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Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-29T07:31:54+02:00

Von_Ribbentrop wrote:
pip wrote:Did you guys know the Deciever, Cybran mobile stealth, can repair units that it guards? It's very slow, 1 hp per sec. I wonder if this currently useless feature should be improved by giving better repair capabilities.

I think this just got patched out but yes you're right and the decievers could also assist when building structures too.

You might be interested in knowing the Mantis still does both. In early game when its acu vs acu instead of wasting them hitting the enemy acu have them repair yours instead.

VR.

The mantis repair and assist is intended. Its been around sense release

Statistics: Posted by rockoe10 — 29 Jul 2013, 07:31

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-26T18:12:19+02:00

pip wrote:
Did you guys know the Deciever, Cybran mobile stealth, can repair units that it guards? It's very slow, 1 hp per sec. I wonder if this currently useless feature should be improved by giving better repair capabilities.

I think this just got patched out but yes you're right and the decievers could also assist when building structures too.

You might be interested in knowing the Mantis still does both. In early game when its acu vs acu instead of wasting them hitting the enemy acu have them repair yours instead.

VR.

Statistics: Posted by Von_Ribbentrop — 26 Jul 2013, 18:12

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-19T02:59:53+02:00

You could also do a radar circle since the radius is all in line of sight.

Statistics: Posted by Great_Scott — 19 Jul 2013, 02:59

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T16:46:06+02:00

Use a fake weapon on the unit, give it 0DPS and no visuals, and you're good.

Statistics: Posted by IceDreamer — 17 Jul 2013, 16:46

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T16:24:35+02:00

the stealth rings dont work, undepending of their size they are about 10% too big which is very anoying because you always have to keep that in mind when using these kinds of units

Statistics: Posted by ColonelSheppard — 17 Jul 2013, 16:24

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T13:38:55+02:00

Ok, thanks I get what the intent was. However, the stealth ring was removed altogether without being replaced (as was the intention with the repair range, most probably). Besides, the range of the stealth field was changed to 20, and that is enough to make the ring accurate. Indeed, certain stealth radius values work properly, and some others don't. The previous one (18) didn't work well, but the current one (20) works fine, so no need to add repair ability. It's the same for the cybran static stealth field. 30 will display a wrong ring, but 32 will display a proper ring. This will be added as bug fix.

Monkeylord, Mermaid and t3 sonar stealth ring work well. For t3 sonar, it's special though, because there are 2 stealth fields : sonar (90) and radar (45). The radar stealth ring is not displayed because only the furthest range is displayed. I will try to add a new ring, not sure it will be easy (though to be honest, it would be easier and more user friendly to have a smaller but common radius, like 60 or 70 for both sonar and radar).

Statistics: Posted by pip — 17 Jul 2013, 13:38

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T13:26:09+02:00

what ring do you suggest? or is there a way to make a totally new one? i asked this when i first changed this but back then i got no answer

Statistics: Posted by ColonelSheppard — 17 Jul 2013, 13:26

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T13:21:25+02:00

would be nice if this will apply to meremaids, cybran t3 sonar, and the new ML stealthfield too

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 17 Jul 2013, 13:21

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T12:54:04+02:00

it's a bug, i would have never expected that the engine adds buildpower to a unit only because you add the overlay, nvm, need to find another ring for stealth then

Statistics: Posted by ColonelSheppard — 17 Jul 2013, 12:54

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T11:16:45+02:00

It was to fix the bugged stealth ring, not to actually make them able to repair

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 17 Jul 2013, 11:16

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T11:10:17+02:00

It's not a bug, someone purposefully added this feature at some point (several parameters were added). I don't know when nor why though.

Statistics: Posted by pip — 17 Jul 2013, 11:10

Re: Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T10:57:35+02:00

It is a bug

Statistics: Posted by Zock — 17 Jul 2013, 10:57

Deciever can repair

2013-07-17T08:28:27+02:00

Did you guys know the Deciever, Cybran mobile stealth, can repair units that it guards? It's very slow, 1 hp per sec. I wonder if this currently useless feature should be improved by giving better repair capabilities.

Statistics: Posted by pip — 17 Jul 2013, 08:28