Anonymous
8/25/2025, 12:27:40 PM
No.718995410
>>718988113
>>718994824
nta, but Hi-rez did a number of things to keep Ascend casual friendly which also mucked with balance in all kinds of ways. For starters the regenerating health makes it so that there's very little risk/cost to working in a bunch of diskjumps into your routes and for new players it's much easier to maintain momentum even if they fuck up the ski route when they can just disk pretty willy nilly. For good players this ease of skiing made it so that Hi-rez had to implement all kinds of dumb speed-capping methods like flag-drag and some other abortive experiments since people were going too fast and there was no chasing a 300~400kph back to front on a tiny map.
>>718994824
nta, but Hi-rez did a number of things to keep Ascend casual friendly which also mucked with balance in all kinds of ways. For starters the regenerating health makes it so that there's very little risk/cost to working in a bunch of diskjumps into your routes and for new players it's much easier to maintain momentum even if they fuck up the ski route when they can just disk pretty willy nilly. For good players this ease of skiing made it so that Hi-rez had to implement all kinds of dumb speed-capping methods like flag-drag and some other abortive experiments since people were going too fast and there was no chasing a 300~400kph back to front on a tiny map.