i would honestly expect me with mithril walls, wizards and almost maxed (didnt notice new last upgrade) repair bots/units to win on a 1 exit base solo on normal difficulty. I made 40 minutes but wow, things sure have gotten a LOT harder.
Bear in mind 90% of the people are NOT on the forum, it's hard to say where to rebalance. Personally i think it needs to be more on the lines of:
Easy: 75% dmg/hp
Normal: 0% (roughly 25% weaker than what it currently is!!)
Mad: 25% (as hard as normal currently is.)
Impossible: 50% (have yet to play with others so cannot say, certainly wont be attempting in public games, or game will be ruined, no-one will survive.)
harder than impossible: 75-100% (?????)
Why do i suggest making "normal" easier rather than just play easy? because most people would "expect" to beat normal eventually solo. I suspect i will, but i abuse making lumber mills very quickly, most public players won't and i think to do it solo, you'll need that or "near perfect play" which is asking too much!.
This is some form of warning, we can lose public interest if the game becomes too hard. We want to encourage people to come to the forums, if they have trouble with "mad" they will more likely come rather than losing to "normal" (psychological reasoning, i HATE losing to a "normal" mode but i can watch how others beat mad or impossibly solo and copy (i.e englocked abusing swordsman versus air was an eye opener on one version)).
Rebalancing SUCKS. I know that, but i think it's needed.
Either that or i'm missing something imba which i should be doing and currently am not. After seeing 5 games of pubs die within 15 minutes of invis + normal mode, i think not though. Some were fairly good with somewhat decent builds. They shouldnt have lost that early.
Will keep more replays so i can show.
What are other players thoughts?
Should normal be easier? do you even play normal mode?
I know some people are calling for harder, but are you even playing the easier modes? If you can beat impossible then yes normal SHOULD be easy to you. How about this then as a challenge, try LUMBERING someone else in a public game.
Finish 6.00 off so that it's complete before working on this though, as it requires a full rebalance which is going to take longer than it sounds.
Edited by Bigheaded, 10 February 2013 - 06:50 PM.
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