theeggroll wrote:Basically once one player gets a slight upper hand
Most 1500+ 1v1 players and especially 1700+ will make a match nearly unforgiving with this on any map. Sometimes you lose 5 engineers within the first 3 mins to a bomber *cough Ti_Xi vs Soviet *cough* and the match is pretty much over; you cannot recover from that kind of hindrance.
It took me, like, dozens of games to get a BO to compete with 1700+ people as I noticed they always were ahead of me by some significant factor, that made it easy for them to cruise through the game.
You can do quirky stuff to throw people off, but you really need to experiment with "anti-meta." Make sure it doesn't hinder your expansion/eco/tech too much.
I like throwing curve balls at people as it makes the matches exciting; it is not 100%-guaranteed yet it produces adrenaline rushes and less boring.