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.
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.
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).
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]
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).
Grenade range reduced from 5 -> 4
Grenade speed reduced considerably, from 204 -> 85 (this was its old speed, long ago).
Grenade spread increased to compensate.
Grenadiers are now the fastest infantry. Their weapon is quite powerful but they cannot hit moving targets well. You will have to plan your tactics accordingly.
Tanks are a bit underwhelming in their ability to take down turrets and buildings during an attack. Their ROF has been upped, and their damage vs. wood has been increased.
Their damage % vs. infantry has been lowered to keep it the same DPS.
Light tank bullet speed reduced a bit to make it possible to miss. It's now the same speed as the turret, and still faster than MTNK/HTNK's bullets.
Airstrike now destroys basic turrets/GT.
Should not destroy most buildings, though. (Apparently some people were complaining about it being usde for "sniping" buildings too much).
To make damage vs. buildings relatively consistent regardless of how many tiles they occupy, napalm has far less spread now, but much more damage.
Vulcan cannon does more damage vs. heavy armor, but does not damage buildings much. This is because damage it did to buildings varied too much based on building footprint.
Ion Cannon has been a little weak lately. Increasing its spread to make it more effective.
This should maybe be revisited if/when #5120 gets looked at.
Nuke was nerfed into oblivion. Bringing it back.
These values are approximately right. One might ask how much the nuke should be able to destroy adjacent buildings, rather than ones it doesn't hit.
The ROF specified in Laser: is cumulative with the delays specified in structures.yaml.
Removing the delay here because it is redundant and interferes, making the ROF slower than intended.
Tiberium wasn't hurting veteran units. I think it was because it only did 1 damage at a time. Set to do 2 damage now.
Increased the net rate of tiberium damage slightly. It still doesn't do that much compared to before though, and it typically won't kill your infantry.
Orca damage vs. heavy currently is pretty abysmal. Needs buff to define unit as anti-vehicle (instead of being equal to Apache vs. vehicles/armor).
Orca nerfed a bit vs. air to put it on even footing with Apache in air-to-air combat.
ROF slightly increased.
Mammoth missiles are a bit crazy, especially vs. buildings. Nerfing them a bit.
To compensate, increasing their spread a bit.
To increase missile efficiency (avoid extra missiles being wasted on overkill), their damage has been reduced from 75 to 45. They can still kill orcas in 2 shots.
To further avoid wasteful firing of missiles, the burst delay was increased, and the speed of the missiles was increased.
Artillery is weak vs. buildings in CNC, so this needs a slight buff (ARTY also buffed).
MLRS needs a slight boost vs. infantry, since GDI relies on it to.
Spread increased from 15 to 16.
Reducing damage vs. light vehicles & buildings, since APCs are kind of hard to kill early game.
Increasing damage vs. heavy slightly so they are non-useless.
Flamethrower should be good vs. light vehicles. Buffing them vs. light, and changing damage to kill most vehicles with 3 hits instead of 4.
They are also getting an increase vs. infantry from 90% to 100%.
Their speed will be getting reduced to normal infantry, so I dont think we have to worry about them being OP.
Slight nerf to damage vs. heavy to better define the unit as not a mid-game anti-armor unit.
Given that SAM sites have range of 8, that it would be appropriate if mobile SAMs also had a range reduction. Choosing 9 for now, since battlefield conditions are a bit different than for static defenses, and because turrets sometimes behave funny with respect to range and firing.
If you want to consider increasing the price as a result of this, that might be OK.
But as far as the unit's tactical effectiveness is concerned, I think these changes are necessary, vs. buildings and heavy armor in particular.
In order to keep Arty from being OP, its gun remains inaccurate. It's also slow and vulnerable to exploding.
Hum-vee/buggy machinegun buffed to make them more useful vs. infantry. Currently they are rather weak.
Damage vs. other types of armor reduced to compensate.
Range of obelisk, Adv. Guard Tower and SAM site reduced.
Damage of Guard Tower reduced vs. infantry and light vehicles; spread increased to compensate a bit.
Damage of Advanced Guard Tower nerfed, especially against light vehicles. Damage vs. infantry increased (though it's still low DPS). Spread also increased to compensate for its lack of power vs. infantry.
Turret damage mostly unchanged, but does less damage per shot. Damage vs. light vehicles increased to match damage vs. heavy armor. Damage vs. infantry slightly reduced.
Reduced Guard Tower weapon range from 6 to 5
Reduced Gun Turret weapon range from 6 to 5
Reduced Sam Site weapon range from 10 to 7
Reduced Advanced Guard Tower weapon range from 8 to 6
Reduced Obelisk of Light weapon range from 8.5 to 6.5
