Posts made by Doompants

Huge improvement on Maelstrom, it's still pretty beefy at level 1 tho. Level 2 feels good. Level three is ok or could even be buffed a touch.

Spawning units into firing range is not real-world testing of course, but by my thinking, if the maelstrom is still too strong here, real games where units all trickle into firing rate is going to favor maelstrom even more. Anyways, heres some numbers:

T1 tanks (Strikers):
If I teleport the un-upgraded ACU into 17 T1 striker tanks ACU will just survive on it's own (no micro, no overcharge)
with Lvl 1 Maelstrom, I can teleport it into 80+ t1 strikers and it's fine.
Maybe lvl 2+ maelstrom should evaporate all t1 tanks, but probably not the first upgrade. ACU is basically unkillable by t1 land.

T2 vs Pillars seem good:
Un-upgraded ACU dies to 4 pillars.
T1 Maelstrom ACU can handle 8 and live.
T2 Maelstrom ACU can handle 20+
T3 Maelstrom kills 40+

T3 vs Titans:
Un-upgraded can handle one.
T1 Mael can handle 2
T2 Mael can handle 4
T3 Mael can handle 6 -- seems like not a lot of bang for your buck compared to level 1 and 2. Small buff like 12 or 16?

Thanks again for your time. FWIW I can confirm the hitbox changes fixed beam hits, and also the Sera missile is working great. And yeah, the Sera OC still seems capped at 15k regardless of upgrade. Did you ask me to retest? If so what would you like to see?

No rest for the wicked, @Uveso

Was doing some ACU testing with BlackOps ACUs and we've isolated a couple issues that I think are are all in the BlackopsFAF-ACU part of the pack

1. The BlackOps version of the Aeon ACU (EAL001) seems to have some hitbox issues where beam weapons pass through it and miss a good portion of the time. Probably the easiest to test (and worst offender) is the Aria T3PD (BAB2306). To recreate, make a bank of 4-8 Aria, and walk an Aeon ACU toward them on flat land. You should see many of the PD beams miss. In this test I did to get the screenshot, the ACU is standing still after walking into range, and it looks like maybe 3 or 4 out of 10 are hitting. The ACU is not taking damage from beams that are overshooting.

2. The same Aeon ACU also has what seems like a miscalculation somewhere in the QuantumMaelstrom upgrade tree. A single upgrade will kill an unlimited number of t1 tanks anywhere in weapon range (22?) in 4 seconds flat. A level 2 upgrade will kill a T2 Pillar in 8 seconds. The T3 upgrade takes a whole 10 seconds to kill a T3 Titan, but Pillars don't last 4 seconds and T1 tanks simply evaporate the second they're in weapon range. Maybe it's a balance issue, but it seems like something broke. I can't imagine that upgrade is intended to be that strong. We played @Jip 's King of the Hill mod, and it's insta-win if you use this upgrade and walk to the middle. lol.

3. Seraphim ACU (ESL0001).... the tac missile/overcharge upgrade branch seems to have two bugs in the same upgrade path;
   -- a) The tactical missile (2nd upgrade) seems to only ever need to build a missile once, after which unlimited missiles can be fired on a roughly 3 second cooldown, and there is never another 'building' progress bar, and there is no mass cost. In comparison, the UEF ACU tac missile is working properly.
   -- b) In the same tree, all three levels of upgrade are supposed to increase overcharge damage, and this is simply not happening with any of the three. I spawned a couple of GCs and turned their firing off, then compared an unupgraded ACU's OC vs a T3 ACU's upgraded OC and (with ridiculous amounts of power in storage) both overcharges do the vanilla 15000 damage.

As always, if I can do any more testing or digging for you, please ask. We play BlackOps each week and love having it kept up to date.

I always thought Aeon planes exploding in green fire was a bit much, but it was a small price to pay to get the oil slicks after a massive naval battle... god those added so much to ocean combat.

Perfect. Thanks Jip!

I don't generally play Aeon, but I tried it last Friday and the spoilsports i played with shut me down before I could build one.

It's a whole new Friday though. Lets do this.

@Uveso - can you (or someone else) explain what effect the 'DesiredShooterCap' fixes have on gameplay?

@Uveso Seems every time I @ you I owe you more and more thanks for your work!

We've had to have a gentleman's agreement not to build any of the Dreadnoughts for so long, and it was glorious last night being able to bring back the Seraphim dreadnought in a naval map. Welcome back, and thanks again.

I should add this only affects the two UEF units I listed. The Seraphim and Cybran BlackOps Dreadnoughts can be hit with torpedoes as normal.

@ZBC if you have the knowledge and time to fix a few of these outstanding bugs, as the main ringleader of a group that plays BlackOps every week, you have my sincere gratitude.

The big bug that is bothering us right now is that something has broken with torpedos vs a couple of BlackOps UEF units:

The two we've found are:

BES 0402 - UEF Dreadnought
EEB 0402 - UEF Philadelphia Stellar Generator (when built on water, obv.)

As you can see in the attached pic, torpedos from all manner of naval ships do not seem to hit either of these units, and just circle around. VERY rarely, a torpedo will land, but we're talking 8 minutes of heavy concentrated fire to finally take down the dreadnought.

I'm not sure which patch may have broken it, but it will be one of the more recent ones. This was not a problem in late 2023/early 2024.

Also food for thought -- There are other UEF BlackOps boats that are NOT affected (EES0302 - Knox Escort boat) and neither is the other BlackOps water-buildable structure (BEB5205 T3 advanced Air Staging).

@rowey Oh yeah I wouldn't touch the BlackOps mods themselves but couldn't you have an additional 'patch/balance' mod that also runs just to fix the problem if it's something in the blueprint? Or is that also no bueno?

I'm asking as someone who has just enough knowledge of how these files work to be dangerous. lol.

Just a bump a month later to see if anyone knows if this is something that can be fixed.. If Uveso is not active, even if you can give me an idea if there is something that can be added to the BlackOps blueprints.. We already play with a balance patch for BlackOps Teleports that I cobbled together by changing values, I'm sure I could add the fix to that patch if I knew what to add.

Sorry. I'm an ADHD monkey with absolute zero brain for programming.

@Blackrobe Odd. We play all 3 BlackOps mods on and I was manually overcharging last night no problem. Possible it's a conflict with something else?

I think you may be right about the cloaking though.

I should have also added, the Cybran and Seraphim BlackOps Dreadnought experimentals (and the BlackOps rework of the Aeon Tempest) all take torpedo fire normally (which is to say they have some torpedo defense but get easily overwhelmed with heavy fire, whereas the UEF Dreadnought has no torp defense.)

Hello friends!

We've been back playing Blackops after some time, and while it appears the last few patches have been kind to it, we have found one thing that has broken at some point -- Torpedoes do not seem to be hitting several UEF oceanic BlackOps-only units.

The two we've found are:

BES 0402 - UEF Dreadnought
EEB 0402 - UEF Philadelphia Stellar Generator (when built on water, obv.)

As you can see in the attach, torpedos from all manner of naval ships do not seem to hit either of these units, and just circle around. VERY rarely, a torpedo will land, but we're talking 8 minutes of heavy concentrated fire to finally take down the dreadnought.

I'm not sure which patch may have broken it, but it will be one of the more recent ones. This was not a problem the last time we were actively playing BlackOps.

Also food for thought -- The other UEF BlackOps boats are not affected (EES0302 - Knox Escort boat) and neither is the other BlackOps wter-buildable structure (BEB5205 T3 advanced Air Staging).

Thanks in advance, as always.
@Uveso, @Jip

FWIW, our playgroup digs this change. It's SO good being able to maneuver a couple of Atlantises while they continue to work on building planes. Big thumbs up to whomever we can credit with the idea.

Nice! Before the recent bug, we found it was causing desyncs too, but it didn't sound like an active project, so thanks for looking into it.

Some of the effects were pretty intense, but this mod is worth it alone for the oil slicks after a huge naval battle.

@jip Will definitely test it out. Thanks as always to you and @Uveso for getting on this stuff!

Here is the log from the Survival Map + BlackOps that crashed. The crash happened about ~30+ minutes into the game, at around 21:30 timestamp I think. That's when there's a bunch of info in the ICE log.

71dcd911-09ce-4fe8-9885-4aa8ee0f0801-game_20611540.log
0b06e82a-a16a-4e20-a9a9-8d1bb2308fe6-advanced-ice-adapter.log

(these are the logs you want, right @Jip? I am assuming advanced ICE log is part of having the debug mode turned on)

Note a post currently below this one saying they had the same crash/freeze in a campaign map with BlackOps on.

So an update on what we've found:

This is definitely BlackOps related, but it started recently, and I don't believe BlackOps has been updated in a while so maybe it's something in the main game has changed that broke BlackOps?

Phantom-X is not the only mod that locks us in this loop. We recently played a survival map (Survival 5thdimension 16 player v5) and experienced the same freeze.

Both cases, the freeze only happens with BlackOps on. If we play Phantom-X or the Survival map in Vanilla, no freeze.

Both cases, the freeze happens when people are well into T3/experimental production, though we haven't been able to identify any one unit or action that may have been the reason for the freeze.