Fanart, can't wait to watch the tournament.

Every Cybran T3 air unit has stealth, even free stealth in the case of the spy plane. The Soul Ripper is the most lackluster air experimental that doesn't really do anything interesting. I've never seen a cool play with a bug, unlike a CZAR or an Ahwassa ctrl+k. Giving it stealth, for free or at a constant energy cost, would give it more of a niche without really buffing it all that much. Thoughts?

@hendrix

Race science and shitty balance takes, this post has it all.

The Scathis, Mavor, and Salvation are pretty unique but they all need to have very long range to be useable at all (due to their buildtime, cost, and low hp).

Asking to make a game ender arty short range for faction diversity is like asking for one faction to have slower ASF. It will make the unit useless.

T1 land doesn't need any more new units. Save your effort for T1 naval.

Cybran T3 Engineers can build Salems on land like tiny experimentals

@fiercelv

Yes, I made the artwork for Javi I'm recently part of the FAF news team

Aeon quite simply adds more complexity to any ladder match. Both the Aeon player and their opponent have to use more of the systems of the game to stay competitive. The Aeon player has to use radar and intel effectively. The opponent is pressured to participate more in the air game because bombers are one of Aurora's counters. The Aeon player almost always has to use his commander in combat to fill the gaps in Aeon army composition or during tech transition, so they have to multitask more. The opponent has to remember to keep their commander safe from a mercy snipe that could strike at any minute, etc.

More complexity means more opportunity for fun when you succeed, but more salt when you fail.

Veterancy costs very little to compute and it’s an important game mechanic that rewards skill. Don’t change it.

Tech 1 PT boats for all factions that are cheap, low hp, maneuverable and fast. The LABs of the sea. They have high alpha strike with their torpedoes but lengthy reload. Torpedo defense will make them much less effective. Microed well they can counter frigates but are countered themselves by subs, who have torpedoes that can lock onto them.

I'm pretty sure Cybran not being able to have tech and gun at the same time is very much an intentional design decision and would really affect balance.

Also I like having gun and laser on different arms that way I can have more range on telemaser snipes.

@ftxcommando

But t1 maa aren’t the optimal counter to mercies, t1 interceptors or t2 flak are

@thewheelie said in Mercy simple suggestion: reduce damage vs ACU:

and what if the RARE scenario occurs when twice the buildrange of your acu happens to be inside an enemy army?

That’s why we make interceptors kids

@ftxcommando

I would say the distance you need to park them is around twice the build range of the ACU, it's not really that far. Less distance if you have radar coverage.

Just like SAMs can only really protect things a ways behind them from T3 bombers, you need to put T1 MAA in front of your commander, not next to it. And T1 MAA is the weakest AA, a handful of inties or one flak (which should be in play by that stage of the game) just delete Mercies

@valki said in Mercy simple suggestion: reduce damage vs ACU:

Personally I feel dirty when I kill an ACU with it

Why? It dies if you sneeze on it and it's expensive. If it gets scouted, it's totally over. Your opponent deserved to die for not scouting.

@valki
Corsair rarely does its full damage on a single unit thats not a building, plus it's super easy to dodge most of the rockets with your acu. Mercy is far superior for ACU snipes.

Also the Mercy is fine as it is and doesn't need a rework. It's not a great unit overall, sniping people with it is fun.

Cybran T3 Engineers can build Salems on land like tiny experimentals

@ftxcommando

I feel like TA based macro RTS is supposed to embrace a UI that allows the player to do as much as possible in terms of simultaneous unit control. Additionally, I feel like factory attack move is almost always the optimal play when possible, and if not, normal attack move. You almost never see manual rock reclaim past the very earliest stages of the game.

Things like dragging an area to build mexes in, line move orders, etc. are sorely missed coming from games like PA, BAR, and Zero-K. My understanding is the only reasons FAF lacks those things are technical reasons. The only thing FAF has that these other games don't is being able to drag and drop already placed orders, which is admittedly useful.

Lol "air".

@tsirkitna

But the Aeon nuke launch animation is just plain worse with no upside, and all factions nukes are the same in cost, damage, range, buildrate etc. (Except Cybran has EMP on its nuke which is useless)