GLA Toxin General is very strong

[xezon]

GLA Toxin General is very strong. There are 2 main reasons for this.

1. Toxin RPG uses Stinger missiles that can track targets
2. Toxin Gamma Upgrade grants hefty damage bonuses

Related reports and changes

• Fix: Toxin General RPG-Trooper Shoots Stinger Missiles #1094
• Fix: Remove 200 extra damage prior Gamma Upgrade from Toxin Terrorists #699
• Balancing GLA ambushes? #872
• Change: Reduce Toxin GLA Stinger Gamma ground damage bonus from 100% to 50% and air damage bonus from 66% to 50% #882
• Change: Redistribute Toxin Tractor Gamma damage bonus to stay within 50% max #889
• Add GLA Toxin Tractor to DPS calculator sheet #890
• Fix: Toxin GLA Tunnel Defender double firing against ground and air targets #1334
• Change: Decrease primary damage of Anthrax Gamma Scud Storm from 550 to 500, secondary damage of Anthrax Beta Scud Storm from 200 to 175 #2002

Gamma Upgrade Stats

Anthrax Gamma damage bonuses over respective Anthrax Beta damages.

Thing	Original Gamma Bonus	Patched Gamma Bonus
Toxin Terrorist	-29%	0%
Toxin Rebel	+25%	+25%
Toxin RPG Trooper	+30%	+30%
Toxin Tunnel	+25%	+25%
Toxin Truck Nozzle (Scrap 1,2)	+64% ,+63% ,+42%	+50%, +50%, +50%
Toxin Truck Spray (Scrap 1,2)	+00%, +33%, +28%	+20%, +33%, +28%
Toxin SCUD Storm Primary	+10%	0%
Toxin SCUD Storm Secondary	+33%	+33%
Toxin Stinger Site vs ground	+100%	+50%
Toxin Stinger Site vs air	+66%	+50%

RPG Trooper Stats

WIP

Proposal 1

Remove RPG Trooper missile tracking. No other GLA Faction has it.

Proposal 2

Reduce RPG Trooper missile tracking range.

Proposal 3

Reduce Gamma Upgrade Toxin Stinger damage bonus. (Done)

• Change: Reduce Toxin GLA Stinger Gamma ground damage bonus from 100% to 50% and air damage bonus from 66% to 50% #882

[xezon]

Rage:

Gamma and this tracking ability is definitely what makes tox so strong lategame.

I think the tracking is mostly a problem for migs and helixes as toxin becomes so insanely hard to play against for china late game if the toxin general builds some nests / busses / puts some rgs in a building. And the ground army doesn't really stand a chance anyway except for perhaps the inferno spam (but 1 flanking buss and gg for that too)

Perhaps a slight tweak might already do a lot: make toxin RPG troopers with gamma deal slightly less damage to aircraft but keep the tracking ability and keep the same damage to ground units?

Rising:

I would remove it. Makes no sense to me for tox RPG’s to be better than other gla’s.

[xezon]

I reflected all current Gamma bonus changes in above table.