Combined Arms 0.81 file

#### Balance Changes

# ---- General

- Reduced Engineer cost to 400.

- Increase Mammoth Tank/Titan/Apocalypse Tank AA damage.

# ---- Soviet

- Soviet air powers gained from either Airfield or Helipad.
- Yak gains AA and no longer spreads damage in a line. Reduced damage vs buildings.
- Hind loses AA, gains anti-tank rockets. Increased HP from 24k to 30k, increased cost from 1500 to 1600.
- Reduce Desolator rate of fire slightly and halve damage vs heavy armor.
- Increased Seismic Missile Sukhoi concussion duration and damage vs heavy armor.
- Increased Sukhoi damage vs heavy armor.- Brute changed from Heavy to Light Armor, reduced hp by 50%
- Reduce Yak HP from 15k to 13.5k.
- Reduced Desolator HP from 24k to 22.5k.
- Increase Crazy Ivan HP from 7k to 12k.

- Increase Genetic Mutation bomb mutation range by 1.

- Brute changed from None to Light Armor

- Increased Hind and Stormrider AA splash radius by 0.75.
- MAD Tank will detonate repeatedly when deployed, taking damage on each detonation.

# ---- GDI

- GDI air powers gained from either Airfield or Helipad.
- Warthog requires Sidewinders upgrade on tech center for AA capability. Must be resupplied after upgrade for missiles to be armed.
- Increased Aurora bomb damage.
- Vulcan upgrade now reduces APC unit speed

- Reduced Vulcan damage vs heavy armor, defenses and buildings.
- Reduced Vulcan wind up time.
- Revert Vulcan speed from 108 to 90.
- Reduce Warthog HP from 25k to 24k.
- Increase Aurora damage vs buildings slightly.
- Make XO laser blockable by walls.
- Increase XO HP from 27.5k to 30k.
- Increase attached Mini Drone damage resistance and increase its repair effectiveness.

- Juggernaut changed to 'stop to fire' (instead of stopping movement for 2 seconds after firing).

# ---- Nod

- Light Tank HP and speed reduced (39k to 38k and 90 to 80 respectively).
- Reduced Cyborg Reaper HP from 14k to 9k.
- Comanche loses AA, requires Temple, no longer requires upgrade for cloak.
- Apache gains AA. HP reduced from 20k to 15k, reduced cost from 1400 to 1350.
- Venom rate of fire lowered. Damage vs heavy armor and aircraft increased. HP lowered from 19k to 18k. Ammo reduced from 10 to 8.

- Increased Venom damage vs infantry & light armor (correction, as ammo/RoF were reduced).
- SSM changed to 'stop to fire' (instead of stopping movement for 2 seconds after firing).
- Mobile Stealth Gen hp decreased (25000> 18000)
- Cluster Missile countdown timer shown to all players

- Increase Mobile Stealth Generator range by 2 cells.
- Increase Black Hand speed (keeping prone speed roughly the same).
- Frenzy now causes affected units to take 10% more damage.
- Comanche is now hidden from enemies on radar

- Stealth Generator Changes:

- No uncloaking on damage.
- Faster re-cloak.
- Cyborgs and friendly infantry with hazmat suits take no damage, enemy infantry with hazmat suits take half damage.
- Stealth Generator structure grants local cloak when not active.

# ---- Scrin

- Reduced Stormrider reload time from 30s to 25s and increased splash damage vs ground slightly.

- Mothership auto-targeting and damage adjustment. (Increased main beam range a little to prevent it getting stuck repeatedly charging)
- Increased Mothership vision by 3.
- Made Mastermind also spawn a Mind Spark on self when casting ability.

# ---- Allies

- Increase base IFV AA damage by 10%.

#### Bug Fixes

- Stopped Helicopters "hovering" and their rotor spinning when Chrono-warped
- Make Black Hand/Heavy Flamer sounds end more immediately after firing.
- Fixed Black Hand not firing from Battle Fortress.
- Fixed A10 freezing mid-air when one of its ammo pools is depleted and it tries to auto-attack a target for which it has no ammo.
- Stopped Scrin Buildings spawning technicians
- Added missing Commando Build Announcements

- Corrected Soviet Flamethrower damage vs buildings.
- Fixed aircraft reveal on fire (must be at least equal to CruiseAltitude) and reduced the reveal duration.
- Corrected Spy Plane/Recon Drone prerequisites.
- Corrected Commanche Tooltip