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Offline Alazar

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1350 on: February 10, 2020, 02:55:48 pm »
I personally dont like the cost on chainswords: like 55% TU, for one hit, two handed?. Emperor does not approve.
Being real though, this weapon damage is insane, but TU cost of operating it is making it useless or heavily reliant on ambush tactics. Makes a good meme weapon for making shortcuts on 1st part of alien base assaults.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1351 on: February 10, 2020, 03:23:57 pm »
Chainsword looks like it's intended to be a terrain-destroying tool (it's strong enough to cut USO hulls and create new entrances), not a melee weapon. I guess it could use a better name to indicate its purpose.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1352 on: February 10, 2020, 05:34:20 pm »
So technically an Eviscerator, not a standard chainsword. 55% would be pretty okay for an Eviscerator. :)

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1353 on: February 11, 2020, 12:42:30 pm »
Chainsword looks like it's intended to be a terrain-destroying tool (it's strong enough to cut USO hulls and create new entrances), not a melee weapon. I guess it could use a better name to indicate its purpose.
Ever tried opening a metal door with a chainsaw?

Anyway if I need a hole in a wall, I use disruptor launcher, yeah it also kills or heavily wounds everything in immidiate area so thats a win for me.

So technically an Eviscerator, not a standard chainsword. 55% would be pretty okay for an Eviscerator. :)
Eh, looks more like 30k early type chainsword.

Oh and its 60% TU, even less usable.
« Last Edit: February 11, 2020, 12:50:28 pm by Alazar »

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1354 on: February 12, 2020, 04:56:47 am »
Bug report, not sure if this has been fixed yet:
The piles of rubble inside the military dig site are blocking too much vision relative to how large they are.
« Last Edit: February 12, 2020, 04:59:33 am by The Reaver of Darkness »

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1355 on: February 12, 2020, 05:11:01 am »
Fixed long ago.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1356 on: February 12, 2020, 12:00:10 pm »
@Nord
Are Aquatoids just extinct so I don't face them in USO missions, or it's just RNG, or at the some part of campaign they appear only in specific mission types?

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1357 on: February 12, 2020, 05:21:00 pm »
Aquatoids are replaced by enhanced aquatoids past a certain point on all missions except resource raids (which might be an oversight). And if you have an aquatoid base they will keep spawning from it too.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1358 on: February 12, 2020, 11:24:04 pm »
Naay, neither base nor enhanced ones appear outside alien barge/alien underwater lab missions.

Btw @Nord, is Sonic Oscillator nerfed? I remember it from vanila TFTD having bigger range than 55km, and definitely higher rate of fire. The one in your mod is hardly usable, sadly :/

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1359 on: February 13, 2020, 06:46:07 am »
Naay, neither base nor enhanced ones appear outside alien barge/alien underwater lab missions.

Btw @Nord, is Sonic Oscillator nerfed? I remember it from vanila TFTD having bigger range than 55km, and definitely higher rate of fire. The one in your mod is hardly usable, sadly :/
Yes, nerfed. Vanilla one was an ultimate weapon, now it is very good cannon.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1360 on: February 13, 2020, 02:36:00 pm »
Well, enemy interceptor UFOs still tear my Barracudas apart 1 vs 1 so I'd question that "very good" cannon. I can understand lower range, and necessity to use precious zrbite as ammo, but at least increase its DPS to some higher level - like 8-10s reload time, and higher accuracy. Otherwise its not worth using compared to gauss cannon:
1) lower DPS 4,583 vs 5,625
2) only 40% hit chance, which means most of the shots will miss. That wouldn't be that bad, but adding zrbite consumption to consideration makes usage of weapon rather not worth it.
3) it has double the range of the gauss cannon, that's true. However, it still does not outrange UFO interceptors so this merit has little matter.
In general, it seems overnerfed, and as mentioned in previous feedback these UFO interceptors cause balancing issues. Sooner or latter you'd have to ponder about them, and tweak values. I'm very disappointed about performance of the sonic oscillator considering how much tech I had to research to get it, how many rare materials use to manufacture and use one, but tech tree viewer hints something called ion cannon, I do hope that one will prove worth using.

Speaking about own-manufactured sonic weapons, XCOM sonic cannon is absolutely awful having only not much accurate auto mode, and sniper sonic rifle very high TU usage cost. I find it's better to stick with just gauss rifles and have alien sonic cannons loaded into ship as backup weapons.

I'm gonna write a huge feedback once I'll finish the game, meanwhile writing some finding now and then.
« Last Edit: February 13, 2020, 10:22:13 pm by MasterBLB »

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1361 on: February 13, 2020, 04:30:35 pm »
Sonic oscillator actually doesn't consume any zrbite to fire at all. Don't tell Nord.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1362 on: February 13, 2020, 09:11:14 pm »
Sonic oscillator actually doesn't consume any zrbite to fire at all. Don't tell Nord.
But why? it must consume... maybe you have other  mods activated?
Also dps must be larger (bigger?) than of gauss. I will change that, thanks.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1363 on: February 13, 2020, 09:19:16 pm »
Sonic oscillators use zrbite as ammo. Zrbite is unchanged from vanilla. Vanilla zrbite doesn't have clipSize specified. When clipSize isn't specified, it defaults to 0. When a weapon is reloaded with ammo that has clipSize 0 it reloads for free.

If sonic oscillators are supposed to use zrbite per shot literally nobody will ever use them. Zrbite is already too valuable.

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Re: [TFTD] [Expansion] TWoTS+ Release (v.2.37)
« Reply #1364 on: February 13, 2020, 09:45:46 pm »
oh, got it. So i want to fix zrvbite consumption AND rise oscillator's dps, so it will be powerful, but expensive weapon. Not just supergun as in vanilla, but supergun, firing gold rounds.