the first 10 pages and still no access either. In: Lobby
Thread: Intelligence Bulletins18 Dec 2012, 01:56 AM Then there is no such thing as an 'equal match' by your definition. It's only a theoretical match where 2 clones fight each other. If two games are identical except for the fact that in one game, the soldiers have 100% accuracy, and in another they have 50% accuracy, it should be pretty obvious how such luck could be the deciding factor in some games, even if the players are 'equal'. In: Lobby
Thread: Intelligence Bulletins18 Dec 2012, 00:35 AM Whoever plays better in that particular game... we're not robots and people make mistakes. Same answer in CoH as well, except that there's ALSO luck involved. In: Lobby