ACU blast

[Romaman]

Tell me, why ACU blast dosn't impact my own units? Looks strange when units stay alive and take no damage in the center of such huge explosion.

[speed2]

what units do you talk about? T1 T2 die if they have less than 2500HP

and there is HELP section of forum you should use for these kind of questions

[Romaman]

I'll use help thread next time.
And as for my question, I cheked it some minutes ago. My ACU was killed by some T2 units near my T1 extractors. When ACU exploded, all enemy units were dead, but my extractors didn't take any damage.

[speed2]

http://content.faforever.com/faf/unitsD ... 03,UEL0202

look at armor type, that is what matters, building takes much less damage (almost none) to acu explosion

I dont remember excatl formula to calculate this

[Lyr]

I don't believe armour type does anything. It was something that GPG never got around to implementing. The ACU deathnuke damage values are just set arbitrarily.

[Aulex]

I don't believe armour type does anything. It was something that GPG never got around to implementing. The ACU deathnuke damage values are just set arbitrarily.

It's implemented, the values aren't just arbitrary. They do damage to units based on their armor type, the acu death nuke only differs between structures and mobile units. Structures i believe take 90 damage while everything else takes the full blast damage (depending where they are in the damage radius).

[Mr-Smith]

so thats the armordefinition.lua , you should see the different armors and the penaltys for acu deathnuke or Overcharge
so basically Structures take 0.032 * 1500 = 48 damage from an acu nuke

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#****************************************************************************
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#**  File     :  /lua/armordefinition.lua
#**  Author(s):
#**
#**  Summary  :
#**
#**  Copyright © 2005 Gas Powered Games, Inc.  All rights reserved.
#****************************************************************************
#
# Armor Type Definitions
#

armordefinition = {

    {   # Armor Type Name
        'Default',

        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',
    },
    {   # Armor Type Name
        'Normal',

        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',
    },
    {   # Armor Type Name
        'Light',

        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',
    },
    {   # Armor Type Name
        'Commander',

        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',
        'Overcharge 0.033333',
        'Deathnuke 1.0',
    },
    {   # Armor Type Name
        'Structure',

        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',
        'Overcharge 0.066666',
        'Deathnuke 0.032',
    },
    {
        # Armor Type name
        'Experimental',
       
        # Armor Definition
        'ExperimentalFootfall 0.0',       
    },
    {
        # Armor Type name
        'FireBeetle',
       
        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',       
        'FireBeetleExplosion 0.0',       
    },
    {
        # Armor Type name
        'ASF',
       
        # Armor Definition
        'Normal 1.0',       
        'CzarBeam 0.25',   
    },
}


[zeroAPM]

Structures 48 damage from an acu nuke

Why such a low number? I mean, is a nuke, it should do lots of damage.

[keyser]

to avoid destruction of base with some suicide.

you can already destroy all the build power of a base with suicide.

[Romaman]

And I'd like to notice,that it's FAF feature only. I've just checked it in vanila game and ACU blast destroy half of the base with many structures both economy and factories in significant range.