Rumors have been flying across internet forums over the past week about changes coming to Shadowrun after the next major update. The biggest topic people are discussing in the competitive Shadowrun forums: the Elf will be scaled back to heal slower (according to a the top MLG Shadowrun team member oNeEye from StK). As of right now these are all rumors but according to the community, the Elf is played about 70% of the time. Apparently FASA sees this as a problem and will nerf the Elf so that people will try other races.
In the past, FASA has mentioned that they can (or will) tweak the economy after the game ships.
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This would be nice to see. I have played the game since it was released and have played the Elf maybe 3 times. I would like to play the Elf more, but I try to play a race that will compliment the team, and there are always more than enough Elves.
Just because lots of ppl pick elves, doesn’t mean elves are unbalanced.
elves need the least support from the team, meaning they are easy to use for all the rly crap ppl hu play lots of pubs.
This in turn means that, crap ppl that play other races, die to elves(cos evry1 is an elf), and the good ppl hu r good at other races get orsum scors(feeding off elves).
So basically elves r easy to use, its difficult for a noob to know how much a troll can tank making trolls harder to play(ppl see gettin shot alot as a bad thing), noobs cant see the health difference between elves, dwarves and humans, so wen they think about elves, along with the fact that they suck at other races they come to the conclusion that elves r overpowerd without tbeing able to understand that they just suk, and elves r so easy
(I think this game attracted alot of noobs compared to a normal game, cos of the magic and technology combined flavor(seems a bit rpg-like *cough*shadowrun-pnp-game-i-didnt-play-it-btw-thank-god*cough*)
eh, I don’t think this is a good idea. Noobs like me need the elf!!!!