Balance Fighting Terrain 
PreMortem.Games
MAY 8, 2023
Something that seems to offer a challenge, but is actually a perfectly balanced system so that no one ever feels frustrated. The size gives the advantage that you can see much more terrain, so the action is much more interesting. “The modern gaming ecosystem is killing true video games”, he says earnestly. I don’t know.
The Bottom Feeder
JUNE 12, 2024
A Few Final Comments When a computer RPG has a very complex terrain system with lots of elevations, it becomes tempting to have every fight be complex with a spread of enemies at all sorts of different heights. I found fights in BG3 where it became really hard to target the high-up enemies. Nicely done.
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Radiator Blog
AUGUST 12, 2022
Modern Quake tools have much better lighting controls than 25 years ago, including alpha masked texture-based shadows and some nice ambient light configs, but it's still pretty primitive by today's standards and I had to iterate a lot to balance the shadowing vs. the self-illumination for a natural look.
Grid Sage Games
MARCH 10, 2022
Some roguelikes don’t strive for balance, but maintaining balance has always been important to me for Cogmind, since it fits better with my vision for this type of game, heavy on tough, complex, and consequential decision-making at multiple strategic and tactical levels. Alien Artifacts. Exiles Prototypes.
Radiator Blog
MAY 5, 2021
But without any meaningful code access to upgrade terrain engines or lighting systems, that mostly means spamming set dressing and clutter everywhere. It's not uncommon to walk between towns and fight like 6 different packs of wolves. The starting area is like 2-3x the density of vanilla Skyrim. It's more paranoid than a Ubisoft game.
Grid Sage Games
JULY 17, 2022
Rampant terrain destruction is awesome, by the way ;). Of course this change comes with significant balance repercussions, which we’ll cover when we get to discussing that topic further below. The numbers used are based on a wealth of player run stats, in combination with the desired balance for these new Garrisons.
Deconstructor of Fun
JUNE 3, 2019
After carefully composing a balanced team of fighters, the player takes their party of stalwart heroes into battle. The Matchers Gonna Match E&P’s core gameplay is carefully designed and balanced. I do see why it’s difficult to scale and balance the matching gameplay with all kinds of level modifiers being present.
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