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.
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.
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.
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.
- rename LockTeams to FragileAlliances to avoid confusion
- only allow it in Free-For-All, not Team games or Missions
- grey out non-functional buttons and disabled checkboxes
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).
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
fixes a desync whenever it will do so only on the host
+island map AI which will only build navy / air force to test
it and have a suitable bot for those map types (fixes pathfinder
eating up all CPU because it can't reach you with ground units)
- avoid float modifiers because of rounding errors and desync
- try not to crash when the last production building is gone
- don't do LINQ queries on selfsame buildings if not required
Blossom tree has a sequence.
There are two blossom trees in C&C, so I will use the first one (split2) for green tiberium and the 2nd one (split3) for blue tiberium. The old split3 still exists for backwards-compatibility, but will now show the split2 image. Only the blue tiberium blossom tree will show the split3 image.
