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The point that some are making that we don't specifically focus on balancing 4v4 games is valid. The team spends most of its time focused on balancing 1v1 and 2v2 games, and that balance works its way up through the game. For the most part that is how RTS games are balanced, and certainly how we've always done it at Relic. Unless you go for a relatively simple design where each army is in fact simply a skin swap of the others, this is most likely always going to be the case. In Monopoly, for example, the top hat and the canon are perfectly balanced against each other since they're the same unit.
Comparing RTS games to other games is rather hard to do since most RTS games have a larger number of units in play at once. I'm certainly not a high level LoL or DOTA2 player but at any given time there are only what 10 units in play along with the NPC allies who are basically the same unit on either side. I imagine that balancing each hero unit is tricky but that game is designed for that size of game. Football is balanced around the capabilities of real life human physical capabilities. Each team has the same positions, and it's up to the players to make a difference.
Which isn't to say that we don't balance the higher games, just that the prime focus is on 1v1 and 2v2.

Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2014, 13:25 PMCannonade

This.

And Sov has an amazing winrate in just about all tournaments ever held.

Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2014, 12:59 PMJaigen

Holy shit what a straw men and epic fail.

Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2014, 12:03 PMbroodwarjc

ISU is a much bigger problem than IS-2, that thing one-shots Vet 4 Obers. The Is-2 does a lot of infantry damage, but it rarely one-shots squads.