I know it's not a unit or a weapon, but I want to throw out "Dead Silence" from COD4. If you weren't using it, you would be completely obliterated by anyone in the game with enough skill to track footsteps (note: not much skill required).

I would argue that any unit, weapon, or ability that MUST be used in order to compete when other options are available makes it imbalanced.

KangaRuthless

United States304 Posts

January 05 2011 14:49 GMT

#745

BFG in Quake III.

Lucumo

6850 Posts

January 05 2011 14:58 GMT

#746

On January 05 2011 22:58 lololol wrote:

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It attacks rapidly, it fires at where the enemy will be, instead of where it currently is(with an upgrade), it can hit any target in it's path and not just a spot on the ground like catapults and multiples of them can create a cross fire, so dodging to come close enough does not really happen in practical situations.

Catapults had a longer range though, so they could deal with them.

If you would spent all the resources needed for Helepolis on Chariot Archers, the latter one would definitely win. Furthermore you practically never really get to Helepolis, not even in 4vs4s. Even if that would happen, you could, as you said, counter with Catapults.
And you still can micro your units to avoid getting hit. It's even easier when the opponent has the upgrade.

xarthaz

1704 Posts

January 05 2011 15:07 GMT

#747

On July 25 2010 18:45 coffeefee wrote:oh and how about
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Oh yeah... the best weapon in fps games ever.300 DPS anyone? For those that know how to aim of course(given that it is also the fastest fps game in the world makes it a bit difficult)

On July 25 2010 05:44 Killykill wrote:

Ahhhhh, don't remind me...........

I agree, Hammerdins just sucked in the most powerful kinda way

On July 25 2010 05:25 Ghazwan wrote:
Hammerdin from D2

The dmg output of that thing with maxed block+resistances was insane.

On July 25 2010 04:41 Xapti wrote:
Maybe I'm a bit oblivious to WC3, but SC and WC3 don't really have any substantial imbalances - yes we play the games, but still I think it's silly to mention units from games like this.

-Diablo 2 hammerdin.
-Psychological class in Sonny 2 (flash game, lol, but a damn good one http://armorgames.com/play/2900/sonny-2 )
That's all I can think of for now.

Also, hammerdin is nothing compared to pre-1.03 Corpse Explosion. That spell just decimated everything. Clearing 4 screen fulls of monsters in an 8 player game with one cast? No problem.

On July 27 2010 01:28 illu wrote:

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Well, Death Knights, or their equivalent versions (Dark Champions in HoMM4, Wraith in HoMM5) are extremely powerful in HoMM4 and 5, mostly because being Undead is more valuable in those games (you are immune to Hypnosis/Puppet Master, Frenzy, and Blind). In HoMM3 those spells are not usually used (Implosion is way better). Being non-flying and not *THAT* fast, Death Knights suffer the same kind of problem as pretty much every other land unit in HoMM3.

In terms of recruitable creatures in HoMM3, I still think Black Dragons are the best. For HoMM4 Black Dragons win again. In HoMM5, I feel it's a toss-up between Seraphs (High damage, high attack, Leech Life, and can use Divine Vengeance), Black Dragons, and Untamed Cyclops (High damage, high HP, hits a huge area, part-time ranged unit, very cheap to build).

Death Stare from Gorgons is obviously powerful. But there is a more powerful (aka broken) version of this from Medusa in HoMM4. Medusa in HoMM4 essentially has the same Death Stare, but it's also RANGED. With a reasonable number of Medusa you can 1hit enemy heroes.

The real imba unit of the game is this little guy
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It alone basically makes necropolis banned from competitive Homm3

Manit0u

Poland17850 Posts

January 05 2011 15:10 GMT

#748

This god damned flying huge things with tentacles in AoX. God damn, they had like 15 damage and 0.1s attack speed or something.
Wicked sick.

crudo

Germany36 Posts

January 05 2011 15:18 GMT

#749

akuma in streetfighter

sJarl

Iceland1699 Posts

January 05 2011 15:24 GMT

#750

I feel that the Planar Shepherd has a place here.

Velr

Switzerland10966 Posts

January 05 2011 15:27 GMT

#751

FF7, "Spell: Beta" (iirc)
You had to run past this guy (well, with some luck you actaully could win but you weren't meant to), BUT if you fight it he sometimes would drop one of your Chars out of combat, later on he would probably use "Beta" (AE-Spell that does ~3000 DMG iirc?) that is WAY, WAY overpowered at this stage of the game (look at the HP of your Party in the Picture) which you could learn with the Spellsteal-Materia. After your dead your char that was removed from combat would be alive with 1 HP.. Revive, Heal up, Save.
It's to expensive on the Mana side (you can use it) but it makes every Group Fight a cakewalk until pretty late in the game.

howerpower

United States619 Posts

January 05 2011 15:28 GMT

#752

oddjob

bonifaceviii

Canada2890 Posts

January 05 2011 15:35 GMT

#753

Someone brought up HoMM: