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On top of what you mentioned there's also these things from RA that are currently unimplemented: Helicarrier - though even if we find ourselves with the necessary visual assets, implementing it as a fun unit to play as is going to be a challenge. (And it'd probably necessitate Soviets getting a helipad on Hostile Waters?) Tech Centres (as in the teamed ones, not the neutral "three domes" Technology Centre currently on NBNW). Would probably need a new map as most of the bases on the current maps are too "full" to feature more large buildings without removing one of them. And then there's the question of what it would do and would that warrant a whole new building (we already have quite a few barely-useful buildings). I don't think just "props up your tech level by 1 point" would be enough. Camo Pillbox. I'd probably just have these be tougher Pillboxes like they are in RA. The usual idea I hear about them, "why don't you just randomize defence placements so Soviets don't know where the camo pillbox is right away" somehow assumes that the Allies will know where their own camo pillboxes are right away, may be a hindrance to the Allies because the camo pillboxes may end up in a more suboptimal position compared to where they are normally (and there really aren't a lot of optimal spots since the maps aren't super open anymore), may also be a hindrance to bots (including the AI ore truck) since base defenses by themselves do not block pathfinding so every place where a camo pillbox could possibly show up would have to be blocked off from bots, snipers/V2s would easily be able to pick them out even if you give them a random hiding place because of the target box (which is visible to both teams unless you make it stealthed which may not look the best), and within a few weeks of play people will have already gotten used to all the random positions anyway. I also hope in the future we can refine the way the Spy, Thief, Mobile Radar Jammer and MAD Tank work, they're all pretty niche in their utility. Maybe a better tactical niche for the Tesla Tank, Grenadier and Flamethrower as well.

Problem is we're looking for maps where we can have both migs and cruisers. And if we're just adding migs to existing maps then we'd have to find a map that isn't already Soviet biased like Ridge War is.

I have plans for that utilizing a map that's been left in the gutter for about 4 years, which will also include ground vehicles. Like Neo Hostile Waters I think I'll take the same "release playable concept first, add detail later" approach just so that people have more mig/cruiser maps to play on sooner.

No, because you shouldn't be exiting in the spawn area anyway, unless you like teammates yelling at you for making it impossible to buy more subs. Also, it's not affecting your ability to board and exit at all. If it was moved up it would have the exact same amount of continuous falling state problems.

3.3.0.3 General Fix memory leaks during loading screen, alt+tab and chat history that would eventually crash the game. Fix particles being delayed or not appearing at all on the first few shots of any weapon. Shrunk HUD by 25%. Give it a try, and if it's still not the right size for you, head to the downloads section for a bigger or smaller one. Make sure to only install the small one if you actually have a small screen resolution, or else some weapon text may spill onto other HUD elements. Shortened some weapon names to accommodate new HUD sizes. AP Mines are now a little less performance-heavy. All rocket-launching weapons now have backblasts. Rockets have less gaps in their smoke trails. Rockets have thicker but shorter flame trails. Homing rocket-launching weapons have less ridiculous turn rates on their missiles (except the Redeye/Strela/SAM Site/Phase Tank which were already reasonable). APC Max turret tilt down (60 -> 45 degrees) Gunboat Moved cables to avoid clipping with barrel. Tanya Damage back down to 25. MiG Missiles now disappear from the model when fired. Alt camera is now underneath the middle. Overhauled missile behaviour: They no longer have lock-on, so they will not follow moving targets, but they will still track to the position you're aiming at (just like the Missile Sub's ballistic missiles). So you are not required to mouse over the unit in order to hit it, but doing so is still helpful to confirm that you've entered firing range - you will have to lead against fast-moving vehicles though. Velocity increased (50 -> 100m/s) Turn rate increased 25% Error ratio decreased (0.33 -> 0.2) Range increased (100 -> 110m) Hitbox size increased (0 -> 3m cube) Damage to buildings decreased (50 -> 40) since they can now easily one-strafe and run whereas the slightly more damaging Yak needs two strafes and is slower Missile damage to infantry down from 50% to 5% (since missiles with a large hitbox are much easier to hit infantry with, and coming from above they are basically guaranteed to be "headshots" - the original damage value would be able to one-shot any infantry with basically a 100% success rate) Now fires 2 missiles at once with a 1.5 second cooldown between salvos, instead of 3 at once with a 6 second cooldown. So if used properly it can now use all 6 missiles in one strafe. Under, KOTG Fixed floating trees.

View File Alternate HUD Sizes Since HUD scaling is not currently a thing, here are some different size options for the HUD. You should only install the "Small HUD" if you have a small screen resolution and only install the "Large HUD" if you have a large screen resolution. To install, open either the Large HUD or Small HUD folder in the .7z archive, and take the always3.dat and put it in your game's "data" folder. For reference, the installation path should be the following: To uninstall, just delete the always3.dat from your data folder. Do not delete always or always2.dat as these are required by the game. Submitter Pushwall Submitted 11/07/2018 Category Custom Textures

Less speed just won't cut it unless the MiG is like half its original speed, it just needs to not require you to be able to fire at the same time as mousing over something for 0.05 of a second. Which will be the case next version.

Again, no, I'm not willing to step into whatever hax would be needed for "persistent" splash damage. Unless you mean making the visual effect last longer. Yeah, I added the rotation some point in mid-Delta (probably a year and a half ago), it just wasn't very noticeable until the addition of the turret camera.

Yes but if we do then any unfired missiles will continue to float in midair when the mig dies. Still hasn't been fixed.

Nowadays it's not a rarely seen unit as a result of all the changes to it making it more viable against Volkovs, air units and small arms users. And even despite this the Ranger still sees use (though not as much) due to downsides to the APC that are still present (being bigger and slower and easier to spot, not being expendable, slightly more expensive though that doesn't matter much, having worse DPS against light vehicles and base defenses). That first-dump Ranger coil rush last night makes it pretty evident that the Ranger still has its place; a Light Tank or APC rush could have gotten our objective too but would have made it harder to afford stuff after our death and would have been more likely to be spotted ahead of time.

It's probably not needed; the introduction of the Chrono Tank gives Allies another proper AA vehicle and adding yet more ground vehicles for them is just bloat. I'm fine with tweaking the APC so it can't really be effectively used against MiGs (maybe a bit of a nerf against Hinds too) but it should probably continue to be able to fight Yaks due to Guard Duty, and it probably doesn't need a new weapon to look convincing for this because anything with enough projectile velocity can hit a low-flying Yak and warplanes weren't exactly known for their armour.

Hey, if they can deal with the whole line of MBTs only having 17.5 degrees of vertical tilt (which was still enough for Mediums to hit Hinds scraping the flight ceiling on Ridge War previously!) they can deal with APCs having something smaller than 60 degrees.

APC being anti-air and mammoth-armoured was a decision made about a year ago to give the Allies more options to respond to hinds/yaks (beforehand it was just rocket soldiers, rocket soldiers and rocket soldiers), have a better anti-infantry option for engaging Volkovs, provide a bit more synergy with the "infantry carrier" role (Hinds are one of the biggest threats towards infantry, so make the infantry carrier resistant to and able to deal with said threat! ... though this still didn't encourage its use as a carrier) and distinguish it from the Ranger since there was hardly any purpose to the unit before this change: there's not much point in trying to haul around a ton of infantry in one APC - unless you just so happen to have spare APCs sitting around while your War Factory is dead. (Maybe it could become a Radar Dome airdrop option to encourage this, but what would the Soviets get on their airdrop to balance it out? Or maybe it'd replace the Medium Tank?) APC and Ranger could both outrange all infantry except Kapitans/RPGs back then so the Ranger's weaker durability was not a dealbreaker for hunting down infantry in the open. APC is one of those units that are MUCH more dangerous in the Soviets' hands so you absolutely don't want to let them take it - meaning an APC infantry rush is pretty much forced to leave one person in the APC to wait or get it killed just so that you don't end up turning the game against yourself (unless you're killing the barracks or Soviets already lost it). This also means Tanyas don't want to use it as a solo chariot, which they can do with LTs/Rangers without risking the game. it's easier to hit and to notice than a Ranger; sure it has more health but Allies don't care too much about the max health of their units because of mechanics Nowadays the choice is showing its age a bit; Volkovs being changed to snipers instead of shorter-ranged everymen means you want to use APCs over Rangers against them anyway due to the armour difference, the addition of Chrono Tanks and their subsequent armour class upgrade means the Allies now have yet another tank that can pull anti-air duty, not to mention Phase Tanks also do pretty well at mowing down planes (but lose against Hinds). APCs might still want to be okay against planes because of Guard Duty where Chrono Tanks aren't an option, but they could stand to be a little weaker in this regard possibly. Maybe I could lower their max turret tilt so that they can easily hit low-flying Yaks but not high-flying MiGs (which don't exist on Guard Duty). Tell me something I don't know I already said I'm aware its firing mechanics did not translate to live gameplay well and I'm going to be looking into an alternative, and letting it fire all its missiles at once is not going to be a good alternative because it means you only have one chance to line up a lock-on instead of two.

You shouldn't be able to, on HW literally the entire map below sea level except the area around the CYs is a no-flare zone. Falling to your death "makes more sense" but is it better for gameplay to have to worry about being delayed from entering your boat by 20-60 seconds (and also blocking other people from buying the same boat) if you happen to do poorly on the collision lottery? "Floating ladders"? All of them are quite clearly attached to something. I'll be sure to put something in the underwater walkable area, maybe a grate. But you had to squint to read it on any modern resolution. Air unit in "vulnerable to anti-air unit" shocker. Fire all missiles at once? I think there are enough things that only need one shot to kill arties and make it pointless to try using them, don't you?

Okay, so it's known that the HUD is a bit overbearing on smaller resolutions (and apparently even at normal ones) and the MiG's firing mechanics don't translate well to a live environment (except against boats which are large enough to reliably keep a lock on). I'll soon be looking at a better way to handle the MiG firing, and next patch we'll be pushing a slightly smaller HUD by default, and an even smaller one and a larger one (i.e. the current one) as optional downloads on the download section if the new size isn't right for you.

3.3.0.1 Hostile Waters now ends when a naval factory dies 3.3.0.2 Fixed a client crash when changing maps.

Red Alert: A Path Beyond Update Remember, remember, the fifth of November time when APB had updates? Yeah, sorry about that; the recruitment of a ton of new talent to the scripting team, as well as a bunch of sudden contributions from 2D and 3D artists, mean I have been very backed up with implementing all their work and making sure it... works, in addition to what I normally do. On top of that, my hand in this got delayed further by almost a week due to my computer suffering a PSU failure. But the long wait should be worth it, many bugs and performance issues have been squashed and we have 2 new units to play with. And there is hopefully more to come as well! General Improved UI performance. Improved level loading times. Particle effects should have less lategame performance issues. Asynchronous texture loading to reduce stutter. Flight ceilings are now "soft" - you still can't ascend beyond a certain height, but there's nothing to scrape against, so you won't be slowed down and you won't get temporarily stuck if you try to bank. This is most important for planes who no longer need to worry about crashing into the flight ceiling - because of this, there isn't a warning when you approach the flight ceiling anymore. Entering/leaving scoped view for scoped weapons no longer causes your view to tilt up slightly. Using the camera change key in a vehicle will no longer toggle your infantry camera between third/first person. Your chosen vehicle camera will now be remembered if you exit and reenter the same vehicle. Alternate cameras for vehicles have been improved: Position for alternate first-person/turret/close-up cameras now takes the vehicle's tilt into account, so you should be less likely to clip the camera through your own vehicle when looking up/down while on a slope. Thanks to the above change, all trucks with interiors (Supply, Demo, MGG, MAA, Cargo) now have functional first-person cameras. Not particularly useful, but fun! Turret cameras now pivot around the turret and not the body. This is especially handy for boats since their turret is so far from the centrepoint of their hull; now you can always see what you're aiming at. First-person cameras for single-barrel vehicles are now slightly offset to the side, just like first-person infantry weapons. Fixed the physics issue where vehicles crossing complicated terrain (such as craters) were liable to tip onto their backsides. Simplified vehicle hitboxes. Bots driving vehicles no longer drive slower than players do. (This doesn't affect ore trucks - or shouldn't as I've lowered AI ore truck speed to try to keep them unchanged) Vehicles that cost more than 1200 credits now only give 240 combat credits (assuming 100% HP damage; repairs will obviously increase this) instead of the full 1/5th of their cost. Hitbeeps are a little louder, but now only one beep can play every 0.05 seconds. This means you will not be bombarded with a ton of hitbeeps at once when hitting something with the full spray of a shotgun. Kicken has made a spiffy new HUD featuring: larger and more prominent radar and health/armour bars. (Radar may in future be accompanied by new radar icons.) enhanced space for weapon names. Like Renegade/Reborn this relies on text strings, so now you'll know what weapons your vehicle has too - as well as if it has any secondary fires or needs to be activated by Q. everything concentrated in one place. No longer do you need to dart your eyes between the lower left and lower right corner of your screen when checking ammo and health. improved aesthetics in general. Infantry Repairmen Clearing Charges have been replaced with the Shovel, which has the same purpose of getting mines and barricades out of the way, but isn't entirely the same tool as before: Has infinite ammo, but has a much longer cooldown between uses - 6 seconds instead of 1. Is on slot 5 and has a holstered model so its existence should be a bit more obvious (it'll show when holding the golden wrench) Unique kill icon (and no way to mask it) should make it more clear that your minefields are being cleared. Destroys all enemy mines within an unobstructed 10 metre radius from the tip of the shovel (instead of the Clearing Charge's 7.5 metre radius from where the charge lands). No fumbling around with odd throwing arcs, but you also essentially have a shorter range and can't take out mines through walls. Damage to barricades depends on distance. At point blank range you do about 40% damage to hedgehogs per "swing" - near the maximum 10 metres you do hardly anything. No, you cannot use it as a melee weapon. (Except in the same way you'd use Clearing Charges as a "melee weapon".) Repair Tool/Golden Wrench are no longer able to break windows. Flamethrower The old, out-of-place M2 flamethrower has been replaced with the LPO-50. Still a flamethrower, but it behaves differently: Launches a stream of fire (10 projectiles over 1 second) instead of a single fireball. A bit closer to the real LPO's behaviour but not perfect. As a result it also needs a whole second to fire its full salvo instead of just one frame, so the user has to expose himself more when attacking. Extra projectiles also mean a lot more times and chances to apply the burn effect, so it is better at disrupting medic healing, and also a lot more chances at getting direct hits, which the weapon is now more reliant on for damage against infantry. Direct damage per salvo up (70 -> 100) Splash damage per salvo up (25 -> 35) Splash radius down (8 -> 7m) Direct damage multiplier to infantry up (0.2 -> 0.3) Inaccuracy when standing/jogging increased (0 -> 0.5) Inaccuracy when jumping increased (7.5 -> 10) Projectile velocity up (50 -> 100m/s) Time per salvo up (3 -> 4 seconds) Splash damage no longer occurs if the shot reaches its maximum range without hitting anything. Range up (80 -> 100m) Grenadier Splash radius up (7m -> 9m) Mechanic Health down (70 -> 60) Medic Health up (80 -> 90) Medic kit charge time down (2 -> 1 second) Medic kit cooldown time up (0.5 -> 2 seconds) Medic kit now affects other medics (but only 20%) Armour cache radius up (25 -> 30m) Officers Inaccuracy when crouched increased (0.25 -> 0.5) Rocket Soldiers Redeye/Strela range back up to 170m. Shotgunners Now have 16 projectiles instead of 10. They still do the same total damage as before, they're just more reliable. Tanya Colt damage up (25 -> 30) Volkov AP cannon now does an additional instant 2.5 fire damage whenever its burn effect sticks. Added new scopes courtesy of CMDBob. Vehicles MRJ/Tesla Tank No longer has an uneven axle track, which was causing it to move forward/backward noticeably when turning on the spot. Ore Truck Price up (700 -> 1400) Airdrop price is now equal to its War Factory price instead of 50% higher (1050 -> 1400) Chrono Tank Chronoshift range up (250 -> 300m) Projectile velocity up (50 -> 150m) Projectile range up (105 -> 110m) Move speed down (8.6 -> 8m/s) Reload speed down (1.9 -> 2 seconds) Health down (350 -> 300) Armour class is now Mammoth instead of Light (combined with the health drop this makes it more vulnerable to most anti-tank weapons, but less vulnerable to Volkov and much less vulnerable to flamethrowers/small arms) Can move/fire immediately after a successful Chronoshift. Is invulnerable for 2 seconds after a successful Chronoshift. Now has a first-person alternate camera. Mammoth Tank Mammoth Tusk projectile velocity up (50 -> 75m) Phase Tank Projectile velocity up (50 -> 75m) Yak Damage received from BulletFMJ ammo (M16, AK-47, MP5) up (0.27 -> 0.3) Damage received from Artillery ammo (arty, V2) up (0.8 -> 1.2) - now dies in one shot from arty No longer has its own unit limit. (You might still run into the fairly stringent limit on total purchased aircraft though.) MiG Added to the game. As General Kukov suggested in the unit's introduction in RA1, it is a bomber - its missiles are strictly air-to-ground. Getting the missiles to hit Longbows in flight is very difficult due to their arc, and unlikely to result in a favourable engagement due to the MiG's vulnerability to return fire from the Longbow, so it should stick to attacking ground vehicles, boats and buildings. If you want to clear the skies, get a Yak. Unlike with a Yak, you should engage ground units from a high altitude so as to give the missiles time to home in on the target. Going in a bit lower than the flight ceiling can give the enemy less time to dodge, but go too low and you risk your missiles hitting the ground instead. If you're having a hard time acquiring lock-ons against small ground vehicles, use the alternate cameras (press F). Available on Tech Level 5 plane maps (Hostile Waters, Siege). Navy Submarines now takes 3 seconds to gain submerged resistances instead of 2. Boats have a faster turn rate. Boats now have a "no damage" hitbox inside their normal hitbox, so subs surfacing inside them to avoid damage may also fail to inflict damage. Improved submarine submerge resistances again; anti-tank weapons now only deal 37.5% instead of 50%. Gunboat Health down (400 -> 300) Gun damage up (60 -> 70) Gun rate of fire down (per 1.25 seconds -> per 1.375 seconds) Range increased (110 -> 120m) Depth charge splash damage no longer occurs if the shot reaches its maximum range without hitting anything (so just use them against submerged subs or try to hit the seabed, don't try to catapult them too far) New model. Destroyer Role revised; is now more reminiscent of the Beta and RA Destroyers - it's more of a jack of all trades with anti-sub combat on par with the previous patch's Gunboat (depth charges travel as far as the Gunboat's, and in a straight fight with no misses and both parties noticing each other at the same time, the Destroyer will only barely lose to an Attack Sub - so it's disadvantaged but not helpless anymore like the old "not meant to be fighting subs" Dests), and the same top-tier anti-air capability it's always had, but slightly reduced effectiveness against infantry and buildings. True siege power is now in the hands of the Cruiser. Range decreased (170 -> 160m) New model. Cruiser Added to the game. As you might expect, it's a siege monster, but it can also fight submarines effectively from a distance, and may even be able to hit low-flying Yaks once in a while. A high minimum range, too low of a barrel angle to hit MiGs/Hinds which don't need to fly low to hit boats, and lack of depth charges prevents it from being unstoppable against properly-used subs/aircraft though. Rear turret must be manned by a passenger. (Rear turret is entered if you try to enter the vehicle while standing adjacent to the rear turret; entering from anywhere else will make you the pilot.) Taking a passenger with you gives you more bang for your buck and gives the whole vehicle less blind spots, but demands more coordination; it can still dish out competent damage even without a passenger though. Available on Tech Level 5 naval maps (Coastal Influence, Hostile Waters). Attack Sub Health down (400 -> 300) Torpedo velocity decreased (50 -> 40m/s) Torpedo damage up (90 -> 110) Torpedo rate of fire down (per 1.5 seconds -> per 1.75 seconds) Range increased (120 -> 140m) Missile Sub Health up (300 -> 375) Shore bombardment and anti-air capability are now split into two firing modes. Primary fire launches ballistic missiles for use against buildings, shoreline units, and slow/stationary boats. Unlike the standard missiles it had in previous versions, the ballistic missiles actually deal heavy damage to boats if you can hit them - but hitting them is the problem. Cruisers are fairly easy targets, but you may have a harder time hitting Destroyers, and against Gunboats you're a sitting duck. Secondary fire launches surface-to-air missiles. Range increased (170 -> 180m) Buildings Buildings' script zones (spy/thief interactions, war factory killzone, naval unit purchases, ore truck dumping, airfield landing/refilling) are now part of the building instead of being manually placed in the editor. This not only means that their size and position is consistent for all maps and will never get screwed up again, but building zone placement is another load taken off of future mappers' backs. A lot of "inaccessible" areas on buildings (for example, the slanted parts and chimneys of the Refinery roof, and the crane of the Construction Yard) now cause instant death to infantry, so you can't plant flares on them on maps with aircraft+nukes. Tweaked building resistances to provide more incentive for attacking things other than the naval/war factories: Repairs are about 5% less effective Refill Pads take noticeably less time to kill (about 20% less time) Construction Yards have had the same level of health reduction as Refill Pads, putting them on par with War Factories. Barracks, Power Plant, Radar Dome, Missile Silo, Helipad, Ore Silo, and minor base defenses take slightly less time to kill (about 5% less time) Refinery and Airfield take slightly longer to kill (about 7% more time) War Factory, Naval Yard, Sub Pen take noticeably longer to kill (about 20% more time) Naval weapons also take about 20% less time to kill buildings, so while their kill speed against naval factories and war factories isn't changed much, they are better at bringing down most inland structures. AA Gun Now fires bullets instead of instant laser beams. They'll still reliably hit aircraft though as they travel at the same speed as all other non-sniper bullets. Airfield Now refills all of a plane's ammo at once after 8 seconds, instead of partially refilling in 2 second increments (this was required due to the difference in ammo/magazines between the Yak and the MiG; using the old system would have let the MiG regain all its ammo in just 2 seconds) Allied Barracks Removed two purchase terminals (the ones that were kind of redundant cause they have another terminal right next to them) and their associated spawn points. So now the Allied barracks has the same number of spawn points that the Soviet barracks does. Construction Yard Improved vehicle collision around the front entrances. Minelayers and Rangers can now easily get over the "bumps" to the sides of the main gate. Is now affected by its own auto-repair. So in spite of the health drop it is still the toughest building, but not by much. (Of course, the more DPS your rush has the less this auto-repair matters.) Naval Factories The "Advanced" models are now the standard for all naval maps, and the old ones removed. Attacks that hit parts of the building that are more than 5 metres under the water surface no longer damage the building. (This includes C4.) Added ladders in the spawning/repair bays to allow infantry that fall into the water to save themselves. Fixed issue with (Advanced) Sub Pen where infantry would spaz out when aiming at certain sections of the floor. Opened underwater collision around the (Advanced) Naval Yard repair bay so that, in the rare event that Allies steal a sub, they can actually fit it into the repair bay and repair/sell it. Added passageways to the sides of the "main gate" of the (Advanced) Sub Pen, so it's possible for Soviets to go out to the front of the building (to defend from frontal boats, disarm flares, etc) Pillbox Instead of firing a "laser beam" that comes from between its two guns, it now fires projectile bullets from its two guns, and can rotate its barrels to hit targets that are sitting between them. (Anyone who's played Lunar Paradox and seen the "laser pillbox" may understand why we weren't able to take the two-barrel approach with the real pillbox before.) Power Plant Fixed falling through door frames. War Factory Can still produce AI Ore Trucks even after its destruction. So destroying it will not knock out two birds with one stone; you must destroy the Refinery in order to completely shut down the ore mining economy. Replaced side ladders leading to the roof with small elevators. Smoothed collision around roof windows, so you won't lose accuracy when walking onto them anymore. Aesthetics Readded support for MSAA. LST now sinks when destroyed just like other naval units (but only when not near land). V2 Launcher no longer floats slightly above ground. Impact sounds for vehicles are now consistent with their armour class (light vehicles and aircraft = light metal, heavy/mammoth vehicles and seacraft = heavy metal) More glass parts of vehicles (such as headlights and tank viewports) now produce glass impact effects and leave lasting broken glass decals. The jagged bolts of Tesla weapons should no longer turn into lasers during times of low performance. Cinematic for reinforcement drops (Radar dome/Seamist) now moves at a more realistic speed. "On fire" sound for infantry is less obnoxious. Fixed some poor smoothing on various infantry models. Buoys are orange again! (A lighting mishap stripped them of their colour before.) The shoreline foam from Siege/Hostile Waters is now present on all maps with large bodies of water. The seaweed from Hostile Waters is now present on all naval maps. Civilian buildings with interiors have been spruced up somewhat with some KOTG house props, some new props by Ice, and less ancient textures. Construction Yard, Power Plant and Refinery have had their window frames redone. Power Plant and Refinery pipes have been upgraded to the War Factory ones. Refinery furnaces have been upgraded to the Power Plant ones. Construction Yard crane mode has been upgraded to the Advanced Naval one. Building pipes now have supports. Barracks and Refinery now have shelves with more props. Refinery ore piles now also contain dirt. Refinery chimneys now use a yellow concrete texture, similar to how they were portrayed in the RA1 sidebar icon. Power Plant roofs are now a flat brown concrete instead of reusing the brick wall texture. Missile Silo now has desert (Zama) and snow/urban (Hostile Waters, North by Northwest, Siege Soviet) variants Service Depot has a new texture by Kicken. Tesla Coil no longer has electric effects during low power. Building glass is now reflective like vehicle glass. Damaged buildings now emit smoke as well as fire. Damaged building fire is no longer silent. Auxiliary buildings now have damage fire/smoke/alarms and death smoke. Maps Reduced rocks on various maps. Flight ceiling height has been made consistent across all maps - now they are all 75m above the main play area. (For Ridge War this just means the middle of the map.) This means Guard Duty (125), Siege (120) and Hostile Waters (110) have gotten a considerable reduction in flight ceiling height, while Pacific Threat (50), Ridge War (60) and To the Core (65) have gotten an increase. Large bodies of water on non-naval maps are now treated as solid for naval units (just in case admins decide to have some fun). There's no shoreline blockers though. Coastal Influence Fixed War Factory construction paths. Hostile Waters Islands and base have been remade to reduce travel time and put more focus on attacking buildings besides just the naval yard/sub pen. Income is now a flat 4 credits per second; 2 of this is from a Gem Silo, and 2 is from the Advanced Naval building (so the flow of income can't be stopped completely). Removed Barracks, refill pads and Radar Dome. Added Missile Silo. Soviets have an airfield instead of helipad/SD. Capturable strucures no longer exist. You gain an additional 700 credits once the jukebox starts up, granting almost immediate access to the Destroyer/Missile Sub, since Gunboats/Attack Subs don't really serve much purpose without them on a map with noticeable shoreline defenses. (We weren't able to do per-map starting credits so this is the closest thing you'll get; please kindly donate to people who join in the middle of the match.) Icebergs are now smaller, more spread out, and inaccessible to infantry. (Unless you use a heli to land on them, but that's an Allied-only option and they have no infantry that can damage submerged subs, so there's not really much point in doing so except binoc scouting.) Visuals for the base islands are incomplete; this is because I want to test how well the new base layout/distance actually works before spending more time on it. If it tests well, the map will see visual upgrades in the future. Lunar Paradox Landing pads no longer cause free aim to freak out. Metro Mine limit down (30 -> 20) North by Northwest Fixed drowning damage being applied from higher than the standard -1.5m depth. Terrain around service depots is more even. Improved accessibility for Soviet WF walls. Pacific Threat Raised moon height so the sun halo doesn't show up through the water. Siege Downgraded defences covering front entrance; Allies no longer have a Gap Generator, and Soviets only have a Flame Tower instead of Tesla Coil. Replaced Power Plant with Missile Silo. (Would have just added the silo without removing the PP, but there's not really room to add more buildings into these bases especially since super cramped bases = too easy for a nuke to kill everything). Shifted walls at Allied side entrance around so that the way in is better covered against chinooks. Shortened the cliff at the Soviet side entrance to make the route more open to Allied attack. Removed Soviet refill pads (they're compensated by the airfield anyway). Zama Reduced amount of ore rocks/gems in the resource patches because it was quite ridiculous compared to other maps. Made mudslide slightly less steep. Fixed backface in mudslide. [blurb]I assume everyone has been on the edge of their seats waiting for this update? Any questions? ...Good. Give 'em hell, boys! (And don't forget to read the changelog.)[/blurb] [thumb]thumb_apb.5.png[/thumb] [blurb]I assume everyone has been on the edge of their seats waiting for this update? Any questions? ...Good. Give 'em hell, boys! (And don't forget to read the changelog. When you have time. It's a big one.)[/blurb]

Yeah HW 5.0 (with Soviet airfield) is finished as far as gameplay goes and will be in next release; it's still frozen as far as aesthetics go until the public determines that it's playable.

Well, that's already going to be a thing. I have a pretty bad habit of dropping spoilers in Discord and forgetting to do so here as well. The plan is that they'll fire the "ballistic missiles" that RA1 claims they have from the deck, for shore bombardment and sniping slower ships (gunboats can easily avoid them), while their secondary fire lets them fire their usual smaller surface-to-air missiles from the side pods. Though if the side pods end up not being a thing I guess the AAs can be launched from the deck too.

Changed Status to Fixed

I don't have one that works with the current public release. Once the next release comes out I can hook you up with it though.

I don't remember removing pistols, rifles, shotguns, snipers, PKM from the Soviets. Or giving Allies shocks/volkovs which would make a lack of Soviet anti-infantry options troubling.

But being hard to see is kinda one of the big points of being infantry. Do Allied infantry really need even more of a hard time than they already have?