Vyzion Eyri
The Southern Legion
Final Resolution.
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Posted - 2014.10.03 23:24:00 -
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Sgt Kirk wrote:
So they Nerfed Vehicles while at the Same time...buffed AV.
Now, this is the about the first time that they did this so it was acceptable but we ended up seeing that AV became too powerful against vehicles which made them kinda useless. A few months later they decide to take another swing at this. The solution was to Nerf AV while at the same time BUFFING Vehicles which somehow, to their actual surprise resulted in Vehicles becoming overpowered compared to Anti-Vehicle roles. This didn't happen once throughout DUST history, not twice, not even three times in this games lifetime but around 9 times of going in this clearly obvious cycle that they could have easily escaped from.
What if there is no true balance though, and there is only cycling between metas? I will take the example of League of Legends. Love it or hate it, you've got to agree that for the game to survive, the champions players use cannot exhibit massive strengths over others. Yet, in each season, there ARE a few champions that are better than the rest. Watch the World championships, you will see these same champions banned and picked over and over again because the top teams know that in the current 'meta', they outshine the 100 or so other champions available to be picked.
100 unused champions in a global championship! Talk about redundancy, am I right? Or is it? Are these champions simply waiting for their time to shine? Indeed, Riot has never specified their goal is to seek balance: if you have a look at their design values they pursue Mastery, counterplay, teamplay, clarity, evolution.
No balance. Because it's obvious when you involve real players, finding real balance is going to be difficult if not utterly impossible. So what does Riot do? They swap back and forth between metas, allowing champions whose kits are simply outmatched or power is simply outscaled by the current meta, to take the stage through a series of buffs and nerfs.
This 'clearly obvious cycle that they could have easily escaped from' is clearly a cycle, but not easily escaped from. In fact, I would daresay it isn't something you want to escape from.
> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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