Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback

why nerf SR? WTF are you doing, hive nerfed, arty nerfed(cybran to much).loyalist cant conter billy nuke OMG!!!!!!!!! the only good nerf is exodus class and bulwark! THIS 2 were so strong , to much strong,

why nerf cybran frigate range, it was good?

Haven't played it yet but after reading the CL it seems like these changes will take a slight adjustment but will favor a more balanced and strategic battle when playing mapgen/openworld maps, tmm and ladder which to me is perfect because I am sick of how quick these games can turn into astro/gap type rounds ruining a beautiful mapgen map in the process. Seems more and more people just turtle hard and its arty/nuke spam in no time which is just boring.

I can see how all the astro-thermo-gappers are going to have to really change their tactics now and will have no idea how to play FAF anymore and that to me is a good thing. Those types will make the adjustment and find a way to play sim city again while the rest of us enjoy a more pure and authentic FAF experience.

Thankyou very much for all the work DEV team and anyone else who helps keep this ship sailing.

@accidental_aeon said in Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback:

In Supreme Commander 2, shields soak up nuke damage so a base with a lot of shielding would take minimal damage from a nuke.

nukes should destroy everything when they land like they do, this is one of only games that properly shows them as they are supposed to be, stop ruining what makes the game good for easy and lazy balancing

@lord_asmodeus said in Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback:

You playing dual gap no longer able to do 1 strat of min 15 nuke is not a reason to revert nerf.

I am playing different maps. dual gap is the most played map only. Talking like you are know something more about the game looks strange. you are deaf to what experienced players say. I could add one more day of playing FAF showed me zero nukes even on dual gap. I didnt have SMD for 25 mins and nobody even tryed to build a nuke lol. Nukes are dropped off the game completely. VERY BALANCED, VERY HEALTHY gameplay now (NOT!)

@t_r_u_putin dude noone cares about dual gap meta, if you do, go create dual gap rebalance mod or smth. Also i dont really understand why do you think nukes should be built with sole purpose of killing base, and if they dont - its unhealthy smh. Like its really stupid if nukes are just instawin if you didnt build smd in time AND they have great utility even when you built them. Not to mention that on many maps you need multiple (3+) smds to cover everything that will lose you game if nuked, which cost more money than building nuke. And then nuke kills like 4-5 t3 mexes/naval bp/land army/naval group. How is it balanced in your eyes?

@noble_ice The Soul Ripper wasn't simply nerfed (except for the E cost). It simply got reworked in a way that should allow players to build them a bit earlier and better emphasize its role as a value over time unit instead of having immediate game ending damage potential like ahwassa.

If you look at the changes you will see it got buffed relative to its mass cost.

@t_r_u_putin said in Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback:

@lord_asmodeus said in Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback:

You playing dual gap no longer able to do 1 strat of min 15 nuke is not a reason to revert nerf.

I am playing different maps. dual gap is the most played map only. Talking like you are know something more about the game looks strange. you are deaf to what experienced players say. I could add one more day of playing FAF showed me zero nukes even on dual gap. I didnt have SMD for 25 mins and nobody even tryed to build a nuke lol. Nukes are dropped off the game completely. VERY BALANCED, VERY HEALTHY gameplay now (NOT!)

So why do you always respond to these posts and not mine talking about different maps? Why are nukes bad on sentons/lena river/metir/skadi/ditch with this change for example?

Half the reason maps with bases so close together are so popular at lower levels is precisely because things (nukes being one example) are insanely efficient at abusing a singular point of failure on the maps I mentioned. You can’t have 3 players fail to make 1 SMD resulting in a nuke killing them, these maps have, at best, 2 players protected by an SMD in a 4v4 or 5v5. And that front SMD would have to be built by a player that has a responsibility of making decent early game spam which is typically infeasible and so often the back player makes their own SMD regardless. Or transports decent engie spam to the front player to build it there.

And again, that’s a game winning nuke. A nuke on sentons island will always be efficient and possible because building an SMD there is silly.

@tagada I think the soul ripper changes are a lot more power-neutral than they initially seem. Once you add in the extra mass cost/build time needed for the additional power infrastructure I would expect the overall mass cost to be about the same. The decrease in build time in combination with the E-cost increase has roughly (I don't have a replay to check the exact math) doubled the power drain from every engineer constructing the unit.

sounds like you can just reduce number of engineers building it then

I think this patch has indirectly buffed every t3 arty and mavor, because hives got nerfed. Don't get me wrong, I am personally totally fine with hives nerf, they were imbalanced. But now it is way harder to defend against mavor and t3 arty, since the most efficient way was with hives. Engies are also solution, but assuming their pathfinding, range and quantity of them it is way more difficult. Because when you have a big base, which you should have on the mavor timings, there are not so much place for shields and engies take so long to get off from a place where you need a shield in 2 seconds. Please, debuff t3 arty and mavor, now they got even more powerful, which is painful:(

@ftxcommando I respond that even old cost of nuke was quite high. if one guy build a nuke - he spend a lot of res and anyone can simply defend his base using 1\3 of nuke cost. even 3 far placed bases will spend same amount of res as 1 player, also evey who build smd will slow down 3 times less than a guy with nuke.
Still Nuke was too profitable thing in hand of skilled players behind the frontline it happened almost every 2nd game that someone rushes nuke and it was quite annoying.
Balance team picked the right way of recalculation nuke cost the only thing i am fighting for that they picked wrong numbers. Nuke cost simply doubled in E + some mass increase - thats too much. High risk investement became senseless because even retard can load smds with new cost.
I support changing nuke cost + 50% in E only to what it was before - just what is enough to let you think twice to build nuke or not, because of high risk that it could not hit anything worthy. now nuke costs like 5 smds lol - nobody will do it except rare cases.
as I told before - looks like this patch is released to make small group of people to enjoy their "healthy" games without anything they don't like.
I also would remind that cost of T4 units increased too much. 3 ahwassas = 100% of mavor E and 75% of mavor cost. I dont see anyone doing ahwassas anymore - only for fun when it is over. Czars being made more often. they are 25% cheaper.
reduce exprimental cost in E by 20% from current numbers, expecially ahwassa

I guess nukes and washers are the new t2 air and I need to get 10 replays of them winning games

Didn't nukes use to be treated as mini game enders, as in if one team could spare the mass to make one and the other couldn't make SMD in response, the game was over? The "main bases should always be comfortably safe from nukes" rationale is something new.

No, there was just no real consideration of macro, spaced-out 20x20 maps because full share teamgames used to only happen on sentons and everything else was tightly compact wonder/canis/hilly where 1-2 SMD keep your whole team safe. Now that competitive teamgames have branched out into these larger 20x20 maps with the evolution of preferences and matchmaker, it's different. Even on those old maps, a nuke was only a game ender assuming insane greed gameplay where your whole team decided they didn't want to make the SMD.

It's like the cost of a GC for the launcher and first nuke. It isn't supposed to be a mini game ender any more than any direct fire t4 is a game ender.

Just ended a game because I built a nuke ~35 min and killed their top rated with it. Nukes are totally not viable anymore /s

Do we have data on how these changes have impacted the average game length in team games? Average game length and faction win/loss per patch and per rating bracket would be very interesting data, with further breakdowns for the most common maps.

I haven't really played any games since the patch, definitely interested to see how navy feels now.

@t_r_u_putin I played a TMM game today and had multiple enemy asswashers bombing the shit out of my battleships while I advanced my navy and killed the SMD (with my mega) and then nuked the enemy to death. Everything seems to work just fine.

@mazornoob said in Balance Patch 3750 - Feedback:

Didn't nukes use to be treated as mini game enders, as in if one team could spare the mass to make one and the other couldn't make SMD in response, the game was over? The "main bases should always be comfortably safe from nukes" rationale is something new.

Nukes is 3 times more expensive than SMD (before the "patch". If one team build a nuke but opposite cannot build SMD to defend them - they are simply bad noobs. Also nuke loads slower by 1 minute + time for launch animation and fly + 25 45 seconds additionnaly depends on the map size.
you get nuked simply because u don't scout in time having so much advantage in SMD cost and time.
The last patch simply removed nuke threat completely - you will be nuked after 30 mins of the game if u simply forgot to build and SMD and never scout the enemy

Somehow, the units have grown in price, but the meaning of their effectiveness has fallen. In the game, you can't balance a noob's ally so as to win a loss from the clutches of victory.The patch before these changes was better.

@t_r_u_putin yes but that’s for dual gap. Outside of dual gap, one nukes makes opponents create 3-5-8 SMDs, easily making the nuke pay itself off just in making opponents waste stuff on SMD and then nuke can still destroy armies/navy, adding more value to itself