"Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" (Destiny)

by Mid7night , Rocket BSCHSHCSHSHCCHGGH!!!!!!, Saturday, August 15, 2015, 17:05 (3485 days ago) @ electricpirate

Interesting piece over at GameInformer, which is about Destiny, but also a general truism of game design.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/08/14/why-gjallarhorn-is-overpowered-and-the-tricks-to-balancing-...

A part I like,

"There was a bug late in the development of Destiny where the trails didn't appear for the sub-munitions of Gjallarhorn, so you couldn't see what it was doing and it wasn't this spectacular display that it is now. However, the bug didn't get logged as, 'This doesn't look awesome." It got logged as 'isn't powerful enough.'"

So it's like the opposite of why the H1 Magnum was overpowered in campaign mode? ;)

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"Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - electricpirate, 2015-08-15, 16:43
- "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - Mid7night, 2015-08-15, 17:05
- "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - CyberKN, 2015-08-15, 17:21
  - "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-08-15, 17:28
    - "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - electricpirate, 2015-08-15, 18:02
    - "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - Cody Miller, 2015-08-16, 16:56
      - "Why Gjallarhorn is overpowered" - General Vagueness, 2015-08-16, 21:32
      - Ruin Wings to boot. - Vortech, 2015-08-17, 01:01
        
        Joke. - narcogen, 2015-08-17, 01:05
        
        They ARE going to actually try it, though - ZackDark, 2015-08-17, 01:43
        
        I didn't mean that they weren't. - narcogen, 2015-08-17, 10:02
        
        Huh, hadn't thought of it that way - ZackDark, 2015-08-17, 10:56
        
        Me either. Narc makes my jokes funnier than they are. - Funkmon, 2015-08-17, 13:21
        
        "Joke." - Funkmon, 2015-08-17, 02:22
        
        Gjallarhorn only* - ProbablyLast, 2015-08-17, 02:17
    - "Why Gjallarhorn is overpowered" - General Vagueness, 2015-08-16, 21:14
  - It's pretty common actually - electricpirate, 2015-08-15, 17:46
    - It's pretty common actually - CruelLEGACEY, 2015-08-15, 18:00
      - It's pretty common actually - electricpirate, 2015-08-15, 18:14
      - It's pretty common actually - Xenos, 2015-08-15, 18:15
        
        It's pretty common actually - DreadPirateWes, 2015-08-16, 14:10
        
        It's pretty common actually - General Vagueness, 2015-08-16, 21:21
      - It's pretty common actually - Kahzgul, 2015-08-16, 07:45
        
        It's pretty common actually - Vortech, 2015-08-16, 16:07
        
        It's pretty common actually - Cody Miller, 2015-08-16, 16:51
        
        It's pretty common actually - Kahzgul, 2015-08-16, 18:31
  - "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - Kalamari, 2015-08-16, 20:01
    - "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - Xenos, 2015-08-16, 22:41
- "Why Gjallerhorn is overpowered" - SonofMacPhisto, 2015-08-16, 16:11

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