Update Scoring on Hail Mary.
Posted: Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:56 am
Greetings,
Recently finished my playthrough of Chains of War. Great campaign, but I do have gripes with the scoring.
I was going to spend a bunch of time and do the math to calculate the theoretical maximum amount of points you can score with the weapons you have available, but then I realized that every airbase has an assortment of A2G weapons staged.
Regardless, 150K is an insane threshold for triumph. Yes, scores in scenarios are mostly arbitrary, and this is the last scenario of the campaign so it doesn't really matter, but I feel like it deserves a revision being a paid DLC scenario.
You can completely annihilate the entire PLAAF/PLANAF, and crater upwards of half a dozen of their airbases (see my attached save, sitting at 80K points) and it isn't even considered a minor victory. Just based on logic I find this absurd. I would say neutering a near superpower while sustaining less than 25 downed aircraft yourself is quite the accomplishment.
Since I was bored and to save the team the backbreaking work of editing the scoring slider, I went ahead and fixed it myself and decreased the threshold by 33%. Please feel free to implement this change and give me no credit whatsoever!
Recently finished my playthrough of Chains of War. Great campaign, but I do have gripes with the scoring.
I was going to spend a bunch of time and do the math to calculate the theoretical maximum amount of points you can score with the weapons you have available, but then I realized that every airbase has an assortment of A2G weapons staged.
Regardless, 150K is an insane threshold for triumph. Yes, scores in scenarios are mostly arbitrary, and this is the last scenario of the campaign so it doesn't really matter, but I feel like it deserves a revision being a paid DLC scenario.
You can completely annihilate the entire PLAAF/PLANAF, and crater upwards of half a dozen of their airbases (see my attached save, sitting at 80K points) and it isn't even considered a minor victory. Just based on logic I find this absurd. I would say neutering a near superpower while sustaining less than 25 downed aircraft yourself is quite the accomplishment.
Since I was bored and to save the team the backbreaking work of editing the scoring slider, I went ahead and fixed it myself and decreased the threshold by 33%. Please feel free to implement this change and give me no credit whatsoever!