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Community Patch to fix and improve original Generals Zero Hour 1.04
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USA Battle Drone does not deal much damage #1151

Open xezon opened 2 years ago

xezon commented 2 years ago

USA Battle Drone appears to have troubles attacking targets. Sometimes is just fires a single shot at a target and then waits for multiple frames before hitting again. On top of that the Weapon deals relatively little damage.

Weapon Damage Per Second Radius Type
Original BattleDroneMachineGun 7.5 0 SMALL_ARMS
Original HellfireMissileWeapon 20 5 EXPLOSION
Original SentryDroneGun 40 0 COMANCHE_VULCAN
Original HumveeGun 50 0 COMANCHE_VULCAN

Proposal 1

Fix attack behaviour.

Proposal 2

Increase weapon damage.

ImTimK commented 2 years ago

If behavior can be improved that's good.

But no to buffs, doesn't need to be good on it's own, it still adds up together with Humvee main guns.

Stubbjax commented 2 years ago

it still adds up together with Humvee main guns.

Do you think you could accurately demonstrate this? I can't imagine a single realistic scenario where it would make any meaningful difference.

xezon commented 2 years ago

In NProject the Battle Drone appears to behave OK. It repairs well and when it attacks, then it typically dedicates a fair amount of time shooting. It very rarely fired just one bullet in my limited test. Additionally the repair also has a sound, which is nice. The machine gun also sounds different.

ImTimK commented 2 years ago

Do you think you could accurately demonstrate this? I can't imagine a single realistic scenario where it would make any meaningful difference.

When it shoots properly at the same target as the Vee, you can add both damages.

There's just no need for any USA buffs, Vees with MD's are powerful enough.

commy2 commented 2 years ago

Battle Drone deserves some tweaks imo despite being a USA unit. Currently it receives +50% health from Drone Armor as opposed to any of the other drones +25%. I don't believe the main gun damage should be buffed, but if it can be made to repair more reliably like it does in NProject mod, then that would be a good thing over all.

ImTimK commented 2 years ago

Would be super cool if you could manually attack order the Drone, where it returns to host when you press Stop.

Or a feature to switch modes, attackmode and repairmode.