There needs to be "buff" information in-game.

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I have no idea what any of the Drops do. Are they worth getting or not? Who do they effect (just the person who got the Drop, or the whole team)? What is the duration?

Also, there is the new Team Imbalance buff, which also has no explanation in-game. There should be some sort of buff icon on the Hud for whatever buffs you have (be it Team Imbalance or Drop) with information like: What they do, How much do they effect your character/team, and duration. There should be a visual effect as well. This would give us more information about what we are dealing with.

 

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I have no idea what any of the Drops do. Are they worth getting or not? Who do they effect (just the person who got the Drop, or the whole team)? What is the duration?

Also, there is the new Team Imbalance buff, which also has no explanation in-game. There should be some sort of buff icon on the Hud for whatever buffs you have (be it Team Imbalance or Drop) with information like: What they do, How much do they effect your character/team, and duration. There should be a visual effect as well. This would give us more information about what we are dealing with.

You can view all effects affecting your Selected Unit in the bottom-right corner. Hovering the effects will take up a description of them. You can do this with both Drops and Team Imbalance buff.

Drops effect your whole team so they are very powerful. There are:

Deflection - Gives all your teams commanders an aura that effects nearby Units. The units and the commander becomes immune versus Elemental-type effects and take less damage.
Flux - Gives all your teams commanders an aura that effects nearby Units. The Units and the commander becomes faster and reloads and fires more quickly.
Onslaught - Gives all your teams commanders an aura that effects nearby Units. The Units and the commander becomes immune versus Pinning-type effects and take less damage.
Surge - All commanders in your team regenerates energy faster.

The Team Balance buff decrease the damage you take depending on how unfair the teams are. For example If you are playing 2 vs 3 the team with 2 players will take 1/3 less damage.

 

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Ye, the Drop Zone buffs are pretty powerful - meant to be captured. It might be hard to find time to do so in fewer player games, but when playing 4v4 or more, one should always send at least one player to try and steal it.

Please let us know how you are experiencing the Force of Balance buff (the uneven-number-of-players balance buff), if it's helping, if it's too strong etc so that we might know how to improve on it, if need be!