Game balancing

[Harti]

Here are my thoughts:

(01-06-2013 12:01 AM)Alvendor Wrote:  On a 1 spawn map you can take opponent's runner with your runner and then teleport it back making it wit neutral but taking the unit lead for free.

On a 1 spawn map Mobi is quite the dangerous build for yourself. You're getting behind in unit count and if you already lost a unit (or are about to) you're losing the game to 4HP Soldiers. "Cool I got a Mobi but insufficient units!" syndrome. And I don't see an issue with the fact that a player that's able to pull it off should be rewarded accordingly.

Quote:Mobis also have the advantage that with two mobis a new type of moves become possible: move mobi, teleport sniper, kill something, teleport back mobi.

Are you serious?
Not that I haven't done it before but I've played like 700 games altogether and I was able to pull it off in, like, four games, three of which were against players from lower leagues and friendly matches. The other one I utterly lost because I didn't build any other units than Snipers and got overrun. Chances that I build a second active Mobi in a serious game are very close to 0.001%.


I'd really rather adress the 4HP Soldiers issue by not letting Medics boost units to +1 or making Soldiers yet another tradeoff unit at 2 base HP.
Or issues on one-spawn maps where the person to kill 2 units first basically wins the game. Or simply removing predeployed Medics from maps to make up for the Soldier issue.

I personally trust OML's judgment on Special unit balance, and if they claim that it's balanced except for Veggies, it's going to be a Veggies buff only. I agree that Mobi could be nerfed. But we should really wait for the results from the Veggies buff I guess.