unless you can find out a faster way to hit a demigod for 700 or so damage with torchbearer i will continue to use fireball......

and create-a-hero is what breaks games

this is beta 1, there is no manual yet, the game isn't even half finished.

and there are teleport items, so i don't see how movement is really an issue.

and the maps are custom made, 3d maps, so i doubt there will be a map editor.

Your balance recommendations way overcompensate.  It resembles how I too felt at first, but the more I play, the better balance seems to be.  The only imbalanced one is the rook, and there, the only thing I would change is the cooldown on his rock-throwing ability, and then see how things pan out.  Similar abilities on other chars have have a longer cooldown.

BFME2 panning is the best; however many other areas of control are pretty bad so I'd be careful ciiting them.

Pretty sure the levels you are looking for have already been made or are currently being created.  Each Demigod supposedly has their own personal battleground, previews have shown three I think.  The current Waterfall field, a lava field, and what appeared to be an airy field with a tileset field similar to the waterfall field.

If your system is beefy, ie you are maxing it out at 30 fps on whatever settings you are using, turn vSync off.  Should get better fps when zoomed out that way.  Zoomed in closely will restrict you to 30, but that is more the SupCom engine's problem.

Camera issues, the T button centers the camera on your Demigod and the view resets on respawn so you'll need to press T again.  Arrow keys cause the screen to scroll in that direction, and pressing the middle button for your mouse (mine is the wheel scroll) while moving the mouse will scroll the screen as well.

Direct Damage skills I currently agree with you, properly equiping your Demigod causes them to become bad investments later in the game.  The Rook's Boulder roll is powerful, and the Torchbearer properly geared can stunlock you.  Regulus can deal high amounts of damage, slow you, and shoot from the fog of war when specced right.  All the current Demigod's are balanced in how Overpowered they are, with maybe a little more deference given to the Rook for his ease of use and ability to dominate anything he can get to.  Have to see how the generals work out before I call for major rebalancing though.

I like the skill tree as it allows certain builds to emphasize their natural abilities rather than their skills.  I've come out on top in a 2v2 fight as a Regulus not putting a single point in to one of his actual activated abilities.

Again ... I just lost a game because my two Rook allies became AFK, stuck in the back, inert, at the regeneration structure -- while the two enemy Rooks were assaulting our "base".

My Regulus could not stop such an assault all by himself. I had not seen my 3rd enemy for awhile : that Torchbearer was probably stuck in the back of his own base -- making it a 2 v 1.

But when two Rooks are simultaneously pounding at your Stronghold, a lone Regulus won't be enough to stop them -- especially when he is regularly stunned.

I hope that the devs will fix that demigod-going-AFK issue.

we've discussed practically everything he had a promlem with in huge threads and im pretty sure we came up with solutions for each 1 most of them say no to this guy

Killing with Regulus is easy:

Just skill the attribut boni and go for attack speed / dmg items. You will kill everything You can easily evade those stuns by the Rook. You may not stand still, that´s all

Oh ... gee, thanks ... I would never have figured that out, all by myself -- being a girl.

To be serious : I knew that, of course. I'm so agile with the Regulus, that I can play most games without "dying" once (and in those rare games where I "die", it's never more than once).

But ... when your Stronghold is down to 20% HPs, and there's a huge & messy crowd around it, you stand still and shoot like crazy on the 2 Rooks that are rapidly pounding on the remaining 20% -- it's too late for agility & finesse.

That was the precise context of my previous post. 

Those builds are getting nerfed in the next build. This IMO is a bad decision because currently this is the only competitive Regulus build. If Snipe and Mines were stronger, nerfing item/stat builds would make sense.

No Game Guide, its still beta.  It would be in constant alteration and thus is reserved for when the game is nearly completed.

View control - press spacebar and move your mouse.  There you go.

FPS - check your graphics settings, decrease if needed.  If your still having big problems, post your dxdiag.

Skill selection - already suggested but thanks.

Movement speed - appears to be part of the balance that is still in progress.  Too early to tell.

Maps - maps were created using pretty high end software that would be difficult to dumb down to allow players to create there own map.  Gameplay comes first, user created game content second.

Heroes - reported price per demigod is around $100,000 each to develop.  This is because each demigod is carefully crafted, drawn, modeled, and animated.  A hero creator would have to group many character traits and you would actually have less diversity then with developer demigods.  If your thinking add a spore creator, well, lets just say we would like the game to release sometime next year, not 5 years from now.

Not trying to bash your post, but it doesn't look like you've made much effort to read what others have posted.

you don't care much about balance do you?...

I could rip apart most of the rest of your post too but Odit beat me to most of it.

The skill selection has indeed been post like Odit said, and is a bad idea regardless and makes very very little sense, especially for the reason OP gave.

Just read back through everyone's replies.

1st - You're absolutely right, I haven't read a single other person's post on these forums.  And I don't plan to.  I don't think much of the game right now and am really sorry that I pre-ordered it.  Playing the beta was a gigantic let down for me.

You guys are so into this game that when an average gamer comes along that hasn't devoted serious time to it and posts their general issues with the game not being fun, you freak out and bust on them for not reading the forums, etc.  

Let me repeat... I doubt I'll ever even return to this forum after this post because of how let down in the game I was.  I may try the game at retail release just because I stupidly payed for it already but as for being a part of the process of refining the game while its still in beta... well, with "forum gestappo" and "demigod-yes-men" like the majority of the people that responded to my post above patrolling the forums, I find trying to post my frustrations and hopes for the game even less fun of a use of time than playing the game was.

So go ahead, post away at what an idiot I am and how my viewpoints and ideas are flawed.  Maybe someone will hear you, but it won't be me.

Whiner. Go away.

Amerasu,

I'm going to respond whether you come back or not. (I suppose that's a bit obvious, but whatever.) The game is in Beta 1. Most of the content and balancing is either not done or not in. This is just a stress test is not really intended to be fun yet. They've already stated that the build they have in house is much more fun. (And more complete. And less buggy.)

It would be nice if you at least took a look at some of the other similar topics though.

Innociv, Kyrein,

Why so hostile? The community doesn't need people insulting others.

Awesome post, you really contributed to the discussion...

I don't know why anyone even bothered to respond to his "balance" complaints, since Beta 1 is primarily an engine stress test.  As for the heroes complaint, GPG and Stardock have repeatedly said 8 or so heroes for the final 1.0 release, and you knew that ahead of time Amerasu--why would you bother pre-ordering the game if you disliked that so much?