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r/InfinityTheGame • … • u/freakyfuzzball

Things we hate in Infinity

Infinity's a great game. It's not perfect though. What in Infinity pisses off you guys? For me it's:

- Dispersion. It changes every edition and every edition finds new and inventive ways to screw it up. - Criticals. Don't get me wrong, I love the crits themselves. My problem is that CB doesn't seem to take them into account when costing units, hence TAGs/HI seem overrated and high-burst weapons are so much useful for their cost compared to their B1 counterparts. Play a few games without crits and suddenly the pricing makes much more sense, TAGs are harder to kill, MLs are more worth it, etc. - Suspicious costs - said Posthumans (plain ridiculous), HRL (not even undercosted, it's a suspiciously big dip in cost), chain rifles (why take an unlinked warband with combi/rifle/BS when you can take another chain-smoker and one will survive, especially since they can smoke-dodge on 15+), high B weapons (see above). - Sectorial-based release cycle - releasing stuff for multiple factions each month is fine unless you're one of a ton of sectorial-based people. You got into the game for cyber-samurai? Well go take a hike and wait a year while ISS gets their fill, maybe you'll get some random release in the meantime. Oh wait we got the bowninja, that's it for the Shikami in the foreseeable future. - "no profiles left behind" when releasing the new Army builder. Well, except the Shasvastii/MRRF. Sure, they're supposed to get remade (instead of getting a new sectorial) in AF, whenever it comes out. If you're playing these, you're stuck with outdated profiles until they figure out what the hell they're supposed to be doing. And I'm not talking about revamping the whole sectorials right now, but about the little but needed things. Morpho-Scan? Unplayable as no currenly available rules (not even FAQ, last I checked it wasn't even updated in the wiki). Also, lost Protheion, again with no related discount. Protheion lost Dogged, did it change the costs in any way? Lol nope. Protheion is leveled now, yet it took over a month to get CB to acknowledge there's even an issue with missing levels. Haris? Haha hell no, muh precious balance would be destroyed by giving some secondary unit haris like literally every other sectorial. Warcor Aerocam having no rules for ages is the cherry on top. Miniatures: * female minis - Bare midriff in full armor/suit (getting better though). Catwalk poses while males have sensible ones (getting better too, if slowly). Tiny hands to the point where they look like miscasts. Tiny weapons (see below). * Weapon sizes - ffs give the women lighter/compact versions, but calibers don't scale that way. Same goes the other way, Gecko combis look ridiculous. * Tactical crap on bases. I didn't mind that much until every single AD started to land on some junk. Also, tailored tactical debris with unit logo on it (Uhlan and I think new Akalis?) * Rampant copy-pasting. In traditional sculpting you had to put similar effort per model whether you made a similar or different pose/design, so models tended to be more original. Now there's a ton of "change the pose in CAD, switch a detail or two, done". This would be acceptable for a same-unit box, but we're starting to see half of PanO/YJ use the same armor model. Realism? Maybe, but if I wanted to paint identical stuff I'd play Space Marines. - I wonder in which world the Samaritan mini that tips over every time you think of him the wrong way is acceptable. Not to mention the whole "S6 pretending to be S2" thing. Yes, I'd like to pay more for tactical cabbage I'd have to saw off if I wanna actually play with that (and inb4 "it's a display model" the breaker combi pose looks like crap too).

Enough bitching from me. I've got more but it starts getting way too specific. What about you guys?

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