Welcome back to the end of another week, Crusaders! This week continued the strong showing from Chaos as they maintained their dominance. They even took control of more than a third of all territories mid-week, mostly from the Loyalist forces. The Orks had a slow decline over most of the week, and the Eldar held steady overall, however, each faction mostly held the same number of territories at the end of the week as they did at the start. The Loyalist forces began the week holding a quarter of the territories, and ended it with four more territories than they started with. Between the two saw their fortunes wax and wane. They dipped below the quarter mark, but then pushed deep into Ork territory to pull even with Chaos. Although the Orks made a last ditch attempt to regain their territory, they were pushed back once more on the last day. As mentioned, the Orks suffered a slow bleeding of territories over the week, losing 3 territories by the end of the week. Their midweek performance was only enough to hold ground, but they suffered significant losses to the Loyalists later in the week, smaller losses to Chaos, and only managed to trade territory back and forth with the Eldar. The Orks now hold the least amount of territories. The Eldar were shaping up for a repeat of last weeks slow decline. Where they lost territory to one faction, they usually gained against another, but still bled territories. Their late week game pushed back all three factions by small amounts, bringing them even with the Loyalists to hold a quarter of the map, but lost ground again on the last day to end the week with two fewer territories than they began with. Once again, Chaos played a strong game, consistently above the 24 Territory Quarter Mark throughout the week. Strongest in the midweek, they were unable to prevent the Green Tide from retaking their part of the map, but pushed them back once more at the end of the week. The Eldar made most of their gains this week against Chaos, but Chaos gained the upper hand in the end. This, combined with a small Loyalist push, meant that Chaos ended the week with only one more territory, but still clearly in the lead. At weeks end, Chaos remain the dominant faction, with the other factions in the same ranking as last week: Loyalists, Eldar, then Orks. This is the first week with enough historical data to start longer term tracking. This final graph shows all territorial ownership since I started tracking. It is smoothed with a 5 day moving average, with the final two data points pulled directly from the individual day data instead of smoothed. An interactive version can be found at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...44/pubchart?oid=1612124684&format=interactive Patch 1.0.10 (deployed on Oct 6, before tracking): LSM Wargear 2 LP cost reduced, buffs no longer stack, knives, banners, and melee damage mods nerfed Patch 1.0.15c: Ork headshot damage taken reduced, Ork Health reduced -20, LSM/CSM armor +20, fixed ork melee speeds thus negating the heavy chain stun issues (ArtemK) Patch 1.0.21e: Meltas nerfed, Eldar Vehicle health reduced to 60% of other factions
27th Oct: CSM OP nerf now! 28th - 29th Oct: Hmmm.. 30th Oct: CSM & Eldar OP again nerf now! 31st Oct: Hmmm.. Also poor Orksy's.
I guess the real news from these reports is that coordination and organization are OP. Nerf headsets!
I think there was a bit of fudging when the patch came out. Look at the video between 22 and 27 seconds at the Chaos vs Orks. Wow. Orks jumped back huge. I saw that and I got excited thinking my orks were playable again. Nope. Chaos just started steam rolling orks again. I smell cheating with these maps. "Oops a faction is winning too much, lets just set that back." I don't care that it seems that Chaos got cheated, I care about maps which are supposed to show a "campaign" and they cannot be trusted. Orks are broke fix them. Don't screw with the map.
Having reached rank 5 on my ultramarine, I decided to play my Badass looking Ork (finally). It sucked so hard I felt like crying. I decided to play Chaos instead, and despite dying constantly (THANK YOU MARK OF KHORNE!) It was infinitely more fun to respawn and dive into the murder again.
