Build 77337-pte now up

http://steamcommunity.com/app/233250/discussions/0/620703493326258583/#c620703493333769776

such tease. 3 new units? What type?

EDIT:
ah right that is for the steam people who only play stable, so 3 new units:
- submarine t1
- submarine t2
- t2 fighter

@tvinita I've not checked why this happens, but as can be seen in this screenshot I think the narwahl still deals aoe damage via torpedos. The submarines do not.
Intended?

Gah.

Tom, do you want the game to be exclusively about having more T2 air than your opponent? If not...

That might not be intended, but I think I might actually like it.

@stuart98 the t2 fighter sucks compared to the t1 fighter. So if you sit on a planet and just spam t1 air an equal opponent with t2 fighters won't be able to do much with them. As it stands I am doubtful the t2 fighter will be very useful, apart from situations where you have a massive advantage and just need to break the last planet of some player who tries to protect himself by spamming air.

That makes the narwahle a very powerful submarine killer though.

Narwhal torpedo is destroyer/destroyer_tool_torpedo, which references destroyer/destroyer_torpedo_ammo, which has AoE splash. Durp.

That's a bug. We'll get it fixed in the next build. Sorry about that!

I think it was added to stop people from just using nothing but bombers to lock down a planet. The unit itself may never be used, but it does at least force people to lock down a planet with some fighters mixed in too.

The following are still not fixed in PTE 77272:

• broken auto refresh checkbox in server_browser.js (data-bind: checked is a value update not a function call)
  
• planets missing and always show as not selected in server_browser.js (get rid of the second ! in if (!gameData.system || !_.isEmpty(gameData.system) line 413)
• random planet generator is missing in new_game.js
• refresh of UI when host downloads server mod in new_game.js
• starting planets html is still missing from server_browser.html (#detail-pane-wrapper .planet-biome)

The new anchor model and effects are awesome.

The laser that shoots ground only visually halfway gets there though, and as you can see, the projectile hit explosion for the anti-orbital weapon is a bit crazy.

Oh about the starting orbital improvements: I like the idea of making orbital actually interesting, but we really really really need an improvement of the UI, as I explained here:
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...ent-my-humble-suggestions.65844/#post-1031565
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/suggestion-to-improve-orbital-view.64534/

What's wrong? That's exactly how it is with T1. Moving it to T2 changes nothing but perspective.

the t2 fighter will definitevely need some tweaking that is why we are testing it with the pte .. so lets calm our nipples ...

my personal opinion it should not fire trackable missiles but lasers it should have a chance to miss for its transorbital capabilities, no aoe aswell ...

Notes:

The T2 fighter is super Op.

Holy crap.

I dropped ten of them and won against fifty t1 fighters without losing a single t2 fighter. wut.
Went into a bigger match, and we used T2 air to wipe the enemy from the airspace, even after they had a massive lead in air superiority.

It makes scouting on other planets really simple. I don't like it personally. i think the ability to project your airpower across a solar system is completely overpowered, no matter how it is balanced. It takes emphasis off using orbital to actually do orbital things.

The Orca is actually better now. Yay! Mixed unit compositions are now a thing.

The new Anchor is cool. It looks like it might be more useful metal for metal, but for the space it takes up in orbit, it really needs a buff against orbital units. More testing is needed, however. The current ground-shoot animation is nearly invisible from the ground.

Cheaper T2 Sub? More spam!

The leviathan is still super OP because of it's range.

Grenadiers are still completely worthless. Their range is crap, their damage is bad, and they are one shot by tanks.

A t2 fighter costs as much as 4 t1 fighters. It has 1,75 more health, 1.2x the range, is 10 slower, and has ... oh actually do I understand correctly it has 4x the dps of the t1 fighter because it has a 4x higher fire rate? I missed that, if that is the case I guess it's quite powerful. Might need to scale back that dps. If it is just plain better than the t1 fighter that would be bad.

Mered, they annihilate dox and their DPS is only slightly worse than ants but they cost 33% less. Their range is slightly longer. If they were two-shot by ants they'd be borderline OP.

at first glance, the idea behind the pheonix seem to have been to counter people who defended their planet surface with bomber/ gunship swarms. granted, one could have just sent in spinners with a unit cannon, but they would die just as quickly.

are they effective? Yes. TOO effevtive at the moment. but again, that is why this is PTE. we test it. send feedback, and they tweak. i, for one, welcome this new change. because while yes, it's air that goes between planets, its only a fighter. it cannot destroy buildings, and it certainly can't do jack **** against ground forces. start defending with Turrets people. this thing was engineered to discourage air-only defenses.

I think the main issue with grenadiers is the horrible range. A low range artillery unit just makes no sense.

that is exagaration the fighter is purely aa ... ssx is antiground avangers are antiorbital, anchors can shoot down fighters with them being unable to shoot back ... the only real issue would be scouting ... however flak and ground aa would deal with the fighters with them not able to shoot back aswell ....

How am i suposed to buy them new teleporters for crazy rush strats?