Each patch-format has its own unique identity, and comparing pre- and post-patch environments to each other for anything more than educational analysis is a silly and reductive activity.
Exactly. It bugs me when people are like "I just read through the patch notes and X faction only got nerfs" and ignore the fact that everyone got nerfs and the enviroment has now changed.
Yeah, I'd even go a bit further and say it's more fundamental than that: it doesn't matter what got nerfed or buffed, it matters how exactly the game plays now, entirely divorced from its history.
Agreed. It is very easy to have tunnel vision especially with changes as huge as this. And shifts like these are something I really appreciate, as they allow for a complete reworking of the environment in a way that is fun and interesting to explore.
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