Spring RTS Engine

shasla5 wrote:In regards to the poll, at least make the US and probably Britain seperate countries. The rest could easily be lumped into one.

you're joking right?

Well my idea was to have factions of NATO and Mospact composed of a small number of countries.

UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy (all the main EU powers really) and then US, Canada and Mexico for the other side, they would essentially be allies in most games but in a FFA or 2 VS 2 they could play against each other.

so lumping countries in one side would be what we would be seeing.

Otherwise there would be major ballance problems.

Another problem we'd be bound to run into is Mospact, There are VERY Little Chinese units made for Mospact as of right now and we would need to make alot of new units just for the Chinese side, many Eastern Bloc countries use Russian equipment anyway...

OK, couple of things I just notice while playing a test game.

The MOSPACT Pucara (sp?) won't attack and there's this wierd decal attached to the MOSPACT heavy gun emplacement.

Also the MOSPACT commanders gun outranges the AT position it can build enabeling it to push back defensive lines on it's own. That and it's massive health ment I was able to use it to wipe out a base.
It would sit back and destroy the gun emplacements and then the infantry could swarm in.

Hmmm, the Mospact ATGM pillbox indeed does have less range.

Commanders can be very powerful in base sieges (but is highly frowned upon, since it's commander rushing) but when facing another commander, the rushing commander will be at a disadvantage and take more damage than the defending commander, the Rushing commander would surely meet it's doom.

Ok..., I guess I'm spolied by the AA style comm where you can't comm rush any more.

Either way is there any quick fix for the Pucara?

Oh and helicopters still seem a tad overpowered. They're fine vs infantray and tanks, maybe a bit too hard vs anti-air emplacements and definately still too hard vs aircraft.

But that's just my opinion

GrOuNd_ZeRo wrote:Well my idea was to have factions of NATO and Mospact composed of a small number of countries.

and then US, Canada and Mexico for the other side, they would essentially be allies in most games but in a FFA or 2 VS 2 they could play against each other.

so lumping countries in one side would be what we would be seeing.

Otherwise there would be major ballance problems.

Another problem we'd be bound to run into is Mospact, There are VERY Little Chinese units made for Mospact as of right now and we would need to make alot of new units just for the Chinese side, many Eastern Bloc countries use Russian equipment anyway...

You should add France for nato.

France and Italy is also planned

I like the FAMAS, Leclerc and the Rafale :D

Gunships still overpowered? I cut down their firepower by atleast 50% and most of them can't fire at air targets at all! except for the Cobra.

And Yes, they ARE capable of carrying AIM-9L's.

oo rah

GZ at least they aren't arguing about how all helicopters look alike.

Ran into that on another forum i patrol and man is it annoying...

anyway, good to see there is some work on this mod as i have always liked it.

Oh and make the Firebase buildable!!

Last time I checked the firebases were buggy i'll test them some more.

Yeah I have some more motivation to work on it now, I really don't want the 5+ years I worked on it to be handed over to someone else, it became part of my life

if someone has the time, can they add in a bonus pack, like the X-planes one, which includes nukes (missiles, like IBCM size, and slow) and tac nuke bombers....

Will be useful for my screenshot/movie making hobby....

I've noticed a few things I'd like to adress, namely the anti-tank weaponry, the commander's gun for example (and other tank guns) will have much longer reload times, it will be closer to 10 seconds rather than 2 like in OTA, Artillery will be nerved further as well and will be closer to 20 seconds reload time per shot, MLRS' will probably get a longer time to reload their salvo's.

I have noticed it's too easy to protect your base with the commander only, most infantry are taken out since there are long LOS ranges.

Infantry like Grenadiers and ATGM soldiers will be affected to with the reload time nerving...

This way the emphasis will be on gunfighting, tanks would rely more on their heavy machineguns and infantry more on their rifles, I might even give the Anti-Tank/Anti-Air infantry a pistol or sub-machinegun to defend them selves with against infantry

I will also look further into gunship abuse.

BlackLiger wrote:if someone has the time, can they add in a bonus pack, like the X-planes one, which includes nukes (missiles, like IBCM size, and slow) and tac nuke bombers....

Will be useful for my screenshot/movie making hobby....

All your ideas sound good, GZ, I'd like to see em... would make my screenies more interesting also.

http://s15.invisionfree.com/Cyber_Natio ... opic=14238 latest BBC news report. Live images of the NPO LUE battlefield (seriously, BBC news, bringing you things that go BOOM!) YAY for using WD and Spring for this sorta stuff.

LOL that's pretty good what AI (if any) were you using?

Some bad news on the WD development front, I lost all my recent progress so I regressed to the latest version I updated, fortunatly I decided to release when I did otherwise I would have lost a LOT of progress. (I blame 7Zip for this, buggy shite...)

I am slowly working on changing everything back, fortunatly my explosions file was salvagable (which I forgot to tell ya about).

WD infantry will now explode in a nice spray of blood, artillery will create shockwaves/light up the ground etc.

GrOuNd_ZeRo wrote: WD infantry will now explode in a nice spray of blood, artillery will create shockwaves/light up the ground etc.

Blood!!
Everybody likes blood =)

To bad the tanks won´t spray blood on death

Make em splay blood out of the entrance port

GrOuNd_ZeRo wrote:LOL that's pretty good what AI (if any) were you using?

Some bad news on the WD development front, I lost all my recent progress so I regressed to the latest version I updated, fortunatly I decided to release when I did otherwise I would have lost a LOT of progress. (I blame 7Zip for this, buggy shite...)

I am slowly working on changing everything back, fortunatly my explosions file was salvagable (which I forgot to tell ya about).

WD infantry will now explode in a nice spray of blood, artillery will create shockwaves/light up the ground etc.

None. Using .cheat and .team 0,1,2,3,4 :)

Swapping betwen the teams. 3 Mospact vs 2 NATO, specificly set up defences....

I am quite pleased with the new explosions and such and will probably be releasing a revised version soon.

Almost all anti-tank weapons now have a reload of around 8-10 seconds depending on what type of weapon it is (I.E. Autoloader gun, AT Missile) and they have about a 50% damage increase to compensate.

I am still working out some of the kinks and will be releasing a new version hopefully soon.

I expect to release updates more reguarally now since I regained my motivation.

AT weapons need to do less damage to infantry really.... they get wiped out too fast to be useful...

That shouldn't be a problem at all anymore, I decreased the area of effect considderably and it no longer blows infantry all over the place.