Explosion sounds have been noticeably absent from the RA mod, artillery weapons only used the weak kaboom12, most other weapons had no ImpactSound at all, making even larger battles sound 'empty'.
Now, explosive artillery weapons (155m, 8Inch, SubMissile) use art-exp1 as animation and kaboom22 as impact sound. Furthermore, most cannons and rockets now use kaboom12 as ImpactSound. In one or two cases kaboom15 is used instead. Furthermore, for consistency Trail: smokey was disabled on Dragon and ChronoTusk.
Technically unnecessary, but using self_destruct on regular weapons in weapons.yaml might be a little confusing for modders. artillery_explosion is a more straight-forward label for art-exp1.
I noticed that by default the run and prone-run animations are way too fast for the infantry movement speed. I used Tick values to fix this, taking into account individual speed. I used Tick: 80 for Speed: 5, 100 for speed 4 and 120 for speed 3. Some fine-tuning may be needed, but it already looks much better than before.
Someone complained that there was not good warning for the nuke. All you heard was the launch sound, which wasn't that noticeable and a bit like other sounds.
Now it says, "nuclear missile approaching".
Sardauker are pretty dramatically underpowered, especially considering that they are a top-tier unit. Since they are slow, they need to be tough to withstand enemy fire before they get in range. Since they are $400, they are mostly a waste of money at the moment, rather than assault troopers.
For practical reasons, the siege tanks need a more powerful gun.
Currently, unit behavior is to not stay outside of turret range, but rather to walk into it before shooting. I don't think siege tank range should be increased any further, but this is a problem.
Siege tanks should be good at defeating large clusters of enemy turrets, which are powerful and hard to break.
tanks are a bit under-powered vs. quads at the moment. Quads are fast anti-vehicle/armor support units. They are supposed to keep their range to win, not go toe-to-toe.
Currently the Deviator uses AttackLoyalty, which seems to only be able to take over units permanently. It should be temporary. Currently it seems overpowered, and should be disabled for now.
If anyone disagrees, let me know.
