Apache, for all its greatness, doesn't do very well at one of the things it's supposed to do well, namely take out light vehicles quickly (humvee, artillery, MLRS, etc.). Apache is required for Nod as a reliable way to take out MLRS, but currently it doesn't do enough damage to take it out with its entire payload (which takes 4 seconds to unload, to boot). A single Apache should be able to destroy an MLRS, if it gets the chance.
If anyone thinks the Apache needs nerfing, I would suggest looking in other areas besides its damage vs. light armor.
Also, does anyone object to removing the AG/AA distinctions for helicopters? They don't seem needed anymore.
Artillery was recently buffed, but I think this makes the fact that they can currently fire at close range is not appropriate. I think artillery should be vulnerable to units that are able to get quite close, instead of being able to fire at them and do massive damage.
The reason min. range of 2c896 was picked is that when you set min. range to 3c0, it is not able to fire exactly 3 cells away. Perhaps the behaviour should change so that 3c0 = 3 cells away.
(For comparison, MLRS has minimum range of 3).
Play death sounds with a new PlayVoiceLocal so they don't use full volume regardless of position relative to camera.
Adds option for alternative burn and zap death sounds.
Renames RenderInfantry's UseInfantryDeath trait to SpawnsCorpse.
Removes hack from ra desert shellmap.
I opted to lower the power consumption for SAM instead of restoring the
original power values for FACT and PROC since those two are available to
the player as well and they would behave slightly different in this
mission than in other ones.
Machine gun seems to be under-performing vs. infantry
Give it 5 bursts instead of 4. Will allow it to kill E3s more effectively.
Despite this change, overall damage vs. Light armor is not increased since Release.
After playtesting, it seems the grenade is a *bit* too slow. Keeping it slow, but bringing its speed from 5 -> 7. (Original value was 12)
Looks reasonable.
Also giving 100% vs. infantry instead of 90%.
The recent armor change for turrets made airstrike no longer killed it.
Made Napalm do more damage to Heavy (and light); made Vulcan do less damage to Heavy so that airstrikes don't do too much damage to advanced towers, obelisks and SAM sites.
Units which cannot target walls (sandbags, chain-link fence or concrete) any longer:
Minigunner
Flamethrower
Hum-vee/Nod Buggy
Flame Tank (can still run over sand bags and chain-link fences)
Civilian
[sniper--already so]
Since turrets have wood armor, they can get killed by flame tanks uber fast. It might be best if turrets are a counter to flame tanks, rather than their prey. If they have heavy armor, they will take far less damage, and not die instantly to a flame tank rush, making them able to contribute to some defense.
It seemed from playing noobs that lack of tiberium storage was an issue for them, because I saw them often building silos, often many of them, and they were usually full. Granted, an experienced player should spend that money faster, but I think it's reasonable to give them $2000 worth of storage in their refinery.
It seems that how pips are displayed has changed from before, so someone set silos to have 10 pips instead of 12 so that it fits the reticle. That's fine. But maybe it would make sense to just change that to an even $2000 capacity also.
Since C&C has no power-down button (and since price of power plant went up), low-power is extra painful in TD vs. RA. Also, since the cost is higher for power plants now, it means you will be in low-power mode longer since you cannot build a power plant as fast.
So, the solution is to make the low power slowdown 1/2 speed instead of 1/3 speed for Conyard.
This does not apply to the support queue, only the building queue.
I've been trying to increase the diversity of available early-game build order choices. To do this, I've increased the cost of early-game buildings like Power Plant and Barracks, while increasing the power consumption of the Refinery. This forces players to make choices with more significant consequences. The cost (money=time spent building) of power and barracks are so low right now that the time you spend building them is totally inconsequential to the build order. This leaves very few options, and most people simply pick Barracks, Refinery, Refinery.
Giving some non-trivial time cost to Power and Barracks will allow people to have more possibilities for different openings.
The Chem Warrior still does good damage vs. wood, but this will allow more distinction between Flamethrower infantry and Chems. People have been complaining there's no reason not to use chem warriors, which is a claim that has some merit.
Currently, the Chem actually does more damage than Flamethrower vs. wood, which doesn't make a lot of sense. This will make the Flamer do a bit more. Chem damage will be at the level of Bazooka now.
After this change, Flamethrower will have double the economic efficiency in damage per dollar vs. wood. (It already had superior efficiency, but not by much).
