DISCUSS: Balancing Philosophy ~ An Open and General Discussion

[Faun]

well you could increase the stamina and health gained per hit, but I think carn and rabid are strong enough, realistically you could increase the damage the venom puts out as it would have little to no impact in the current game use.

as for the mana crystal idea, I'm not really on board because it really doesn't make the other weapons more viable in the heat of the moment

as for ammo pack, if they did that great, but what I know is that this has been this was since savage 2.00a because in savage 1.0 you could actually pick up the ammo beyond the 50% according to your statement without having an ammo pack (i.e. you have 250 flux at start, you kill a monkit that has an ammo crate, you now have 275 flux ammo and no ammo pack taking up a slot) in said example weapons like flux pulse and mmbow benefit greatly from this (trust me I did it a lot). if they can fix the ammo problem great.

+ I will poison you

also not trying to make it a ranged game, it's just that a lot of weapons go unused and they just happen to be ranged. while your typical newcommer tries everything and is rather dissappointed with the all of 4 seconds of surge.

yea +1, was like this when I started - what about chaos bolt, rupture, fireball and scattergun (the last one rather in late game)...these all are excellent weapons despite their ammo, along with incinerator which is at least a great concept

[Just Call Me 'Wench']

Outsider perspective I was looking on your site and found this page which is linked as the very first link on the left on the front page "What is XR?": newerth.com/?id=xr

On that page it links to this thread here: INFO: XR 1.0 Beta - Feature List & Change Log — Mohican « on: February 13, 2009, 11:31:30 pm »   « Last Edit: June 11, 2009, 01:14:53 am by Django » newerth.com/smf/index.php/topic,6322

What I wonder is, is that up to date or have there been more changes (such as the threads in this forum) since then (2009?) that have not been listed?

Maybe it would be a good idea to have a stickied thread that lists all game changes that have been made?

If game changes have been made that are not just bug fixes is there any kind of 'classic' option to play with the original S2Games balancing without having people to use old copies of the game? I think it's important that the original game should also be preserved rather than written over, at least give people the option?