In both my ladder and team games I've gotten the feeling that Chrono Dampener can be quite oppressive to play against, while also providing little feedback. I've written a mod (called "Chrono Expand" in the vault) to try to address these shortcomings.

Default Chrono Dampener:

There is a small effect around the ACU which causes units in a huge area to get immediately stunned for 2.5 seconds. The last titan is actually at the edge of the range, but there's no way to tell that.

Chrono Expand:

The effect now covers the entire area in a wave which stuns units. All units lose the stun effect at the same time, which means that the closer the unit is to the ACU, the longer it gets stunned for. At present, units right next to the ACU get stunned for 3.5 seconds, while units at the edge get stunned for only 1 second.

The values above aren't set in stone, and are actually mostly the result of my lackluster modding ability. I'd love to get a stun shorter than a second at the edge but for some reason that starts to shrink the radius of the effect instead.

What are your thoughts?

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Transports assisting a land factory will automatically carry units to the factory's rally point

We've had a few balance threads recently on the topic of Naval Balance, so I've created a survey to help compile opinions.

This survey is not official in any capacity. The balance team was not involved or consulted in its creation.

https://forms.gle/CW51bP3j2y5tyf6v9

Why adjust engi hp?

Seems like the easiest fix would be to increase LAB hitbox size. That way tanks don't need years worth of marksmanship training in order to hit them

Is any retexturing planned? I think such a popular map being so aesthetically blank sets a bad precedent

Ship FAF with PD + walls template by default

One of the most common pieces of advice I see for new players is to make a template of PD surrounded by walls. It's by far the most used template and even some more experienced players can be annoyed if they lose access to it for one reason or another.

Why not have FAF add the 4 (one for each faction) templates automatically? It'd be a QoL feature like mex assist for storage and should be fairly low impact to everyone who doesn't want it.

The king is dead, long live the king

The "hate for Dual Gap" is irrelevant here.

You have (again) failed to provide an argument for why this should be a core balance change rather than just a mod. Hives are balanced just fine on virtually every other map. Nerfing them so they're balanced on Dual Gap would come at the expense of those maps.

Hives were considered very OP in Phantom. You know what people did? They wrote a mod that gave hives to all factions. Problem solved.

@Tagada said in Weak Overcharge:

I really wish we would have a few guys that would be responsible for deleting all the stupid posts

Ask and you shall receive.

All posts that did not actively contribute to the conversation and/or contained personal attacks have been deleted. Keep it civil, keep it on topic.

The community has shown that the existing ruleset is not necessary for nor does it promote productive discussion. Too many exceptions have needed to be made for it to continue to be effective.

These new rules are intentionally much simpler and leave much more room open for interpretation. However, that's why I'm opening them to feedback first, I agree they might not cover everything.

Units can only get 1 veterancy level per kill

We've had a few balance threads recently on the topic of Naval Balance, so I've created a survey to help compile opinions.

This survey is not official in any capacity. The balance team was not involved or consulted in its creation.

https://forms.gle/CW51bP3j2y5tyf6v9

Why adjust engi hp?

Seems like the easiest fix would be to increase LAB hitbox size. That way tanks don't need years worth of marksmanship training in order to hit them

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Transports assisting a land factory will automatically carry units to the factory's rally point

I'd love to test out some of my CPUs. Could you reupload the replay file? The link in the original post gives a 404 error

Best temporary fix I've found it to ask a mod to kick you. That will sign you out of both accounts so when you log back in you're good to go

Might want to rename the coop tab to campaign. It can be done solo anyway

@turinturambar said in Proposal: Cybran ACU upgrades:

One risk I see in giving cybran a significantly better rambo ACU is the synergy with corsairs. It can lead to situations where the opponent, to stop the cybran ACU+army, has to use his own ACU. After a bit of ACU on ACU fighting there is allways the thread of cybran going full corsair and snipeing the opponent 6-7k hp com, which ironically might become most obnoxious in cyb vs cyb.

Do we see the same thing happen with Aeon and Mercies? Why are Corsairs different?

Not intended to be a rhetorical question, I legitimately don't play at a high enough level to know whether this happens for Aeon or not.

Is any retexturing planned? I think such a popular map being so aesthetically blank sets a bad precedent