smaller, more regular updates#1288

This game is deeply fun but the glacial pace of updates and changes leaves the meta stagnant. Things like Astra in the pat and furia now make the experience feel deeply unbalanced and gives players like me the thought of “oh well, it is broken now, I will just check back in a few months and hope it is more fun”. I am not a game designer, and I cannot say firmly that these things are unbalanced, but I CAN say they are deeply unfun to play against. While I love big updates that bring out multiple new units, I feel the game would be much healthier with more consistent boosts. One or two new units at a time lets us really explore those units and actually use them. Then if they turn out to be too strong/too weak/not fun, we can safely know that there will be more soon or that adjustments will be made in the near future. Strategy competitve games like this can be near impossible to balance for every player so microadjustments can aid in feeling like issues are being heard and that efforts are being made. To go on the discord and be told “oh, they are addressing that in experimental” doesn’t bring any relief when changes on experimental are often months and months away, if not half a year. I really hope this helps as I love this game but simply cannot play it when the player base is so low and I only get matched with people playing the most serious lists and at the highest level. I want this to be a game I can bring friends to, but for now all I have heard back is “it is fun, but I keep fighting people 10x my level”. please, please, please, do more regular, smaller changes