Mech Arena - Rants, Rants, and More Rants
Oct 17, 2020 11:23:08 GMT -5
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Post by Danny Linguini on Oct 17, 2020 11:23:08 GMT -5
You knew it was coming. And who better to bring it.
I’m overall generally happy with the game, so let’s start there. I play at least a few hours a day, until I’ve earned everything I can, and even after that I might play a few more just because I feel like it. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a few gripes.
And the thought for today is: forget what we’ve said about skill actually meaning something in this game. Yeah, sometimes it does, like when everything else is equally balanced, which most of the time it isn’t. Occasionally you have games where everybody is similar XP and the squad powers of everybody on both teams are within 100 of each other, and then it comes down to who plays smarter. But those are rare.
I’d say about 90% of games I can predict the outcome just by looking at relative squad powers of all the players. In most cases, all it takes is one with a SP a few hundred above everybody else to throw the game one way or the other. CPC games are maybe a little more uncertain, because you have the added twist of CP control, but not by much. TDM games on the other hand are almost entirely predictable by who has the highest SP. Very, very rarely do I win a game where my team is out-powered. It’s frustrating because so many times you go into a game knowing that no matter how well you play, you have no chance of winning. That can be doubly frustrating in tournament games where you have limited resources to play (tickets), usually limited time, and winning or losing so dramatically affects rewards and bracket standings.
This approach of adjusting the strength of your enemy team based on your wins and losses is ok for CPC, but it’s crap in TDM. You’re either better than your opponents and teammates or you aren’t. Let your gameplay decide that, not who has the stronger hangar.
That’s all. For now.
I’m overall generally happy with the game, so let’s start there. I play at least a few hours a day, until I’ve earned everything I can, and even after that I might play a few more just because I feel like it. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have a few gripes.
And the thought for today is: forget what we’ve said about skill actually meaning something in this game. Yeah, sometimes it does, like when everything else is equally balanced, which most of the time it isn’t. Occasionally you have games where everybody is similar XP and the squad powers of everybody on both teams are within 100 of each other, and then it comes down to who plays smarter. But those are rare.
I’d say about 90% of games I can predict the outcome just by looking at relative squad powers of all the players. In most cases, all it takes is one with a SP a few hundred above everybody else to throw the game one way or the other. CPC games are maybe a little more uncertain, because you have the added twist of CP control, but not by much. TDM games on the other hand are almost entirely predictable by who has the highest SP. Very, very rarely do I win a game where my team is out-powered. It’s frustrating because so many times you go into a game knowing that no matter how well you play, you have no chance of winning. That can be doubly frustrating in tournament games where you have limited resources to play (tickets), usually limited time, and winning or losing so dramatically affects rewards and bracket standings.
This approach of adjusting the strength of your enemy team based on your wins and losses is ok for CPC, but it’s crap in TDM. You’re either better than your opponents and teammates or you aren’t. Let your gameplay decide that, not who has the stronger hangar.
That’s all. For now.
