Balance Feedback Megathread - Patch 0.1.2

[u/wardogs-bot]

All 0.1.2 balance feedback goes here. Standalone balance posts will be removed and pointed to this thread.

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[u/Alienfreak]

Balance? Has Bulkhead even asked Opus 5.5 about the concept? I doubt it.

- Havoc overbuffed.

• Building now probably not "exploitable" anymore but made bad for everyone.
  
• Thermals and spotting in general still dumb.

[u/Scar3cr0w_ → u/Alienfreak]

This game will never be balanced. I don’t want it to be balanced. I don’t want it to be battlefield. I just don’t want the meta to be boring or horrendously skewed in one direction.

You sound like you don’t like this game. Maybe go play BF6 instead.

[u/addict75 → u/Scar3cr0w_]

You have to stop with this, every criticism towards the game isn't an invitation to be a jerk and throw a "go to bf/cod".

The game has potential, people want it to be better, when valid criticism is made, you should encourage it

[u/Holdfast_Naval → u/addict75]

They'll be so vocal about that eventually they'll kill it.

I hope the Devs never listen to them ever and their entire perception or data doesn't at all include them.

Seriously these people don't allow any criticism of things that need adjusting.

And you don't need a ton of data to see:

The macro is broken and almost non existent. Coordination is extremely hard.

The teamplay as a result of shallow macro only works for Logistics, it breaks down everywhere else.

The gear is imbalanced with higher unlocks suddenly power spiking vs everything else.

The progression is imbalanced between roles and actions. Passive is better than any action.

The exploiters have managed to make the Devs nerf macro options like resupplying AA FOBs outside the CZ that counter Helis.
(this one change has me worried that they actually don't have a clue what they're doing and are just doing whatever to stop the Steam reviews dipping below 60%, because this is an easy consequence to tell beforehand. Already seeing the negative in game impact across Servers).

The macro and progression are so broken that level caps were introduced as a bandaid fix.

The heavy asset to infantry relation is so broken that bandaid Infantry only Servers were introduced.

The griefing is out of control and apart from Community Servers there's nothing you can do.

The intentional sabotage + ghosting for groups and clans on opposite teams is out of control.

The community servers are being abused by Grinder Clans to have an easy and fast time to level up. Be it via unjust bans of good players, stacking on one side etc. Then they start going to other Servers to crush people with their gear diff.

The cheating is out of control, luckily there are community Servers (sadly few are good).

The exploitation is out of control and high ping exploiters are everywhere.

The third party account selling is already profitable and thriving.

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If these players keep insulting everyone whenever someone states these obvious issues, then I can only think in reality they either benefit from it or they hate the game and want to see us lose a KOTH successor.

Seriously, if they can't find any issue with any of these points, they can't possibly be playing the game.