Unit Pricing

[Kamikaze28]

(07-08-2012 06:46 AM)Kirenx Wrote:  I don't deny Heavies have their place, but at the current price point, I just don't see them having the same cost-value ratio as most of the other units.

I don't think the special units are useless, I just think they have too narrow a role, allowing them to only shine in a very limited amount of circumstances. Again the only reason I have any issue with this is that the special units are the sole unique gameplay aspect for each team and if they are only going to see play a quarter or less of games played, it feels to me like we lose out on the individualism of each team.

Special Units, or race choice if you will, determine your enemies strategy greatly at higher levels. You will probably not go into a battle of attrition against Feedback or Scallywags, a Scrambler can reverse an offensive quite severely and a well placed Bombshell can hold quite a large piece of a map on his own.
Mobi is a very different case - there are one-hundred-and-one shenanigans you can pull with him, but I'll let you find out for yourself ;-)

Also, the teams aesthetics and the themes of the maps they are accompanied by are quite unique to me.