Profile of elchino7

My guess and what any sane person would/should do on any type of game.

-Look at tournament play and high level play. Check what is been abused at the moment.

-Ask for advice and opinion from both high skilled and knowledgeable players.

-Check general trend for the overall playerbase.

-Check what is the "general" consensus or what people are complaining about in public places.

This last 2 are for having a basic ground level notion of what the average common denominator is having problems with, even if it's biased.


The problem with the balance section is that it's a place where everyone can say what they want, without repercussion of what they say is true or not and not even needing to show who, what and how they play.
The game is not played in the same fashion in 1v1, 2v2 or 4v4. The game is not played in the same way at lv1-10, 10-15 and 15-20.


You might like it or not, but anonymous player who refuses to show his playercard (for whatever reason he might have) has less credibility than someone who doesn't have a problem to show who they are.
A single replay or post with detailed use of stats has more weight than 100 post of white noise which is the balance section.

Please enlighten us, what type of weapon is the BAR?

Or atleast, what role did it serve in the US army in ww2?

Well, it's closer to an assault Rifle than an LMG.

FG42 = BAR = IR STG44

1919 = LMG34/42 = Bren = DP

Guys, i heard you like ISU152s. So we gave everyone the chance to nuke things from far away!

I mean, everyone loved the canister munition on the soviet AT gun. What could go wrong.

Imo they are utterly useless in teamgames vs half decent opponents. Osttruppen are designed for increased mapcontrol at the cost of bad killing power. This is useful in 1v1 maybe but not in teamgames where you usually have to focus a smaller area compared to 1v1. You're just gonna get overrun vs aggressive type of players

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I wouldn't recommend it, I don't see why gren's would ever not be better and assgrens get 6 models now if your concerned with snipers.

Re: 2. In sports and competitive gaming competition is about proving skill, not adaptability to a random location.

You tell me a sport where you don't know what the playing field will be?

Or an esport where they don't always use the same maps over and over?

Well he is not suggesting completely new maps but rather an extended map pool from less played ones.

-Football/Baseball/etc have specified parameters on their fields but their dimensions can change drastically. Outside of training in your own stadium, you can't really practice on opponent ones or have a say on the state of grass (long, watered, etc.)
-Endurance type of sports: like marathons or open sea swimming, where weather plays a big factor.
-Recently i heard that on Kayak (the Olympic variation with flags) you receive the circuit field 1 day prior to competition.
-Surf/Climbing/Sailing

SC2 tend to have a bigger map pool which has change way more across the years. The design and type of maps been played has completely changed compared from WoL to LoV. As you say, they look way more symmetrical but the small difference on such a competitive and studied game allows for variety of strats.

WC3: while symmetrical each map plays completely different. From having different amount of mines, to size, location and type of mercs, random item drops, etc.
Maps are not balanced perfectly accordingly to all inter-matches and there's no "2 sides". Everyone play the race they main.

OW: i think they use the full map roaster.

PUBG/Fortnite/Any BR: yeah, a single map. But "not adaptability to a random location." doesn't apply. Random loot, random circle.

AoE2: i guess this is the epitome of "adapt" to the map you are given. While you have a type of seed for a certain type of map, players have to scout and adapt accordingly to what they are given.
Can they fish, can they find all sheeps, boar, gold/stone location? What about terrain elevations? How protected is the wood? Relics?