I’ve been playing the Tide series since it started in 2015, and time and time again some mechanic, ability, weapon is misjudged, massively over-performs, is left to rot for months, and finally gets patched. This approach is the optimal-strategy for pissing off the maximum number of players possible:…

For anyone familiar with tabletop 40k, I think this is just FS adhering to the Games Worskhop theory of game design & balance to a T. It took GW a quarter century and 8 or 9 editions to make Ogryns an actually functional useful unit on tabletop, so at least FS is doing better on that count :rofl:

9 months of Sister of the Thorn. Nine. Months. Nine months of avoiding lobbies with elves, or only playing elf with a different career. And they radically changed her, its not like Fatshark disagreed with the players, they just didn’t do anything about it for NINE BLASTED MONTHS.

The slower pace of content would feel so much better if there were more frequent balance changes to keep the game from being stale. Instead we’ve been playing with the same stale meta for a year, with the Ogryn rework and addition of Arbites just making it worse.

They have structural, institutional and managerial issues where they have versioning issues, the inability to add small, iterative balancing changes with their ‘hotfixes’ and the overwhelming desire to re-invent the wheel rather than the aforementioned small iterative changes. And if they can’t re-i…

Did it with VT2 Did it with VT2 Versus Did it with DT They’re extremely slow For Reference, They nerfed Pyromancer in Versus like 9 months after the release of the mode, and wasn’t even announced (They didn’t nerf the extremely OP stuff still)

At least they did nerf Radiant Inheritance after 1 week of Sister’s release [image] [PC] Patch 4.4.0.3 is now live Sister of the Thorn: Tweaks to 'Radiant Inheritance; Overall duration reduced to 10 seconds (down from 15). (new!) Power Level increase now 20%, down from 50%. Critical strike cha…

They took months to fix Wigglemancer, AK Huntsman and Fist of the North Star Kruber. Years to fix Bounty Hunter’s actually infinite ammo and Battle Wizard’s lingering and famished flames combination.

Cause each time there are news of nerfs the steam reviews turn to :poop:

One its not sexy on a resume. Ergo it gets very little in the way of attention as staff jockey for projects that in one bulletpoint catch a hiring managers attention. Two, most people have a hard (to put things very mildly) admiting when they fouled up. Software people are even worse, to the point …

Why is balance always left to fester like this?

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Harridas August 26, 2025, 6:52am 10

At least they did nerf Radiant Inheritance after 1 week of Sister’s release

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Why is balance always left to fester like this?

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