The GDI APC and the Nod Mobile SAM Launcher are the premier anti-air units that are needed to defend each side from air attacks. Due to the problems of orca spam, they should be given a more prominent role.
Currently the APC is $700 and the M-SAM $750. This might be reasonable against a small amount of vehicles, but anti-air units need to be able to deal with spam. So they will be reduced in cost so they can be bought cheaper. This is important for the M-SAM especially since it's a dedicated anti-air unit.
To avoid the GDI APC being too good, the damage vs. heavy armor will be reduced a bit more, so it cannot serve the role of "light tank". It will still be able to fight light vehicles well, however.
For some reason artillery wasn't exploding. I had set it at 75% odds last time I edited it. Just making it explode again.
It really needs to explode. It only costs $600 and is pretty powerful. This is its drawback, to make it vulnerable if player bunches them up.
Mobile SAM launcher name shortened.
Stealth tank time increased 80 -> 90 until https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/2898 is addressed.
Shortened a few other names.
Fixed some descriptions.
Someone changed stealth tank and it did not have HoldFire as initial stance anymore.
Apparently Explodes: does not use UnitExplode by default anymore? Fixed.
MCV is more important now since buildings can only be built within its build range. If you need a repair bay first, it's too constrictive. This seems right.
Nod now can use mobile SAM launcher. This is necessary because Orcas are powerful, esp. in large groups.
MLRS slowed down a bit, so it can't turn and run as swiftly.
MCV gets +1 speed since it will be moving more now.
I made a mistake changing MLRS HP from 120 -> 115 in last patch. (I misread a unit stat and so the change didn't do the thing I thought, and had no purpose).
Returned to previous value of 120.
Mammoth tank buffed, since people said it was too slow and died easily, e.g. dying too readily while approaching enemy through artillery fire.
-HP increased from 600 to 800. Seems justifiable since it's an expensive, slow-to-build, top-tier unit.
-Speed increased from 3 to 4; (C&C 95 default value, incidentally)
-Rotation reduced from 5 to 3 so that it has a flavor of slowness, and a vulnerability.
MLRS speed reduced from 8 to 7, so it's not uncatchable when retreating.
MLRS health reduced from 120 to 115 so Rocket Bike can kill it in 5 shots instead of 6.
MLRS InitialStance set to Defend, to help noobs avoid unintentionally bunching them up (and making them vulnerable to airstrikes, etc.) and to require less micro-management of their positions.
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.
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.
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
