side = [[GAYS]],
Lolwut? lol
I'm digging this new version much better. More tanks seem to be equal to better control overall and I felt less annoyance wrt balance as a result. Remember that the smaller your units to control are, the more minute balance things matter. A part of me would like to see a mode where you have giant armies of like 20 or 30 tanks and multiple flag locations per team in a mayhem sort of brawl. That sounds like a lot of fun to me. I think that you should increase acceleration on all the tanks to .2 (maybe more) as atm they feel very sluggish and hard to control in general, not just from a dead stop.
A game like this is kind of a clickfest (and that's one of the reasons it's so fun), so the units need to feel very responsive. It's a lot better than it has been in the past, but still could use a little tweaking.
Imo, your sounds need work, and the weapon effects that get shown are pretty boring really. Imo it would be neat if at least some of the bigger tanks attacks were ballistic and could be avoided with some uber micro.
Regarding sounds, feel free to dip into the sound effects in evo. There is a metric shitton to choose from, so you shouldn't have any shortage really. Same goes for effects, help yourself to any you find useful. If you want to see them ingame... evo has car repairer's ceg spawning widget. You use chili and have a menu of all cegs in the game so you can spawn them and see what they look like. That might be useful if you're wanting to see what all cegs are available in evo.
My only other gripe is that it needs music. Some seriously retro arcade music would be pretty win, or even just maybe some techno would hit the spot pretty good. Over at the newgrounds audio portal there is tons of artists to choose from and most of them are cc by nc so you could use them.
The AI is a LOT more fun this time around. It does do some silly things, like apparent indecision as to which way around it wants to take, but all in all pretty solid, and rather entertaining.
Imo, don't release a "gold" until you have it all polished and whatnot (of course, that's just my opinion, you can obviously do whatever you please), because imo this game has some real serious potential, and it's already a load of laughs which is a big plus.
