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Jump back to quoted post9 Oct 2013, 18:24 PMBasilone

1) 4v4 will never be balanced and is not intended to be. If all 4 players go ISU152 or two players spamming Howitzers while the others get Elefants that is obviously not ever going to be balanced. 1v1 and 2v2 can be balanced because you are limited in what you can field. Big team games have no opportunity cost because between 4 players you can easily find the resources to get whatever you need.

2) Majority of 4v4 players are bad. Even 1v1 and 2v2 are balanced for the above average or better players, just because someone isn't good enough or doesn't know how to deal with X unit/tactic/strategy doesn't mean it is OP.

3) You would be balancing for scenarios that don't even happen in 1v1 or 2v2. In a 4v4 you can field 8 conscripts, 2-3 snipers, and a few T2 units pretty early. So if you are balancing Ostheer to work against that formula, its not going to translate very well against a comparatively low number of units. The choices are to balance the units against each other pound for pound, or balance thousands of unit combinations against thousands of other combinations- lets be realistic, that will never work.

Jump back to quoted post9 Oct 2013, 17:52 PMLichtbringer

Lets say we balance Elephants for 4v4. They get useless for 1v1. Let's say we balance the Opelblitztruck for 4v4. It becomes useless for 1v1. Let's say we balance the Sniper for 4v4. There are not enough other units who cap in 1v1 making the Sniper useless.