In post 2860, Skygazer wrote:
I mean scum came really close to winning. It was never a forgone conclusion until Annie accidentally told on himself with the last night kill. I think the babysitter mechanic can be pretty swingy and that could have easily killed a conftown or obvtown player by accident. Roaming did not work as well to gate as I thought it would, primarily because scum didn't know about the roaming modifier and couldn't adjust accordingly.
People were still trying to kill Hu Tao despite the soft clear. Your slot was very killable too. Black maybe could have been misyeeted with a good fakeclaim from scum. And the four 1-shot ____ cop thing could have set scum up looking good off of setup spec for a bit imo (but no telling exactly how that would have worked out if Merlyn true-claimed).
So yeah it probably could have been balanced better but the bigger problem was just swing, I don't think the balance was like egregious or anything.
I didnt intend to imply egregious but just heavily. Although to clarify i do generally see normals in general being far too town sided to begin with. The issue was that the base setup was balanced on paper par usual balancing but that roaming modifier is usually seen as far stronger gatting than it actual is. And complex games are hard to balance as you start needing to take account of psychology. Which makes roaming in effect nearly as strong as ungated as the goal may be open but scum has no way of ever knowing.
Overall the set up was nice its just the game hit an edge case so thats what i meant about lock win for town on day 2. Just need gatting to add ambiguity or delay pay off from one shot cop roles for town
My slot wasnt really killable although that more due to my endgame i tried setting up in day 2. the whole macho thing had two objectives, bait scum into giving themselves away in the thread and the main one get huo tao into endgame if they were town. But its not an easy game for scum once all the Nk are rail roaded.
