We were also really bugged by the cheat for Diablo. We all loved this game until people started walking around with Level 50 characters who didn't know what they were doing. So we are going to take precautions to try to avoid this. I want to talk a little bit about units this week. Let me begin by saying we have spent the majority of our design time trying to come up with the perfect balance of units and buildings.
Units are the key to a really good strategy game.
We can have all the cool extra features in the world but if we have lame units then no one's going to play the game. So we want to make sure we have the best and most innovative units of any real-time strategy game while still keeping them balanced between the sides. To begin with we created two very unique sides in the Imperium and the Freedom Guard. The Imperium is very powerful and has superior firepower but they suffer from being a little over designed. They aren't as mobile and rely on pure force to achieve victory.