PvP Balancing and 1.0.8

[Jainus]

@Elendil52

As I understand it the difference between Normal and Hard is cascades, not what kind of luck you get in terms of when you drop something that then gives the enemy a potential 4/5 or skull match.

Not quite true. The ‘combo breaker’ affects both cascades and future moves lined up for the AI. Check this old post:

Can someone tell me what exact difference between normal and hard?

Yes, thanks, that’s more correct. But is there some post or thread that actually “officially” states that’s what’s happening (either referencing the combo-breaker or what happens in the tutorial/new players until they reach x level, etc)? Not a post by a player but from a dev? I can’t seem to find a Search function here if there is one.

Also you can seriously affect that yourself by:

• looking carefully at what your move will set up
• not doing matches in (or below) an area where two skulls are near each other near the top of the screen
• using exploders with caution
• only firing colour-changers when you can control getting 4+

…and so on.