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This map is a bit out of date, especially because of the build radius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.
