They need something else other than vehicular heat though... It's hard to understand how it overheats that easily in the first place... Then again, it's a mod and not a fully developed game. Maybe remove heat, but include something else that can stall vehicles... EMP cannons anyone? But with all ideas suggested, they also need to be balanced, so different armors can have different resistance levels to EMPs. Rather than a vehicle being shut down completely, they should be able to fire, just not able to move forward (automobiles can turn after being shut down in motion).
Or we could just lower the heat generated/raise heat limit so it isnt so rediculous. I understand the balance vs realism thing, IRL a tank can fire all of its shells without shutting down and locking up (because heat only affects the weapon's barrel, causing to to deform and whatnot, and is in no way related to the engine/drive system), but its an easy way to make tanks less unstoppable. Play ArmA 2 and try fighting an enemy tank formation, nowhere near as easy as it is in empires (its almost imposssible actually, though there are exceptions).
Heat is to prevent you from spamming you're weapons at the max firing rate all the time. If you removed it you would have to balance by some other major nerf (damage, firing rate, etc) which I think would suck worse. IMO overheating should prevent weapons from firing, but not stop you from moving. That's the most annoying thing about being overheated.
if you overheat because you just spammed shots you deserve it ... if you overheat because you get hit by nukes it sucks ...
The only 2 weapons that should overheat other players are plasma and plasma mg, anything else should not overheat the vehicle unless if the vehicle is firing the weapon.
heat is going to be completely overhauled for the next version so yea... we wont remove it completely, but basically we will make it so that if you are completely overheated, you will never be longer then a second or 2 out of the action
its in the dev forum, i dont think i am allowed to show you stuff like that but i guess if you ask someone with a better understanding of protocol concerning things like the one you ask its possible he could share
You already broke the secret by mentioning there was a secret. Once that happens, you're supposed to give full details and pretend that it was an intentional leak. But now that you've said that you weren't supposed to, you're just making yourself look bad. :p (You could also have said that you'd be derailing the thread since we'd just debate that idea and not the topic, but then the entire point of mentioning it was essentially to kill the discussion by saying that there's no point in discussing because it's all going to be overhauled anyway.) At least this is good practice for if you ever come under an NDA. The best way to keep a secret is to just not speak. (Most NDAs these days don't even allow you to say you're under NDA anyway.) Also, details. Naow.
i know i can talk vaguely about it, i amjust unsure if i can litterally copy paste things from there to here i probably wont be doing anything wrong, but i dont want to do anything bad ether i dont really understand half of your mindflow, and tbh its not a spectacular peice of info...
