First, I care about Kynesie's opinion at least as much as I would any other given player of his skill, and he personally told me he found the changes in EP6's final release reasonable.somppukunkku wrote:I don't know if there is a German conspiracy but...
I find it hilarious that Japs have gotten way harder nerfed than Germany from RE. And I'm not even counting that EP maps have 3x more food than RE maps!
It's simply amusing to claim that the patch would be the same if somebody really cared about Kynesie or he was part of some balance team.
The current meta is absolute boredom. Match ups including fast age up civs are always played with almost identical build orders and units. Simply because it's so hard to counter it.
It's no longer a strategy game, it's rather a competition of being the biggest mechanic bot.
Unique playstyle like Kynesie does? First we nerf walls, then we move bastion to later age, then we nerf warships (after being already small whales) and in the end we nerf japan.
Then tell me that some people don't have any bias towards standard play?
Secondly, I don't understand the cry about that German nerfs would make German non-tp unplayable. They would be still playable. Why it's fine to have otto on non-tp but when we talk Germans, there is a huge riot that maybe they could (for the first time ever) fall under mediocre civ in certain maps?
Second, Japanese has not been nerfed as much as Germans, from RE, in terms of overall change in civilization strength.
Third, if Japanese is indeed considered underpowered according to the player-base, it will be buffed in the very next patch. Make no mistake about that.