Orca missiles fire a bit slower, so that the unit cannot unload all its rockets in 2 seconds. Will give defenses a bit more time to respond before they die or before the orcas run away.
Increased speed of TowerMissile. At present it is very slow and not terribly effective vs. air units because they can quickly leave range before getting hit. Speed stats are same for E3 and RocketBike.
Burstdelay increased. This is to avoid wasted missiles on the same target that might get destroyed.
Rangelimit reduced from 40 to 30 to compensate for increased missile speed.
Seems like Obelisk is not used much and that it is underpowered. Could use +1 range.
Rationale: it uses tons of energy (150) and costs a lot ($1500), compared to ATWR (30 energy, $1000) which has a range of 8. (Obelisk is 7 at the moment).
Obelisk also is comparatively easily destroyed since its HP are lower. Since it's vulnerable to power outages and artillery, it seems a bit more range will help get better use out of it.
Stealth tank range seems too high. It currently exceeds obelisk range. We won't be changing obelisk range until the FireDelay issue is fixed. https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA/issues/2710
MLRS range reduced. People don't seem to like it's ultra-long range. Hopefully this is a good middle ground.
Orca range reduced -- there's some concern the orca is OP, especially against things designed to kill it (Bike, MSAM, ...). Reducing range will not nerf it but will allow vehicles to approach without getting instantly killed.
Mammoth missiles spread increased. Since mammoth is a top-tier unit, people think it shouldn't be easily killed and should be effective vs. everything. This should help a bit vs. infantry.
MLRS damage vs. wood reduced significantly, to slow down how fast they can destroy buildings.
MLRS damage vs. infantry slightly reduced. They are supposed to be good at killing incoming infantry groups, but they seem slightly too effective.
Bike rocket damage increased to 30.
This lets it kill MLRS in 4 shots instead of 5. Important for the role the bike plays.
Kills Buggy in 4 shots instead of 5 as well.
This helps to justify bike's cost of $500. Its primary job is to exploit open space with its speed to attack vulnerable units, e.g. go behind enemy lines and quickly kill artillery. 5 shots (3 volleys instead of 2) makes this far weaker in this role, and expensive to take the risk with.
Ion Cannon does more damage vs. heavy armor--supposed to be more effective vs. advanced guard towers & Obelisks.
It no longer uses the PerCell damage model because the amount of damage vs. buildings varied wildly. It now uses the standard model and works pretty well.
There were complaints the Guard Tower was too weak. Generally, it's better if CNC is not a game of infantry spam. So it fires more often now. (ROF decreased from 40 to 30)
Its damage was increased from 45 to 50 because Flamethrowers were surviving with 1 HP, which is annoying.
When you have multiple orca rockets firing at once, the screen fills with missiles and smokey trails. Reduced the number firing per second, but they do the same total damage, so balance remains unchanged.
Will change their trail shortly to something other than smokey.
Next commit will change their ammo load.
Stealth Tank damage vs. wood nerfed; a few stnks could quickly uncloak and destroy a building, e.g. refinery.
Guard tower slight buff, to kill E3 in 2 shots instead of 3, and E4/E5 in 4 shots instead of 5.
E3 rockets expire a bit sooner. They would continue on forever. Their range is still long, but now it's possible for some units to escape.
Flamethrower seems OP, and flamethrower spam can dominate early game without much to counter it. Reduced range back to earlier levels (in C&C 95 it was 2).
Originally I increased the tank firing rate by 2x, but I think 1.5x makes more sense. (Now fairly comparable to RA values). Going to leave it here.
Reduced Artillery damage vs. wood from 75% to 50%.
Slight tweak to recon bike damage
Slight tweak to Stealth Tank damage vs. heavy armor
Increase APC gun damage from 6 to 12 (is currently pathetic against helis)
misc:
Made Artillery shell explosion appear bigger
Added contrail to Artillery shell
As usual I'm trying to be conservative and only apply what I feel is suitable / minimally necessary.
Weapons:
Biggest change: Increased artillery range from 6 to 12, added contrail to bullet and changed impact sound to default C&C. Minimum range 2 given.
Napalm is currently very ineffective; increased spread to 20 range to make more likely to kill targets, ROF slightly increased
MRLS rocket ranged increased from 8 to 12, with minimum range 2.
Guard tower range increased from 4 to 5 (Pillbox is 6, for comparison) and damage increased from 20 to 40.
Grenadier death explosion reduced in damage from 25-10 and in blast radius.
- Expose the beam duration to the projectileinfo
- Play an explosion animation at the target
- Beam tracks moving targets
- Disable player beam color in C&C
