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EA_Alexander
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8 years ago

Game Balance and Matchmaking - We want your feedback!

Hey everyone, To keep things in one place and easy to keep track of, we're encouraging you to share feedback regarding game balance and matchmaking in this thread. So what's game balance? A cou...
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Anonymous
8 years ago

Question for the devs and for anyone else. How do you counterplay Scarabs?

What possibility of counterplay exists? I have not had one interactions with scarabs yet that I could outplay. If they opponent does not make an error, he wins the exchange.

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JadeXyan
8 years ago
Well, at high levels we don't see tons of scarabs because most people open with barracks -> rifleman/militant -> harvester which largely secures the map against scarabs, and of course later on you get two range units and scarabs stop mattering entirely, but for those of us who don't run 2 range stuff and occasionally run into scarabs we get rid of them with riflemen and the like since that's reasonably cost effective or if you're playing liang let them run into high hp units that can take the hits and just have them healing right back up.

All this said, I do agree they are too strong at low levels and should only get one shot to kill things instead of two and/or not hit air.
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    Anonymous
    8 years ago
    Yeah thats where I am at currently. I am only level 9 and it is painful. Even with the militant opening - I find that stage of the game goes one of two ways.

    Either the enemy mis-micro's the scarabs, or I end up throwing 2 rifleman/militants at 1 scarab unit.

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      JadeXyan
      8 years ago

      you don't attack them at that early stage, you just hold back and defend the places that are important since scarabs don't win when they have to do the attacking, at the very least it stops them from taking out harvesters, holding down a bunch of platforms, and the like.

      EDIT: Oh, and strongarm turrets are a pretty decent way to get rid of them too, not quite as efficient as riflemen but if you catch them by surprise while they're moving its no contest and if they trade with the turret its a relatively (but not quite) even trade

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        KilledByStephen
        8 years ago
        If a unit group of scarabs takes out 2 riflemen/militant unit groups, the player who lost the 2 groups of riflemen/militants is net positive on the tiberium exchange there. Not saying this means they aren't op at low level just something to consider

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