Balanced Annihilation V6.31

[Pxtl]

Beamlasers have an engine-hardcoded 30% overshoot >_>. So HLTs can reach 806 range via FPS/radar targeting/missing, although they will only target at 620.

No, this was actually targetted. The "defense ranges" widget was showing a range, and I had radar dots, but my vlaunches were showing less range.

[Forboding Angel]

Would it be too much to ask that the comm be given 5k/5k of storage (not starting resources mind you, just storage ability). Or even 2.5k/2.5k would do the trick nicely.

O also, minintensity=1; in your laser weapon fbi's. Use it. Did anyone happen to notice that a gheytor are max range does about 47 damage per sec. Flash at max range dishes out a full 116 per sec.

[KDR_11k]

O also, minintensity=1; in your laser weapon fbi's. Use it. Did anyone happen to notice that a gheytor are max range does about 47 damage per sec. Flash at max range dishes out a full 116 per sec.

Doesn't make sense for BA, it's balanced for the existing behaviour.

[ginekolog]

O also, minintensity=1; in your laser weapon fbi's. Use it. Did anyone happen to notice that a gheytor are max range does about 47 damage per sec. Flash at max range dishes out a full 116 per sec.

Interesting, i did not notice that. Is this the same for all beam weapons(beamlaser=1;)? What is the formula.. 50% of power at max range?

Btw just changig that would be horrible for balance...

[Evil4Zerggin]

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float intensity = std::max(minIntensity, 1-(curLength)/(actualRange*2));

By default, damage decreases linearly to 50% at max range, then stays at 50%.

[[Krogoth86]]

Interesting, i did not notice that. Is this the same for all beam weapons(beamlaser=1;)? What is the formula.. 50% of power at max range?

Yup - it's like that for all beam weapons. That's why I asked for this being fixed for at least some things like the Annihilator back then. It isn't just crap because of the stats is has but gets even more sucky by just dealing half the damage at max range and because of the huge range and reload time you just lose hell of a damage potential...

Fixing this also doesn't necessarily break the balance like completely as you can see in Maximum Annihilation. There beam weapons always do the full damage and after playing around a bit I kept lots of stats at their original BA value as it had the nice effect of making defenses (well in BA mainly at T1) a bit stronger rendering things like flash spam less effective while supporting the use of artillery and such - don't know if Noize & Co like that for their mod, I did...

[Forboding Angel]

Crap, peet deleted one post too many.

Actually it would help flash gheytor balance in particular quite a bit if they were minintensity=1; the damage lowered from the insane values that they are now.

LLT's would benefit from this as well.

Cans and Sumos (and to a lesser extent Gimps) suffer from this debilitation as well.

In a game like BA it is painfully noticeable if you are familiar with the way spring works.

Oh fark, he deleted my entire outline post (the one post too many bit) explaining how this behavior affects the game. Fark.

Comm storage would make the game a bit easier on newbies, even something super small like 1.25k/1.25k or 1.5k/1.5k would do the trick nicely. It raises the ceiling just enough.

[Gota]

I dont think making it easier for noobs isa good thing.
Were alking just easy to play not easy to understand.No reason to do that.
Anyway there are alot of noob traps in ba that ill give you.

[Pxtl]

Raping n00bs is so ingraned in BA gameplay that it would take a complete inversion of the people in charge to change it. I hate to admit it, but GOTA's right, in a perverse sort of way - making a decision to make BA more n00b friendly (that is, removing strategies that are just stupid pitfalls for newbs but are otherwise nuisances or utterly forgettable for experienced players) would be a long and complicated road for BA.

[Gota]

It would bring it to an already existing mod.

By the way,giving the commander more storage is not one of those noobtraps hence should not be added.
just adding If someone misinterpreted what i wrote.

[Forboding Angel]

Comm storage was just a suggestion, no biggie there.

Gheytor vs flash is a GLARING problem though. It is not balanced, it is nowhere even close. It is utterly broken.

[LordMatt]

1v1 FA (Arm) vs Sleksa (Core) @ comet. It's the only way to settle it.

[Forboding Angel]

Then a 1 vs 1 in evo?

Seriously though, the numbers don't lie. You can massage a migraine as much as you want, it's still a migraine. Actually, hell why not. Screens incoming...

[Forboding Angel]

Numbers don't lie:









The gheytor damage at max range is actually less than I thought. It's 44 not 47.

The weapon that the gheytor uses:

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[GATOR_LASERX]
{
   name=Laser;
   rendertype=0;
   lineofsight=1;
   turret=1;
   range=230;
   reloadtime=0.77;
   weaponvelocity=1000;
   areaofeffect=8;
   soundtrigger=1;
   energypershot=0;
   tolerance=10000;
   soundstart=lasrlit3;
   soundhit=lasrhit2;
   firestarter=50;
   beamlaser=1;
   thickness=2.5;
   corethickness=0.175;
   laserflaresize=6;
   targetmoveerror=0.15;
   beamtime=0.1;
   rgbcolor=1 0 0;
   explosiongenerator=custom:FLASH1red;
   impulsefactor=0.123;
   impulseboost=0.123;
   cratermult=0;
   craterboost=0;
   noselfdamage=1;
   [DAMAGE]
   {
      default=75;
      VTRANS=12;
      L1FIGHTERS=9;
      L2FIGHTERS=9;
      L1BOMBERS=9;
      L2BOMBERS=9;
      GUNSHIPS=9;
      HGUNSHIPS=9;
      VRADAR=9;
      VTOL=9;
      L1SUBS=5;
      L2SUBS=5;
      L3SUBS=5;
   }
}

Any questions?

Here's a thought. Put the gayto laser at 44 damage with a minintensity of 1 and give it's barrel a faster turn rate. That way while the flash would still win in a toe to toe fight at max ranges, gaytors wouldn't fail in close combat.

Also, but that flash is inside the gaytors max range a bit ad at total absolute max range the gaytor does 35 damage, but tbh you would never be able to micro a group of them THAT well because the range is roughly equivalent to a little less than a 2x2 footprint.

This should work nicely:

Before

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AimPrimary(heading, pitch)
{
	signal SIG_AIM;
	set-signal-mask SIG_AIM;
	turn turret to y-axis heading speed <175.000000>;
	wait-for-turn turret around y-axis;
	start-script RestoreAfterDelay();
	return (1);
}

After

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AimPrimary(heading, pitch)
{
	signal SIG_AIM;
	set-signal-mask SIG_AIM;
	turn turret to y-axis heading speed <250.000000>; // or maybe even 300 for posterity's sake
	wait-for-turn turret around y-axis;
	start-script RestoreAfterDelay();
	return (1);
}

There, I have pointed out a problem while providing a solution that should preserve the status quo and make gaytors much less frustrating to use.

[Sleksa]

Gheytor vs flash is a ~Glaring~ problem though. It is not balanced, it is nowhere even close. It is utterly broken.

I wonder why you are the only one whining about it here when other players, like Day, NOiZE, me, and everyone else have had very few problems regarding the gator/flash balance.

Then a 1 vs 1 in evo?

Your mod has nothing to do with this ~Glaring problem~ you brought up

[Forboding Angel]

You know what? Listen to sleksa. His profound words of blathery astound even the most astute mathematician ...

I wonder why none of you and precious few of your playerbase play core as a mainstay (and how many of those core players are very successful)?

OH wait... That's too easy.

Me I really don't care what happens here. But this balance is so bad that even ChrisT himself would be ashamed.

Numbers don't lie sleksa. 1 + 1 does equal 2, no matter how badly you want people to think that it equals 3.

[Hoi]

I play core. I win.

[Forboding Angel]

Hoi Wins Thread.

/thread

[Hoi]

seriously, core owns arm's gay stealth/emp

[Forboding Angel]

I said /thread damnit

*stabs thread repeatedly*