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Thread: Bug with initial recharge for ability4 Jun 2017, 23:32 PM I wasn't aware of that I'll investigate. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: British victor target abilities not working4 Jun 2017, 23:31 PM Forward assembly spawns an entity, and the entity takes care of calling down victor target. If you want to do it the forward-assembly-way, just copy what it does, but make the smoke grenade entity invisible. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Eastern Front Armies Revamp 4 Jun 2017, 23:25 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jun 2017, 23:19 PMDreadbot What sort of things cause performance degradation? Anything that other modders should worry about? We were experiencing some high CPU utilization for some reason. Although we haven't figured out what exactly it was, we've started reimplementing things in a sane way, and see if that smacks it. There were a ton of unneeded requirement actions (which we eliminated by working around the issues in other ways). There is also another sub-feature which adjusts the popcap of captured MGs/AT guns etc, depending on whether it's Soviets (6-men) operating the weapon, or if it's somebody else. For the latter, to work, the affected weapon-team squad spawns an invisible entity that adjusts the popcap. For v1.5 I've removed all extensions from the entity except for popcap. Although the popcap-adjustment feature can be implemented in a more efficient way (e.g., recrew_ext in the ebps), we still feel we want to trial the system this way. This is because we will have to reuse this when it's time to fix USF popcap. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Eastern Front Armies Revamp 4 Jun 2017, 22:55 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jun 2017, 22:39 PMTobis Thing is, if they don't plant mines you don't need to buy a sweeper. pios without sweepers are decent enough in a fight to get to vet 2 normally, and especially with flamethrower. I thought the point of the change was to help sweeper engis? If not that, I really don't see the point in making the change. Without sweepers they vet up fast enough where this is unnecessary, and with sweepers clearing mines is much more simple and less exploitable. With that change, an unprotected mine will not only result in loss of munitions to you, but also a gain in strength for your opponent (given that successful minesweeping doesn't happen very frequently, the bonus should be significant). This might completely change the mineplanting metagame. Since there's nothing wrong about the mineplanting game currently, I don't find any good reason to penalise this. Repairing, on the other hand, happens very regularly (unless tank preservation is potato-level). If the bonuses are too high or too low, we can always adjust them. Plus, I have no idea if it is even possible to make it so that sweeping awards XP. The primary purpose of this change is to allow late-comer engineer squads to have a snowball's chance in hell to catch up. That way, if you've somehow lost your vet2 flamer squad, you won't be left too far behind by your enemy (which could be an EFA faction or a WFA faction). In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Eastern Front Armies Revamp 4 Jun 2017, 22:36 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jun 2017, 22:30 PMTobis Allowing engineers to get vet by repairing is incredibly exploitable, just park a tank in base and shoot it a few times, rinse, and repeat. Either the extra xp will be so low that nobody gives a shit, or you will 100% get farming. You gain about half a level worth of XP for repairing a T-34 to full. Maybe it's too little, maybe it's enough; we will see. By doing what you describe, you're tying down an engineer (that could be spending that time planting/sweeping mines) and a tank, that could be bleeding your opponent, for a potential +60% repair speed bonus at Vet2. A better approach would be just buy a 2nd engineer, and now you have more pairs of hands to do more sweeping/planting. Jump back to quoted post4 Jun 2017, 22:30 PMTobis It also makes it even more punishing to damage tanks without fully destroying them, which I think unnecessarily buffs the aggressor. Maybe. However, I don't think it's a bad thing to reward aggression and promote risk-taking. Jump back to quoted post4 Jun 2017, 22:30 PMTobis Better to make engineers get extra xp from sweeping mines. Impossible to exploit that, and gives your opponent some counterplay. This is way too situational. There is also no way that you will ever be able to gain veterancy when playing vs USF (I know this is an EFA-only mod; but I don't think we will be adding stuff that's not there, when we go to other factions). In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: British victor target abilities not working4 Jun 2017, 21:50 PM Perhaps the ability finishes before the artillery pieces have a chance to fire, therefore, nothing happens. If I were you I would either: - Spawn an invisible marker instantly (which will trigger the victor target when it "explodes"), or - Wrap your start_target_actions under a timed_action ability that lasts, say 1 minute Make sure that you set your timed_action to Fire-and-forget: True, so that the actions contained therein continue to remain valid after the ability has ended In: Modding and Tools
Thread: How to make shell explode without hitting the ground4 Jun 2017, 21:47 PM Nothing happened, as in the projectile didn't disappear, or nothing happened as in there was no damage caused, etc? In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Modifying ambient buildings4 Jun 2017, 19:57 PM Ok, so I narrowed down which of the buildings cause issue. I've no idea why they cause issues though. For instance, all of the rural houses are OK. In the rest of the folders, about 20-30% of the houses are bugged for some reason. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Modifying ambient buildings4 Jun 2017, 17:09 PM I'm trying to modify the load-unload times of certain ambient structures in the game, e.g.,: plaster04_2x2_3sided_01 (under ebps) However, when I clone the buildings in questions, the mod builder refuses to build the mod, and I get errors like these: Could it be that modifying ambient structures is off limits by the modbuilder? In: Modding and Tools
Thread: How to make shell explode without hitting the ground4 Jun 2017, 14:53 PM The best way is to give your sexton airburst shells a deathtimer. That way, the shells will disappear before they hit the ground. Ideally you want to make the shells disappear well after they're no longer practically visible. Then, when the shell actually collides, the effect will make it appear as if it had just entered the screen. To achieve this, have a look at how mortars fire their mortar flares (the actual flare projectile disapperas into the air). Just make sure that your sextons fire at a very high angle, so that the shell disappears while it's out of view. In: Modding and Tools