Rising Sun under ver. 1.03 - Not good

Kool Kat · (This post was last modified: 07-30-2008, 06:44 AM by Kool Kat.)

Silkster53 Wrote:Dang, I had a feeling that would be a major factor in RS. :eek1:

I hated to be Banzi'ed and the new rule would surely take the sting out of that tactic. :chin:
I did see the Banzi as making the Japs too strong, I would not want this new rule change to make it an unusable tactic all together.

My belief remains steadfast, that these new rules have changed the game and not just the tactics used to play it. And, they are no more real or unreal than the old rules.
At least with the old rules the game thrived on our ladder and in other game clubs across the internet? :smoke:

Hi Ed:

I had read many of your "passionate" ver. 1.03 postings... and initially I believed (hoped) that veterans like yourself were "over reacting" to the new changes in this game patch.

However; sadly, having experienced ver. 1.03 up front and personal Eek

in RS (Bougainville), I now find myself firmly in your camp.

Suggestion: Why can't Matrix go back to ver 1.02 (with all its known issues) and then incrementally build / tweak the game engine? :conf:
For example, release a ver. 1.03 that ONLY updates assault or ONLY updates OOB or ONLY updates new nationalities, etc. Extensively play test each INCREMENTAL change and then ONLY release that incremental change in a new game patch. That way, if there are issues / bugs, these problems can be isolated and resolved immediately.

Maybe this is too "simplistic" an approach :chin: but IMHO Matrix released a game patch with too many changes / updates that fundamentally changed both game play and mechanics. And now the option on the table looks to be a "fix" of bugs in ver. 1.03, but not a review of whether the assault changes, naval units, OOB, etc have negatively or positively impacted game play and scenario balance. I look for both playability and scenario balance with some "realism" thrown in when I play RS.

BTW... I agree that Banzai made the Japanese too strong in ver. 1.02, but now it appears to have been nerfed in ver. 1.03. Again, looking for a balance here.