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1.1 combat was fine. Everything worked as intended. 1.2 changed something. Someone left out a decimal or a number and it all went to hell. The "testers" only tested early game, as in they would start a new game to see the problem, see huge casualty rates, so they halved damage which made late game combat even worse.

So according to what Kongoman did, what happened is, in 1.2 infantry fire became a fixed 2 instead of the intended scaling modifier. since that number is simply a multiplier, no matter the erra, infantry did 4 times the damage of the roll. Early game when you have no tactics to offset damage, you Gibbed an army with a high roll. The infantry fire early game is supposed to quarter damage to offset this. Now in 1.2.2 they "halved" damage. So in effect they changed the bugged fixed number from a 2 to a 1. So the problem was still there. And when the fire rating should be higher late game (2) it is now at a fixed 1. so we saw much longer battles with dozens of casualties. As the modifier was supposed to offset the large number of pips and tactics.

I am asuming this works exactly the same for shock numbers and all unit types. I cant imagine they have a seperate line of code for those, and would have only made the mistake in 1 place.

So late game when artilery fire should be 4+, it remains a 1. Cavalry shock also gets upto the 4+ range. Also staying 1 the entire game. This in all is what killed late game casualty rates.

And as everyone seemed to notice, Mid game seemed to even out and be fine. That's because mid game, they are supposed to be at 1. when arty becomes available I'm pretty sure it starts with a 1 rating in the tech screen. It isnt until later techs that it's supposed to get bumped. tech 10 or so, pretty much all modifiers should list at or near 1 in the fire/shock modifiers in the tech screen, and as such combat was perfectly fine.

will try to snap some pictures but they're hella paranoid yo

I'm surprised nobody bought up Mr. Bones' wild ride.

Dust: An Elysian Tale is 66% off now, which puts it at $5.10 US. I'm considering buying it for the artwork alone but heh...

Are there any major issues with it? Does it, in fact, suck? I have a controller so that's not an issue.

EDIT: ah... no thread for it but there was a review like 30+ pages ago. refined forum searches ftw. "If you think you'll like it, you probably will" is enough recommendation for me.

Quote from: Chaoswizkid on October 13, 2013, 08:07:36 pm

Quote from: Putnam on October 13, 2013, 06:36:59 pm

You get it after graduating university or after your junior year, IIRC. I know for a fact that you get it from university.

(I feel so Canadian calling it "university" with no articles you don't even know)

I actually approve of calling it "university" and have as often as I could. "College" is too vague in the US. It could mean a trade school, a little tech school, a community college or an actual university. Saying that you went to "college" tells you basically nothing in the US and you only get looked down on by people outside of the US who maintain that distinction.

College and university are technical terms with meaning. A college does not do scientific research alongside teaching, while a university does.