I have a dream,lol, that one day Hedgewars will be played by so much people that there will be competitive play events in competitive commensurate gamemodes like The Specialist, The Random Specialists, Capture the Flag, Shoppa...
But in order to achieve this, weapons and utilities should be balanced and skill based.
Weapons like Melon, Hell grenade, Cake and Ballgun are not adequate for this genre of gamestyle, they are stupid and funny and can be used only in casual games.
The cake weapon for example has an intresting and unique working mechanic but deal too much damage. One simple way i was thinking to make it balanced is too reduce the damage output, reduce the radius of the explosion and reduce the time it can walk before exploding.
This way the cake will be used not for dealing damage but for more strategical purposes like pushing a hog off an edge.
Thank you for listening