Profile of LordRaven

The new Su-76 vet 1 ability seems a bit lackluster. Why? The unit is locked in place, meaning you lose precious seconds for a low hp unit. The base damage is weak and penetration versus mediums isn't reliable. For me a better choice would be buffing the unit. Increase base damage to 160, but remove the vet 2 bonus damage and reduce its base rate of fire. Increase fuel cost from 75 to 90. Vet 2 reverts rate of fire and Vet 3 gives it better penetration to engage heavies, to reward your hard work for maintaining it into late game. Increase veterancy so the unit does not dominate. And maybe increase pop by 1. Also reduce the cooldown for barrage ability, this will also make it more attractive. You already spend muni and it isn't reliable, so why make it more frustrating to use.


Instead rework Su-85, merge the spotting cone and ambush camouflage into one. This ability would be similar to spotting scopes of Werh, meaning its passive. It requires vet 1. When the unit is still and out of combat for 10 seconds it will camouflage and the spotter pops up activating the sight cone. Once the unit moves or is in combat it breaks camo and loses sight. Include hold fire ability and add handbrake to prevent the unit from breaking the camo. This will allow the unit to become a tank hunter as it should be.

The ISU-152 nerf seems a bit harsh, especially since they are reworking axis artillery(which I like). Meaning AT weapons are now in more danger and Tank destroyers take a lot of pop, which you don’t see them as much. Instead of 60, 65 is a bit more forgiving. Not to mention another thing to help out balancing is reducing the HE rounds penetration, so that players are forced to change between rounds. This will also require buffing the AP rounds. Nothing is more frustrating using AP rounds and not penetrating reliably.
Another option is to add a small setup time like team weapons. This will allow opponents more strategies, like forcing the unit to stay on the move. This will make the user have a harder time defending its position and when it's on the offensive. The change requires to revert the HE range to 70 but the AP rounds adjustment mentioned above is still needed.

As for the t-34/76 and 85 changes are quite rough. I gotta agree with previous comments. I mean why would you vet a unit and then waste after you spend a hard time vetting it. Instead make it easier to cancel or give it requirements to use. For example it cost 50 muni and if the HP drops below 50 percent the unit cannot use the ability. In the description it can say the engine is in poor condition and cannot increase acceleration. Now if the unit is vet 2(or 3) and the player wants to gamble he can use an upgraded version of the ability which doesn't cost muni and the HP condition is removed, the description can say that veteran crew members can push the engine beyond its limit.

I got error code -1 when a path name (folders + file name) was to long to write in windows. I recommend to check your latest created files and give them a shorter path name.

Thanks, it was a ability name that was too long.

There's a space in the path to your mod - try removing that from the folder name. Stuff like that causes problems with the mod builder sometimes!

I removed the space and still says the same problem :/ Thanks for the reply.