MP Wishlist @ .COM

[TosaInu]

Hello Gawain of Orkeny,

That's quite something.

Spears were quite powerful in the original MTW 1.0. To the point that both SP and MP players were not happy with it.
MTW 1.0 was a spearsgame.

Of course many tweaks were proposed in the forums (ranging from cost to attack). In the patch, too many tweaks were suddenly implemented and the balance shifted from over- to underpowered. Weak spears -> cavalry and swords game.

Bulletproof balancing of TW games is a huge effort. And realisticaly, it takes months to really balance a stat for good online play, I doubt that any software developer can pull that off.

What I noticed from being involved with stats/mods, is that you sometimes know what to do, but fail to get that to work because of limitations in the engine (or worse: having to make consessions because of SP). That makes it an even longer project.

What the developers can do, and we can not, is provide a solid MP frame. Indirect rather than direct support. Seperating MP from SP (same product though like Soldier of Fortune) is a good start.