Small Unit Card Update

[shadow rivet]

I offer a small update to gui_info that aims to bring clarity to the unit cards for BeamLaser units and EMP units. Feedback/bug reports welcome.

To install: place text file in Widgets folder, rename file (if needed) to "gui_info" and enable in F11 menu in-game, where it shows as "info."

Uninstalling once finished testing is recommended.

Download: #1199103777236590662 message

Edit:
Known bugs:

• unit xp not working correctly Fixed?

More examples:

[reef pier]

Nice!
Is it possible that the Thor could show its metal cost and energy cost for the missiles?

[main bough]

that should probably be a separate thing

nothing that stockpiles ammo shows the cost per-ammo currently. Like nuke, antinuke, juno, LRAA, and thor

[graceful cape]

@shadow rivet could you show side-by side old & new info cards plz? :)

[shadow rivet]

Beamlaser units now show a dps range to match how they work in game, emp units now show (EMP) next to the number. I'm not sure a comparison is really needed...

No changes to the UI here

[graceful cape]

ty!

[reef pier]

I know. But it might be possible.

[sand chasm]

Known bugs:
unit xp not working correctly Fixed?

you might be running into what is iirc a known issue with beamers - their attack speed doesn't get affected by XP much if at all

however, I'm curious - why just BeamLasers and not all laser weapons? Grunts don't have beam lasers, yet they suffer from damage falloff in the exact same way, no?

[main bough]

Grunts are BeamLaser

[sand chasm]

TIL

is there actually any laser that's not BeamLaser?

maybe my whole point is completely moot lol

[main bough]

pretty much any laser in the game is, including tachyons and snipers (snipers have no damage falloff though, which this code accounts for)

[sand chasm]

kekw

all right, then I'd say this should just be PRed to the main repo 😄

[main bough]

Agreed, though I'm going to advocate for a little cleanup first

[sand chasm]

sure

[main bough]

I've offered to help Snoop with that, since they are brand new to programming 🙂

Pretty impressive change considering that

[shadow rivet]

Yes, laser cannon

Not many units use it though

[shadow rivet]

Sharpshooters are an example of laser cannon unit.

The only unit that uses beamlaser weapon type and doesn't have the default 50% damage drop-off is the cortex T1 supporter ship, which is set at 60% minimum damage.

The code here should account for any unit that has a custom minIntensity value set above 0.5

And yeah, big thanks to Hobo for assisting me here.

[burnt bolt]

Sharpshooters actually use old_armsnipe_weapon, which is just a Cannon. Arm seaplane gunship is LaserCannon though, as are the various legion railguns and gatling guns

Basically anything that looks like a star wars blaster, a "laser" with travel time

[shadow rivet]

Ah, weird. I assumed that was the old version, but I can see below that's what it uses.

[burnt bolt]

Apparently got reverted to "old" version like 3 years ago due to some bugs with the lasercannon version, not that that's relevant to this thread, just possibly interesting

[main bough]

Ah that's what I get for speaking without double checking

[burnt bolt]

They're strange units mechanically in a lot of ways

[shadow rivet]

Cleaned up version done by Hobo Joe

[stoic pike]

Is this added to the base game now?

[shadow rivet]

Yes, merged 6 hours ago as of this comment

In new lobbies, you should see the changes

[main compass]

I would love to see 2 values for hp. One for the actual amount and one for the max amount. So you can see oh he has 200 from max 10000 hp. Now you only see the current value

[main bough]

This shows up in the detailed tool tip of you mouse over the card