Pre-release Outwitters

[Kamikaze28]

(07-09-2012 01:45 PM)Fluffysox Wrote:  

(07-09-2012 01:35 PM)mkaen Wrote:  

Quote:...and then more teams and map themes and schemes and dreams will be added further downstream.

Was there ever a dev team with more panache than these two?!

Love it.

Also, why was the Feedback's special unit so OP in beta?

Maybe when they mind controlled a unit, it stayed at the same hp.

Exactly that. Brainwashing a buffed Heavy was often times the moment where the other player wanted to shoot himself/herself. Also, with the Scrambler having a movement range of 3, it was quite difficult to get units in place to destroy it - if you didn't destroy it, it just kept brainwashing your units further decreasing your odds of killing it.

One very late 'experiment' in beta was to reduce the standard Wits/round from 5 to 3 and add 2 Wit Spaces to every map - and yes, that meant 4 Wit spaces per side on the bigger maps. It turned the game into a turf war which was oftentimes won 15 moves before it actually was over due to the shift in Wits per player.