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I played so far this game since Beta. This post is not about balance of IS to clans at all. But a few words I want to spend on it. I played both events. And I have to say great events so far PGI. Many complain about it rewards jada jada jada. I'm not, i did it in the Tukayyid II article what I didn't liked before start. There i posted that the announcement was pretty late to switch factions.
However this offered to me the comparison of both sides. I didn't looked up my data i picked up. This will follow if I had some time for it. In the greater picture on the first Tukayyid event i played as a pug or bettter to say a pick up. After spending some time and in between a couple of games as lonewolf i teamed up with a couple of units and roll with them. The same way I played the second Tukayyid event. First on IS side. And after my contract was reset i played some games for my home faction clan wolf with teams I know do "fine" and also pug games.
As a sidenote. Thanks to [TJ] and [-BB-] on Steiner. Also to [RCW], [CWI] and [DOGS] on Wolf. And adding up to this all the enemys who put up better and worse fights. Full gameplay video of the event on both sides is now up (see post #6)
I had fun so far. But to come back to the complaints, which people had and have towards balance. As far as I can tell. IS has a pretty good shot on range battles so far. What has driven the fights to a new level of play style during the event. This is just true for units - pugs on the other hand played as wishful and chaotic as always, with some highlights with at least a bit in game voice communication.
The first conclussion I could put up so far - since i looked a bit deeper into it. THose are my DWF (Direwolf) plays. Since i pulled this Version out in both events and had 2 fights on Boreal as defence in both i could compare them a little bit. And on top of this i see my rounds in a newly purchase Battlemaster. Because i bought it during the event I only could put points into the first tier skills. This are the numbers i could recover and put into a comparison:
BLR - 1S 19:54 min passed 1566 damage (overall 24:28 min - 2294)
Dire TUK I #1 13:38 min passed 1431 damage
Dire TUK I #2 15:29 min passed 1374 damage
Dire TUK II #1 12:51 min passed 454 damage
Dire TUK II #2 20:25 min passed 1252 damage
The first viewpoint i wanna look at. As it stands, with the event it was harder to get the numbers rolling between Tukayyid I and II. The range boost by IS helps to force you into cover as you will see in the clip i pulled together. And this on the next steps introduce as i said a shift i did have done to my playstyle. I don't know if it is for the better or the worse of the game.
The second point. When I was on IS side i had some games rolling with higher match scores. 703, 654 and the third was 606. With clans 480, 452 and 398 was the highest match scores I put up. I do not bet a dime on those numbers to show anything. But as it looks in my samples for this event I could not bring a mech alone or at least a second that survived to the end on clan side. This however I had done in the first event. As an indication for me towards ranged peaka boo this tells me a bit and that there was a shift.
The third talking point i wanna comment. It is a bad thing and should have been hotfixed are map problems that hurt balance more than anything else. It is the generator shooting on Emerald Taiga and the Omega shooting on the same map in counter atk mode by ranged quirked builds. Plus the I think Omega shooting on Grim Portico. All can be done from Outside the gates and are a no go. Since I noticed this on clan side I can not tell if it is an IS only thing and couldn't check how much range you are away from those targets. And since non clan team did do this I do not know if it works as effective for them as well.
What do you think? Did your playstyle also adapted - did you changed equipment setups in your mechs and rethink your approach to kill the enemies? Did you noticed problems like map design "exploit", what favors a side?
Edited by Kuritaclan, 15 December 2015 - 10:28 AM.
