[I was unable to access my old account for the past few months, and after all that time trying, I just made a new account so I could continue updating] OLD VERSION - https://forums.planetaryannihilation.com/threads/wip-server-dreadnought-balance-mod.73524/ BIG THANKS to -Ferretmaster for helping me on the more technical updates, -Bot for Blender shenanigans -Cola_Colin for making the Rescaler mod to change the size of some units. -Second Wave Author Anon for allowing me to use the Legion Lynx in my mod -Faction modifications (IE Legion, Bug, Assimilation, other future WIP factions) and their accompanying accreditation [See in folder for specific author notes, additions will be added when applicable]) GITHUB https://github.com/dreadnought101/com.pa.dreadnought.dreadnought_balance_mod Mission Statement: The goal of this mod is to make each unit and building have viability in competitive 1v1. Further than that, it is insured each unit will have layers of depth and complexity to them and move away from hard-counters into a more soft-counter focus where strategy and control wins you the game! There are some more extreme changes for testing and theory crafting, which may not be apart of the final ideal state of this balance mod. These are the balance changes to units for testing and theory crafting, specific details on forums or in notepad info but the basics are... -Major changes to Anti-Air: Revamped stinger to long range, high damage, yet low fire-rate AA. All AA no longer targets Icarus automatically, but have been given a slight increase in AOE for compensation. -Scouts have radar stealth -Cost decreases to T2 factories, fabbers, and defenses -Significant changes to Vehicle/Bot T1 units: Stryker/dox buffs to be more balanced against eachother on many different maps. Ant buffs. Grenadier and Drifter nerfs but still maintain their anti-T2 component. -Naval adjustments: Orcas fire low damage, high aoe torpedos. Narwhals are weaker but cheaper, and also have long range, low damage torpedos. -Reimagined Orbital economy: Jigs have their energy production/storage removed. Solar arrays are now an expensive, high energy output/storage unit. -Lob firing temporary units as a defensive structure instead of a dox factory. (Currently Typhoon squalls, but will move to something more unique) -Orbital Units are faster, have higher range -Missiles from Catapults/Bluehawks/Stingrays are faster (Hornets slower) KNOWN ISSUES Grenadier torpedos sometimes firing in a random direction when coming in range of a naval unit CONSIDERING (some ideas that may or not be implemented) -Lob revamp -Horsefly buffs and nerfs -Icarus revamp to have seperate air and ground weapons, -Omega extra anti-ground component - Jig explosion only affects buildings, Ares ground pound only affects buildings -Spark projectile always explodes -Hummingbird nerfs, Pheonix cleave changes (Under the hood dev stuff) -Added combat tags to Icarus, Angel, Firefly, Skitter and removed combat tag from combat fabbers due to associated client mods not working with this server mod.
FULL BASE CHANGES (Changes from current base game) [Updated as of patch 1.62] ~Commander [TLDR: Increased Move speed, Uber Cannons hit harder, Torpedos less damage against commanders specifically] -Increased move speed from 6 to 8 -Increase Commander AA AOE from 0.75 to 1.5 -No longer auto targets icarus -increased uber cannon damage against structures from 25% to 72% (Roughly 500 damage a shot. Commander vs commander 0.25 is unchanged) -decreased commander Torpedo weapon vs commanders from 100% to 50% (Note: Allows commander walking to be more common and push out on the map. I also want to put wall damage to 150% but WIP.) (Note2: The torpedo change increases commander kill time for sea based engagements, due to it being significantly higher than land engagements that are around 204 dps including uber cannons, while sea based engagements are at 400 dps) ~Firefly (T1 Air Scout) -Added Radar Stealth -Metal cost increased 60 to 90 (Note: Same as Skitter Note 1) ~Skitter (T1 Vehicle Scout) -Added Radar Stealth -Move speed 25 to 35 -Metal cost 75 to 55 -Health 10 to 15 (Note 1: Rewards lone positioning and scouting in mid to late game) (Note 2 The movespeed buff allows skitters when built before the first fabs to reach the enemy base on small, and some medium maps before an air scout and icarus can be built and makes a ground only opener struggle. ~the health increase is to tank a shot from dox or strykers [they fire 2, so its only for partial hits], ~the metal cost is to bring it below the firefly, and between dox and stryker. ~Overall buffs to skitters are generally risk free due to the utility, non-combat nature of this unit and I want to reward positioning and scouting after the early game.) ~Stryker (T1 Vehicle) -Health decreased 60 to 50 -Damage decreased 15x2 to 13x2 -Movement Speed Increased 17 to 21 -Weapon Muzzle Velocity Decreased 140 to 135 (Dev Idea: Gives them more dart in-dart out mechanics, changes up the gameplay between them and dox and against other units) ~Ant (T1 Vehicle) -Vision radius increased 100 to 130 -Weapon firerate increased 0.55 to 0.525 (1 shot every 2 seconds to 1.9 seconds, 42 to 44 dps) (Dev Idea: Matches spark vision and better supports high range+low vision units) (Dev Idea: Ants a long time ago had a turn rate of 90. I intend to do 105, but want to see how this old, more predictive type of micro handles in the modern era. At the moment I believe ants are too responsive and reactive for the lumbering tank persona, and in gameplay terms they are good at kiting backwards quickly and I want to see if this helps fast units+projectiles catch out ants better) ~Drifter (T1 Vehicle) -Metal cost increased 225 to 235 -HP reduced 250 to 225 -Damage increased 120 to 160 -Range increased 110 to 115 -Increased idle aim delay from 3 to 5 -Decreased firerate from 2.5 to 3.2 (Fires once every 3.2 seconds) -Bullet velocity decreased 150 to 140 -Vision range reduced 100 to 90 (Dev Idea: Mostly designed around ants to survive 3 shots from drifters. HP reduced to give grenediers slightly more power against Drifters, and maintains the 2 shot kill of drifter vs drifter action. Overall goal is to make them less able to operate alone, and be more reliant on support units) ~Spinner (T1 Vehicle) -health reduced 160 to 130 -Speed increased from 10 to 13 -Increased Splash Radius from 0.75 to 1.5 (Dev Comment: General AA speed increases to help with non-air oponer viability with health, damage, vision nerfs as compensation. The AOE aspect is for anti-icarus) ~Dox (T1 Bot) -Weapon Muzzle Velocity Increased 130 to 135 -Speed Increased 20 to 21 Dev Note: Muzzle velocity to match strykers, speed to add late game flanking potential, am concerned about early game rush distances though ~Grenadier (T1 Bot) [TLDR: They get torpedos, are more expensive and bigger, small aoe and fires 4 projectiles, hit harder] -Metal cost increased 100 to 150 -HP increased 80 to 120 -Vision range reduced 100 to 90 -Model size increased by 30% ~Main Weapon - -Firerate decreased 2.00 to 4.20 seconds - -dps increased from roughly 40 to 57 - -Firing Deviation 0 to 1.5 - -Fires 4 shots instead of 2 a volley - -Damage increased 40x2 to 60x4 - -Splash damage increased 30x2 to 24x4 - -Full damage splash radius reduced 2 to 0.75 - -Partial damage splash radius reduced 5 to 2.0 -Torpedo Weapon added (Attacks water units, excluding hover units) - -Damage 50 - -Firerate 0.5 (Fires 1 shot every 2 seconds) - -Range 160 - -Land speed Velocity 70 - - Water speed Velocity 40 (Dev Idea: Makes Grenadiers less spammy in both unit amounts and how often they fire, and make their shots matter more against large or static units, and less powerful against small, fast units) ~Spark (T1 assault bot) -Vision increased 120 to 130 -Projectile lifetime decreased 1.0 to 0.55 (Dev Idea: Allows sparks to have some use later in the game with a small edge in utility) ~Stinger (T1 AA Bot) [TLDR: Makes it a stronger, long range, high damage yet low firerate AA] -HP 130 to 115 -Metal Cost 120 to 140 -Move Speed 16 to 13 -Vision 100 to 90 -Range 90 to 180 -Damage 30 damage to 95 -Rate of Fire 1.0 reduced to 0.33 (1 shot every 1 second to every 3 seconds) -Added splash damage with radius of 1.5 and 35 damage -DPS 30 dps to 32 -Bullet lifetime increase 1.0 to 1.1 -Model size increased by 50% -Stinger selection icon Increased from 10 to 12) (Dev Idea: Alternate approach to anti-air with higher range and more upfront damage but lower dps overall.) ~Hummingbird (T1 Air Fighter) -reduced damage from 80 to 75. -Increased health 120 to 150 (Dev Idea: Allows for easier partial heals from damage for both fireflies and Pheonix and reduces Fireflies impact slightly on heavy health T2 Air and Titan. May change to 70 which will have more significant ramifications for air fights. Update: Base game reduced from 150 to 120, rejected change as it felt it made an already fragile air problematic) ~Icarus (T1 Solar Gunship) [Split Laser beam into two separate weapons, removed targetting from AA sources such as spinners and galata] -Metal Cost increased 125 to 130 -Movement Speed Decreased 50 to 45 -Break 30 to 20 -Ground Damage decreased from 25 to 20 -Aggressive range 60 to 70 -Air Damage unchanged [25] -Air gun range increased 70 to 150 -Air gun fires 1 every 3 seconds -Air gun also has its own energy bar/drain rate of 100e/s but without 'banking' -Added Guardlayer + All to improve Icarus performance -Removed Icarus from AA targetting (Dev Note: Gives MLA a new option with Air to Air engagements, especially against Legion. Allows Icarus skill play to work around enemey AA, and vice-versa) ~Pelican (Transport) -HP reduced 150 to 100 -Increase metal cost 140 to 155 -Transport Pickup range increased 10 to 30 -Movespeed increased 70 to 75 -Acceleration increased 30 to 100 -Break increased 60 to 100 -Turn rate increased 180 to 270 (Still takes 2 shots from air, but increases Time to Kill for ground AA as well as improve its functionality for skilled play) ~Piranha (T1 Naval) -range increased 105 to 110 -metal cost increased 150 to 160 -damage increased 20 to 24 (Dev Idea: Piranhas with torpedo changes lock down shorelines even against defense structures and grenediar/drifter retakes, this will reduce that power but increase their early game presence in naval engagements and raiding, metal increase is to slightly slow down overwhelming an opponent Update: Patch decreased ) ~Narwhal (T1 Naval) [TLDR: Narwhals get cost reduction and nerfs, making them more spammable and better to afford early game] -Health reduced 750 to 525 -Metal cost decreased 450 to 350 -AA Weapon firerate 3.0/s to 2.4/s -AA Weapon damage decerased 25 to 20 -AA Weapon AOE radius increased from 0.75 to 1.5 -Torpedo Weapon damage decreased 250 to 150 (Dev Idea: Allows for air to play better around Narwhals but doesn't punish players for building narwhals early and getting caught out by early naval aggression) ~Orca (T1 Naval) -Increases turn_accel from 15 to 60 (Some tests to improve Naval navigation) -Added torpedo component -100 damage -AOE radius 25 -140 range -Firerate 0.2 (1 every 5 seconds) (Dev Idea: Allows Orcas to hit Barracudas, but only trades in large numbers) ~Locust (T2 Bot) -Deleted from the game ...kidding. -build cost increased 260 metal to 250 -health decreased 80 to 70 -Increase attack range 30 to 35 -Increase vision 40 to 45 -given 75 radius radar (Dev Note: Adjusted for factory changes weakening the unit incidentally. Radar allows locusts to operate more on their own with imperfect information.) ~Slammer (T2 Bot) -Torpedos no longer target Hover and Water_Hover targets -Increased speed 14 to 15 ~Gille (T2 Bot) -Range increased 180 to 200 (Range was reduced in a recent patch, but makes it more difficult to utilize fragile, ranged units in most skill brackets) ~Bluehawk (T2 Bot) -Missile Velocity 80 to 100 -Range increased 200 to 220 ~Colonel (T2 Bot) -build arm range 30->35 -Changed armor type of AT_Commander to Bot ~Leveler (T2 Vehicle) -Increased idle aim delay from 3 to 5 -Decreased damaged from 300x2 to 225x2 -Decreased partial AOE radius from 3 to 2 (full damage AOE 1 radius unchanged) -Increased Range from 120 to 130 (Dev Comment: I may prefer 250x2 so that ants+drifters will still get 1 shot even if partially hit, but I want to see a lowering of leveler damage overall as their dps is insane against high health targets, but still maintain that they can 1 shot many T1s, and easily kill slammers and other soft T2. I don't like that their AOE makes them good at handling groups as well and want to reduce it slightly) ~Storm (T2 Vehicle) -range increased 100 to 120 -damage decreased 4x15 to 4x10 -Splash decreased 10 to 7 -velocity increased 100 to 120 -lifetime increased 15 to 18 (Dev Idea: takes 3 shots to kill bombers instead of 2, but increase range for more coverage and utility for larger armies present in later stages of game) ~Vanguard (T2 Vehicle) -Metal cost increased 1500 to 1600 -Increased range 50 to 55 -Decreased damage from 1000 to 1250 (Including splash) -Decreased fire rate from 1.0 to 0.75 (Fires 1 shot every 1 second, instead of 1 shot every 2 seconds) -Decreased bullet velocity 100 to 80 -Decreased turret rotation speed [Yaw_rate] 360 to 120] (2x faster than drifter, 4x faster than leveler) -Radar increased 260 to 300 -Jamming removed (Dev Idea: Makes it so Vanguards have a better role on the frontlines of an army, but also makes them less devestating if they are inside an enemy base as well as remove jamming and give them a little more of a defined radar role in ranged warfare) ~Pheonix (T2 Air Fighter) [TLDR: Longer range, fires 4 individual shots instead of 1] -health decreased 240 to 225 -range increased 120 to 150 -damage decreased 150 to 50x4 -Split Pheonix weapon from 2 firing points to 4, and added seperate sockets so each fires individually rather than in succession. -Firerate decreased from 0.33 to 1.0 x4 (each weapon gets their own firing timer now) -missile speed increased 150 to 250 -Bullet lifetime 2.0 to 1.5 -range increased 120 to 150 (Dev Notes: I want to differentiate the T2 fighter more from its T1 counterpart and give it cleave, as the T2 fighter feels like a direct upgrade upgrade without its own quirks unlike most other T1 to T2 versions) ~Kestral (T2 Gunship) -Increased health 250 to 300 -Range increased 60 to 80 -Damage reduced 20 to 15 (Dev Note: This is an older version from before a patch in the base game. I prefer this over the new one as the range makes kestrals feel better, as well as prefer more consistency instead of snowballing) ~Hornet (T2 Air bomber) -health reduced 500 to 250 -move speed increased 30 to 40 -metal cost 3200 to 1500 -fire rate reduced in half from 0.4 to 0.25 -range increase 190 to 200 -Missile velocity decreased 160 to 100 -Missile lifetime reduced 15 to 8 -Bision radius increase 200 to 210 -underwater vision radius 200 to 210 -Damage reduced 1000 to 750 (Dev Idea: Gives some small buffs to ease this paper-plane into prominence Update: Major changes made hornets essentially double in strength for double the cost. This version makes for a more precise macro element on how many a player uses and lets them get into hornets more quickly, as well as not overlap the Wyrm as much. However the projectile speed is nice, so that is added in.) ~Horsefly (T2 Air strafer) -Added Anti-Air component to flak cannon [Prioritises Anti-Air ground units first] -Changed air damage modifier from 0.5 to 1.0 [Horseflies do full damage vs air] (Dev Idea: The AA component is mostly for taking out slow, wide-hitbox targets like hornets, wyrms, angels, and other horseflies. Horseflies also have potency against Zues Titans now) ~Angel (T2 Air support platform) -metal cost increased 5000 to 5200 -Speed increased 40 to 70 (Accel 30 to 50, acceleration 40 to 70) -Added interplanetary (Can move between planets) -Vertical speed decreased 100 to 50 (Add more utility to an already massive utility hog, as well as allow it to keep up and play a role in fighter v fighter engagements) -Stingray (T2 Naval) -Missile velocity increased 80 to 100 -Missile lifetime reduced 15 to 8 -Missile turn rate 0 to 45 -Missile damage increased 1000 to 1250 -Increased AA-weapon (not cruise weapon) splash radius from 0.75 to 1.5 (Dev Idea: Gives naval units an answer to the long range hornet, as well as more potent damage against wyrms and horseflies) (Dev Note: 5 to 4 shot typhoon and 6 to 5 leviathan. Does not change 4 shot omega nor 3 shot wyrm) ~ARES (Titan) [TLDR: Weakened it mostly, Ground Pound only damages structures, secondary weapons buffed however] -Health decreased 50000 to 40000 -main guns - -Primary AOE radius reduced 5 to 2 - -Partial AOE radius reduced 15 to 2 -secondary weapons - -Range increased 220 to 360 - -Firerate increased 0.7 to 1.0 a second - -Projectile speed increased 140 to 225 - -Projectile lifetime increased 3.0 to 4.5 - -(Turret pitch range increased 15 to 45 to help turret utilize full range) -ground crush (aoe around Titan) - -Does full damage to structures only [does inconsequential 2 damage to other things] (Dev Idea: Makes killing it easier, yet also gives a real use to secondary guns, ground pound only affecting structures allows melee units to counter ares)
FULL MLA BASE CHANGES STRUCTURES/FABS ~Astraeus (Orbital Transport) -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 -Pickup range increased 20 to 60 -Transport capacity increased 1 to 6 (Multi-unit transportation testing. Will not touch unit weights for now. Will try to sort out clunkiness) ~Avenger (Orbital Fighter) -100 weapon range to 135 (36%) -weapon projectile speed increased 300 to 400 -Speed/Accel 65 to 90 (brake 20 to 25) -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 (gets 3 shot by other avengers, 1 shot by everything else anti-orbital, next minimum is Omega at 65x2=130 [my version 45x2=90] and anchors at 200, Umbrella is 100) ~Hermes (Orbital Probe) -Speed 75 to 100 (brake/accel 75 to 100) -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 ~ARKYD (basic orbital radar) -Speed/break/accel 15 to 20 -Decreased health 1000 to 800 (Speed changes and general power requires a tone down in health) ~Artemis (advanced orbital railgun) -Speed 30 to 50 (brake/accel 10 to 20) -350 range to 450 ~SXX (orbital anti-ground laser) -Speed 25 to 45 (break/accel 25 to 45) ~Advanced Radar Satellite -Increased health 5000 to 5600 (No speed changes, coupled with increased orbital delay means it needs to survive longer on well defended planets) ~Omega (Advanced Orbital Battleship) [TLDR: Its laser guns can hit ground and general quality of life buffs] -Metal cost reduced 14000 to 12500 -Speed increased 15 to 25 (brake 80 to 120, acceleration 30 to 45) >Orbital Guns (4 turrets, 2 barrels each) -added ammo file (it currently uses the same file associated with the Anchor) -Decreased Laser-Weapons 65x2 to 25x2 -Decreased Laser Turret Pitch Range from 120 to 92.5 -Omega will now prioritize other orbital units first. -Laser Firerate increased 2.0 to 2.5 (fires 2.5 times a second) -Main anti-ground beam-gun can now target seafloor units. (Dev Idea: Reduces cost slightly due to increased orbital factory cost. Adds quality of life changes. Only 2 laser targets can attack a surface target at once unless directly underneath, but all 4 lasers can target in any orbital direction) ~Orbital Navigation (Increases arrival spread to a planet) -"orbital_arrival_radius": 100, to 300 -"orbital_arrival_unit_radius": 7.5, to 22.5-"planetary_arrival_cooldown_time": has been increased from 3.0 to 4.0 for most units, and 2.0 for Avenger/Hermes/Astraeus -Most units have been hemogenized to have identical movement between planets with some exceptions. >Hermes and Nuke remains extremely fast >Avenger/Astraeus have been increased to be faster than normal >Solar array has been increased to average speed >Unit Cannon has been slowed to average speed >Orbital Fab/ARKYD/Artemis/SXX/Omega/Advanced Radar/Helios/T2 Air fighter remain unchanged ~Barnacle (T1 Naval) -build range increased 65 to 95 (Dev Idea: allows it to repair more safely and consistently) ~Stitch (Combat Fab) -Increased health from 50 to 65 (Dev Idea: Lets them take 2 stray shots from grenadier and slightly bulks up the unit but is still fragile to most things directly) ~Bot Basic Fabricator -Vision increased 100 to 120 (Vision increase helps with reaction speeds against raiding forces early on) ~Vehicle Basic Fabricator -Speed increased 12 to 13 -Vision increased 100 to 120 -Increased build range 45 to 50 (Dev Note: Gives vehicle 1st openers slightly better viability. Bot speed is still 16, and metal cost 150 vs 200 for distinct differences. May increase energy drain or reduce health of vehicle fabs slightly.) Basic Air Fabricator -Health increased 25 to 80 -Vision increased 100 to 120 (Can take 2 fighter shots, hopefully this gives air openers a slightly better use case without taking over completely) ~Naval Basic Fabricator -Health increased 100 to 200 -Move speed increased 10 to 12 -Vision increased 100 to 120 -Increased build range 45 to 50 (Dev Note: The naval fab has less health than the vehicle fab at 200, despite costing more, having less speed, and more threatening enemy units, not to mention T2 naval fab has more health than T2 vehicle) (Dev Note2: Allows for faster openings to cut down on the slow nature of early naval, as well as be less punishing when killing fabs that are far away from a factory spawn point ~Naval Advanced Fabricator -Build range increased 45 to 55 -Changed deepwater to water-hover (Dev Note: This is mostly intended to be a quality of life change to help the adv ship build structures on land, as it does not have water-hover and can't get as close to shore as its basic naval fabricator counterpart) ~Advanced Fabricators [Vehicle/Bot/Air/Naval] ~Bot - Metal 1800 to 1700 - Build range 45 to 50 ~Veh - Metal 2025 to 1900 - Build range 45 to 55 ~Air - Metal 2200 to 2075 ~Nav - Metal 2400 to 2225 - Build range 45 to 55 ~Each can now build all types of Titans [Atlas/Ares/Zues] (Dev Idea: Quality of life change, most players just relied on orbital fabs to build the desired titan) (Dev Note: Metal cost reduced rougly 10% across the board, more favoring naval, slightly less favoring bot) ~Solar Array (Advanced Orbital energy producer) -HP Increase 1000 to 7000 -Metal cost increased 1600 to 5000 -Energy production increased 3200/s to 11000/s -Added 100,000 energy storage (from 0) (Dev Idea: Solar-power is GREEN! and best! Basically this is the T3 energy producer, much like the Jig) ~Jig (Orbital Gas Giant Extractor) -HP increased 3000 to 6000 -Metal Cost decreased 4000 to 3750 -Removed 3,750 energy production (to 0) -Added 10,000 metal storage -Jig Explosion mainly affects buildings (units take 4 damage, structures take 4000) (Dev Idea: Refocuse orbital energy production to Solar Arrays, Jigs cover to many roles and were too strong for its value) ~Energy Storage -HP Reduced from 7500 to 5000 -Metal Cost reduced 450 to 250 -Storage increased 300,000 to 250,000 (Dev Idea: Decrease cost so its easier to build earlier on) ~Basic Metal Extractor -Vision decreased 75 to 80 (Vision used to be 100 in base game, and I just haven't bothered to change it to the new 75 variant. I do think 80 is actually the sweet spot) Advanced Metal Extractor (T2 Economy) -Health increased 3000 to 5000 -Metal production decreased 18 to 17 -Vision decreased 100 to 80 (Dev Note: I think production is slightly too strong, but at 1800 metal cost, it should have some strong health for its heavy investment) ~Galata (T1 AA structure) -Increased AA Splash Radius from 0.75 to 1.5 ~Single Laser Defense Tower (1 barrel) -Metal Cost decreased 225 to 165 -Health Decreased 400 to 325 -Range decreased 100 to 90 -Damage decreased 60 to 25 -Turret rotation increased 90 to 120 (Yaw rate) -Vision radius (+underwater vision) reduced from 130 to 110 (Dev Idea: Adds more support against dox/strykers early game but is vulnerable to stronger T1 units, now 2 shots dox like it 2 shots strykers) ~Lob (T1 Defense Structure) [turned Lob into a unit-cannon like structure with limited range, builds Vehicle fabs/Spinners/Strykers, and bot Fabbers/Boombots/Sparks/Stingers/Dox/Grenadiers] -range increased 240 to 360 -Ammo capacity 15 ~Umbrella (Anti-Orbital Gun) -Bullet Velocity increased 1000 to 1250 -Lifetime 3 to 2.4 ~Anchor (Orbital Defense) -150 orbital range increased 150 to 200 (ground variant unchanged) ~Catapult (Advanced Missile Defense) -Metal 2000 to 1750 -Health 1500 to 1000 -Missile velocity increased 80 to 100 -Missile lifetime reduced 15 to 8 -Firerate 0.4 to 0.2857 (Fires once every 3.5 seconds instead of 2.5) (Helps discourage constant catapult spam, but also allows for more strategic positions to be built with a metal cost reduction, and perhaps a vehicle push counter strategy) ~Advanced Laser Defense Tower (T2 Defense Structure - triple barrel) -Metal cost reduced 900 to 875 -Health increased 4000 to 3500 -Range increased 120 to 135 -Damage decreased 250 to 200 -Fire-rate decreased 5.0 to 3.5 (Dev Idea: I feel this turret obsoletes other turrets with its fire-rate, and would prefer it hurt higher health targets, while mass attacks favors a comprehensive turret line) ~Flak Cannon (T2 AA) -HP reduced 2000 to 1700 -Metal cost reduced 900 to 750 -Range increased 120 to 150 (Dev Idea: General T2 defense buffs) ~Advanced Torpedo Launcher (T2) -metal cost reduced 1000 to 950 -range increased 210 to 300 -Rate of fire decreased 2.0 to 1.5/s -torpedo lifetime increased 5 to 7 -Vision radius increased from 210 to 260 -Underwater vision radius increased 200 to 260 -Radar radius increased 210 to 310 -Sonar radius increased 210 to 310 (Dev Idea: General T2 defense buffs) ~Advanced Radar (T2) -Added 100 radius jamming (Dev Comment: Allows T2 radar to have a unique impact compared to spamming T1 Radar or having orbital radar. Also increases decision making in placement and can give consideration to building more than 1-2 of these in a game) ~Orbital Launcher (T1) -Cost increased 600 to 1000 (Dev Note: Reduce Boosting) ~Orbital Factory -Cost reduced 6000 to 4000 -Metal Buildrate increased 60 to 72 -Energy demand increased 2000 to 2400 -Factory cooldown increased 4 to 6 (Dev Note: The reduction is quite high, but still accounts for 1000 launcher, and 1300 orbital fab, and the units themselves are mostly cost-prohibitive to get early. I'm hesitant to reduce it all the way to 3600 though Dev Note 2: Reduce Boosting) ~T2 factories. (Vehicle/Bot/Air/Naval) -All Advanced Factory costs reduced from 4800 to 4400 Adv Bot Factory -Metal Build Rate increased 45 to 60 Energy draw per second 1500 to 1800 30 energy per metal Roll off timer increased 3 seconds to 5 Adv Vehicle Factory Metal build rate (60) unchanged Energy 2025 to 1800 30 E/M Roll off time - 4 to 6.5 Adv Air Factory Metal 45 to 60 Energy 1500 to 1800 30 E/M Roll off time - 2 to 5 Adv Naval Factory Metal 60 to 72 Energy 1750 to 2015 28 E/M Roll off time - 6 to 9 (Dev Note: I'm looking to have factories work better on their own without having to rely heavily on boosting, but not remove that mechanic entirely. I want to give players a reason to build multiple T2 factories, at least on medium and large maps) ~Unit Cannon (T2 Launcher Factory) -Metal cost increased 6800 to 7200 -HP increased 18000 to 40000 -Added Drifters, Infernos (Dev Idea: -Increased HP to be more in line with advanced factory HP for such a significant metal investment. Allows it to survive 1 nuke in orbital games) (Dev Note: -Testing filling out a roster for unit cannon, will look at the addition of storms and especially infernos closely) ~Anti-nuke launcher -Decreased building cost from 12000 to 5000 -Increased anti-missile cost from 5000 to 9000 -Increased Build rate from 60 to 92 -Increased Energy Drain from 4000 to 6120 (roughly the same 66.7 energy per metal) (Dev Comment: Helps decrease reaction time/cost for the first missile from 17000 to 14000 but increases fully 3 equipped from 27000 to 32000. Also buildrate is increased to keep non-boosted silo build-times the same at around 80 seconds per shot) ~Nuke Launcher -Structure cost reduced 14400 to 9600 -Missile cost increased 30000 to 34000 -Metal Build Rate increased 90 to 120 -Energy draw increased 6000 to 7500 (Dev Note: Slightly reduces first shot by 400, but increases cost of follow up by 3000 as the second shot tends to nearly always finish an opponent before they can recover if the first lands. Also spiced up build rate to devalue boosting)
FULL LEGION CHANGES Commander -Move Speed 6 to 8 -Torpedo damage vs comms 50% -Uber cannon 72% against structures (25% against comms unchanged) Praetorian (Support Commander) -Cost reduced 7000 to 6500 -Build range increased 30 to 35 -Turn in place set to true -Turn speed 90 to 180 -(Health unchanged at 8000) (Interestingly Praetorian wasn't updated like the Colonel. It also shoots twice as fast for half damage, and at 110 range compared to colonel's 100 range. Added turn rate/break rate/turn in place for Quality of Life) Patriot (T1 Bot AA) -Metal cost 100 to 150 -Health 100 to 120 -Move speed 15 to 14 -Vision Radius 100 to 90 -Increased Model size by 50% -Damage 25 to 35 -Bullet Lifetime 1.0 to 1.2 -Added 1.5 splash radius -Rate of fire increased 4 to 5 -Fires 3 shots a salvo. Takes 3.6 seconds to recharge. Does not recharge while firing -Range 100 to 190 -DPS aprox 27 Purger (T1 Boombot) -HP 20 to 10 -Speed 30 to 35 -Metal 50 to 60 -Vision 50 to 85 (+85 vision in ammo utility+death) -Death Jump range 40 to 30 (Utility jump untouched) (Legion having vision on units where the other factions dont? Lets go!) Peacekeeper (T1 Bot) -Movespeed 15 to 18 -vision 105 to 100 -damage 19.5 to 18 -Projectile speed reduced 150 to 130 (Muzzle/Max Velocity) (Peacekeepers were balanced towards 18 speed dox originally, and now have to keep up with 20 speed dox, as well as whatever bugs is throwing around) Lancer (T1 Bot) -Health reduced 120 to 90 -vision 100 to 130 -166 damage to 165 (???) -Fire-rate 0.61 to 0.38 (Fires 1 every 2.63 secons - 105 dps to 63) -range increased 70 to 75 (100 dps on a 150 metal unit is insane. Making it more burst orientated. I want range higher than peacekeeper's 70 in order to maintain the combo identity and help lancers stay behind peacekeepers) Orbweaver (T2 Bot AA) -HP 400 to 300 -4x20 damage to 4x12 (20 to +12 splash) -range 140 to 110 -AOE increased 10 to 20 (These seem like giga-nerfs until you realize this unit costs 750 and is hitscan AOE. I would like to increase its AOE, but sacrifice raw punching damage) Corsair (T1 Vehicle Artillery) -Partial Splash radius reduced 10 to 5 -Full Splash radius reduced 2 to 1 Added Lynx as an anti-air armor (T1 Vehicle AA) -Health 155 -Metal Cost 170 -Speed 13 -Vision 100 Lynx Weapon fires a salvo of 2 shots near instantly, then 1 shot every 0.5 seconds -25 damage (Splash radius 1.5) -Range 110 -Velocity 200 -Ammo capacity 1 -Ammo drain per shot 0.5 -Rate of fire 4.0 (fires 4 shots a second [however ammo recharge makes the Lynx fire twice a second after initial salvo]) -Gave Lynx standard Air Targetting priorities (focuses transports, bombers, gunships first) Scythe (T1 Air Fighter) -Firing arc increased 89 to 105 -Health increased 120 to 150 [MLA 120 to 150] -damage increased 29x2 to 32x2 (Helps maintain the 3 shot ratio of Scythe against Corsair and added slight QOL in arc radius with regular Legion arc overhaul) Marauder (T1 Gunship) -Health 50 to 20 -Vision 250 to 200 -Range 60 to 50 (The fact this gunship has 100 speed with huge vision allows it to operate independently is crazy, however its 240 cost [compared to Icarus 125] is significant but this will still allow fast and attentative Legion players to pick off undefended fabs/raiding forces and hopefully not nerf it too much but keep it balanced) Bowhead (T1 Naval Battleship) -Adjusted turret positions to face directly left/right -Adjusted yaw range from 120 to 135 [turrets can turn further] Akula (T1 Naval Sub) -Firing arc increased 60 to 360 -Torpedo turn rate reduced 120 to 75 (Lifetime 4.0) (This helps Akulas be utilized as the model is difficult to view at a glance where it is pointed and if its firing. The turn rate and lifetime makes it difficult to hit things from behind) Catfish (T1 Naval Raider) -Changed from Deepwater to water-hover -Torpedo damage reduced 250 to 150 (Allows Legion to function on maps with shallows, as well as handle stoke spam that plagues Legion v Legion games. Torpedo reduction is compensation) Panzer (T2 Armor...something) -Move Speed 14 to 10 -cost 1200 to 1900 -Health 200 to 1300 -Vision 100 to 200 -Removed Weapon Ground/Sea. -Added AA. -Removed 0.5 Orbital damage modifier -range 180 to 240 -Projectile lifetime increased 5.5 to 7.5 -damage 50x6 to 75x6 -Changed Ammo type from time to energy (essentially added two 0s to capacity/demand/ammo_per_shot) -Reduced fire-rate from 1.5 to 1.0 -Ammo_capacity 6 to 2000 -Ammo_demand 1 to 200 -Ammo_per_shot 2 to 1000 -Switched Carpet modes off -Gave it air targetting priorities (it will target transports+bombers+gunships+titans, but will randomly choose between orbital and air afterwards) (Weapon works by firing 2 shots within 2 seconds, but then fires 1 shot every 5 seconds, can bank 2 shots) (I want to try a tanky single target T2 AA. I also think Armor has so many units that attack ground, and this just cluttered their roster. Its also at 1900 metal cost, much higher than any other T2 AA) Firebird (T2 Air Fighter) -Health decreased 240 to 225 [MLA 240 to 225] Comet (Demi-Titan teleporter) -Metal cost 4000 to 8000 -HP 1900 to 4000 (Delays the timing of Comets for invasions but makes them last longer when they actually arive to a planet. Interestingly, their planetary arrival cooldown is 8.0 seconds, far above the 3/4 seconds of everything else) Thor (Walker Titan) -Thor health increased 60000 to 95000 -Thor Movespeed increased 11 to 13 -Cannon range reduced 400 to 270 -Cannon damage reduced 2x600 to 2x200 (+splash) -Cannon firerate increased 3.03 to 2 seconds per shot -Cannon splash radius reduced 15 to 5 -Laser range reduced 250 to 200 -Laser damage reduced 175 to 100 (+splash 150 to 100) -Laser splash radius reduced 5 to 0.5 -Laser spread fire set to true -Missile Range increased 170 to 180 -Missile splash radius reduced 12 to 5 -Missile damage increased 100x16 to 140x16 (+splash 100 to 140) -Missile Firerate increased from 11.11 to 8.0 seconds per shot -Crush damage (Stomp) reduced 500 to 400 -Crush damage only damages buildings. -Crush damage fire rate increased 0.76 to 0.5 (fires more often (Dev Note: I want to increase Thor's ability to survive and tank on the frontline as an assault bot, and in turn reduce its damage so a singular thor cant wipe out armies but allows supporting armies to do the damage for it) Odin (Armor Titan) -Health 50000 to 45000 -Main gun damage decreased 5600 to 4900 -Main gun AOE reduced 30 to 20 (partial damage 600, full damage radius reduced 10 to 5) -Odin stomp/crush now deals full structure to buildings, and aprox 0.1% or 2-3 damage to nearby units. -Increased crush fire-rate from 1 to 2 attacks a second [Same as Ares, and now matches its dps as well] (Note 1: I enjoy the crush mechanics of the Ares and Odin. I think it should do inconsequential damage to nearby units, but be significant against structures. Note 2: I also decreased its health, but tweeked damage as compensation for Ares vs Odin matchups so that the Ares wins when using secondary guns but loses when it does not. Note 3: I decreased main damage radius and partial damage so that targetting high health targets matter more, but increased partial damage radius for now as compensation, however I may nerf it if the Odin performs too well against T2 compositions compared to Ares) -(Changed Orbital movement/spread/arrival, see orbital notes for more details) Centurion (Orbital Defense) -Orbital range 150 to 200 Chariot (transport) -Speed/brake/accel 25 to 50 -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 Spectre (Scout) -Speed/brake/accel 75 to 100 -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 Viper (Orbital fighter) -Health Reduced 100 to 80 -Speed/Accel Increased 65 to 90 (Break 20 to 25) -Decreased turn rate from 200 to 100 -Weapon Projectile speed increased 300 to 400 -Range increased 100+200 to 200+280 [Viper has 2 weapons of the same type, different range] -Increase Main weapon Yaw-Range from 75 to 90 (180 degree firing arc) [base 280 range weapon] -Increase Secondary Weapon yaw_range from 75 to 360 [base 140 range weapon] -Decreased Secondary Weapon Damage 50 to 15 -Orbital arrival delay decreased 4.0 to 2.0[Vanilla 3.0] -gravwell 10.0 to 12.0 -System_multi 30.0 to 36.0 (Gets 2 shot by avenger, 1 shot by omegas/imperators. More changes to make the matchup more dynamic as well as some quality of life changes) Sputnik (Orbital Radar) -Speed/break/accel 15 to 20 Paladin (Advanced orbital railgun) -Speed 30 to 50 (brake/accel 10 to 20) -350 range to 450 Black Knight (Orbital to ground laser) -Speed/break/accel 20 to 40 -(Interestingly, the black-knight has a dedicated cooldown time of 5.0 seconds above regular default 3.0. My default is 4.0) Imperator (Orbital battleship) -Speed 20 to 30 (brake 80 to 120, acceleration 30 to 45) [MLA Speed 15 to 25, brake/accel same] -Metal Cost 14000 to 12500 -Orbital Beam Weapons damage (3x) 65x1 damage to 45x1 -Orbital Beam Weapons Firerate decreased 1.0 to 0.75 -Orbital Beam Weapons can target ground targets (Will prioritise orbital first) -Orbital Beam Weapons pitch range increased 60 to 92.5 -Main anti-ground beam-gun can now targets seafloor units. (May increase range of the large orbital gun and figure out what its purpose is) --Structures and Fabricators Orbital Fab -Metal Cost 1300 to 1100 -Metal build rate reduced 45 to 37 -Energy draw reduced 1500 to 1250 (Helps Legion get into Starcannon tech. Build rate reduced below 38 equivelent number as compensation) Orbital Launcher -Metal cost increased 600 to 1000 Orbital Factory -Metal cost reduced 6000 to 4000 -Build rate increased 60 to 72 -Energy demand increased 2000 to 2400 -Factory cooldown increased 4 to 6 Starcannon -Remove all T2 units (Fabs+Scorpion+Orbweaver) -Remove Some T1 units (Shank, Maul) -14 Capacity to 20 -Metal Cost reduced 2400 to 650 -Health reduced 3000 to 600 -Roll-off delay reduced 4.0 to 2.0 -Ground Vision reduced 150 to 100 -Metal Build rate 45 to 18 -Energy Draw 2250 to 700 (The cheaper cost compared to the Lob's 1200 is due to orbital launchers costing 1000, and orb fabbers at 1300. I also feel starcannon power will be reduced over time so late game spamming isn't as big an issue) Rig -HP increased 3000 to 6000 -Metal Cost increased 3000 to 3750 -Removed 3750 Energy Production -Added 10,000 metal storage -(Shares Jig explosion) Basic Metal Extractor -Vision decreased 100 to 80 (Helps with raiding/snipes and extractors covering too much area to sneak things in) Advanced Mass Extractor -HP 3000 to 5000 -Metal Production 18 to 17 OmniSilo Storage -Energy Storage increased 75k to 225k ~Walker Fab (T1 Bot Fab) -Vision increased 100 to 120 Armor Fabricator (T1 Vehicle Fab) -Speed increased 11 to 12 -Increase build range 45 to 50 -Vision increased 125 to 135 (curious that it was 125 already) Flyer Fab (T1 Air Fab) -Health 85 to 160 -speed 30 to 32 (+accel/break) -Metal cost 225 to 285 -Build rate 10 to 12 -energy draw 800 to 975 -vision range 100 to 120 (Makes it more unique compared to MLA air fabs with the general concept of concept of costing more, building better) Fabrication Vessel (T1 Naval Fab) -Move Speed Increased 9 to 11 -HP increased 180 to 360 -Vision increased 100 to 120 (Dev Note: I will return to these numbers later and likely decrease health of Legion vessel) Advanced Fabrication Vessel (T2 Naval Fab) -Added Water Hover (movespeed unchanged) All Advanced Fabricators -All Advanced Fabricators can construct the Loki/Odin/Thor -Adv Walker metal 2000 to 1900 range 45 to 50 -Adv Armor metal 2250 to 2100 range 45 to 55 -Adv Flyer metal 2400 to 2250 -Adv Vessel metal 2700 to 2500 range 45 to 50 All Advanced Factories -Cost reduced 4800 to 4400 (I decided to hemogenize all factory buildrates to 60, instead of increase Legion's by a factor of 25% which would have brought it to 62.5) Adv Walker Factory -Metal Build Rate 50 to 60 -Energy Consumption 1650 to 1800 -33 energy per metal to 30 -Roll Off Time 3 to 5 Adv Armor Factory -Metal Build Rate 50 to 60 -Energy 1650 to 1800 33 to 30 E/M -Roll off time 4 to 6.5 Adv Flyer Factory -Metal Build Rate 50 to 60 -Energy 1650 to 1800 -33 to 30 E/M -Roll off time 2 to 5 Adv Ship Factory -Metal Build Rate 65 to 72 -Energy 1900 to 2015 -29.2 to 28 E/M -Roll off time 6 to 9 Overseer (T2 Radar) -Added 100 radius jamming ~Anti-nuke launcher -Decreased building cost from 15600 to 6000 -Increased anti-missile cost from 5000 to 9000 -Increased Build rate from 60 to 92 -Increased Energy Drain from 4000 to 6120 ~Nuke Launcher -Structure cost reduced 14400 to 9600 -Missile cost increased 30000 to 34000 -Metal Build Rate increased 90 to 120 -Energy draw increased 6000 to 7500
Maintenence 1.55 UPDATE Patch on Live --MLA Angel - anti_entity_targets updated to include Narwhal AA (pa/units/sea/frigate/frigate_ammo_aa.json) - anti_entity_targets updated to include Stingray AA (pa/units/sea/missile_ship/missile_ship_aa_ammo.json) Updated to live Hornet - max_health reduced from 600 to 500 Remains 250 in mod. - rate_of_fire reduced from 0.5 to 0.4 Remains 0.25 in mod. (Dev Note: See other mod balance changes) Icarus - aggressive_distance reduced from 70 to 60 Remains 70 in mod - brake increased from 20 to 30 Remains 20 in mod (Dev Note: not sure these changes are necessary and enhance quality of life, makes them require more personal micro rather than self-sufficient in acquiring targets. The brake makes them less floaty and while it makes them more responsive, makes them less unique as a drone type unit. Also modded Icarus speed IS slower) Pelican - build_metal_cost reduced from 160 to 140 (was 140 in mod already) - brake increased from 20 to 60 Updated to Live (Additionally removed all references to pelican in main notes, being a 1 to 1 in live) Advanced Laser Tower - max_range reduced from 130 to 120 (Mod 135 value unchanged) - rate_of_fire reduced from 5 to 3 shots/sec (Mod 3.5 value unchanged) - damage increased from 150 to 250 (Mod 200 value unchanged) (Dev Note: Seems to be an overcorrection of numbers, though range values must be higher in mine due to lack of range depression changes in levelers/bluehawks/gilles) Advanced Metal Extractor - observer items radius reduced from 100 to 75 for surface_and_air (Unchanged 80 Mod Value) - observer items radius reduced from 100 to 75 for underwater (Unchanged 80 Mod Value) Metal Extractor - observer items radius reduced from 100 to 75 for surface_and_air (80) - observer items radius reduced from 100 to 75 for underwater (80) Bluehawk - max_range reduced from 220 to 200 (Unchanged 220) (Dev Note: Range depression unnecessary as bluehawks/gilles are not utilized at most skill brackets, and makes bluehawks worse against omegas) Colonel - max_health increased from 6000 to 8000 (Mod value was already 8000) - target_priorities updated to: (Colonel has priorities in Mod already, but does not target EnergyProduction [Icarus]) - Mobile - Air - Air & ( EnergyProduction | Transport | Bomber | Gunship | Titan ) - Structure - Wall - Mobile & Air - Wall Gil-E - max_range reduced from 200 to 180 (Mod value unchanged at 200) - target_priorities updated to: (Added priorities to Mod) - Air & (Tactical | Heavy | MissileDefense) - Mobile - Air - Structure - Wall - Mobile & Air - Wall Grenadier - firing_standard_deviation reduced from 1.5 to 0 (Mod unchanged at 1.5) (Dev Note: Grenadiers in the mod operate very differently) Leveler - max_range reduced from 130 to 120 (Unchanged in mod 130) (Dev note: Other mod nerfs make it so this particular range is needed for the altered leveler) Locust - max_health increased from 60 to 80 (mod was 80 already) Stingray - target_priorities for the tactical missile updated to include the Angel (MissileDefense) as a top priority (Updated to Live) - Added UNITTYPE_AirDefense to unit_types Orbital (Updated to Live) Astraeus - useable range increased from 10 to 20 (Adjusted mod to Live) - move_speed increased from 25 to 50 (Already 50 in mod) - brake increased from 25 to 30 (Adjusted mod to Live) Orbital Factory - build_metal_cost reduced from 6000 to 4200 (Mod version 4000 unchanged) Advanced Radar Satellite/Pheonix/ARKYD/Artemis/Astraeus/Avenger/Nuke/Helios/Hermes/SXX/Unit Cannon/Astraeus - system_velocity_multiplier increased from 15 to 30 (Mod movement remains general 15 excluding fighter/nuke/transport exceptions) - gravwell_velocity_multiplier increased from 6 to 10 (Mod movement remains general 6 excluding fighter/nuke/transport exceptions) (Dev Note: General speed increase is unnecessary and too fast, even if equalizing orbital movement is necessary, however exceptions like nukes, transports, and fighters should have increased speed from the norm for more interesting variation and tactics) Patch 1.55b -Reduced Colonel cost from 6500 to 6000 -Changed Colonel armor type from Commander to Bot
Patch 1.56 Firefly (air scout) -metal cost increased 60 to 90 Orbital Celestial Movements between planets -Adjusted orbital speeds to match live patch (were originally slower) -Nukes/Unit cannons/fighters/legion scouts hemogenized -Astraeus/Avenger/Hermes and Legion variants Chariot/Viper/Spectre will move faster than regular orbital units >System_Velocity increased 30.0 to 36.0 >Gravwell increased 10.0 to 12.0 ~Lob (T1 Defense Structure) [turned Lob into a unit-cannon like structure with limited range, builds Vehicle fabs/Skitters/Spinners/Strykers, and bot Fabbers/Boombots/Sparks/Stingers/Dox/Grenadiers] -range increased 240 to 360 -Ammo capacity 15
Patch 1.57 ~Angel (T2 Air support platform) -metal cost increased 5000 to 5200 -Speed increased 40 to 70 (Accel 30 to 50, acceleration 40 to 70) -Added interplanetary (Can move between planets) -Vertical speed decreased 100 to 50 (Same as pheonix...I have no idea why it had vertical speed in the first place) (Add more utility to an already massive utility hog, as well as allow it to keep up and play a role in fighter v fighter engagements) ~Lob (T1 Defense Structure) -Removed boombots -Added ants (Fixed sparks being unable to be used) -range reduced 360 to 320 [vanilla 260] ~Ant (T1 Vehicle) -Increased turn speed 90 to 120 [Vanilla 120] --LEGION -Adjusted orbital movement between planets [All orbital units are as fast as MLA units, and the Chariot/Spectre/Viper equivelents are made faster alsongside Astraeus/Hermes/Avenger]
Patch 1.58 Vanguard (T2 Vehicle) -Increased metal cost 1500 to 1600 -Decreased range 60 to 55 [Vanilla 50] -Increased damage 750 to 1250 [Vanilla 1000] -Decreased firerate 1.0 to 0.75 -Decreased weapon velocity 100 to 80 -Decreased turret rotation speed [Yaw_rate] 360 to 120 (2x faster than drifter, 4x faster than leveler) (Changes to be less anti-swarm, more costly for 1st few vanguards entering the field) Slammer (T2 Bot) -Torpedos no longer target Hover and Water_Hover targets -Increased speed 14 to 15 Bot Fab -Vision increased 100 to 120 (Allows for slightly more reaction time against incoming raids in the early game) Vehicle Fab -Increase build range 45 to 50 -Vision increased 100 to 120 (Allows more stackability when assisting with fabs+vehicles, and ever so slight increase to uptime when mex expanding) Air Fab -Vision increased 100 to 120 Naval Fab -Increased build range 45 to 50 -Vision increased 100 to 120 Advanced bot Fab -Increased build range 45 to 50 Advanced Vehicle Fab -Increased build range 45 to 55 Advanced Naval Fab -Increased build range 50 to 55 [Vanilla 45] -- LEGION Walker Fab -Vision increased 100 to 120 Armor Fab -Increase build range 45 to 50 -Vision increased 125 to 135 (curious that it was 125 already) Flyer Fab -Vision increased 100 to 120 -Health 120 to 160 [Vanilla 85] -speed 35 to 32 (+accel/break) [Vanilla 30] -Metal cost 225 to 285 -Build rate 10 to 12 -energy draw 800 to 975 (Making it more unique compared to MLA fab Vessel Fab -Increased build range 45 to 50 -Vision increased 100 to 120 Advanced Walker Fab -Increased build range 45 to 50 Advanced Armor Fab -Increased build range 45 to 55 Advanced Naval Fab -Increased build range 50 to 55 [Vanilla 45]
Patch 1.59 Spinner (Vehicle AA) -Health Reduced 130 to 125 [Vanilla 160] Drifter -Metal cost reduced 235 to 230 [Vanilla 225] Astraeus (orbital Transport) -Pickup range increased 20 to 2000 -Transport capacity increased 1 to 6 (Changes the dynamic so that when a unit clicks on a transport, the transport will go to the unit, instead of the unit going to the transport) (More multi-unit transportation testing. Will not touch unit weights for now) Pelican (Transport) -HP reduced 150 to 100 -Increase metal cost 140 to 155 -Transport Pickup range increased 10 to 30 -Acceleration increased 30 to 100 -Break increased 60 to 100 -Turn rate increased 180 to 270 -Pickup range increased 20 to 2000 (Still takes 2 shots from air, but increases Time to Kill for ground AA as well as improve its functionality for skilled play) Hornet (T2 Air Bomber) -Damage reduced 1000 to 750 (Improves defensive AA structure lifetime and reduce comm snipe capabilities specifically) Advanced Metal Extractor -Metal cost reduced 1800 to 1750 Locust -Health reduced 80 to 70 (Doesn't change interactions from much else besides single laser turrets 2 shotting instead of 3 shotting) Nuke -Leaves a 10s 175 vision radius on detonation (does not show vision if taken down by anti-nuke-missile) (Showcases what destruction you wrought!) LEGION Lynx (Vehicle AA) -Health reduced 155 to 150 Patriot (Bot AA) -damage increased 35 to 45 -Recharge rate increased 3.6 seconds to 5.1 seconds Chariot (orbital Transport) -Accerelation reduced 50 to 25 -Break speed reduced 50 to 30 -Transport capacity increased 1 to 6 -Pickup range increased 20 to 2000 (Matches Astraeus handling, these two units are exact mirrors of eachother unlike most other faction equivalents) Osprey (Air Transport) -Pickup range increased 20 to 2000 -Metal cost increased 100 to 150 -Speed increased 100 to 105 -Health decreased 55 to 50 -Turn Rate increased 180 to 270 -Acceleration increased 30 to 35 -Break increased 40 to 150 (Kept the low acceleration for a different transport feel of high speed, low warmup unit, but increased turn rate/brake for unloading responsiveness and quality of life) Advanced Metal Extractor -Metal cost reduced 1800 to 1750 Nuke -Leaves a 10s 175 vision radius on detonation (does not show vision if taken down by anti-nuke-missile) (Showcases what destruction you wrought!)
Patch 1.60 Added Custom58 tags to MLA units Patch 1.61 Stryker (T1 Vehicle) -Speed increased 20 to 21 [Vanilla 17] Dox (T1 Bot) -Speed increased 20 to 21 Slammer (T2 Bot) -Speed increased 14 to 15
Patch 1.62 Single Laser Turret -health decreased 350 to 325 -damage decreased 35 to 25 -turret rotation increased 90 to 120 (Yaw rate) (Still 2 shots strykers and dox, increased rotation for more effectiveness against those units as well as boombots+locusts, health+damage nerf against ants+sparks) Locust -Increase attack range 30 to 35 -Increase vision 40 to 45 -Added radar vision 75 (Adjusted true vision to ensure a player can see the destruction wrought by their locust attacks. Added radar to allow a player imperfect vision to work with, though combod with other units still is important) Omega -Laser turret damage decreased 90 to 50 [Vanilla 130 or 65x2] -Laser turret firerate increased 1.5 to 2.5 [Vanilla 2.0] (Reworked the omega to be more devestating against avengers while its DPS overall is relatively the same) Avenger -Health reduced 90 to 50 (The 90 health test made it too snowbally against other players with less avengers in the early game, and the 50 variant serves to help improve omegas) Transports -Adjusted all Air/Orbital transports [Pelican/Osprey/Astraeus/Chariot] transporter range from 2000 to 4084 [old vanilla 20, new vanilla 4084] (More just under the hood dev stuff) Legion -Implemented all Legion changes from Patch 1.29.0 excluding Jeagers (Still cannot travel through teleporters due to the MLA/Bug equivelent Kaijus unable to do so as well) -Added a fix to MLA mine detecting units to also detect deployed infiltrators [Stitches/Mends/Skitters/Barnacles] (There is also currently an issue where Legion shields will not block MLA units, but that requires modifying a hundred MLA units' ammo files which boggles my mind, perhaps I'll fix that later) Viper (T1 Orbital Fighter) -Decreased secondary (close range) weapon damage 40 to 15 (Combos with Avenger changes, will watch matchup closely on long range+short range engagement outcomes)
Patch 1.63 #### MLA Commander -Torpedo AT damage against commanders increased 50% to %75 [Vanilla 100%] -Build Range increased from 30 to 45 [Vanilla 30 to 45] -Metal Amount reduced 25000 to 15000 (Dev: Metal amount helps heal the commander HP back to full) Locust (T2 bot) -radar reduced 75 to 70 [Vanilla: no radar] Angel (T2 Air Support Platform) -Decreased health 1700 to 1400 [Vanilla 2000] -Speed reduced 70 to 60 (Brake/accel not adjusted) [Vanilla 40] -Decreased metal cost 5250 to 5150 [Vanilla 5000 to 4000] -Missile Interception Range increased 160 to 200 (Dev: Broad health buff for this utility unit for surviving planetary incursions, and slightly better offsets its metal to health ratio) Manhattan (T2 vehicle) -Health 16000 to 10500 [Vanilla 15000] -Metal Cost reduced 8000 to 7250 -Damage reduced from 33000 to 18000 -Manhatten now leaves a 10 second visual on death -Move Speed increased 10 to 15 -Acceleration Rate increased 70 to 110 -Breaking Rate increased 70 to 110 -Turn Speed increased 60 to 95 (turn+accel 30 to 50) -Other units being able to push Manhatten removed [Added Amphibious-Large to navigation] Unit Cannon -Cost reduced 7200 to 6000 [Vanilla 6800 to 5600] -HP reduced 40000 to 32000 [Vanilla 18000] -Rolloff/Cooldown timer reduced 3 to 2 seconds [Vanilla 3.0 to 2.0] -Removed Inferno from build list [Skitter/Drifter not in Vanilla roster] -Increased Pod Capacity 12 to 20 [Vanilla 12 to 16] -Pod Speed increased 150 to 200 [Vanilla 150 to 250] -Stingray/Umbrella/Catapult anti-pod missiles speed increased 200 to 400 (Bluehawk anti-pod component removed entirely) Vanguard (T2 vehicle) -Added 100 energy drain to power radar [Vanilla 0 to 150] -Added Unittype Radar (Dev Note: Had a 90% energy requirement already) Stingray (T2 naval) -Added 90% energy effeciency requirement to power radar [Vannilla adjusted] -Added 200 energy drain to power radar [Vanilla 0 to 150] -Radar range increased 350 to 375 Colonel (T2 bot commander) -Build range 35 to 45 [Vanilla 30 to 45] -Weapon range increased 100 to 115 Hermes (T1 orbital scout) -90% energy requirement removed (Dev Note: Did not drain energy to begin with, only used true vision, no radar) Firely (T1 air scout) -Metal 90 to 115 [Vanilla 60] -Health 25 to 80 (Dev Note: Soaks 2 fighter shots, 3 spinner+galata shots) Skitter (T1 vehicle scout) -Metal Cost 55 to 65 [Vanilla 45] -Move Speed 35 to 36 [Vanilla 25] -Added Attack order command -Added 150 Observe range to prevent skitter from running into enemy units during attack move [Vanilla 100] (Dev note: Quality of life change to prevent skitters from running into enemies so easily, Higher range than slammers/levelers and T1 units but lower than the longer range T2 units) Barnacle (T1 naval combat fab) -Build range 90 to 80 [Vanille 65] -Speed 12 to 14 [Vanilla 12 to 14] -Can now auto-reclaim (This mechanic can apply while unit is moving) [Vanilla auto-reclaim component added] Stitch (T1 bot combat fab) -Can now auto reclaim (Trying out auto reclaim with basic combat fabs. All advanced combat fabs have this mechanic already) Kaiju (T2 naval hover ship) -Can now use teleporter Leveler (T2 Vehicle) -Partial AOE damage radius 2 [Vanilla 3 to removed entirely] Spark (T1 bot) -Projectile Lifetime maintained 0.55 [vanilla 1.0 to 0.5] Bluehawk -Live version target priorities added (Shameful display of low skill but oh well) Energy Storage -Health unchanged 5000 [Vanilla 7500 to 3500] Metal Storage -Health unchanged 7500 [Vanilla 7500 to 3500] Slammer -Torpedo turn rate increased 120 to 150 [Vanilla 120 to 150] -Includes various torpedo QoL improvements from Vanilla Kestral -Health 300 unchanged [Vanilla 250 to 300] (Ya but modded variation has reduced damage, live is increased damage, less range...odd) #### LEGION Commander -metal cost 25000 to 15000 (makes repairing lost health easier) -Inherents other torpedo fixes/changes in base game's patch notes and 0.75% anti-commander rating from mod Support Commander -Build range increased 35 to 45 [Vanilla 30 to 45] -Weapon Range increased 115 to 125 [Vanilla 110]
Patch 1.64 Unit Cannon -Adjusted Pod Capacity from 1 to 100 (fixes bug with scaling up size of units for the transport system, does not affect actual gameplay) Pelican (Air transport) -Weight Capacity 1 to 5 -HP 100 to 225 [Vanilla 150] -Metal Cost 155 to 215 [Vanilla 140] -Turn Rate increased 180 to 270 -Added load range 15 -Added chase range 5 -Usable range 30 to 4084 (Matches Vanilla bug fix) (Can now essentially transport naval t1 fabs/Pirhannas/Barnacles and more of T1/T2 ground units, see weights for more details) Astraeus (Orbital Transport) -Weight Capacity 1 to 6 -Added load range 50 -Added chase range 20 -pickup range 60 to 4048 (Matches Vanilla bug fix) (Can now essentially transport naval Pirhannas/Barnacles/orcas/narwhals alongside pirhannas as well as T2 air fabs+Kestrels as well as carry more T1/T2 ground units, see weights for more details) Weight for 1 - Dox/Stryker/Skitter 2 - *Grenadier/Ant/Boombot 3 - *Slammer/Gille/Bluehawk 4 - *T1 Bot/Vehicle/Air Fab/Locust/Drifter/Spinner/Stinger 5 - *T1 Naval/Barnacle/Spark/Combat Fab/Leveler/Sheller/Storm/Pirhana 8 - *Inferno/T2 Bot Fab/T2 Combat Fab/T2 Vehicle Fab/Vangaurd (General ideas are that it doesn't change units much that are already strong like inferno+spark+vangaurd, but increases others that are weaker though fabs and AA are a higher weight class due to potential. Will keep an eye on boombots as well) Orbital Launcher -Rolloff timer decreased 3 to 2 seconds (Allows more spam of avengers, especially when offsetting its increased cost and building size) T1 Naval Fab -Turn rate increased 90 to 120 (Makes them a tad more manueverable and survivable) Single Laser Defense Tower (T1 Turret) -Turret Rotation increased 120 to 135 [Vanilla 90] Stryker -Reduced Speed 21 to 20 [Vanilla 17] Dox -Reduced Speed 21 to 20 [Vanilla 20] Piranha -Metal Cost increased 160 to 165 [Vanilla 150] Typhoon -Squal drone laser air/ground weapon damage reduced 50 to 40 >Splash radius 0.75 and 20 damage component removed
