Recent reviews by ThumbsUpgato

I’ve been playing the game for about a year now. I know balancing an RTS is always tough, but at the very least I wish they wouldn’t push out patches that are so blatantly biased. Players paid money to enjoy a game where all four factions are fun and competitive, yet the way they handle balance basically gives two factions overwhelming convenience, buffs, and rewards, while relegating the other two to just getting beaten down.

Favoritism toward certain factions within the community doesn’t reflect the overall player base or good balance. But Relic seems to just listen to a handful of allied players whining on Discord without valid reasons, and then drops ridiculous buff patches for them.

If balance keeps going in a direction where one side is continually weakened, Axis players are going to feel so deprived that they’ll just quit and be left playing against AI. And when you adjust numbers, do it with some nuance—don’t just slash or boost things by half in one go. If a unit is strong, they end up nerfing it to half its former value. Is fine-tuning really that hard?