The carrying capacity of harvesters was increased from $525 to $700. (This is the original C&C 95 value).
Overall harvesting rates are roughly the same.
To keep overall harvesting rates the same, the amount of time spent unloading at the refinery was increased.
The purpose of these changes is to:
- make blue tiberium harvesting from distant fields economically feasible by increasing carrying capacity
- make basewalking less necessary in order to take advantage of blue tiberium fields farther away, especially in early game.
- make harvesting from distant tiberium fields less penalizing. If you have more harvesters harvesting tiberium farther away, the unload time won't affect you as much as if you were harvesting closer by.
- make refineries more relevant and make the player build refineries to increase capacity, and not only relying on a fleet of harvesters. (A good idea anyway since Ion cannons can kill refineries, and you should have more than one).
- keep with flavor of C&C, where tiberium was a dangerous substance which had to be carefully unloaded, unlike ore from RA which was immediately dumped.
Orca ammo reduced from 10 to 5, since
Increased toal ammo from 5 to 6, since orcas seem to be a bit weak vs. tanks, flame tanks, etc.
Apache Helicopter & Orca sight range increased from 8 to 10. Seems good here, I wouldn't increase anymore, or they will be too good at scouting by themselves. Leaving it here requires using other units for their scouting value.
A-10 sight range increased from 8 to 12. This makes the airstrike better for scouting, and seems to make sense for an airplane. Since it's a superpower, won't be too powerful.
Trees were made destructible; now they are indestructible.
Blue tiberium blossom trees regenerate slower than green tiberium. This keeps the green ones relevant in maps with both kinds of trees.
The blue ones produce at slightly over half speed, and slightly over 2x value, giving them a slight advantage. Blue's total value production rate is ~1.25x faster than green tib. blossom tree.
Weapons are now defined with the Armament trait
and turret parameters live in Turreted.
This has the side effect of allowing any number
and distribution of weapons and turrets.
Helicopters get explosions, when they fall from the sky, and then when they collide with the ground (and do damage).
A-10 HP raised from a very small 60 to 150.
MCV re-enabled. A construction yard build radius will be included in a later release to rein in basewalking.
Mobile SAM launcher's weapon is Patriot missile instead of HonestJohn.
Shroud reveal ranges on a few units adjusted
ATWR HP reduced from 800 to 600
ATWR power consumptions inreased from 20 to 30
Increased sight range of towers to match their range.
Silo moved over in build queue
Vehicle speeds adjusted, now 80% on clear, like tanks. Intended to coincide with speed changes here: https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/pull/2722
Husks burn 10 seconds now instead of 40. More fitting for cnc.
Tanks UnitExplodeSmall now by default.
Air Strike cooldown time reduced from 4 minutes to 3. (Ion Cannon is 3). [games are short in CNC, and waiting 4 minutes for your first airstrike is a long time.]
HQ's hitpoints reduced to 750, so it can be nuked in one shot. (but not Ion Cannon'd)
Airfield HP reduced to 1500, so Ion + Airstrike can destroy it. (For some reason, it doesn't die as easily as Weapons Factory, despite having the same HP)
Infantry can detect cloaked units in the next tile. This behaviour was in the original C&C Gold.
(Even though it says range=2, it is actually just in the next tile)
Fixed GrenadierExplode.
Helipad price reduced to $1000. Should make helicopter transports more accessible. Should also make having a few "support helis" flying around a more viable strategy, for non-standard builds.
Fixed palette order to be better grouped and in more progressive order.
Re-arranged document so that it's sorted better.
Halved Chinook price, $1500 to $750.
Infantry should be a more feasible strategy, and transporting them quickly will make them more usable.
This should be good for Nod especially since they don't have APCs.
