balanceFruit.cfg

I'm not sure if the physics have changed since sunday or if it's just that I have had more time to test them but. . .

I don't like this increased acceleration and how it affects the weapon balance by making spam more important with the non-hitscan weapons. In the past there was more skill involved in leading your target and guessing what he might do next, but when he can change directions so fast that he can just step out of the way, such skills are not rewarded. Especially since the speed which was 320 is now back up to 400.


The rocket launcher could use some tweaking too-- it's spread too thin across guidance, remote detonation "flak" burst and simple spam. Guidance and remote detonation are features that work really well together and make the weapon interesting and very original. However spamming with the fast refire does not.

The refire delay should be increased, maybe to 1.0 second and a slight buff added to either the turning rate, radius, damage, acceleration or speed.


Electro secondary still seems useless, maybe that's due in part to the too fast acceleration of the physics. But still, I have yet to see any successful combo trap in a test match, it simply takes too long to set up and only works on flat ground (and on top of that the payoff is relatively weak).


Finally, with so many weapons, you end up with some duplicates. There just aren't enough ways to change weapons to keep 13 of them totally balanced and yet different from each other. I think there are two ways to make this work though.

One is what Roanoke suggested, where you merge weapons that are too similar, while keeping the best features of each in the resulting product.

The other is to divide the weapons up into two distinct "factions", where each has a somewhat different weapon that fills a roughly equivalent role.

It might go something like this:

MG ---- Crylink
GL ---- Electro
Hagar ---- HLAC
CR ---- Nex
RL ---- Fireball
TAGS ---- ?

The current physics and balance is much more skill attuned than anything nexuiz ever had.

Rocet Launcher is quite fine at the moment, in Nexuiz the fact that you couldn't miss with it was a huge advantage, the current settings require a lot more skill and planning of shots to get the most out of the weapon and then becomes quite fearsome, this weapons is the one that shows the skill focus of the balance the most, how you want to change will just hurt gameplay.

Electro secondary is quite useful, tough total damage is a bit weak atm I believe, probably a bit higher edge damage to increase minimum damage would help. I've successfully used it a lot of times, just like Fruitiex did.

I am quite against the merging of the weapons, the current settings except in some cases give a lot of original ideas and unique uses for each weapon. Mergin GL with Electro, Cr with Nex, RL with Fireball is just plain insane, these weapons are wildly different one from another, some similarities do not mean anything. Fireball could become a super weapon tough, like 1 shot and extreme damage, 30 - 60 sec re-spawn, I've suggested this super-weapon idea for a while now, in it's current state it can't really be balanced. as a super-weapon it just won't matter and it's uses will be severely limited.

If reload is implemented in this balance it will stay for good, however then cr needs a lot more head-shot damage like kojn suggested.