Which Maps to Retire?

[Necrocat219]

(02-06-2013 03:38 AM)CombatEX Wrote:  

(02-05-2013 06:58 PM)Necrocat219 Wrote:  There isn't really a metagame in this, the teams would have to be more rock paper scizzors for it to reflect it. Instead it's just each team having quantifiably small advantages over each other

There isn't much of one at the moment, that's why I say there is still much to learn. Certainly there are hints of one evolving with things like mobi rush on Reaper (and I recently encountered one on Sweetie Plains) where if you don't play with it in mind you'll lose very easily. However, if you play to counter it and the Adorables player doesn't do it then your intended counter opening wasn't as optimal as an opening you could have done if you had known the Adorables player wasn't going for the rush. Things like this.

I forgot about the mobi rush, however in that case thats a 'bad' metagame. In a turn based game, unlike a RTS game you have a 50:50 chance of correctly countering your opponent, if you fail to counter one, they are guaranteed a win, fail the other you wasted one wit with your runner and are slightly behind, making it the map with the largest luck element involved. I still think it should be modified

I really feel that this game would suffer and does not need a metagame like all those real time strategy games, much like other board games such as chess and hero academy don't have metagames but instead different openings with similar themes (although having to learn the openings off by heart is a pain). In LoL, DotA and HoN they are designed to have RPS formats, they all have team selection in order to have mind games in order to see who can choose the better set up and to suit each players strengths and the laning and jungle setup allows for a lot of variables to create a (successful?) metagame (League of Legends is the only one I've played and half of champions are unplayable in top level play).