New Halo Wars dev blog talks unit balance

by Richard Mitchell { Apr 16th 2009 at 2:00PM }

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In the latest Halo Wars developer blog, lead technical designer Tim Deen discusses the game's unit balance. Most Halo Wars fans are probably familiar with the game's "Rock, Paper, Scissors" (or RPS) balance, but Deen goes into extreme detail, even providing the complex chart seen above. If you'd like to move beyond RPS basics and start learning the difference between a 'soft' kill and a 'hard' kill -- and which units do which -- it's definitely a good read.

Sadly, Covenant fans out there are left in the cold, as the chart itself only addresses UNSC units. Hopefully, someone at Robot will be kind enough to put together a new chart for our Covie friends. Then again, we only build Brutes anyway.

Gallery: Halo Wars UNSC counter chart

Tags: ensemble-studios, halo, halo-wars, robot-entertainment, rts

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

john.hazukisan @ Apr 16th 2009 2:27PM

Complex? Sorry but that's simple, especially compared to similar charts on PC RTS games.

James @ Apr 16th 2009 7:25PM

Where's the frackin chart detailing how to kill Covanent Leaders?? And don't tell me a disruption bomb, it's BS. I drop one, they run away or their leader dies, so what? It takes 3 - 5 minutes for my bomb to regenerate (plus 450), and only 30 seconds for their leader to be back at my base, teleporting units in. It's severely un-balanced if you ask me.