Meta Snapshot [Top 100, medio dec], bonus graph included!

Another season done, another snapshot of how the top 100 finished!
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Some caveats:

Spoiler

- #2 (Tpro) was a shooter when I did the snapshot (around 1h 45mins before season end), whether he reached peak infamy as shooter or speeder I don't know, so he was left unchanged as shooter.
- Whether #12 (Weeze) got his peak infamy as Fixer or Enforcer I don't know, so he was left unchanged (as Fixer).
- #15 (Sugarbaby) was changed to Speeder. He plays most of his games as Fixer, but I'm 99.9% sure his peak infamy was obtained in the yellow boat.
- #32 (Diet Coke) was left unchanged as Fixer. This guy is a great example of how fun BB could be and plays a ton of ships + wacky setups, which one that he used for peak infamy I have no idea off, so he is listed as fixer in the stats.
- #40 (ServTek) was changed from Fixer to Defender. His end season infamy was nowhere near his peak, and I have never seen him play Fixer at peak infamy. If he did peak as Fixer then let me know.
- #66 (Izeen) was left unchanged as Fixer. I mostly see him speeding, so just as likely that he peaked in the bananaboat.
- #75 (- 42 -) was left unchanged as Fixer, an educated guess would be that he peaked in another boat, but I'm unsure so he wasn't changed.

The Data


- The only interesting this here is that infamy for all classes was lower than last seas

The Pie charts


Development over time
Not much to comment as the results are close to what they always are, so instead I've created this graph to illustrate how each class' top 100 representation has developed over time. If the pattern remains unclear, then people don't want to see



Till next time, merry christmas!

 

What, no ”nerf fixer” title?? There are 12 fixers in the top 100 AND the highest fixer is almost in top 10?? This required immediate action from devs!!

And merry christmas to you too

 

Earlier iterations of the snapshot only looked at the top 50 --- So here's a bonus chart that looks abit further behind in time.

 

Pretty unbalanced.
Shooter is fine. Riding for Weapons quests.
But speeder? High dmg(3red point), fast speed, small size, 3yellow equips, big hp(even equip bandage lol). Wdf?

 

Well the stats are not surprising considering this is a specialised character game ( here boats)
Any game with specialised character ( each one with its unique role or class ) will always have usage of flanker ( speeder ) at the top or second place simply because of its speed.
Speed helps you dodge shots flank enemy get info on enemy and also to compensate with low health of flanker all the games will have cool specialised items for them which is a added bonus.
Second/first class will always be the character with most guns or powerful weapons because people love to do dmg in a action based game
Third class will be brawler character with high health and powerful weapons but slow speed due to low speed it will not be able to dodge shots thats why people won't prefer it over speeder and shooter because nobody likes getting hit constantly by enemy no matter how much health you have and it slow speed makes it take too much time in getting in position.
Fourth class will always be medic (fixer )
Not because it's underpowered in every game just because it's human nature to be on offensive rather than healing someone and in a action based game.
Same with item
Top position will always be held by any item that increases speed followed by any item to put enemy out of the game for few sec
Third position will always be held by direct line dmg weapons and fourth by indirect line dmg weapons
Edit : oh I almost forgot merry Christmas to all of you

 

See I think people are more pragmatic than this.

First spot will be held by what the community thinks is the path of least resistance I can assure you that defender would be the most played ship in the top 100 if playing defender was equal to highest odds of succes (and top ranking).

 

All I am saying is all the game design the specialised class in such a way that these stats will always remain the same.
For ex - No game will ever make a brawler most powerful.

 

If you would use terms such as ´most´ or ´many´, rather than ´all´ then we could perhaps find some common ground I for one havn't played many games where the assassin class was the consistent top dog. If shooter was class #1 your argument would have more merit.

In a game with only 5 classes it should be possible (and desireable) to have a less drastic class imbalance. But that is just my humble opinion.

 

I'm just adding this here.

https://forum.battlebay.net/threads/ace-3-ace-2-meta-snapshot.14863/

 

I disagree with your premise. I don't think its resonable to assume that just because you are rich you like playing games in any particular fashion. If we look at actual data, then the trend would be that people with alot of money spend gravitate towards defender (and to a lesser degree shooter). Speeder (at hign end) is consistantly the class with the lowest percentage of heavy spenders.

If you are interesting in balance at master & ace infamy, then yes absolutely. Personaly I find it more interesting how balanced the game is at the stage where everyone ends up, and at the stage where players have played for long enough to have actual choice in what they play.

F2P (like me, or well close enough anyway) have 1 thing in common, we are heavily constrained in our access to items (and talents & boats). In terms of discussing balance I think you see balance changes manifest themselves alot faster in the infamy range where most players have the option to alter their setup.

 

Let me rephrase it
The gunner or flanker class will always dominate the usage rate at the top
Third will be brawler
And fourth will be the medic
( because almost every game has way to decrease the output of medic's healing otherwise medic will be op another reason)
What makes flanker class top dog in many games is Thier ability to slow Thier enemy speed or stun them ( take the enemy out for few sec In the game )
Do we agree on item stats?

 

Bad season for Enfos

 

Absolutely. I do think there is a lesson to be learned by such a consistent imbalance though. More than anything I think the goal should be to present the classes with equal options for shining at the top, then people can play what they prefer. As things are atm there is 1 green class you should never play if you want to fight for #1 and a blue class that requires spending in the thousands if you want to have half a shot.

 

Maybe,Even the most efficient and best good support player have low success rate than mediocre and mid-Talent assassins.....

Jumpannen (The best player)is the F2P global no.3,While whale fixer like brizo (Fixer)and only some whales like KSA(enforcer) have succed to crack top 50

Its not the speeder dominance that is problem rather the margin by which it dominates

 

To be fair K S A was #1 with his Enforcer last season.

 

If these update doesnt improve anything,Then lets face it its always gonna be bad for enfo and fixer

 

@TheAntiSnipe defender mk6 is are pain in the A** to kill,and believe no single boat except speeder can counter charging defender 1v1.It doesnt need love,it needs to more efficient at low levels to increase popularity