I played Natural Selection 2 and the devs kept balancing around "50/50 win rate" between both sides (asymmetrical team, marines vs. aliens).
The game sucked ass because they didn't account for Marines being were way more fun to play as, with more cool toys, and Marines were much simpler and used standard FPS mechanics making them more newbie friendly. Some Aliens were powerful but it had a steep learning curve. It was also highly punishing to die as an Alien since you'd lose all your evolutions while Marines could just pick up their dropped shotgun again.
This meant every game the lobby would pile up with people trying to play as Marines and the only people who would play as the Aliens were the veterans.
Then they'd "balance" the game around one team of veterans vs one team of newbs for their faggy 50/50 win rate, thinking it was "balanced" l, and it just became shitty boring hell to be an alien while Marines were stomping around in mech suits having a blast.
I played natural selection 1 for thousands of hours. Only played natural selection 2 for like 100 hrs.
I had fun in natural selection 1 because of certain special scenarios that make it fun. I remember turtling for 2 hours as marines lol. Or being a gorge and hiding in a vent with healing chambers and spitting at marines trying to traverse to vent to get you lol.
Like I liked the 'power' idea, but it bewildered me that the whole map started "powered" and you could only get a place to have the lights out if the marines first built a power core and then aliens destroyed it. This made zero sense when it could've given the aliens a much-needed advantage in ambush and hive defense if the whole map started DARK until a power core was built in a room.
Aliens got almost nothing new, in fact they lost features (besides the unneeded alien commander). Rather than do something interesting and neat they just ported the alien gameplay over 1:1 and basically left it. Of the five lifeforms, you still only had one support class, one 'endgame' class so it doesn't even count, the starting class, the gorge, and the Fade. No new alien lifeform. No new way to evolve new abilities.
Like if the point is "evolution", wouldn't it have been interesting to give aliens upgrade trees they can spend evolution points on that would let them counter the tech the marines were researching? Like if the marines start getting flamethrowers and incendiary, aliens could evolve heat-resistant carapace or something?
Marines had all the fun and cool shit and aliens got a fucking commander.
I played Natural Selection 2 and the devs kept balancing around "50/50 win rate" between both sides (asymmetrical team, marines vs. aliens).
The game sucked ass because they didn't account for Marines being were way more fun to play as, with more cool toys, and Marines were much simpler and used standard FPS mechanics making them more newbie friendly. Some Aliens were powerful but it had a steep learning curve. It was also highly punishing to die as an Alien since you'd lose all your evolutions while Marines could just pick up their dropped shotgun again.
This meant every game the lobby would pile up with people trying to play as Marines and the only people who would play as the Aliens were the veterans.
Then they'd "balance" the game around one team of veterans vs one team of newbs for their faggy 50/50 win rate, thinking it was "balanced" l, and it just became shitty boring hell to be an alien while Marines were stomping around in mech suits having a blast.
I played natural selection 1 for thousands of hours. Only played natural selection 2 for like 100 hrs.
I had fun in natural selection 1 because of certain special scenarios that make it fun. I remember turtling for 2 hours as marines lol. Or being a gorge and hiding in a vent with healing chambers and spitting at marines trying to traverse to vent to get you lol.
But.. natural selection 2. Fucking assholes always surrender.
That and I saw so many missed opportunities.
Like I liked the 'power' idea, but it bewildered me that the whole map started "powered" and you could only get a place to have the lights out if the marines first built a power core and then aliens destroyed it. This made zero sense when it could've given the aliens a much-needed advantage in ambush and hive defense if the whole map started DARK until a power core was built in a room.
Aliens got almost nothing new, in fact they lost features (besides the unneeded alien commander). Rather than do something interesting and neat they just ported the alien gameplay over 1:1 and basically left it. Of the five lifeforms, you still only had one support class, one 'endgame' class so it doesn't even count, the starting class, the gorge, and the Fade. No new alien lifeform. No new way to evolve new abilities.
Like if the point is "evolution", wouldn't it have been interesting to give aliens upgrade trees they can spend evolution points on that would let them counter the tech the marines were researching? Like if the marines start getting flamethrowers and incendiary, aliens could evolve heat-resistant carapace or something?
Marines had all the fun and cool shit and aliens got a fucking commander.