Internal Playtest – Early Stages of the Combat Rebalance – 6/5

http://www.twitch.tv/uber_garat/b/535745711

• This build is testing some balance changes and bug fixes.
• Bomb bots work now and “are awesome”
• Bomb bots have noooo vision. I’m guessing 10. But they’re faster now.
• Bomb bots only seem to reliably work with area attack commands.
• Bumblebees now drop multiple bombs instead of one bomb.
• Some “big” pathfinding changes are coming really soon.
• This is some early balance changes to the upcoming combat changes.
• The AI has been improved. Particularly, it builds larger armies.
• This build won’t be released to the live build soon.
• Some of it should be coming to the PTE real soon.
• Some big server stability and performance improvements coming.
• They’re starting to focus more on “polish” features and wrapping up big feature implementation.
• The Vanguard is now very different. It essentially fires an Uber canon now.
• It looked like the range of the triple barrel tower had been increased? It could have been my imagination though.
• The AI will no longer use the Astraeus to place units in unpathable areas.
• The nuke explosions are real cool, with how the explosion damage spreads out rather than insta damage.
• We’ll probably get a push to PTE soon.
• Garat said he’ll be trying to do streaming more often again.

Bye bye trees. It was fun while it lasted, but now your time has come.

Interesting. I guess I mis heard Garat.

Thanks for the correction.

Vanguard + Uber Cannon = Half a Commander + Uber Cannon = Lieutenant Commander with option to SPAM.

o.0

Without losing the game on loss.

http://www.twitch.tv/uber_garat/c/4406244

Is this the correct link ?

Yupp.

WHERE ARE THE STINGERS?

EDIT: Also orange best colour, confirmed.

The BumbleBees took them back. They die without them, see.

Multi threading, now i like the sound of that the only thing not listen in the OP post. but the most important imo.

And he is running the game on AMD 5870, thats a pretty old card, and looks to run pretty good 20-30 fps. Looks very promising.

http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/video_lookup.php?gpu=Radeon HD 5870

Please tell me the T2 bombers are at least now the new single missile bomber, as otherwise we'd have two carpet bombing bombers and it'd be boring. =/

I didn't see Hornets being used. Can't answer that.

The Bumblebees didn't drop very many bombs though.

Do the bombs do the same ammount of damage? Was this to stop commander bomb sniping?

Adv bombers launch tactical missiles.

id be ok with it being the other way around.

Two missile dropping bombers? Meh, I like the idea of having a carpet bomber with low damage big aoe for taking out mobs, and a single missile bomber for taking out high class targets... or do you mean T1 single and T2 carpet as it was in the past? I agree if so.

yes. Like it was.

also, makes it easier to use properly. T2 bomber, fragile, strong snipe though, also useful for vanguard killing. T1 bomber, cheap and strong enough and can lower the health of an army at least a good half in a sacrifice, possibly kill just the bots too.

Nice playtest. I really like the new bomb-bots.

Can you stop writing the date like this? It's sometimes hard to say if it's month/day or day/month. Write the month's name next time, please.

I always use the exact same format everytime. And sometimes I run out of characters in the title. I'll try and remember to use the month name if I have the characters.