"testing" is not the same as "balancing". The 300 people testing the game are making sure it doesn't crash when you press button and making sure moves work the way they're supposed to. It probably either just began or will soon begin actual balancing since they're probably about to hit feature lock and submit to ESRB.
Because some things you can't see after a first glance, you need to dig to find a treasure
.Okay I see. Wow, I didn't know that. So for that reason alone wouldn't a thread like this benefit NRS then? Is it known how many people are balancing the game?
Either it wasn't possible or there wasn't time or (like MMH and Batgirl) they actually like it the way it is.
Everyone kinda got in a massive rage over PL's Kung Lao machine gunning 2,4,low hat against Mileena to win EVO 2011 and pretty much forgot about Kabal entirely.
I mean, there's nothing to be able to seriously determine just by watching gameplay footage of something nobody here has his hands on. There's no reason why NRS should listen to anyone here at this point because all we'd be offering is an uninformed opinion.
Nothing can be said. It's too early. Try again after its been released and people have played it.
You realize NRS doesn't hire "balancers", right? The one balancing the game is Paulo lol. They just bring in players as testers partially to see what they can figure out and things like that, which helps them figure out how to balance stuff but in the end it's, as they say, "paulo's vision"
I'm still not well enough informed. There's something missing from the picture though. Is it a sales thing, because that's what it sounds like to me. Doesn't NRS have enough experience in the industry to know what to patch and what not to? I mean if they are listening to the players you're describing, what well thought out reasons do they give NRS to patch the game other than "I'm upset my favorite character lost to cheapness"?
That's true. I didn't think about it like that. I guess when I was reading all the threads on character movement analysis for MKX, I was under the impression folks on here were describing what moves look useless and which are OP for instance. I didn't realize they are speculating just as much as anyone right now.
This sounds like a lot of work for what's basically one person and the other partial few. So why aren't there a lot more "balance testers" again? What's the right term anyway?
I genuinely apologize if it seems like I'm coming across that way, personally I feel this is actually a warranted thread. Overall I suppose MK9 is a little bit of a different story since the training mode was so barebones and didn't provide us with much resources to explore stuff for ourselves. Imagine what MMH could be getting away with now in Injustice if all the training mode options let you do was set him to block or wake-up, without even letting you choose the wake-up lol.
yeah i know this. what im saying is they should have hired balancers. specifically people who aren't competitors. the competitors an still be testers though
NO not you Strykie! I just had to put that somewhere in my post lol. I'm still learning a lot, so some people need to lighten up on here.
In the past they brought in a bunch of NRS players temporarily for that, so they might again. The permanent guys are testing characters from the alpha stages, so their job is probably partially that but most of it's actual testing than trying to figure things out. But it's always the developers who decide how to tweak move properties and things like that.
in addition to that, make checks for necessary balance tweaks every 6 months or so. continue until a majority can agree this game is balanced (has no ridiculously op/up characters anymore). best for the tournament scene and overall durability would be to do it the street fighter way, and never stop balancing/adding new chars until MKXI
I don't agree with this line of thinking. I'm not a "patch every month" type of guy, but I do feel like if there are going to be, say 5-6 patches total then the 1st one should be in the 1st month or so and patch out bs. Then the 2nd one can wait a long time.
Top player feedback? Most top players are too salty for their own good. Scorpion should not have been nerfed to the extent that he was and 95% of that was "top player feedback".
Yea man then we both agree. Just get the crap out the way in the beginning and then give the game a long while to develop before a 2nd patch. That's how it should be.
