The EX discussion thread

[bjholmes2]

And when the round is over, they both win. Seriously, though, the EX characters are obviously not balanced with the normal ones. But are they balanced with each other? Hmm...

[Digital Watches]

And when the round is over, they both win.

Seriously, though, the EX characters are obviously not balanced with the normal ones. But are they balanced with each other? Hmm...

I doubt it. Remember that game designers don't have a magic formula for "balance" that can be done abstractly and generally. EX characters are console-only extras and have historically not been used in high-level play. As with anything that doesn't have extensive play-testing, especially (as the Arc team has been very good about) field play-testing lessons learned from previous installments. While I'm sure the team that codes and designs the EX characters (especially if it's the same team that writes the normal ones) know a little (or a lot) about character balance in general from experience. However, it's basically making educated guesses (or even just stabbing in the dark), rather than what's been proven to work for balancing a game.

[Blade]

This crossed my mind but...would there be any way or means of getting EX Character frame data from AC+? Some stuff looks like it was taken directly from Slash, so I don't know for sure.