About nuke sound

Feda · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 08 Apr 2012

Hello. I was wondering why was the "Nuclear Weapon Launched" sound replaced by some horn-like sound? I barely manage to notice this new one. I guess that RA sides could have the "A-bomb launch detected" sound as well.

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

Its to provide a generic sound-effect probably.

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 3:10 pm Post subject:

The main reason is that the AI actually no longer uses the nuke as a superweapon, but fires it as a regular weapon that has a very slow rate of fire. As a result of this, the "Nuclear Weapon Launched" speech is never played when the AI fires its nuke.

Another issue is that because of the way the TS engine works, only one single structure in the game is able to launch nukes and since the Temple of Nod was already the designated "NukeSilo", I could only get nukes to work for the Red Alert factions by using a different superweapon and making it look like a nuke, which also meant that these nukes couldn't be announced by the EVA speech when they were launched.

So although it's not really a solution, I right now made the nuke launching structure itself sound a warning klaxon just before launching the nuke, but you'll only hear this warning klaxon when the Nuke Silo/Temple of Nod actually visible on your screen (or is at least close to the area you're viewing on your screen) since it's the structure itself that makes this sound.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

I would prefer the klaxon being replaced with "Nuclear launch detected"
Maybe the TD aud can go in the TD side mixes and the RA "A-Bomb launch" go in the RA side mixes, so they play the correct sound according to the side.

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Sun May 04, 2014 8:18 pm Post subject:

I already tried that, but unfortunately it doesn't work. The side-specific mix files don't accept sounds.

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Leonis · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 23 Feb 2014

Speaking of nukes. Does the AI still only attack your northernmost building? I've played a few games on A Path Beyond recently, and the AI has an affinity for nuking my northernmost Naval Yard, which does next to nothing.

Bittah Commander · Posted: Mon May 05, 2014 7:18 pm Post subject:

The position of your structure doesn't really matter, but the AI currently does indeed keep attacking the same unit or structure with nukes until it has been destroyed.

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Leonis · Vehicle Driver **Joined**: 23 Feb 2014

Bittah Commander wrote:

The position of your structure doesn't really matter, but the AI currently does indeed keep attacking the same unit or structure with nukes until it has been destroyed.

Well, then, I guess I hilariously lucked out then. Razz

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

Bittah Commander wrote:

the AI currently does indeed keep attacking the same unit or structure with nukes until it has been destroyed.

IIRC there was a key in TS which made a building "forget" the target after each shot, then choose a target again and thus switch through the targets.
I think it was back then when we balanced the adv. guard tower which can't have dual burst AA missiles. It could have been SAM=yes or something else that i tested (though SAM makes it AA-only, so this wouldn't work).
Or was it a different HasStupidGuardMode setting? Damn, my memory.

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Another possibility: use reaper splits logic with a low RetargetAccuracy so the Nuke hits a random unit/building near the chosen target.
(Using Cluster=10 would be surely funny too -> MIRV Nuke Rain Twisted Evil

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Tue May 06, 2014 11:41 am Post subject:

Maybe it's StupidGuardMode=yes?

In any case, I'd rather not use splitting missiles with a low RetargetAccuracy, because it might make the AI hit Civilians, friendly units or even nothing at when the target it's aiming for happens to be outside of a base.

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