{"id":1248,"date":"2015-12-15T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2015-12-16T06:31:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T06:31:48","slug":"the-monthly-metrics-december-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"The Monthly Metrics : December 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know I have been asking Barbarossa players to switch on the metrics switch so we can have a better idea how hard the game is for the average player. <\/p>\n<p>In this first Monthly Metrics post I&#8217;d like to share a comparison of the German player Victory Points in v1.00 and v1.01. <\/p>\n<p><i>On the y-axis the number of VP, on the x-axis the number of rounds played. Click to mega-enlarge:<\/i><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/metric15dec_big.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/metric15dec_small.jpg\" alt=\"metric15dec_small\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/metric15dec_small.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/metric15dec_small-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In my personal opinion the Germans should try to really have around 55 VP at round 10-ish. And than add around 10-15 VP&#8217;s per 10 round untill the grand finale arrives. The grand finale is at around a 100 VP&#8217;s. At that point the Germans are on the verge of victory. <\/p>\n<p>Taking into account the quite large number of German players with relatively low VP progress abandoning the current game, or restarting it, I have to say it seems like the difficulty level for the average player is just about right.<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to see that judging from the current data the AI in v1.01 seems to better hold itself against some extremely aggressive German players (note the 4 early victories before or around round 30 in the red lines)<\/p>\n<p>Of course I ran more analytics on the data. And I can also say it is quite astonishing to me that almost everybody is playing at the lowest difficulty setting. Me and Cameron put quite a lot of thought and balancing work in getting the &#8216;challenging&#8217; and &#8216;hard&#8217; levels right without overloading the AI with combat bonuses, but so far play of &#8216;challenging&#8217; seems to be absolutely minimal. Guess We&#8217;ll probably have to take it as a compliment.<\/p>\n<p>Also I can share that the ratio of German players versus Soviet players seems in the order of at least 5 to 1. <\/p>\n<p>Next month I&#8217;ll highlight something different in the Monthly Metric! Hope you enjoyed that we shared a bit of insights here.<\/p>\n<p>Best wishes,<br \/>\nVic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many of you know I have been asking Barbarossa players to switch on the metrics switch so we can have a better idea how hard the game is for the average player. In this first Monthly Metrics post I&#8217;d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/?p=1248\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrdesigns.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}