[Shalashaska]

Does anybody know exactly why power plants are immune to emp? I thought maybe they had the EMP_HARDENED, but they don't (unless I'm COMPLETELY blind).

This is somewhat retarded as many times I want to send my EMP Pulse to shut down my enemies power....but it doesn't affect power plants.

[MisterGoid]

you mean the china emp bomb? im pretty sure ive used that to knock powerplants offline....

but maybe im just making stuff up.

[jmb8785]

i have seen the emp knock out power in regular generals, but not in zh. *i have not played against china yet* umm. ill take a look, is this in regular generals or zh

jmb8785

[Shalashaska]

Sorry, this is for Zero Hour. In regular Generals the EMP Bomb will disable Power Plants, but in ZH no EMP attack (like the EMP Patriots) will disable them.

[loid]

I have a similar problem when using saboteurs against powerplants, I checked the ini code so Im sure saboteurs can knock out ("low-bat" is popular term we use in here in the philippines) powerplants. However the powerplant doesn't seem to be affected... or so it seems until I tried it against my brother using laser general (we know laser requires a lot of power). The result was although the powerplant did not "blackouted" my brother's entire laser army went "low-bat". Maybe the FX just don't update properly but the actual low-power behavior happens.

[Mishkin]

Yea, I had a similar experience.

I gave the SuperWeapon General's Pathfinder EMP Grenades, and they just wouldn't make the power plant go off-line (FX that is). Against all the other structures it worked fine.

At first I though my code was a little messed up, but now I see I was wrong.
By the way, same goes for the Chinese power plants, right?

That's good I think, that you can't use EMP to knock out power.

1) It's kinda cool, maybe the Power Plants have some kind of Anti-EMP things installed in them.

2) Better for balance issues.

[Redeemer]

Going slightly off topic here, but on my copy of ZH when i call in the EMP bomb, the plane that drops it is the B-52 (WTF?! :tard: )
Either that or it might be one of the other chinese abilities that uses a plane, but it's definintly a B-52 that drops the payload - anyone else seen this? it's actually a little annoying

[Shalashaska]

Hmmm, weird. No I've never seen that. Have you had any mods installed/modded anything yourself? That has to do with the OCL ini...check it out. The transport line under superweapon emppulse should read transport = chinajetcargoplane.