RC 18 Patch - Sitting Around the House Edition

That would be good idea. That way when you start to lose, you won't waste so much resources of your team when you start to lose masses of LT tanks to enemy fire.

 

I guess you could have a research option availble ONCE you've researched HE cannons (for example) which reduces the heat of standard cannons (perhaps a better chemical mix which generates a lot less heat when it explodes). You would have once again good yet cheap weaponry for the LT's, but in order to have it you had to research HE cannons. Since a lot of people like HE they will choose them over the standard cannons, which are however available shouldn't you have enough money to buy mediums/heavies with HE weapons.

Maybe it could affect some other weapons as well.

The option of making LT's cheaper is good as well, but i do have one problem with it. LT's would be all over the place, and although the standard cannons are now less lethal, their chainguns would kill every empires player that isn't in a tank in a few seconds.

 

that's what I pictured: the "micro HE", "micro railgun" and "micro plasma" would only be a tiny tiny bit better than the standard cannon is now- possibly not even as good as the old standard, but they would be one slot upgraded cannons. that would work really nice.

 

I believe FalconX is doing something about that now. :D

 

Oh that would be sweet.

 

It happened to me today: MDump

 

I can't tell much from your dump, but I can tell you it's not the same crash.

 

It's a chaingun. CHAINGUN. It SHOULD fuck up infantry.

 

If the NF team has any decent amount of money CURRENTLY, then it can "armourise" it's entire team with LT's, which on open maps like dust storm or isle, is absolutely deadly. it feels as though the entire enemy team has researched exoskeletons, because they just zoom up and blow whatever tis being built away... lone grenadiers just get blown away on flat ground... it's a deadly combination.

 

Exoskeletons, eh? I smell a new suggestion thread!

 

Maybe BE could counter with some sort of armoured vehicle, maybe something like an armoured fighting vehicle?

 

naw that's crazy talk

 

AFV = armoured fighting vehicle, but you already knew that, didn't you?

 

Agreed. You would be dead even earlier with less heat for standard cannon. It's simple infantry is made to kill another infantry or attack tanks when hidden behind wall or any kind of defense.

And what's wrong with equipping whole team with LTs? We equipped whole team yesterday with AP MG APCs and they died like paper tanks (we had reflective and coolant). If NF can equip everyone with LT then BE can equip everyone with AFV.

 

Because i like to play as infantry. It's stupid to add prone, ironsights and new weapon models to a game and then decide "hey let's change the gameplay so that everyone drives around in a tank". So much effort has been put into infantrycombat, i really think it would be a waste if you could only experience that in maps like district.

And offcourse a chaingun is made to kill people, but in empires we have a weapon called a nuke, which has a blast radius off .... i don't know ... 15 meter or so. Why you ask? Because a weapon in empires which would have a blast radius of a few miles would really suck.
I mean even grenades can do damage to infantry 20m away in real life.
Reality sucks. :p

 

-Fixed: muting players via the scoreboard

This could've been an RC all it's own. Three cheers for mute!

 

cheer!

 

Quick question: is bug fixing and balancing everything that is planned for the release, or will you be adding some extra features or eyecandy as well?

 

There is some work being done on the crosshairs at the moment, as well as some of the skills AFIAK