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>But the specs felt a lot more 1 note than the previous beta
I mean I get that but obviously specs need clearly defined weaknesses so that combining them with other specs actually matters. It feels worse this beta because we only have each faction's tank, paratrooper and marine specs so this beta had a general lack of ground-based indirect fire and other various things that other specs are supposed to bring to the table. The vision is of course that you're not going to be able to bring every tool in a single deck to every match, so teammates have reasons to build for roles and cover each other's weaknesses. And that feels really lopsided when we only have half of the roster available.

IIRC the first beta had a lot of units that were shoved in just to fit them into the beta, ie things like the Grad were never meant to be in RU armoured and were put there temporarily so they could get some playtesting.

I don't know whether that's a good or bad thing because honestly it's hard for me to picture what the full game will be like compared to the snapshot we've played already. In the first beta, grad spam was absolute cancer and made most ground combat feel like shit because you were just going to get hemmed in by 6 volleys of napalm the moment you broke cover. In the previous beta, KAB spam (and airspam in general) was cancer, cruise missile spam and the general missile vs AA interceptor arms race was cancer and the whole meta revolved around cringe point farming with indirect fire instead of fighting to take and hold territory on the ground. I can't even picture what the full game will be like when we have the full array of indirect fire and countermeasures, or what ground combat it going to look like when half the decks don't have access to tanks or proper IFVs.

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