Agree
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I am true nuetral
Don't care
I am a marine main who hates xeno players
Does this really fucked up benos? Or maybe it only delivered the inevitable, shortening the round? Can you really compare deleting of last few benos to changing marines into monkeys with HP pool of a reinforced glass? I sure can't do that.
What I meant by "fucked up" is exactly like changing marines in monkeys, this fucks up marines from the start, decreasing their chances to win. And also not nerfing benos at all and advertising ebent as "fun" and "epic". Do You see the difference? Can you remember such event?
Marines are already monkeys, this just makes their appearance match their behaviour
And marines event where they got massive weapon buffs and ERT style support is fun for xenos? When they don't receive buffs too? Events aren't meant to balanced, that's why they are one off things.
Event where marines got weapon buffs and ERT style support? Are you sure this wasn't "test" round of DEFCON and weapon balance?
At this point I'm starting losing the balance of my mind, fucking nothing is meant to be balanced, winrate not balanced, events not balanced, weapons not balanced, benos not balanced, marines not balanced... What is supposed to be balanced in CM? What is supposed to be balanced in life? If so, then lets just flip the coin on the other side, why we won't make marine winrate bias? Come on, game is not supposed to be balanced, so let's fuck benos, that would be unbalanced. As purple wise man once said: "Perfectly unbalanced, as all things should be".
At this point events to be different than normal gameplay should be for once balanced to be "off" CM mainstream.
we've had other meme rounds where marines all used melee (claymores) and won, or where they started with corrupted pet xeno, or where they had 2 (or more) tanks
the monkey marine thing was a event, and like all events, none (mostly) were tested or compensated for balance in any way, they were just supposed to be fun, not balanced or realistic in any way approaching a normal round, just fun
maybe it wasn't fun for you, but it was fun for others, and even if it wasn't staff are not gods and sometimes they might accidentally make a unfun round trying to make what they thought was a cool event
they're event/one-off rounds, they have nothing to do with regular round shenanigans when they exist outside of it and you don't need to balance a one time round for something silly
okay so it took up what could've been a regular round, so does zombies/clf/whiskey/etc
you don't have to play the fancy one time round with the monkey marines if you don't want to
I'll just drop my opinion right here.
In my opinion, rounds are not about who 'wins', but about having fun and the good story. A good story is not about competitive balance, it's about what happens when forces collide.
That being said, CM is still a game, so there has to be semblance of balance. It's not fun or a good story that one side stomps the other, the end, PFC Mary Sue gets promoted to Captain and saves the galaxy.
Ideally, a round is a tense back-and-forth between two groups, until one side gains the advantage or gains the victory by a slim margin. Delay, for example, is not part of a good story. It's the boring mopping up where everybody knows the end result.
Tyson 'Bunny' Sphere