2008-03-18, 10:30:38
It's not so much a question of balance, it's just that it is easier to play tanks like Light and Heavy Tank, with simple abilities, than the other ones available in the respective price ranges, with abilities that require more skill/experience to be handled effectively. If you e.g. go for the tree straightly, you'll probably get less kills than someone who got weapons and a hull or someone who got a Heavy Tank, but you'll be a valuable team player and can turn the tide of the battle nevertheless. Abilities are indeed the essence of the game, as much as choosing the right weapon and using it is. How do you see only 4 different strategies? Exploder, plain Light Tank, Demo, Trader, Heli with long range, Tinker as tower builder... already got various styles of playing that differ from one another. You cannot expect as broad a variety of possible strategies as in DotA or similar games, since in Battle Tanks you've got the a limited number of the same tanks with rather simple abilities for every player.