By design? (Destiny)

by yakaman, Wednesday, July 01, 2015, 20:02 (3233 days ago) @ Kahzgul

Speaking as someone who has balanced weapons in FPS PvP, I think bungie has been balancing their weapons in exactly the wrong ways.

They seem to come up with base models for each class, balance all of those, and then add in perks and exotic behavior. The problem with this is that players don't want to play with the base weapons; they want the ideal perk combos and exotics with the largest advantage.

I wonder how much is intentional. Everything in balance probably leads to a sedentary player base, no? The slow cycle of "overpowered" kind of generates seasons of renewal as different weapons/exotics/perks rise and fall.

Debate and conflict are fuel, in other words. As soon as you get comfortable with Suros, it is diminished. Each player is softly pushed to grow and change. Maybe that's too sophisticated to do purposely, but the effect is probably pretty healthy.

And also periodically frustrating... :p