“Boom Beach” is one of the hottest mobile titles right now, and the game keeps drawing new players all the time. It doesn’t look like its popularity is going to die down anytime soon, at least not while its developers are hard at work releasing new updates and polishing up the game’s contents. However, players have been requesting certain features for a while which are yet to make it into the actual game – so the developers might want to take a step back and reevaluate their development plans if they want to satisfy everyone.
It’s not that the game is broken in any way or there’s anything wrong with it – quite on the contrary, many players seem happy with the overall level of polish it has right now. There are some things that should probably be addressed soon though.
For example, many players would be happy to have the option of writing custom notes on the bases that they own, as well as the ones they’re attacking. Often, we come up with a particular tactic that we can’t apply at the exact moment because the timer needs to run out first, and by the time it’s expired, we can often forget what our original plan was.
This can be very easily solved with a custom note feature, and it could also possibly help make the game more intuitive in other ways as well. The defense status of doctor terror could be dealt away with at this point too, and players have actually been commenting on the game’s state of balance quite a lot over the last few weeks.
While the developers have been releasing various updates that address issues with the balance as they come up, it’s only inevitable in those cases that players would end up finding another strategy that works well and sticking to it.
That’s actually an ongoing problem for games of this type, and it’s been said that the best way to deal with it is through continuous support and regular updates. The game needs to have its balance tweaked here and there in order to deal with the newly discovered “top strategies”, and that’s just part of its life cycle.
The problem is that the developers can hardly ever keep everything balanced, and as soon as they’ve fixed one balance issue, it’s inevitable that players would discover something else that works well and stick to it. There’s no way to prevent them from doing that, and in fact it could be a little counterproductive to go down that way.
Instead, the developers of “Boom Beach” have been collecting play data from their players and adjusting their balance accordingly, making certain units less powerful at the expense of others in order to prevent certain players from having a clear advantage.
Because of this, we don’t expect those balance patches to ever stop. At least, as long as the game itself is alive and well – the developers have a pretty strong motivation to keep the balance in check, and the only realistic way to do that would be to keep tweaking it over time.
Meanwhile, the company has recently tried to launch another title, hoping to add it to their already pretty impressive portfolio. The company is already known for “Boom Beach” and “Clash of Clans”, two of the most popular games on the mobile market right now, and they wanted to add something else to their lineup which they had put quite a bit of effort into.