Robot Buffs and tweaks

Heavy Is GPS
PROJECT LEAD
November 11, 2022

Human Balance

  • Medic
    • Solem Vow:
      • Increased healing mastery from 1 to 4 points in terms of upgrade

Robot Categories

  • Removed:

    • Disruptor sub categories, disruptors are now capped at 6 per category.
  • Changed:

    • Paid disruptors all generate 1 bonus RC on death

Robot Balance

  • Bonk Scout

    • Changed:
      • Fixed incorrect damage stat being applied making baseballs deal too much damage. Baseballs now deals the correct 40 damage instead of 100
  • Batman renamed to Grapple Hook

    • Changed:
      • Robot type from MK I to MK II
        • Cost: 1 RC per robot
      • Increased health from 1250 to 1750
      • Reduced damage penalty on butter knives from -75% to -25%
  • Shogun

    • Changed:
      • Robot type from MK I to MK II
        • Cost: 1 RC per robot
      • Increased health percentage restored on kill from 10% to 20% of total health
  • Fan Scout

    • Changed:
      • Robot type from MK I to MK II
        • Cost: 1 RC per robot
      • Increased health from 1250 to 2150
      • Reload speed from -10% slower to +20% faster
  • Archibolt

    • Changed:
      • Robot type from MK I to MK II
        • Cost: 1 RC per robot
      • Increased health from 2500 to 3500
  • Hammerhead

    • Changed:
      • Increased health from 1250 to 2000
  • Firewall

    • Changed:
      • Burning players mini-crit to crit
      • Reduced damage penalty vs burning players from -10% to -50%
        • This is to offset the damage bonus you get from overheat, and so that you don't instantly melt with the fire ring
  • Megaton

    • Changed:
      • Reduced vertical knockback on hit from 650 to 350 forcepowers
  • Lazy Purple

    • Changed:
      • Robot type from MK I to MK II
        • Cost: 1 RC per robot
      • Reduced movespeed penalty from -20% to -15% (now same as Elmaxo)
      • Reduced blast radius penalty from -80% to -20%
      • Faster projectile speed back to default Direct Hit
      • Reduced fire rate bonus from +20% to +10% faster
    • Removed:
      • Damage penalty vs buildings
  • Renamed Gotham Bat Droid -> Gotham Attack Droid

    • Added:
      • Better description in the menu for this bot
  • Robo Knight

    • Added:
      • 5 second Mini-crit on kill
      • +10% faster attack speed
      • Full charge turn control
    • Removed:
      • +35% Jump height bonus
    • This robot keeps bouncing between OP and trash, this iteration is most likely OP
  • Dreysidel

    • Changed:
      • Movespeed penalty from -50% to -35% slower
  • Wamo

    • Added:
      • Activating MMPHF grants an additional 5 seconds of uber
  • Necromancer

    • Changed:
      • Reduced kills needed for ability from 3 to 2
  • Laugh Extractor

    • Added:
      • Spooky noise when activating the ability
  • StabbyStabby

    • Added:
      • Missing spy alert spawn sound

Optimization

  • Optimized some of the medic code

Bugfixes

  • Added code to ensure clip sizes are correctly applied to robots having less clip than standard