I think a crucial aspect of this as a warmup mode, is it should be endless for people seeding. A way to keep people entertained would be a built in protocol to just restart the round if one team wins, until teams vote to start the game when they've …
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Yeah that is a fair point. Perhaps you could slightly reduce the amount of armor phase gates while increasing base HP to overall give the same eHP but allow fades to be able to help grinding gates, but also make it so they can't so…
The common thing I hear repeated, is frustration with how easy it is to play defensively. Primarily with marines but I think its also true for aliens. I also hear that late game in general is prone to static WWI esque attrition battles.
In the purest sense of the word, I think the game is "balanced" well right now.
That late game tech like proto lab, and onos/stomp/xeno are powerful enough to pressure the team on the back foot into aggression in the late stages of the m…