Question about veterancy

[cychwa_klaymberg]

Greetings, Commanders! I have another question and would like some clarification.

The commander's blueprint contains this piece of code:

Veteran = {
    Level1 = 20,
    Level2 = 40,
    Level3 = 65,
    Level4 = 90,
    Level5 = 120,
},
VeteranHealingMult = {
    0.1,
    0.2,
    0.3,
    0.4,
    0.5,
},
VeteranMass = {
    1000,
    1250,
    1750,
    2500,
    3500,
},

On the wiki, I only found explanations for Veteran:

Veteran define how many kills for each veteran level are required.

Veteran = {
Level1 = 'integer', <Define how much kills are required for reaching veteran level 1>
Level2 = 'integer', <Define how much kills are required for reaching veteran level 2>
Level3 = 'integer', <Define how much kills are required for reaching veteran level 3>
Level4 = 'integer', <Define how much kills are required for reaching veteran level 4>
Level5 = 'integer', <Define how much kills are required for reaching veteran level 5>
},

However, as far as I know, veterancy is awarded not for the number of units killed, but for the mass of units killed. This confuses me.

Could you clarify these lines ( Veteran, VeteranHealingMult, VeteranMass ) and what they actually affect?

[Sprouto]

The use of mass, for veteran levels, is purely a FAF based change. It supplants the original kill based mechanic. The healing mult is likewise, a FAF-only change. In the original game, when a unit made a vet level, it would have it's HP set to a % of it's new HP max, based upon how damaged it was. In FAF, this gets replaced with a fixed % of healing, based upon the HP of the unit at the time it makes the level.

[cychwa_klaymberg]

any other modificators?

• VeteranMassMult = 0.5 what is it?

[Nomander]

For FAF you should use the documentation in the intellisense docs:
https://github.com/FAForever/fa/blob/9868135d041a49e4e48afce1ae8dcbd8d5c814bc/engine/Core/Blueprints/UnitBlueprint.lua#L81
Setting up intellisense is easy, it's just VSCode and the FA Lua extension. It will show tooltips for documentation, add autocomplete, and help navigate the code. Further instructions for a dev environment are here: https://faforever.github.io/fa/development