Profile of van Voort

why? this is a fan site. their rules shouldn't apply here

Because we like to cultivate a non-adversarial and healthy relationship with Relic

And who said it's fine?
I agree it should not kill KT in one shot.

I've said its fine

I've said many things that people complain about are fine

That's like, what I do.

Blaming players for the metagame doesn't really make much sense when you're talking about a competition. If there's one style of play that clearly gives the best odds of success, it's obvious that people are going to use it more often than other styles. It's up to the game to encourage, and to make viable, a variety of different styles. Players can help it along, obviously, but it's unreasonable to expect people to handicap themselves in the name of manufacturing variety. The best way to encourage variety is to make it a competitive advantage.

Except that I'm never talking about Competition, and even I was that's a tiny, tiny fraction of the games played.

People who are playing "for fun" - which is basically everybody - aren't obliged to chose the optimum consensus load out. If they do it's because they want to win all the time, or they really care about ladder rank. That's a valid option, but then they don't have the right to complain that they are bored doing the same thing all the time.

What people often seem to want is for Relic to randomly change unit stats rather then explore alternate play styles of their own volition.


It is possible for the meta to change without patch, which I believe Relic have mentioned on Stream

We have had B4 be very popular, and Axis players have learned to adapt to it and change their loadouts accordingly and on-map artillery is now not so common

We have also, and in relation to that, had CAS and, to a much lesser extent, Advanced Warfare become more widely available and used. The meta around those has not yet settled down, but I think I am seeing much less CAS then we did a month ago.

Also we have people experimenting with Fear Propaganda and using those Commanders.

The whole "Napalm is a sell out" movement is false. I have concerns about the balancing of the game. There is enough balancing/meta related stuff that a dedicated body should be assigned to it until addressed fully.

Didn't you get the memo?


The game is terrible; Relic are evil/incompetent/complacent/eat kittens and the only way anyone will say anything nice about Relic is if they are paid to.


You must be a sell out, otherwise everything I just said above (which is apparently held as an article of faith by just about everybody here) has to be wrong.


That would never do, because people would rather sit around bitching and being negative than having their beliefs challenged.