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Release 7 balance changes

Started by Madin, Aug 11 2015 12:10 AM

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Posted 11 August 2015 - 12:10 AM

Scrin balance changes

General

Reverted Ion storm weapon category back to neutral. The targeting of vehicles was too aggressive.
Shard upgrade price $3500 (was $3000), research time 75s (was 60s).
Blue shard upgrade price $3000 (was $2000), research time 60s (was 45s).
Disintegrator weapon range increased to 170 (was 100), squad range finder increased to 100 (was 55). Kane's Wrath change.
Devourer Tiberium beam damage 800 (was 750). Normalised with Tripod tiberium beam.
Plasma disc upgrade cost increased to $1500 (was $1000). Kane's Wrath change, research time increased to 45s (was 30s).
Corrupter healing strength reduced by 50%. Hexapod related.

Scrin Harvester

Ion storm death now requires an upgrade. Upgrade available at Nerve centre. The Ion storm made early harassment of the Scrin harvester too difficult.

Scrin Ship

Scrin ship large destruction debris will cause damage upon hitting the ground, and additional damage for a few seconds after. This is designed to introduce a downside to Scrin ship users who either use the Scrin ship defensively (typically at the perimeter of their base above a Storm column), or who use it to siege protected by a number of ground units.
This is neutral because if a player is aggressive, then the debris damage will probably assist the Scrin player by doing extra damage to the enemy!

Nod balance changes

General

Vertigo warhead damage increased to 3750 (was 3000). The Vertigo was massively overshadowed by the Banshee. This change now means that 2 Vertigos can destroy a small group of harvesters, as well as their increased building damaging strength.
Nod Commando suppression time decreased to 0.5s (was 1.5s). Less downtime after C4 usage.
Nod Saboteur booby trap cost reduced to $100 (was $200). A Kane's Wrath change.

Flame tank

Damage to 'CANNON' reduced to 150% (was 200%). A Kane's Wrath change, numbers is percentage of damage taken.

SSM

SSM will now explode and do damage to nearby units when destroyed. The explosion and damage type matches the current warhead, which means that if it is a Heroic SSM, it will die with a tactical nuclear explosion!
This is designed to minimise the impact of SSMs camping behind base defences, especially if they manage to reach 'HEROIC' rank.

Banshee

Health reduced to 2625 (was 3000). Now matches Warhawk.
Weapon damage to 'STRUCTURE' reduced to 75% (was 100%). The Banshees in even small groups did far too much damage to base defences and other structures. This meant that massing Banshees was a reliable alternative to building artillery make a break through on a well defended enemy base.

GDI balance changes

General

Power plant cost decreased to $700 (was $800), time to build 7s (was 8s). A Kane's Wrath change.
Power plant upgrade now provides 20 units of power (was 10). A Kane's Wrath change.
Sniper no longer un-stealths when spotting a target for a Juggernaut. A Kane's Wrath change.

Hover MLRS

Clip reload time decreased to 4s (was 5s). Slightly less painful reload time.
Damage reduced to 600 (was 750). To make up for the reduced reload time.
Damage scalar vs 'AIRCRAFT' to 125% (was 100%). So the damage vs aircraft remains the same as in release 6.

Mammoth Tank

Mammoth rockets can now miss Commando class units. Was too effective vs Commandos.
Mammoth rocket damage vs 'STRUCTURE' reduced to 75% (was 100%). Was too effective vs buildings, which meant that there was less reason to bring other anti-structural units.
Mammoth heal delay reverted to 0.3s (was 0.2s).
Delay before Mammoth will start healing increased to 1s (was 0.5s).
Mammoth can now heal while attacking. When it came to the auto heal, 'ATTACKING' included a vehicle that was given an attack command, and was en route to the target. So if the Mammoth was one end of a map, and the target was another, the Mammoth tank previously would not self heal, because it was 'ATTACKING'.
So I have simply reverted the speed it heals at back to release 5 values, and allowed the Mammoth to heal while attacking, but still not while taking damage.

Disruptor

Crystal crush beam will now only do extra damage to Tripods and devourers that have tiberium ammo. It will no longer do extra damage based on the units having the Conversion reserve upgrade.

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