I personally cannot stand this obsession with balance, this is supposed to be a sandbox game, if you want super balance go play Call of Duty, or Chivalry or something, in my humble opinion, getting the server code out should be their top priority, you are never going to please everyone with any balance update you make, the only way to get out of the eternal balance loop is to give individual server hosters tools to control the balance of their own server.
TLDR: everyone has different opinions on what the balance should be anyways so just work on releasing private servers and let people choose their own balance, or lack there of.
TLDR: everyone has different opinions on what the balance should be anyways so just work on releasing private servers and let people choose their own balance, or lack there of.