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There is a Fantasia tag?!?!?!?

And DoW3 is Family Friendly I see.

I got to watch like 10 mins of the video before it went down. It turned me from uncertain to 100% excited. There ARE MOBA elements here, but let's get real for a second: MOBAs are literally direct descendants from the RTS genre. They share game DNA elements. RTS and MOBA will always have varying deg...

It really did look like a great mix of DoW2 style capture point play, MOBA lane focus and free-form base building. The SM v Eldar map reminded me of Judgment of Carrion - with three "lanes" to fight push-pull in. The middle has resources, pushing further gets you to the enemy generators, a...

Thanks for sharing!

This looks way better then I was expecting. Very excited now.

I like more regen best. They are indeed hard to justify in 1v1, with a few exceptions. Tex's comment on the teleporting flamers is one, they absolutely demolish some compositions. Not a fan of size change. Being hit by AV weapons is fine in my book. I don't like more speed on ranged termies, but I a...

Consistent hotkey would be best. H is a bit far over, but should be fine?

zoan snare should comeback just make the warp blast do like 100 dmg or something and see how it goes from there Hmmmmmmmm with 100 damage and snare vehicles will have a hard time to do anything and with 20 second cooldown like I say before fwb should do no damage but snare with more cooldown and mo...

My 3c? Nids have been overnerfed, but that's ok. Next step is to give them back some potency, in unique niddy ways, without getting them to their former broken state. I think snare should come back, but nids are balanceable without it, though other changes would be needed. I look forward to seeing s...

I'm having some fun brushing up on stats now... Let's go deeper. There are 6 factions, or 7 if we include OM. Relic likely either coded Random to pick from the commander list, or to pick a faction and then a commander inside. I suspect it's the former, since I feel like I don't get OM that often (I ...

Small sample space, confirmation bias, humans do not understand stats. There is of course a small chance the random function is biased a bit, but likely for something mundane like rounding errors. I remember when I was working on an MMO and a player posted a furious rant about how broken the crating...

Happy holidays all!

Eldar are still pretty good and the changes were good indeed. However the playstyles are more limited now. You are forced to buy battle equipment for no good reason. I actually feel the exact opposite! I think BE and Exarch both in t1 open up more build / timing options. BE is hardly mandatory, DA'...

Don't let reality get in the way of your opinions.

I think +5 power might be ok, but I won't know until I've played a lot more 2.6. The DA changes altered the unit in a really impactful way, I think further nerfs would be too hasty.

About as much restraint as triple DA into Falcon plays

Can all units please get the hold fire? Just to dodge oversights? Upvote here. I'm still confused as to what exactly this is supposed to accomplish. Most units fire regularly enough that you can just change target and be fine? What oversights are we talking about here? Is this maybe for infiltratio...

BB aside, the cata changes represent a huge buff. The demo man upgrade functionally reduced from 75/20 to 50/10 is a big deal, on top of 15% extra ranged damage and sily smooth sarge scaling. Trying to spin those changes as a nerf is disingenuous. BB was an unplayable piece of trash in 3v3 and 1v1. ...

Dark Riku wrote:Can all units please get the hold fire? Just to dodge oversights?

Upvote here.

It's complicated and Trump has promised an easy solution. it won't work. This. Times like a million. Trump offered "down to earth, easy to explain, black and white solutions" to problems that simply cannot be solved in such ways. They feel good, they sound good, they make good sound bites...

I agree with everything Tex said. Less spike damage on the nades, more focus on CC and addressing internal ork balance. I don't think unit cost reduction is as necessary with other changes, and I have no opinion on the red costs changing.

Agree on courage damage up and keep damage down. Agree on more lenient fire pattern (especially wind up to reduce misfire.). I'd be in favor of a wind up even lower then 1, in exchange for more cool down or wind down. I'm indifferent in speed and vision changes. Further health increases might be OK,...

Lastly, and very importantly, the librarian needs more love! His initial cost is incredibly prohibitive in terms of internal balance, and a better initial purchase in T2 will almost always be a razorback or whirlwind. My proposal is that the Librarian should be designed around an initial cost of 36...

I'll just repeat: More complete DA nerfs and the -1 speed might be plenty. If it isn't, I'd like a small AV dps decrease (like down 20% to ~23), not it's complete removal.

PMs just need that fourth model reinstated so they have increased bleed potential and that retarded anti-infantry damage nerfed. Agree there (though one or the other, not both nerfs imo) Part of me would like to see them as HI, mainly for aesthetic reasons. Why are they the one unit in power armor ...

We (not the two of us but the community) still has not found common ground on wether they are supposed to be a utility unit only with some dmg potential or a unit that inflicts bleed with some utilities and I believe it should be the latter. Yep, and I'm squarely in the "old snipers were toxic...

The key thing of course is that default scouts are really cheap and good for capping and then they can be upgraded to shotguns or snipers as you see fit. It's easier to just throw some snipers in on as SM on top of your jump squad and your SUTs than it is for eldar to throw rangers on top of the re...

To answer the subject line: Because DoW would be really boring if every race had exactly the same strengths and weaknesses. Digging slightly deeper, I think Falcon was potent but reasonable until 2.5 with the DA change. Getting them back in line will make the Falcon fine, especially if it really doe...

Is there a clear list of these changes someplace? I feel like I'm seeing such a swirl of speculation without anything to base opinions on. Specifically, HWT and Russ changes, but anything else not in the 2.6 patchnotes. I'd love to provide feedback on them when I do an IG writup.

Super quick: I think the OM changes are wonderful. Are they balanced yet? Nope. But OM have suffered from extreme neglect. 6 months of 2.5 was a tragically bad patch for them. I want to see some mix ups and refocusing. The numbers will be off, but that's why we have a beta. I roundly reject this &qu...