Balance MEGATHREAD
During the heyday of GW1, I posted and maintained a balance Megathread that combined player opinion from both the reddit forums and this page into one concise post. Once a day I'd check back in and u...
Forum Discussion
KnowsNoLimit wrote:
People are going to stop playing your game if they simply aren't having fun.
Lets see what is killing people's fun atm.
- Infinity time would be the biggest one, with it being buggy mess and a tedious thing to grind for and giving no real incentive to pass 25k unless you are going for a high score on the leaderboards. It just feels clumsy. However you are forced into it if you want to unlock all the characters. Which were actually worth going for before the patch nerfed them.
- The majority don't like one sided battles, now if it's true or not is yet to be determined. However the belief right now is that Zombies just stomp everyone in every mode. Personally the only mode I have found this true to be in was Herbal Assault, because Plants lack the proper offense and since GW1 were originally intended to be more defensive orientated.
- Rose being nerfed. This is a big one as well, you have people saying Rose got overly nerfed especially with her health/damage and Ice Rose in particular not being able to freeze a target worth a damn anymore which is a fair call. Then you have others saying the nerf was fine and no other Zombie class should of been buffed and the meta should of played out.
- Then you have the 50% Imp health buff, it's debatable if he needed both his health/damage buffed, but when a group of Mech's just destroy the Plants side at times ofc people are going to have a bad time.
- Super Bean is another thing that is pissing people off and a Super Bean Wave is just down right terrifying.
- Super Brainz is another character people are having issue with. His Tornado with damage reduction is causing alot of problems and his range damage s way too strong which is especially true with Electro Brainz arc damage on multiple targets. It's not fun for people to be chained to death like that and It's obviously not intended for a Melee character to do so.
- People are butt hurt about Captain Deadbeard who's is made out to be more versatile than a Cactus in every way. So Cactus players aren't having fun, because they feel it's unfair.
- Then we have the case of 3 of the most common Scientist's being used to get easy kills, the Marine Biologist, the Chemist, the Zoologist all coming in to warp in your face and lay waste to group of plant before they know what hit them. People certainly aren't enjoying that.
- We also have people not having as much fun with the Soldier, feeling that his rocket jump height got nerfed too much to be able to use smoke screen and ZPG at the same time while in mid air.
- Some people feel the Legendary characters you get in sticker pack has too harsh of RNG and to have any chance of unlocking them is like winning the lottery. Which like IT is hell for the completionist's, so they most certainly aren't having fun.
It's a combination of these and whole lot more which is all contributing to people's lack of fun.
From the xbox one I can say a few things: Zombies are OP-they win matches by a much larger margin than the plants did before the patch.
Some of the classes are pointless-Rose was too OP, but now she is just a floating * that has a kill me sign in flashing neon dangling from her neck.
I am tired of playing in lobbies were there are an abundance of non-English speaking players who shred you with insta-killing burst damage who seem to have very small hit boxes and more than average health. The last time, I played a person whose name I could not pronounce except for the BR denotation melted our entire team in a game of team vanquish, to the sum of 32 kills and my team kept filing the ranks of join in-get bs killed by the BR kid-wtf drop out. That's going to make this game un-fun really fast!
