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    Chenbro101

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    Best posts made by Chenbro101

    • RE: Redesign of the Cybran land factory

      While the old designs do have some jank stuff happening, I think they serve a purpose in making the HQ silhouette stand out from the support factories. They also seem "grander", like a steady evolution of what you poured all your hard earned mass into.

      posted in Suggestions
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: WD #3 - Ridiculous Balance Ideas

      Soulripper can pick up units and experimentals like a dropship. And also shoot other gunships.

      posted in Weekly Discussions
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: Did you know?

      Minus points for not saying "Did you know?"

      posted in General Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • Direction and focus of balance

      When it comes to balancing, there has been rather large divergence in the method of implantation in what and how something is changed.
      Not that this is good or bad, but there does seem to be a random factor in some of the changes that are being made. I guess this is because the FAF is a collaboration between individuals with different ideas and mindsets.

      For instance there is a trend of normalisation, such as making each unit useful for its cost and class, either shifting its power up or down (e.g. mantis made slower and same cost as other t1 or beacon more range and cheaper than it was).

      Secondly there is the direction where other units are statistically worse and are compensated for with the strength from other units, sometimes even units of different tiers.

      And third there is the direction of units being worse or better statistically because it makes the game more interesting or asymmetrical.
      What I want to ask is what decisions lead to how these are chosen. And when is one argument for a direction better chosen over another?

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: Did you know?

      Thats cool! I shall overlook the lack of "Did you know?" for that one.

      posted in General Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: Give UEF and Aeon t3 scouts sonar

      At the very least I think giving sonar to these spy planes would be reasonable.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: What would make ladder less stressful, intense, or scary?

      For me, it would help if the client did not fail to log back in after a disconnect. Forced to close client to log back in using the browser and can then not reconnect to a game.

      posted in General Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • Cruisers and torp bomber/bomber scaling disparity.

      In regards to naval vs air, I have noticed that for equal cost in either mass or energy, torp bombers seem to win out in most cases against cruisers. This is not really what I want to address in this post, but rather how this difference in cost efficiency increases exponentially and not linearly when more of each unit is added into an engagement.
      I know that exponential efficiency differences are basically expected when comparing most unit interactions, so I would like to discuss if this is desired or not in regards to cruisers vs air.
      If not, I would like to make some observations and proposals.

      The Problem

      Depending on the faction, each cruiser is affected by this more or less than the others. Some of the reasons for this happening are different , but the main ones shared by them are different variations of overkill and wasted shots.
      Wasted shots happen when a cruiser fires right before the target dies, either because other cruisers had the same target, or the target dies after another volley was fired.
      I will break down how this happens for each cruiser below separately.

      Seraphim Cruiser
      This unit has the least problems in this area and may actually have the reverse happen. The flack projectiles have higher AOE than missiles and don't disappear when a target dies.
      The close range gun has high projectile velocity, so they don't tend to be wasted.

      Aeon Cruiser
      The missiles will overkill targets.
      If more than one cruiser fires at the same target, you will end up with a lot of wasted shots since the missiles cant redirect to a new target.
      If the target is at max range, they can waste a third volley before the second one connects.

      UEF Cruiser
      They don't overkill torp bombers by much.
      The volleys have a slightly longer reload time so they don't tend to waste volleys.
      They do suffer badly when multiple cruisers target the same bomber.

      Cybran Cruiser
      The missiles overkill's the target.
      They will almost always waste their third volley unless the bombers are directly above them.
      They can waste a lot of shots when firing at the same bomber, same as with Aeon.
      They take longer to start firing when a bomber first enters their range, about one second. This happens with all units that have a laser designator by the way, so I think it is a bug.

      I made most of the observations while playing or watching replays.
      Here is a replay where I mess around a bit to see what happens: #19276982

      Proposed Solution

      Depending on what is possible, I would suggest either letting missiles redirect when their target is dead, or have something similar to what was done with TMD.
      If this is done, cruisers will no longer waste their shots and the scaling problem should be alleviated somewhat.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: WD #3 - Ridiculous Balance Ideas

      Always thought the exp chicken should get egg laying instead of the megalith. So...
      Ilshavoh become ythotha on vetting up.
      Ythotha can lay eggs like a megalith that spawns ilshavoh.

      posted in Weekly Discussions
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • Did you know?

      Wanted to start a thread about unexpected or little known interactions involving units in supcom faf.

      Did you know: Torp defence doesn't work against torp bombers?

      posted in General Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101

    Latest posts made by Chenbro101

    • Why wont the client reconnect?

      So the client sometimes does not reconnect after even a short disconnect. Is this a known issue?

      posted in Game Issues and Gameplay questions
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: New PC - can't play - can't change the resolution - AMD

      Ah I remember metal fatigue. Surprised someone else even mentioning it.

      posted in I need help
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: New PC - can't play - can't change the resolution - AMD

      @sharkcode Can you play any other games besides CS2? Are there any other symptoms you notice? Was your OS installed on a formatted drive? What OS are you using?

      posted in I need help
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: Beach Water Depth Units not Detected

      The detection issue is annoying, bit I like microing monkeys and megas to attack shorelines like this. Smart players start ground attacking the location.

      posted in Mapping
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      @tarantellaswan Funny you should mentions this, was thinking before of a reconstruction bot implementation. Wanted to call it
      "The Necromancer" reconstruction bot. Would get a list of surrounding wrecks and rebuild on the spot with the same mechanic as rebuilding on dead buildings. Guess that could work as an upgrade for an SACU, but would require a lot of work.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      Aeon aura to increase range of units around it? Something like +5 range, so harbs have close to same range as bricks and percies.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      Ok, so how about an upgrade that increases capture range and speed? Call it hack module or something. So for cybran sacu they would have something like hack, emp gun and AA? Would that make a good enough support ACU?

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      The stun gun is technically a support upgrade while AA is offense. You could put stun as an alternative to gun and giving the upgrade increased range.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      @cocainediesel I would like that if it is possible.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101
    • RE: SACU Rebalance

      @thewheelienoob Except its per unit. So no, a 1000 mass is not nothing.

      posted in Balance Discussion
      Chenbro101C
      Chenbro101