I mean from the Castle Age onwards, in the Imperial Age it stands out even more.
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How so? The new Sultanās Tower Elephant isnāt terribly OP. Itās way too slow to produce.
With 3 scholars garrisoned itās only 90 seconds and costs no resources. Not to mention that all the elephants are OP now once fully upgraded.
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Delhi suffered 2 major major nerfs in feudal: palisade wall nerfs and combat monk healing nerf. IMO, delhi fast castle is only viable vs covs that are going for straight eco (abbasid and maybe rus) and fast castle timings that would be countered by fc delhi fc (english fc, hre fast castle, mali fc*); so i say all that to say 8 times out of 10 delhi will have to play standard into castle age.
However WAR ELEPHANTS are improved!!! And compound of the defender is an even better landmark than before. House of Learning has potential but is also buggedā¦
Tower Elephants do not return to pre nerf OP-status until late imp howdah upgrade which means? Are they even OP at all by that point?
Delhi is better; not OP imp late gameā¦but super duper late game when resources are effectively infinite a wall of 16+ boys (war elephants with a sprinkle of HC tower elephants) with massive TOV HC with zeal and springaldsā¦gg?
Yes! Someone else has spotted the issues!! There are some major issues, but I donāt think people are pointing them out, theyāre just focusing on the more played factions.
I just played a 3v3 Delhi elephants with 30 healers and it was unstoppable and ended the game on its own. 20 crossbows vs 1 healer and it kept getting healed before the next volley, no dent to that army was possible.
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- Put a limit on the number of scholars to 6.
- increase research speed slightly or reduce cost of scholars, but keep them limited.
- slow down the elephants - gives time to wear them down and reduce the range or attack on the archer elephants.
I like the game and do enjoy it, but itās so unbalanced that itās putting me off from the gameā¦
At the moment players need to avoid certain situations or the game is over and theres nothing you can do to stop it. Delhi with invincible healer numbers; HRE accumulating bonuses; or surviving Chinese siege build up. I get wanting to give unique stuff from each faction and different play styles, but each faction should be able to defeat each other (no matter which age), even if itās slightly more difficult but not unstoppable. At the moment itās rock, paper, scissors with factions and you have a narrow window before itās over.
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I really doubt that you said elephants with 30 healers being unstoppable, did you use handcannoneers with spears? These should make unlimited number of elephants useless because they one shot an elephant.
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The booming capabilities of Delhi as well as Abbasid look too ridiculous.
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This would completely change how the free research techs works. And this would inevitably be worse balance than when delhi only needed 9 scholars to get standard timings on all techs. ALL TECHS.
Elephants (both kinds) are ALREADY the slowest bio units in the game? How you envision a likely low level game that likely went into the late 40, probably 50+ min late game; ended up with āOPā COMBOā¦ should dedicated whar devs do for balance that is NOSTLY CENTERED AROUND 1v1? Where MOST games are resolved by 30min??? Is bafflingā¦
Tower elephants have the potential to return to their PREP nerf state of OPness but this time that OPness is achieved in LATE IMPā¦ so is that really unbalanced???
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The only thing I can really see as a balance issue with the PUP Delhi is the buff to the Compound of the Defender landmark with the combination of cheaper stone for ALL buildings and extremely faster āVillage Fortressā technology timing; allowing Delhi to boom like crazy as soon as they reach the Castle Age.
The elephant buffs were definitely needed and they feel like they are actually at a pretty good spot with the PUP stats, especially making the War Elephant not completely worthless. With the change to how religious units now heal much slower while in combat, I donāt think they are as OP as some people describe them to be.
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Iām not sure Delhi would be so OP even after the last PUP for a couple of reasons:
- scholarsā healing have been nerfed: of course you can kick them out of mosques and drive them on the battlefield, but this means theyāre no longer boosting techs in your base and it seems almost an all-in
- war elephants and tower elephants have been REALLY nerfed in their hp but not so much in their costs, so they are not a real viable option. Itās true that elite tower elephants can be produced in 90 seconds each, but it will be always ONE at a time, easily counterable with a bunch of hand-cannoneers and a little micro. Plus, I think Elite elephants are a good way to balance the huge disadvantage of Imperial Age Delhi, where techs are so damn slow to develope: at least you can buy some time and not die after a mass spears/maa attack.
- during last patches there has been a HUGE indirect nerf for Delhi since all tech costs in feudal and castle ages were reduced. Since for all the other civs it became easier to get most of economical techs, I feel appropriate at least some kind of nudge to speed up Delhi technologies, such as Compound of the Defender keep upgrades.
I really hope devs wonāt nerf Delhi anymore, since has been nerfed for all the last months before this PUP.
I donāt want to pretend that Iām unbiased in this regard as Delhi is my main civ, but people, more often than not, shout ānerfā the first time they get beaten by something they didnāt immediately know how to counter.
Right now, elephants are non-existent in multiplayer matches, Delhiās imperial is worthless, and most of their landmarks are jokes!
Now that the least played civ finally receives some buffs to those areas after such a long time, peopleās first instinct is to complain about how OP they are!
This is certainly not something that can be determined from the PUP alone. It needs more data and more games.
Nawz my boy! There are certain things you only need to play a few times and/or look on paper to know are OP. Example the ###### ## thing was discovered super duper early even though it wasnāt made popular until much later. Plus with Delhi both Demuslim and Beastyqt have spoken glowingly of the new Delhi were Demuslim even fears it might be too/super good.