Is It Actually Possible To Balance The Teams?

kababkabab Join Date: 2003-12-15 Member: 24384Members, Constellation
I personally think its impossible i mean what do you balance it for public servers or clan matches or combat ?? either way one mode of game play is going to suffer.

I know from past games clan matches are played very differently to public's where you have great teamwork everyone has there own task and everyone works together so you get all the support stuff like umbra, heal, weld etc...

Now you come to public games which can really vary alot in game play and never has the level of organisation of a clan match.

Not to many other games require the teamwork NS does but that level of teamwork doesn't really exist alot in pub games. So what do you do make the units easier to use stronger etc for pubs which then makes them stupidly good for clan games?

Then there is the issues of trying to get the units balanced into combat as well.

Comments

  • PseudoKnightPseudoKnight Join Date: 2002-06-18 Member: 791Members
    It's impossible to be perfectly balanced when the two opposing forces are so different from each other. The only way NS could be balanced is if it was marines vs marines or kharaa vs kharaa and the map was symmetrical. (ie. boring) But really... what's wrong with one team winning more often than the other? Real battles often have one force stronger than the other. I believe it's more dramatic in an unbalanced situation. As long as the gameplay is fun, balance isn't that important as it's made out to be.

    I think the most ideal balance situation would be to keep competitive matches at roughly 50/50.
  • VarsityVarsity Join Date: 2004-01-29 Member: 25687Members
    I think the biggest problem in balancing is that the Kharaa are hopelessely underpowered at range, but enourmously overpowered up close. Somewhere between the two there is a balance, but it is always going to be hard to find. The reliance of the rines on having a good commander is also a bottleneck.
  • DC_DarklingDC_Darkling Join Date: 2003-07-10 Member: 18068Members, Constellation, Squad Five Blue, Squad Five Silver
    never always possible. But its a big help if a admin randoms the teams at start. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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