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    Coming Soon: Weapon Balance Pass.

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    3 hours ago, ACGIFT said:

    I like how you said "nerfs" and failed to mention the 10+ buffs, which kinda alerted everyone to your reasoning... I suppose given that you're a Tonkor main that's to be expected.

    Warframe is a game with more than one player. And because it's not competitive, the goal is for players to all HAVE FUN, which technically makes balance even *more* crucial than in a PvP game; in the latter, "fun" isn't as much an objective, so the player workaround of tier lists and limited selection can work. (see: League of Legends, etc.)

    It's not something many players ever think about at all, but for a game developer, it's important to find a good balance in power, because part of the "fun" is players feeling awesome because they can see their skill is netting rewards. "Bad balance" means that this result is being prevented by one of many things, which all apply to PvE. And one of them is "some player goes through with a zero-skill weapon and insta-wipes all enemies." So you can be running with a weapon with great damage, and be really skilled at using it, but it doesn't matter because there's one weapon that trivializes the game's content.

    So, it leaves the other players with only two choices: they can either take that zero-skill AoE spam, or they can stick with their skillful weapon. Neither is fun: the former means that none of their skill has an impact anyway because they will ALWAYS do amazing even if they suck, and the latter also means their skill doesn't make an impact either, because all the enemies are killed quickly already. Just always going solo isn't an option either, as most of the game's content is designed around assuming squad play. (such as players being punished for opening relics in solo missions)

    Good game balance means that any player has some choice in what they take, and can trust that their success will hinge in their own skill.

    I'm a Tigris user tenno, and i still can't understand nerfs on an PVE game.
    Maybe when users start left the game you can play it in your way.

    Coming Soon: Weapon Balance Pass.

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    Just now, Dailus said:

    One of the wisest toughs i have read since this threat started... i'm with you! i don't want to keep spending formas neither time or effort to making outstanding build just to get nerf butchered cause some lazy whiners cannot work hard to get those builds and don't like to be more than 10 minutes on each mission.

    Slowly DE is killing the greatest thing of this game imho... The greatest achieve of the tennos are to deal with the strongest things that will 1 hit you and kill them before they kill you. Space ninjas? keep the good gear and make better things not butcher the already GREAT ones... Or ppl will start feeling that is playing some CoD game with some fancy space visuals and guess what? go back straigth for a plain all the same standard shooter game cause "BALANCE".

    THIS!

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