PTE build 79270-pte now up

I think you missed the point here. On larger planets, you need to either 1) expand and tech for bigger and better units/weapons or 2) spam lots of T1 and hope it gets there before the enemy can build enough stuff to counter. This isn't particularly true in the current meta - most people just unit spam till the cows come home anyway. But it's certainly possible.

Regarding dox, they were changed to encourage dedicated proxy bases and expansion play. Instead of spam to attack, spam to defend, spam4lyfe, we have the opportunity to establish perimeter production bases to both harass and attack the enemy before the dox get there. Essentially, both sides get the opportunity to *set up* their territory for a little bit longer than the stable build. It isn't much, but it's something.

They were really well balanced before. Sad panda. Back to tanks for now.

Instead of buffing Dox back again with something else, nerf Ants DPS plz?

I am a fan of this, as it makes the commander more powerful.

Nerf the mainstay of most people's armies? I see no way in which that could lead to huge knock on effects.

These are both good points.

Just want to test the waters here - should the commander (and other early game HVTs, such as factories) be made more difficult to kill by the basic army fillers? Dox, ants, grenadiers, etc.

That way you either use a specialized T1 unit to kill the comm (Booms, inferno drop/bumrush, grenadier ice cream surprise) or jump to T2 where most units wipe the commander with ease.

This could make holding expansions via proxy bases a more valuable prospect, because you might need the eco to get T2 for the commander kill.

I was in this game today and when i builded like 12 bot facs and set a waypoint to the map (all same waypoint). Some faqs didn't listen to the command. Also 1 faq just ignored everything and the bots went into a straight line all around the globe passing through any material (lava rocks etc.)

I saved my game so i can reload. I wanted to make screenshots with steam but that didn't worked

It has nothing to do with l2p. With speed of 20 dox will take a time X to reach your natural expansion on a given planet. With speed 17 dox you will have more time than X to setup your expansion, specifically I think X * 20/17

Anti nuke dosent work in this build.
Also had a server crash, when playing local game. "lost connection to server"

Like this.


Once grenadiers are buffed, it makes your investment in bot factories more valuable because you may build three good attacking units - so reducing some abilities from units from the t1 bot factory (dox, boom) and increasing ability for granadiers seems to be a good decision.

I assume The orange circle is The area The Anti nuke cover.

It is, but the nuke lands outside of that orange circle.

Hmm this is a very small moon The nuke hits And The orange circle i see is much lager and covers allmost half The moon, unless The Anti nuke got nurfed big time, this must be A bug

Interesting, you can see three lines "orange" , "red" and "green".
Green ist the visibility. Orange is the Anti-Nuk-Range (as Uber say), but what is when red?

Is this a loaded game, or just regular?

@tvinita why does the anti-nuke have a radar ring? is that really needed?

I recall antinuke only having orange and red rings...

OP updated:

Build 78783-pte - 2/27/15
Bugfix/Polish:
- Fix for economy storage being reset on load
- Fix for animation issues on paused factories on load
- Fix for fog of war units losing state on load
- Fix for Surrender not working
- Fix for deleting commander not working
- Fix for sim crash
- Fix for crash in AntiWeapon code (should fix that anti-nuke not firing issue)
- AI unit cap is now adjustable via the ai_config file

Found a bug which i posted in the other thread but i'm moving it over here with screenshots:

The player vision does not change when the game finishes and chrono cam is engaged. This was present when the save/load PTE was released.


It also does not work the other way around. Looks like it only happens immediately after a match ends.