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[olli]

Content to follow.

[Pendaelose]

I started SupW's final draft today.

Planned changes for SupW general run roughly along these lines..

A new Promotion tree. Carpet bombing, A10, Beacon Bomb and MOAB will stay, but all other powers will be new.

One of these new powers is 4 ranks of "Mobile Defense" This will unlock a mobile 30mm gun battery, patriot tank, Long Arm missile launcher and a mobile Heavy AA platform.

The observant may have noticed the Long Arm under mobile defenses... the Tomahawk site will be replaced with a Long Arm site with some interesting features.

The SDI cannon will become a "hero defense" with a build limit 1. But it will gain a toggle for "Ballistic Overwatch" that transforms it into a anti-nuke system like in Contra.


Today I made the 30mm Gun tank

[Pendaelose]

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SupW General has a new shield generator and shield effect.

The new shield is far more effective than the old style, and very effectively stops pretty much every shell and missile. It can no longer be overwhelmed by hordes of little shots. However they are extremely frail and requires 25 power each. Also, if you loose power the shield drops. It is also vulnerable to beam weapons, lighting tanks, and small projectiles such as chain guns etc.

In one test round a lightning tank shot a base defense at the edge of the shield, and the chain lightning hopped along to shutdown the shield.

on a decorative note, the shield picks up a faint hue from the team color, a nice effect.

Edited by Pendaelose, 30 March 2010 - 08:01 PM.

[Soul]

That looks pretty cool, anything else you'd like to show off?

[Pendaelose]

This is the wrong General's topic, but I've been dying to show off this....
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Also, I reminded Olli about the other 3 generals needing screenshots of all their units.

[m3rc1l3ss]

This is the wrong General's topic, but I've been dying to show off this....
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Also, I reminded Olli about the other 3 generals needing screenshots of all their units.

That reminds me of when I decimated the AI with a barrage of 50 parachute drop planes

[SpardaSon21]

Killer airships, awesome, now its just like Red Alert.

[Thats me!]

awesome shields!

"Kirov reporting"(or whatever name it will have in remix and then,"reporting")
awesome,and looks pwnage too,for chem gen?

also pend,please don't forget the teeth on it to be more pwnage and (more nosatalagish)

Edited by Thats me!, 31 March 2010 - 06:09 AM.

[Pendaelose]

also pend,please don't forget the teeth on it to be more pwnage and (more nosatalagish)

in the background there is a zeppelin crashing... if you zoom in on it you can see the eyes, the mouth is there too, just hard to see from that angle.

Only the bombers (kirov style) have the face.

I have to give credit though.. the Kirov model I downloaded from either Sliepner's or Deesire... can't remember which. It was someone else's model, I just tweeked it for Chem general. I then made the other zeppelins from it. There are 4 total.

[olli]

I'll get on that ASAP.

There is a lot to show!

[Pendaelose]

I modeled the new SupW base defense today. I'll post screenshots once it's coded in game, probably tomorrow.

I've been making good progress when I can work lately, but the last 2 weeks have been really hectic. But it's still moving at a good pace.

[Pendaelose]

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The Long Arm fire base.

It can upgrade into a support variant that fires 4 times as often but is unable to mark it's own targets. A non-upgraded site has to call the target and a support site can then fire on it.

[SpardaSon21]

So the Long Arm uses a similar system to the Patriots then, when one Long Arm has a target lock all nearby Long Arms also have a target lock?

[Pendaelose]

Yes, it's a variation, but the difference is the spotter assigns targets to all the support tubes in a radius around itself in a large radius.

[SpardaSon21]

So if a spotter is near some support launchers, the support launchers can target normally?

[Pendaelose]

The support launchers never target for themselves, they will only fire on targets called by a Spotter. When I played it for myself I found that 1 standard for every 3 supports gave a very nice steady barrage of hell down range.

You could go all standards and never have to worry about spotting, but you'd only have a 3rd or less the firepower delivering.

[SpardaSon21]

Ah okay, never mind, I mis-phrased the original question, you answered properly, but due to my mis-phrasing I mis-interpreted your response.

So the way I see it is Support launchers cannot target on their own, and require a target to be marked Patriot-style by a Spotter launcher in order to be able to fire, correct?

[Pendaelose]

So the way I see it is Support launchers cannot target on their own, and require a target to be marked Patriot-style by a Spotter launcher in order to be able to fire, correct?

yes

[Jester22]

So a build limit of one SDI cannon that can kill other super weapons? So is the Longarm basically taking its' place as the "badass" standard base defense?

[m3rc1l3ss]

I would like to see the SDI cannon take on a quad MIRV launch ^^