Test automatic weapon balancing in early access

[anon46675045]

Well, there was idea of auto balancing that IA suggested:

Idea: automatic weapon balancing

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, I think the whole system would eventually reach a balance point where all weapons would be equally popular, and dealt roughly the same amount of damage. Can anyone think of a reason why this would n…

But I still think that auto balancing isn’t a good idea and better thing to do is manually balance weapons just like here:

CIU weapon balance program by galbatorix

Hi, i am galbatorix. I am new to the forum, but i have been playing CI series for several years (I played all 5 episodes and I have ~70 tier in CIU) I played some “bullet hell” games like “raiden X” too. And as much as I love “Chicken Invaders” series, there was always (from CI3 on, actually) one thing that really bothered me. I am kind of a hardcore gamer and i find it really frustrating. I am talking about the weapon balance on higher difficulties. You see, weapons in Chicken Invaders are rea…