Mobile SAMs are at risk of dying quickly, so it's better to have 2 missiles worth half the damage each, in the hopes you'll get more shots off.
BurstDelay was lowered for this purpose, too.
Increased speed of missile, and adjusted RangeLimit to compensate.
In big numbers, the unit with the heavy machine gun could be a bit too powerful vs. buildings for their cost, or even armor at certain times. (Armor should be extremely resistant to machine gun fire, even in large amounts). Base raiding should favor recon bikes slightly, for cost effectiveness.
Nerf slightly.
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.
To deal with orca spam problem:
-Mobile SAM missile fires a bit faster (Burst Delay of 1 sec. instead of 1.4 sec).
-Damage spread increased slightly from 14 -> 16, to deal with large concentrations of air units.
-Damage increased 55 -> 60, which divides as 2/3rds of an orca's HP. Important because Infantry rockets and Bike Rockets do 30 damage each, so one rocket + 1 patriot == kill.
SAM turret damage also increased 55 -> 60, for same reason.
Since the APC's cost was lowered to $600 to deal with orca spam better, its damage vs. heavy armor and infantry is being correspondingly lowered, so that it is not too good against those units (in terms of dollar-value, especially).
Keep in mind that APC is still good at crushing infantry.
Also removed "High" attribute from APC gun (but not from the AA version).
Orca rockets will do 15 damage vs. heavy. Hopefully this will take some edge off orca spam. This will:
-Give anti-air APC more lasting power vs. orca, ensuring it can at least down some of them and get their money's worth.
-Mammoth tank will bet better able to survive a mass assault and return fire with its rockets to down some of them (and get better money's worth).
-Give advanced guard towers better ability to defend themselves against air assault. (ATWR has heavy armor and does good damage, but can die quickly against a large group of orcas).
-Give armored units in general more resilience vs. orcas so they aren't completely helpless and quickly annihilated. Maybe then they can reach their target better (e.g. a couple tanks charging an artillery position that is being defended by some orcas).
Damage vs. infantry also slightly reduced as as result (also 20 -> 15 dmg).
Orcas generally aren't a threat to infantry, but E3s should be able to do some credible damage, even if they are in a small group. Enough orca spam will kill a small group of infantry, unfortunately. Since Orca has no business attacking infantry anyway, this slight nerf won't hurt orcas.
(Note: The damage model was simplified a bit, so that it does 100% of 30 dmg instead of 75% of 40 damage, vs. light & wood.)
if people want to take out tanks, they should build a turret. Right now the guard tower hits as strong as a tank shell, roughly.
Reducing advanced tower's damage vs. infantry. Its focus should be more on vehicles. It still is ok vs. infantry with spread of 6, but not supposed to be infantry killer, per se.
Increasing inaccuracy slightly. (3 -> 5)
-reducing turretgun vs. infantry slightly
It's really difficult to kill guard towers once they're up. The only reliable ways are to try to take out their power with airstrikes/orcas/etc. or use artillery from a distance. They are supposed to be tough but they are a bit too much.
Guard tower HP should be nerfed because they are wickedly hard to kill. Adv. tower's power should increase because they are annoying when sprawled everywhere and really hard to take out once established.
Nerfed sniper earlier from 7 -> 5.5. But since decimals dont mean jack in ORA, it's 5.
Since the sniper does cost 10x as much as infantry, and is a top tier unit, it should have some advantage with its sniper rifle in range to be useful on the battlefield. 5 just isn't enough.
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.
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.
Nobody uses repair bay, because it's not a pre-requisite for anything, and it's expensive. Reducing cost from $1200 to $600.
To compensate for its lower value, its HP are being lowered as well, from 800 to 400. Now it should be killable with an airstrike, which is about right.
To anyone paying attention: there has been some discussion over whether repairs should be cheaper. I am agnostic on the issue for now. How about we see if people like the repair bay more now and consider using it, before making further balance changes? Open to discussion.
Chinook had "Re-arms at: HPAD" entered in its rules, even though it has no weapons. This is what caused it to return to base when you hit 'F' instead of land.
Now it lands again when you hit F. *phew* so happy :)
Sniper range of 7 seems ridiculous, since it's a one-shot kill, and you can build multiple. (I support building multiple). Surprised I never noticed this issue before.
The range in C&C 95 was 5.5.
The ScanRadius is set to 5, which is probably why we haven't noticed any OP problems.
It's also a bit ridiculous since the unit's sight radius is only 5.
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.)
