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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
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.
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
Screw you my mapping tourney is gonna have a rating cap
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
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.
Topic locked by Valki's request
Smurfing is bannable Alternate accounts are bannable Rating manipulation is bannable
All that said the fewer players are in a rated game the more of an impact it will have on your rating.
That'd be such a minor nerf as to be irrelevant. By the time you have a novax (or T3 arty for that matter) you have the power overflow to sustain it.
It's like T3 PD. Did you know that costs energy to fire? Yeah, no one does because it doesn't matter.
This is the rework I have on my balance mod to do list. I might try some other ideas but given how long other stuff has taken me I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.
@deribus said in Sacrifice Modification: Proposal:
Here's a copy of the rework I suggested back on old forums: Instead of directly funneling the mass/energy cost of the unit into the structure, the unit will begin to build at 3x its usual build speed. The engineer will shed health over the course of the duration, and it can only be cancelled by the premature death of the engineer. If the unit is not killed, it dies and refunds 40% of its cost directly into storage. [EDIT: No idea why I had the refund but I'd probably remove that] For T1-T3 engineers this would last 10 seconds, allowing them to do 30 seconds worth of building before death. For SCUs, it would be 1 second per 150 mass cost of the SCU. Which would be 19 seconds for just Rapid Fabricator and 43 seconds for RAS. This is about 33% less efficient than the Engineer numbers.
Here's a copy of the rework I suggested back on old forums:
Instead of directly funneling the mass/energy cost of the unit into the structure, the unit will begin to build at 3x its usual build speed. The engineer will shed health over the course of the duration, and it can only be cancelled by the premature death of the engineer. If the unit is not killed, it dies and refunds 40% of its cost directly into storage. [EDIT: No idea why I had the refund but I'd probably remove that]
For T1-T3 engineers this would last 10 seconds, allowing them to do 30 seconds worth of building before death.
For SCUs, it would be 1 second per 150 mass cost of the SCU. Which would be 19 seconds for just Rapid Fabricator and 43 seconds for RAS. This is about 33% less efficient than the Engineer numbers.
They have enormous HP for their cost but very little DPS.
The next balance patch is focused on them though so that's subject to change.
@randomwheelchair said in Real shard buff: Hover Ship:
Great. Now what is the range and how many bombers do you need to one pass single MAA and how many to one pass single Shard? Also what is the relation between high range units and killing low HP targets?
You forgot one: https://faforever.github.io/spooky-db/#/UAL0104,UAB2104,UAS0102
Compared to T1 static AA shards are 20% cheaper, get 4 more range (whoop de doo) and have the same HP, but have less than half the DPS.
As long as Shards are slow as balls over land (like Salems) then I don't think it'd be a problem.
It's an interesting idea, but I'm hesitant because it gives Aeon all of the following:
Some of these are pretty major. The more things a single change affects the harder it is to balance.
Thanks but that one's intentionally omitted. This list is for stuff I'd like to do whereas I'm pretty happy with the way that mod turned out and consider it done.
We can reuse the existing firing animation as helicopter blades
My perspective is from a 1k ladder player and a sample size of 16 games.
The only one I had issue with were Flooded and Small Islands 20x20s. Aeon/Sera can have a pretty big advantage on those maps due to the tendency of mex groups being separated by tiny strips of water.
Was fine but could use some reclaim very close to spawn. Would be nice to sometimes have a rock or two to prioritize.
I definitely played better but I think most of it was just due to playing more consistently.
Nah all of them are pretty good. 20x20s are exhausting but that's just by nature of the map size, it's unavoidable.
Not a "Map Gen Month" but it'd be awesome to have the first week of every month be mapgen only. Consistency > a long test period imo
Eh, I'll use this point to talk about the aesthetics generally. Water can be incredibly hit or miss. Sometimes it's not immediately obvious where there is water or where the terrain slopes smoothly enough to provide access to water. Other times it creates that horrible mess you see pictured on the islands 20x20s. Also some of the terrain is just way too damn bright, those colors should be removed IMO.
Bonus: check out this map I like to call "Dollar Store Seton's"