Because unless you can make 2 things completely the same, whichever side that's getting shafted will just find the still remaining differences and complain about it.
It's like everyone complaining about Protoss being a newb race. How the Protoss Deathball is the most op thing ever... until people figured out the you can rush Reapers and/or have other great harasses from zerg early aggression to out macro the Protoss. Then all of a sudden, Protoss is too weak.
As much as it sucks to have asymmetrical warfare design (cause, Starcraft II has been 5 years in balancing so far), it's still a more attractive option. Cause let's look at another series that try to make everything the same... Command and Conquer. Who the fok even still plays Command and Conquer? They took the lazy way out, and their game died.
My point in all of these, balance is hard work. Asymmetrical warfare is tough sh7t. But it's precisely because it's tough sh7t, that you keep going at it, because it just makes the game more interesting.
With all that said, here's my opinion on engine desync and how it's just batsh7t crazy. First of all, if you put a V4 vs a V6 on the exact same car, are they going to perform exactly the same except for top speed? No? Yea, I didn't think so either.
Now, I understand that if said car has an automatic sun roof, regardless of putting v4 or V6 engine, that sun roof is going to open at the same rate.
Those are realistic and practical expectations. You don't expect your charger port for your IPhone to be more powerful because you have a V6 engine. But what you do accept, is that your car is going to be .5 second faster in 0-60 test.
Which brings me to combine my 2 points, and if you bothered to make it this far, the whole engine desync, even though it's too late, still needs to be addressed... is complete HORSESH7T.
The simple reason that you don't make IS mechs more like Clan mechs is because of asymmetric warfare. Look bud, if you are telling me that my omnimechs can sacrifice weapons to go faster, then sure, I am all for it.
How many god damn Grasshoppers or Warhammers are using 325 or below? You really don't think that if I could, I will reduce the amount of heatsink and medium laser, and make my EBJ run a 350 engine and go like 90+ KPH? Flexibility and the impact of new tech that's NOT available on both sides is what makes IS mechs stand out.
Ultimately, people can b7tch about how Clan is so much better... yea, 4% over average is really that much lopsided... Give me a break.
Then we move onto criteria that you consider "mobility" and you start to question, why does an urbie need to accelerate at the same rate as an ACH? A Urbie is a piece of sh7t in movement. (but that's not quite true either, cause my max engine Urbie is plenty nimble) But that's why it can turret 360 degrees.
Certain things are just not meant to be the same. Certain things are not meant to be in the same category. And it's really that simple. If we want to continue this BS trend of making everything the same as one another, then let's be fair about it... make it like past Mechwarrior games and open tech to everything and full flexibility to every single mech.
Let's have those 110 KPH EBJ. Let's have those CERLL firing Grasshopper. But you know the end result of that? It's the same god damn mech with different skin overlay with no unique identifier. Diversity be damned, we might as well all pilot a Sphere. Yup, can't get more fair than that if everyone just go fight in a sphere.
(but then people will b7tch about using laser is more OP than using missiles... or AC is better than missiles, or how everything is better than missiles. So yea, people will find a way to b7tch no matter what)
If you are going to stuck to your original vision of asymmetric warfare, then f-ing stick to it. Stop caving to whiners everytime there is an issue. Better yet, you know how to truly balance the sides without f-ing up sh7t? Give mechs the environments that they are DESIGNED to fight at. (And just recognize that people like the flashy designer of Clan mechs than the old sockem robits of the IS mechs) Drop Mechs into downtown Manhattan, and my EBJ is god damn useless compare to a Warhammer.
In fact, NYC or no NYC, we had 2 brawl maps that you murdered with your 2 ****** game modes. Why don't you fix that first?
but ultimately, none of this matters, because it's too late. So... um... how you like Trump so far?
Edited by razenWing, 15 May 2017 - 07:02 AM.