Profile of Rosbone

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Nah, should not take soo long this time

True. In the past, Relic was slow on things they promised to the community. This is promised to management/Sega. So it should follow close to a schedule if possible. But software is like art and is done... when its done. It is hard to hold to a schedule and work correctly.

By saying 8-12 weeks I was trying to give hope to people when it came earlier. You ruined my surprise

I have never seen a more valid use for a BI tool in my life! Our hero pageP!

Looking at one months win ratios for each faction makes it look like:
1) Allies are stronger than axis in a 1v1 situation.
2) Axis are stronger than allies in a 2v2 situation.

All 1v1 maps are favoring allies. No 2v2 situations ever occur.

All 2v2 maps are very even. Allies win early game when they are stronger, then axis come on hard at the end when fighting over mid VP and are in a 2v2 situation. This is the most balanced game mode currently.

3v3 maps are a mixed bag but favor axis a little. Smart 3v3 play is to push fuels then secure one fuel and two VPs if that fails. So it starts as 1v1 and transitions to a 2v2 situation. Since the maps are larger axis also tend to out range allies a little and axis do better on those maps. Large maps are also dominated by forward retreats and there could be more OKW players playing then USF for example.

All 4v4 maps favor axis. Because every game is a 2v2 situation at the start, middle, and end. Axis randos synergize better than allied randos.

To me, one month of games begin to tell a tale. No hard truths but trends become visible. There is almost always something gained from data. But I agree with all here that it is not the end all be all.

SiphonX and PageP should be praised for their efforts for adding this great insight.

Practical example: Axis has higher winrate than Allies on 4v4 but Inka Tournament showed Allies dominating axis. Why? Could it because Allies only gets good at super high level play? Who knows.

The last tournament was dominated by allies because pathfinders and maxim spam were untouchable. Since the paths give sight for the maxims nothing could attack them. This setup can only happen in a tournament setting.

Axis are easier to tech, have early sturm/kubel pressure, and tend to do better in rando games. Unless you get all OKW vs all Brits then its a severe beating for axis.

None of this is fact (are there such things?). Just observations and listening to players much better than myself. So I tend to agree with PagePs stats in general.

... it is kind of deemed too risky to make another map patch at this point.

Let me rephrase my response another way:

Lienne Forest has the Vilshanka bug and it gets played 12 times for every Vielsalm (West Wall) match.

Players would rather get a bugged UI 12 times in a row than play a single game on Vielsalm.

I think that boldly outlines what the community wants.