Idea's for Next Patch (Mostly Balence But a Few Others)

[BomBaKlaK]

new patch is here

[Humate]

I think you hallucinated those.

Actually on the servers I played on, half a team of covert ops was far more rare.

[Protekt1]

Neat concept, but this only balances the game if both teams have the same mercs. You’re pretty much saying that a team of Sawbonez vs Fraggers, the Fraggers should win if they are equally matched in skill. This results in what we’ve seen already with OP classes being docked until no one plays them (e.g. Fragger, Sawbonez, Stoker, now Fragger again). And this will continue to happen as long as there is a statistically favorable class in a firefight. Your assumption that players will choose other Mercs (e.g. Proxy) because they help the team more with objectives is faulty especially with class agnostic objectives. It’s been said time and time again, but look at W:ET and how it was balanced (for the most part). Every class held their own against the other in a firefight minus some conditional variables swaying in favor for one or the other. But giving one class a clear and intentional advantage just can’t be the right move. Seeing that it is indeed intentional, this very well may be my last 2 cents given to this game.

He is saying in a solo fight. But this is a team based game where working together can have a team of sawbonez potentially overcome a team of fraggers. But more likely it’ll be a situation of mixed classes playing a team of mixed classes and the slight imbalances will be weighed against each other but not be determinative as you presume in your scenario.