RS KOBURA needs balance: more reinforcments for the US

[Capt.Cool]

I really love the new RS Kobura map.
But I think it need some balance for the US.

I played it several times (even with Level 99 commander) and we lost every time.
And every time we lost cause we run out of reinforcments.
Sometimes we lost our reinforcments in the 3rd or 4th objective (of the total 5 objectives)

So its pretty clear there is some kind of inbalance in this map.
Either give the US side more reinforcments (+50 will be fine, at least +30) OR give US shorter cooldown on the mortar strikes.
(1 minute less cooldown on mortars would be good).

Thanx.

 

[Bat Guano]

I agree, and was thinking exactly the same thing after the last time I played it - 50 more reinforcements for the US and it should be perfect. I like this map a lot, but in my experience it always comes down to reinforcements for the US, unless there's a really good US team and/or a really bad Japanese team and it ends in lockdown at one of the early objectives. That doesn't happen very often though.

 

[Beskar Mando]

Although It wouldn't be official it'd be pretty easy to modify the map to make this work.
You could host this on servers with the name like "RSTE-Kobura_Balanced", etc
Probably take about 2 minutes in the worldinfo & brewing it again.

 

[Capt.Cool]

any comment from a dev? please?

 

[Beskar Mando]

Cpt. Cool, if you want me to do this quick modification I can. Though most MCP maps don't have updates if they do, they're done during a major update, behind the scenes. MCP's are more or less final, unfortunately.

 

[Mikeedude]

I actually like it as a tough map for defenders,the problem is that whatever change was made would need to be tweaked over time.
As a defender we win maybe 25-35% of the time,which is okay by me.

I think a shorter time limit would make it challenging for both teams maybe 10-15 mins less would make the attackers have to commit men to the capzone instead of attrition.
Although a slight decrease in arty time for defenders might also balance it better,you would be relying on a good TL?

Considering how many stock maps need attention this is a map that can be enjoyed even if its slightly unbalanced.

 

[Mr Headshot95]

It's the most balanced map in RS in my experience.

I've won as Japanese and Americans equally. As America the win usually happens around holding onto D.

 

[Capt.Cool]

Although a slight decrease in arty time for defenders might also balance it better,you would be relying on a good TL?

On almost every map you are screwed with a bad TL.

 

[OZMO]

For some reason, every time I play in US side in Kobura, they win.
I have seen japanese been stopped at the first cap zone, so wouldn't say there is a huge imbalance. Even though maybe it would help to give US a little more troops.