Tellurian 2.01 Patch Notes

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

In this thread: Issues to fix and balancing.

Key:
Proposed change
Completed change
Rejected change
Change in contention

ISSUES TO FIX:

Gameplay:
- Balance web throw
- Balance electric burst
- Reduce effectiveness of birdmasses
- Fix level boundaries for tanky creatures
- Fix colony
- If colony doesn't work, test conglomerate as well
- Remove poison from Bob artillery

Menus:
- Remove "Playback" string when watching replays.
- Web throw string appears as $37597
- Fix Velika LaPette's name in the army selection screen.
- Chemical artillery string is cut off
- Pistol shrimp doesn't have a ranged attack icon in the combiner *difficult problem to do with having sonic attack on pincers
- Flash string has too many exclamation marks
- Loner string states "creatures with loner are automatically rank three or higher" - No longer correct.
- Electric burst string is too damn uppercase
- Quill burst string is also too damn uppercase
- Disorienting Barbs string cut off
- Tongue attack string on anteater is broken
- Cavitation blast string doesn't have a full stop
- Projectile Defecation string is a wee bit silly
- Tarantula Bite string is broken
- Tarantula Grapple string is dumb as shit
- Walrus Bite string talks about goring. Rename Walrus Bite to Gore?
- Anglerfish head flash is a different ability to Fire Fly tail flash. Unify head and tail flash somehow. *pretty sure we can't do that- it's part of the huge jiggery pokery we went through to make head flash work, see.
- Add creature information for OT creatures.
- Fix consistency of descriptions.

Suggested changes (for discussion and testing):
- Adjust bombardier beetle projectile speed
- Make defensive cloud not affect AA
- Adjust AA damage and speed to better handle homobirds

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Nerf web xd

[BARRY MANILOW]

Cuttlefish is too adorable.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

100% too adorable.

[Blother Had Me Like]

Nerf electric burst damage and reduce web time and maybe another part of the webbing. Can you make it so stink cloud doesn't affect AAs? Also, how can we change AAs to better handle the variety of fliers, like the differences between spam fliers and beefy level 5 fliers. Unless AAs should stay weak against level 5 just like SBs aren't good against level 5s.What I had in mind at first was to increase the attack speed of AA but reduce the damage, so the dps of it is the same, but it would handle really low health fliers much better.

I also suggest you do not make any changes to actual creature stats unless we find any specific animals that truly are game breaking. Most complaints on the stock aren't really an issue with balance, but rather a change in how the game is played, which is more of a personal issue than a game issue.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

This is wisdom. That said, I think caterpillar needs some altering.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Aaaalso can we crank the bombardier projectile speed?

[BARRY MANILOW]

STOP REMOVING THE "GIVE MAN O' WAR A LESS PASSIVE MOVEMENT ANIMATION" POINT THAT THING GIVES ME NIGHTMARES.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY MUSCLES.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

P.S. GG Philhelm for scouring through the critter list and finding all the fuckups.

[BARRY MANILOW]

More wibbly tentacles?

But really, seeing a creature swim with no animation is just not good.

[Blother Had Me Like]

I think I kind of like artillery being the best to use at level 5 even though I still use others. Also, would it be possible to make web throw only stop the creatures for moving? I basically am saying this would stop melee units, but range would act the same, but immobile.

[Sawslig Steve. And William.]

Maybecakes. The reason I'm not such a fan of superstrong art is that there are so few combinations available. This also makes it very easy to find the unit that is objectively best (killillar).