AC: Style balance

[Grim]

It looks like some people misunderstood what I meant by "style." It doesn't mean the way your AC looks or how it is aesthetically, style here means how you play your AC: whether you're a light gunner, a range specialist, a rusher, a walking fortress, and so on, and so forth.

The point of the topic was to see whether the latter definition of style could be generalized as imbalanced over the course of the entire series, meaning one type of playstyle could overpower everything else irrationally. So far it seems that AC does lean towards a certain camp at any one point in time (bipeds, or putting your opponents in OPD, or keeping your range). I stand by my earlier opinion though that this isn't actually an explicit intention of From (that is, to make their games unbalanced), I believe that it's all in how the numbers interact with each other.

Yeah, I've come to realize that saying "From should make a more balanced AC" is easier said than done. That's literally millions of combinations you're talking about. And while some of those may be trash, a large part of them are still viable enough to carry weight in deciding stats.