Melting Point

Melting Point

Giant anti-unit bot

Mobility	Ground
Giant	Yes
Cost	400
Unlock cost	200
Units	1
HP	30907
Attack	2 - 7952
Target	Air & Ground
Attack Interval	0.2s
Splash Damage	3.0m
Burst Damage	Minimal
Max DPS	39760
Range	115m
Speed	6m/s
Description A giant unit that attacks enemies from afar with a laser beam that gradually grows in size. The bane of all high HP units.

Values are normalized to the supply cost of the unit to make it easier to compare units. The Splash Index tries to calculate the effectiveness vs spam by multiply attacks with slash area and a penalty for damage below 350.
Unit Cost	400 - 600
HP Value	51.5 - 77.3
Burst Value	0 - 0
DPS Value	66.3 - 99.4
Splash Index	0.4

v1.0

Summary

The Melting Point is essentially a giant walking death ray - it specializes in dealing unparalleled single-target damage to high-HP units, and is an excellent answer to the other three giant units due to their large health pool and slow speed.

Similar to the Steel Ball, the Melting Point attacks using a laser that deals more damage the longer it fires, though it has a much longer range and can target air units as well as ground. The damage of the Melting Point needs time to build up. It takes about 36 seconds to deal a total of 1,000,000 damage - about 5s longer than a fully charged laser would take. That shows the the build up to max DPS requires more than 5s. As rule of thumb, it takes about 4 seconds for the laser to deal its first instance of maximum damage and 2 seconds for the next - after that, maximum damage is applied on every subsequent instance of damage.

The Melting Point is also a good answer to enemy shields and barriers, as its laser will typically shred through them before they absorb too many attacks from the rest of the player's forces. The Melting Point struggles to kill units with high unit counts such as Fangs, but are also vulnerable to units with good single-target damage that outrange it such as the Marksman or the Stormcaller - having high damage doesn't matter if the Melting Point is destroyed before it can fire. Despite their size and ability to regain health with Energy Absorption, Melting Points are best placed behind other units - partly to give your army time to clear your opponent's chaff, and partly for your chaff to divert fire away from your Melting Points

The Melting Point's upgrades mainly focus on altering its standard attack in different ways. Energy Absorption gives the Melting Point a flat HP boost along with the ability to heal itself as it attacks - this upgrade can allows it to defeat several squads at once as long as there aren't too many individual units to target. Range Enhancement is key for fighting other long-range units that would otherwise threaten the Melting Point. Energy Diffraction alters its beam attack to be more effective against small groups of durable enemies such as Steel Balls or Sledgehammers, while Electromagnetic Barrage allows the Melting Point to fire long-range EMP missiles at enemy forces, potentially slowing and disabling the tech of multiple units at once.

Tech Upgrades

Icon	Name	Cost	Description
	Energy Absorption	200	Increases HP by 60% and converts dmage dealt to HP HP 49451
	Range Enhancement	300	Increases attack range by 40m Range 155m
	Energy Diffraction	150	Melting range reduced by 30m, but can fire 5 rays for 17% damage each If this Tech gets disabled (for example by another Electromagnetic Shot Tech), only one of the beams keeps melting. This beam also only has 17% (max 6759 DPS) of the normal damage. Range 85m
	Electromagnetic Barrage	300	Launches 16 electromagnetic shots at the enemy every 15s. Each electromagnetic shot deals 4,000 damage to shields, slows all hit units, and disables their Tech for 8s. Electromagnetic shots have a range of 180m Total damage 64000, missiles can be intercepted Debuff duration 13 seconds
	Crawler Summoning	300	Produces 8 Crawlers to join the combat every 36s for 3 times
	Armor Enhancement	100	HP is increased by 50% and 60 damage is blocked when attacked. The damage blocking effect increases by 60 with each level. HP 46361

Update Notes

0.7.42 The production interval of the Tech [Crawler Production] has been adjusted from 30 seconds to 32 seconds. 0.7.25 The HP bonus provided by [Energy Absorption] is adjusted from 60% to 40%. 0.7.17 [Energy Diffraction]: Price adjusted from 300 to 250 [Armor Enhancement]: HP bonus adjusted from 30% to 35% 0.7.13 HP increased by 3%. 0.7.8 Melting Point's base attack increased by 3%. 0.7.6 HP increased by 3%. Base range adjusted from 110 to 115. [Energy Diffraction] range reduction adjusted from 25 to 30 0.6.176 Changed Armor Enhancement Changed HP from 42005 -> 38645 Crawler Summoning from 12 -> 10 0.6.175 Page created