Seems like taking cover is a liability much more than a protection. I think it's better if infantry get out of the way of artillery rather than slow down and stay in its way. It's frustrating watching your infantry die pointlessly.
Instead of this, a reasonable alternative might be to double-click orders for your infantry to force them back up.
Making bridges indestructible.
Rationale:
-many maps don't work when bridges are destructible (most or all of the crossings are bridges)
-bridges will be repairable in the future. At this point, an engi can come and re-open it, but in the meantime, they shouldn't be destroyed.
-if someone wants to make a map with destructible bridges, they still can, by editing the .yaml themselves. This should be the default, though.
(FWIW, bridges were not destructible in C&C 1.)
During playtesting it seemed like having infantry go at full speed on clear terrain was a good addition.
If it seems inappropriate for some infantry, can change it individually later for some units that might be too fast (e.g. flamethrowers and grenadiers, who travel at speed=5).
Since the MCV position limits where you can build, it seems like the adjacent value should be relaxed.
Pchote, scott, mailaender and I were playtesting the new build radius. We played with a value of 5 and it was good.
This also implements support for a per-provider
cooldown between placing structures, allowing mods
with multiple structure queues to rate-limit
placement around a single provider.
An initial delay parameter is included to
support units that deploy into a base provider and
require an initial setup time (e.g. the Surveyor
unit from C&C TW).
The range and time restrictions are not applied to
walls as a balance choice.
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.
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.
Infantry sight range +1 -- it seems that they have lower sight range than vehicles for some reason. See http://i.imgur.com/Z6nWG.jpg for infantry and vehicle, both with RevealsShroud: 5, but vehicle sees further. So, effectively 5 for infantry becomes 4, which seems reasonable.
Reduced probability of SpawnViceroid from 10% to 2%. 2% will still happen often enough if Chem Warriors are used predominantly, but with 10%, units were constantly turning to Viceroids, which was a pain. You could also send 10 infantry to opponent's tib field in early game and spawn a viceroid and kill their harvester or harass them.
Turned off units auto-targeting regular buildings, because often will attack silo over an obelisk or enemy unit. Auto-target should remain on for defensive towers/turrets, though.
