Planetary Fortress damage bugged? - Page 8

spinesheath

Germany8679 Posts

April 08 2010 20:41 GMT

#141

On April 09 2010 05:35 Cyclon wrote:
It may not be a bug. Setting higher AoE damage for units near the target but lower damage for the target itself has the effect of encouraging players to spread out more against the PT, while using fewer, stronger units. I don't see any problem with that decision, it should probably just be made a bit more obvious in game.

You can't really spread out enough to reduce the splash significantly and still deal enough dps to the Planetary Fortress to take it out before your opponen't army is there. You can't afford to fight a PF and your opponent's army at the same time. So you either take it down as quickly as possible or you just ignore it.

semantics

10040 Posts

April 08 2010 20:42 GMT

#142

Either way the damage is a lie and that needs to be fixed, damage should always be posted in a reduction based format not secretly make it more powerful so someone sees 40 and thinks okay 40 dmg not someone sees 40 finds out its more like 60 and goes haxx

shinosai

United States1577 Posts

April 08 2010 20:45 GMT

#143

Obviously this bug needs to be fixed, but given that the planetary fortress isn't particularly popular to begin with, I'd really like to see an overhaul of the building. Let it be used defensively to heal units or restore energy or something, rather than just being a fat building to avoid attacking. Otherwise I doubt it will ever see much use over orbital.

Cyclon

United States99 Posts

April 08 2010 20:50 GMT

#144

On April 09 2010 05:41 spinesheath wrote:

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You don't necessarily have to spread out so much that the AoE never hits more then 1 of your unit at a time, just make sure you don't blob it up so that the AoE hits 8-10 at a time. Especially true since most player's at the moment probably aren't microing their PF much while they try to pull every unit on the map to trap you. So find what it's targetting, micro it away from the group to avoid splash a bit more.

Also, it makes units like Archons and Ultralisks better, as they are high HP and the splash AoE (probably? haven't tested) isn't big enough to effect units next to them. Not that it will make them great units, but they can use all the help they can get.

cartoon]x

United States606 Posts

April 08 2010 20:54 GMT

#145

I don't understand how it would work for a gun to do more damage in splash then on the target, but I don't think it's a typo either.

MagusDraco

United States12 Posts

April 08 2010 20:57 GMT

#146

Maybe the gun is splashing tons upon tons of metal fragments that hurt more than the actual impact.

I dunno

Zato-1

Chile4253 Posts

April 09 2010 00:54 GMT

#147

On April 09 2010 05:35 Cyclon wrote:
If you recall, SC1 had dozens of cases like this where unit damage didn't match the number from the tooltip. Explosive and concussion damage was completely left to be discovered by players, along with things like how much damage the muta's did with their bouncing attacks and how units with two attacks doubled the attack bonus and the armor bonus of the enemy.

Or... players could just read the game manual instead?

http://classic.battle.net/scc/terran/ustats.shtml

All those things you mentioned are actually quite clearly documented in SC1. This is not the case for the abnormal way the PF's splash damage works.