I was thinking of a way to automatically balance weapons (both existing ones and upcoming ones). Currently, the game keeps track of weapon popularity (usage), and awards a score boost to unpopular weapons. What if unpopular weapons also received a damage boost? After a period of initial oscillation,…

It doesn’t matter if the changes are very small. [image] 1galbatorix1: I want all weapons to be usable and worth taking in game. And popularity-based dame buffing is opposite of that. A weapon that actually requires skill to use will be boosted to the extent that it will become new Utensil Poke…

Generally if we all play the game without any external factor we should reach a stable state where all weapon using rate in a range from 45% to 55% ideally (or 90% to 110% depended on how we calculate it, the number is not mandatory). But that’s clearly impossible. There are many ways to keep the ch…

[image] 1uws: if iA want equal’s of weapon’s specificity Fork should be nerfed My mistake here the percent of max using fraction can go over 100% so we need to calculate max using fraction of all weapons to know the mean.

[image] 1galbatorix1: choose underperforming auto-aim weapon instead of a much stronger one that requires skill to use. Yes I won’t use corn in rookie because lightning is a lots easier and faster to kill enemies.

I still support the idea and the previous posts I’ve made in this thread. Popularity is the measurable result of balance and having all the weapons used for roughly equal amounts of time gives more flexibility in playstyles.

Whenever the topic of auto-balancing comes up, I always cite this post: [image] Test automatic weapon balancing in early access Early Access Galbatorix makes a really good point in the linked topic - popularity doesn’t necessarily reflect how effective a weapon is. Just be…

[image] Kylo-Hen: Not everyone Everyone use Fork before do you agree with it? Now Fork is not the meta anymore not much people use it anymore. Edit: Yes sure not eveyone picks a weapon because it’s the best and I do use corn only even before the buffs, but the percent of people like me is ver…

Based from Galbatorix’s weapon virtuousity data we can pick Photon Swarm and Laser Cannon for examples. Photon Swarm becomes the #2 most popular due to homing mechanic, but still not the best performing weapon. While Laser Cannon has a bit broken damage output (almost not overheating when manual fir…

[image] Akemisora: still not the best performing weapon Photon Swarm has good performing in all kinds of missions. Meanwhile Neutron has bad performing but we don’t buff it because of the damage. Edit: I mean the high damage doesn’t prove that a weapon is efficient. [image] Akemisora: it…

For people trying to argue about the damage I’d say we can totally compare the weapons for SSH >100% only, then the damage outputs should be balanced. Weapons like corn, neutron, ion don’t work well in lower difficulty because they require time and overkill enemies, while weapons like lightning and …

Idea: automatic weapon balancing

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Kylo-Hen June 18, 2020, 3:36am 80

Whenever the topic of auto-balancing comes up, I always cite this post:

I don’t like to just blatantly disagree, but for the reasons I’ve stated above, I simply have to.
Not everyone picks a weapon because it’s “objectively” good.