Patch for Axis and Allies RTS

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 1:14 pm

Just curious if you were in charge of patching and/or balancing A&A, what you would change? I have many ideas on this, I'll toss a few out a save a few for later.. Let's not discuss new features, only changing current ones.

Recon - severely weakening or completely removing recon from the game. The early battles for cities would be interesting, and it would definitely extend the infantry stage of the game.

Arty Tanks - removing the light/medium tanks leaving only the long toms, increasing range, so that arty tanks could only really be used as artillery support

Sniper Infantry - give all countries some form of sniper based infantry

Oil and Ammo Depots - change it so that oil and ammo depots do not count against your building limit of 20, eliminating the need for every player to spam 100's of supply depots; and thus improving late-game performance (less lag)

That should get us started.. and I ask these questions for a good reason so let's try and stay on topic and give some good feedback Smile

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 3:20 pm

I like that recon idea spas really fun to fight in cities Smile

Just want to clear some point, I never ever want fatal errors to be fixed, ever.

1) Quitting added to disconnects.
2) Better stat system.
3) Buddy list not fucking up.
4) 714 map in multiplayer.
5) Fix the glitch where the AI controls you as you play (rarely happens, as you are in the game its like someone controlling you instead of you controlling yourself. You can still controll but then the AI redirects it again)
6) Lobby could hold more than 30 people
7) Fix the glitch where ur unit(s) go to one end of the map when you clearly told them to go to another.
Cool

Cities that give more than 5+ oil or 5+ ammo, more like 10+ or 15+.
9) Weaken USA overpowered Generals to only 1 carpet and 1 nuke, maybe no lend lease.
10) Weaken SAS a bit.
11) Some people argue than German AT mech are better than USA's or USA's AT is better than Germans (USA's is the best AT mech in the game), make German AT a bit more powerful, not too much though then they would be overpowered.
12) Airfileds made harder to get, like 1500 per airfield but does not count in building cap.
13) Everyone allowed no more than 5 accounts.
(Can't type more for some reason).

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 1:03 am

actally random maps should be balanced tho, sometimes city adv is hilarius . . .

Posted: Sun Apr 19, 2009 10:06 am

GoldMan wrote:

actally random maps should be balanced tho, sometimes city adv is hilarius . . .

Rarely, maybe 1% of the times, I'll tell you why. If you have city advantage in a 4v4, your enemy has a better draw and more bombs than your team, thats how it usually works or its a 3v4 or 3v5, which means the game is trying to balance out things. Give on team cities and other gets better draw, if the draws are pretty equal then the city advantage is only the other team's fault for being slow.

Private First Class (PFC) Joined: Apr 17, 2009 Posts: 24

Remove the atomic bomb. Its just ridiculous.

Weaken USA in general. German Mech may have the best STRENGTH in the game but it fails early/mid game when you have USA mech, all upgrades with mech advance and mechanical reliablity too.

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:00 am

How about?
Axis and Allies 1940
No heavy tanks, No USA

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:57 am

lol yeah nice idea spas

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:26 am

i like too much gemran heavies..how bout 1943 ? : D

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 6:20 pm

Make arty batteries actually worth building. Add the capability of ships to each match. USA gets to use marines. kill the morale glitch. Nerf arty tanks. Make the banzai infantry actually worth the cash. that said any other over priced inf should be made better.

Posted: Mon Apr 20, 2009 7:04 pm

Make the maps nicer and a lot more real ffs! If you nuke the ocean as Templar ask me online on A&A, why doesnt it produce any waves or even ripples? Just makes the ocean floor black for 10 seconds like wtf. Also, if i bomb a city or mountain, maybe can it can be damaged or look different after bombing? Like cmon and another thing TREES! MOTHERFUCKING TREES! If i move mech or tanks through they fall down (good thats normal) BUT THEY REGROW!!!! >_<
Some aspects of A&A really piss me off. lol the game creators smoked weed when designing the game Razz

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 10:08 am

Canadian_Army wrote:

TREES! MOTHERFUCKING TREES! If i move mech or tanks through they fall down (good thats normal) BUT THEY REGROW!!!! >_<
Some aspects of A&A really piss me off. lol the game creators smoked weed when designing the game Razz

Regrow? lol and im terribly shocked that you don't know that trees dont grow again especially when they fall they spread their seeds...

I think the game is pretty realistic without being annoyingly realistic, games nowadays are all graphics first then advertisements and making money and then fun.

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 12:28 pm

bring ships any day

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:17 pm

been so long seen i used usa marines, i remember they have a melee attack (bayonet) ... I wonder how the matchup vs snipers and sas?

i like the idea of ships but there is some buggy stuff going on with those.. probably left out of the game for a reason. wish they would have had a SeaportHQ where you could deploy and repair vessels.... Smile

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 4:07 pm

Lol I like all these ideas.... Now if only they would make a fucking patch.... Hey does anyone know if it is possible for us to make the patches?

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 5:20 pm

No, dude you break the trees but they regrow (in same spot) in 10 seeconds and it slows down vehicles and inf a lot! >_<

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 6:39 pm

RuSsIaNs9y wrote:

Hey does anyone know if it is possible for us to make the patches?

yes and no. some things can be changed, others cannot. You cant alter the source code / game engine... No new features in that regard, although anything that you can do in campaign mode for instance, should be able to be added (landmines, marines, etc).

you can add/alter: all the graphics, sound, units, regiments, special ops, etc.... basically if it has stats; you can change (or add) them.

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 9:32 am

Ok, but could you make a patch so the stats would unfreeze? If so, how could you do it, 'cause I'm not a good computer guy... Embarassed

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:39 pm

Actually I freaking hate ships thank god they left them out.

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:41 pm

Dont ask me! I suck ass at computers thats why i needed Gaeld to help me out for my pc. I was thinking someone like Valdarez could make the patch? Confused

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:20 pm

Ya, I suck with computers, too. This is why I need someone else to make a patch.

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