Nerf or Buff

This is interesting. Do you agree? I personally think that a buff is suppoir to a nerf, Nerf = less exciting (mostly) Buff = more action (and more ways to deal with whales).
(I do support some nerfs)

 

Nerf all the weapons I don't use. They're op.

 

Nerf Nerf Nerf!

 

Using buff as main balancer is a bad idea, you get what's known as power creep. Every update, the average power of stuff goes up a bit, until a year down the line everyone is stupidly powerful. Better to go with a more balanced approach.

 

There definitely needs to be a balance between the two. Buffing all the time, as has already been pointed out, ends up with everything crazy beefy. In most cases, that's going to mean super powerful weapons, which means people will be getting dropped in 1-2 hits. That's not the sort of experience that's likely to draw/keep new players.

 

Well your profile picture surely means the other way.

 

I would say buff, if you nerf items they can be useless and then you need to get a other item instead and that can take alot of time.

 

You stole @Zeus line XD and they should def nerf the fire bomb

 

Pfft. He he stole my line

 

From a pr/feedback perspective buffing is the easy way out. People complain less.

But it also depends on what kind of imbalance you are trying to correct. If 1 weapon is clearly over the top is would be silly to buff the other 18.

 

I totally agree with you, it will be a waste to buff 18 other weapons.

 

No more nerfs! No more buffs! We need CONTENT!

 

Instead of nerfing speeders, buff enforcers and defenders!

 

Don't nerf or buff keep it as it is. *Maybe nerf mines*

 

I believe that ppl get better with weapons they use constantly and that causes cry babies to cry ... I have trained my guys to run my boat and weapons... took time and effort on my part.. take away what I have earned and that's crappy.. ppl need to get better not weapons need to get weaker... It appears everyone favors the shooter ... Yet they still cry over sniper, speeder, their teams ....Oh and everyone has to deal with the pay to plays lol who didn't even learn the game first lol before they maxed their platinum card lol but hey they are number one! Lol

 

was in magic the gathering since start
was in beta of lineage, wow, rfonline, city of heroes, etc....(now all these game are easywin, but was fucking difficult at start)
the problem is simple :
there is always someone with a fucking combo destroying everything, finding the problem of the game
permastun /permahaste/permashield/permafrost is not good.
that's why nerf are good
the scale of a game is difficult to make. so dev always need to downside some power and up other

 

I think the problem with buffs is that things are always situational. If you have something that's broken in certain situations, then buffing everything else won't help, it just makes more things broken in different situations. That leads to a really luck based game, where you're just playing bingo with whoever can do their broken strategy first.

My experience is that games balance better when casts and weapons don't deviate much from a standard model. It doesn't seem as exciting to the casual player, because everything is kind of the same, but if you play a game a lot you really start to appreciate good balance, and you'll find the small variations can still make a big difference.

So IHMO: nerf nerf nerf! Nerf everything until it's just one homogeneous shade of beige.