I’m not sure if I haven’t played enough since the patch or what, but I do think the Cybran have gotten a boost. I’m sure some of it is ‘luck of the ranked draw’, but lately Cybran have been eating me up. I think I need to go back and play like 20 ranked games as UEF, then Cybran, then Aeon, and then go back to random. It’s tough to learn the nuances when you keep switching every other game.

I agree with Cauldr0n by the way. 80% of the stuff people post about imba, isn’t imba at all, they just don’t know how to counter it or efficiently use it.

Perhaps it’s best to have each race with strengths and weaknesses so that going into a given map you pick one that you feel best suits your playing strengths and preferences while taking into account the terrain on which you’re fighting.

So for short Aeon is the slow advancing front, UEF the powerfull fist, Cybran small stabs all along the line before bundling in to kill the crippled. So their lies the main problem with most aeons and uefs the let them self get crippled on maps like open palms.

BTW on Winters duel UEF with the lobo was always considered the powerhouse.

I would argue that the old Oblivion was the best point defense against large attacks, too. While it would have trouble hitting small numbers of siege bots, the Oblivion was the best PD in the late game, because not only did it do by far the most damage to experimentals, its substantial splash damage allowed it to rape siege bots in large numbers.

I would also argue it worked better than ok on winter duel. Basically, because of its very high DPS, another faction would need to spend several times more than an Aeon faction to put a T2 point defense on the middle hill under fire. If you are Aeon and your opponent is not, getting a single oblivion on that hill basically secures it from enemy T2 PD. If you are Cybran, it is very possible (and not all that difficult) for your Aeon opponent to start a T2 PD after you have already built yours, and still take out your PD with hit points to spare. This made securing the vital middle ground very difficult for non-Aeon players. Couple this with the Aeon’s perfect tactical missile defense, and the Aeon were clearly dominant on that map before the patch.

Finally, I agree that some factions will be better for some maps than others. The point of this post is to ask whether a single faction is substantially better than the others in general (on many different kinds of maps).

So yes I think the factions are fairly balanced(UEF and cybran T3 planes do have issues, and a Mavor still = gg[if you ever get one *Cough* custom games]) but it is certainly a good adjustment from what it was