Grenadiers actually do more damage than flamethrowers vs. buildings, which is counter-intuitive and not in keeping with flavour and design intent. They should be good vs. buildings, but not quite this good, especially given that they are cheaper than flamethrowers. This nerf still allows them to be effective at taking out buildings, but not quite as blindingly fast at destroying them.
It seemed that the tanks were inept at hurting buildings and needed a boost. However, after playtesting, it's clear that Nod's flame tank is already exceptional at destroying buildings, and the recon bikes are quite decent at it, too. Thus, the light tank's effectiveness at killing buildings is overlapping with the flame tank (same tech level & cost), making most Nod units effective at hurting buildings. So, I think this is in order to preserve distinct roles among the vehicles.
This map is a bit out of date, especially because of the build radius
which makes the starting positions a bit impractical. All the tiberium is
also in the middle, making this map a "rush for the middle". Since it's so
small, this limits gameplay considerably.
Dead_in_motion_2 addresses these issues and spreads the tiberium out a
bit, while also putting starting locations to one corner of the map. It
also adds blue tiberium.
I will add the old map on Resource.openra.net if anyone still wants to
play it.
There is a strange issue that appears* when Theater calls
ISpriteFrame.Frames on the R8Reader. The R8Reader uses
IEnumerable.Cast<> which behaves slower and slower, which
makes map loading become 10+ times slower.
The changes here simply avoid the casting.
[*] This happens at least on Linux x86_64 with Mono 3.2.8.
See https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19668
"Weak vs. Aircraft" is kind of ambiguous, so I replaced it. Instead, I specified which units can attack aircraft by giving them a separate line reading "Can attack Aircraft". All entries of "weak vs. aircraft" have been removed.
Provided more explanation, eliminated ambiguity.
Where necessary, I wrote "cannot target aircraft" instead of "weak vs. aircraft", since the latter is ambiguous.
Since Chem warriors are awesome vs. everything, I think it would make sense to make them not quite as awesome vs. buildings. There is a bit of a lack of dinstinction between chem and flamers, and right now it doesn't appear to players like it makes much sense to build flamers when you can build chems instead. This will keep "burning buildings down" as the forte of the flame throwers.
The chems will still be decent vs. wood, but not as crazy as they have been.
To give some units a chance to escape, limiting RangeLimit of these rockets. Basically it is because if you get within range with a vehicle, but then quickly turn around to get out of range, the missile will follow you for quite a long ways, well beyond its initial range. There is currently no way to escape the missile. This allows a unit which is very fast to stand a chance of escaping a shot instead of having no chance.
