How have you won matches so far? I'll start: 1. Find enemy base 2. Move engineer close 3. Build ridiculous turret 4. Turret destroys everything 5. ??? 6. Profit Share your successful strategies!
It's far too early to be worried about balance problems. Also, this is the wrong forum to be talking about alpha issues.
Sounds interesting. So the enemy is not trying to destroy the engineer? (or building defensive turrets in advance?)
I cant say anything about my strategies, because those are good ones. Insta kill ;D I was really disappointed when "nuclear sup" couldnt make those nukes. I saw that and was like "AWESOME" but then, "ohhh...". Im sad tiger, had to kill someone other way.
Not sure if serious but... Early alpha is for testing if the game crashes and how it runs on different pc configurations. Balance testing comes way late in beta, when you're reasonably feature complete. Also, wrong forum.
What Raevn and SmallCPU said. Alpha is about getting the game running. We can start talking balance when most of the units are in. It's moot talking about it before we have more than one planet and a way to get to another planet.
But I guess some people always will complain and want already a perfectly balanced game in Alpha cause they paid money. :mrgreen: Anyone plaid Minecraft back when it was Alpha? There you could see how much a game changes... I remember still Multiplayer where health was bugged... Agree: Alpha Planetary Annihilation should try for technical stuff first and get Mac/Linux running and tested later in the Alpha and maybe additional stuff added.... maybe rough balancing. Fine tuning balancing in beta then.
That's the thing though Jessep, I'm not sure this thread is a balance thread. For example, if I were to start a balance thread, I'd start harping on about mass to dps ratios or something. It seems more like a 'Interesting Ways You've Won A Game' thread.
neutrino mentioned in live stream chat, that Scathis is already working on balancing the toughest issues.
My response was aimed at the post that suggested alpha was for balancing. It is not and never has been. Scathis will do his best to make the alpha as much fun as possible balancing-wise but all bets are off once some of the more interesting features are implemented like unit cannon, satellites, H3-mines or KEWs.
Couple of tactics. Fly over enemy commander with a scout and click on it and press delete. (Never done this one so no idea if its still in the game) Mass Tech 2 Tanks Use flying engineers to build a navy base in a lake near the enemy base build the tech 2 ships and watch as they wreck everything with ridiculous range and damage.
Built one tier one factory build tier two factories (as many as you can) never use tier one units unless you want them to be a distraction and ignore bots they're currently useless at the mo
Just find the enemy commander and select him, then press delete Makes him explode No joke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssnAZve8cII
