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[olli]

Content to follow.

[Pendaelose]

Today I'm starting the overhaul on Robot General.

Robot is getting one of the most extensive overhauls and will be essentially split into two separate generals. At the beginning of the match (before you are even allowed to build a barracks or power plant) you will have to choose your focus.



Miniaturized Design:
This tree will focus on advanced drones, drone carriers, high mobility, and swarm units.


Macro Engineering:
This tree will focus on Heavy Mechs and heavy frontal assaults.



Several new units and defenses are planned for each focus.
Robot General is also getting a new Promotion tree with some powers being restricted to certain focuses.

It's worth a note that Robot will be getting allot of new units, defenses, and powers, but he's not going to have access to all of them at the same time. Also, many of the units he currently has will be restricted to a single tech tree or require a general's point. The end result will be more flexible, but not more powerful.

You'll be able to have a Fafnir, or Drone Swarm Launching Artillery... but not both at the same time.

[MasterZH]

I can't wait for released.

[m3rc1l3ss]

Wow, this sounds awesome...

[Pendaelose]

Check out the video. The finished harvester is in game for the Macro Engineering Tree.

Edited by Pendaelose, 06 June 2010 - 02:11 PM.

[Madin]

Heh! nice!, shame so much of the video was wasted on the build up!

[Pendaelose]

actually, one of the things the video is intended to show off is that you can see the harvester being built on the pad. the video itself is very old and was first made to show off in the staff section how I'd gotten the building to show the mech as it built. The model was then lost for a while after a system reload and then the mod was passed to Rosco for about a year. I've only just now re-coded it to get it back in game, and added a new death animation.

[m3rc1l3ss]

The leg motion on it was great how it took the slow deliberate steps. It really puts forward how large of a unit it is.

[SpardaSon21]

I liked that build animation; it reminded me a lot of TA/SupCom. Will we be seeing more of that for Robot General?

Oh, and if the harvester for Macro Engineering is that cool walker, what does Micro Engineering get, a small flying drone?

[Pendaelose]

You will indeed be seeing more of it for Robot General... very soon even.


This is *almost* done. there are some more touches to the skin and some details I'll be modeling on still. Obviously this is the Peek of the tech tree for the Macro Engineering focus. As previously described, there is a build limit of 1.

And to give a sense of scale, here is an early development pic next to a Fafnir.


Just as you have normal super weapons like the Particle Cannon and Scud Storm you have Doomsday weapons like the MIRV and HBomb; this is more of a "Doomsday unit" compared it to more mundane "super units".

It is armed with:

2X HE Long Cannons - Long Range, High Damage. Anti Building
18X Seeker LRMs - Long Range, All target types, 360 Field of Fire
"Tactical" SDI Cannon - Medium Range, Heavy Anti-Armor
8X HE SRMs - Short Range, Anti-Infantry
4X AA Battery - Medium Range, AA and Missile Defense
2X 7.62 "Patronizers" - The final insult... 2 Humvee guns

[SpardaSon21]

Nice logo on the front of that.

[Pendaelose]

The Leonidas Mobile Fortress is pretty much complete. I'll be adding small tweeks, but it's in game and handles the way I like.

[olli]

I think I speak on behalf of every single person who graces this forum when I say;

Pendaelose, that is one of the finest pieces of modding I've ever see. It is totally kick ass. Be proud, be god darn proud of yourself.

[MasterZH]

[jay-ar]

This is really cool unit. I really really like big and powerful units. Another addition to my favorite faction. Thanks you so much Pend for the hard work. For me, this mod is WAYYYYYYYY better than the others. Looking forward to the next release. I hope it would be really really soon.

[SpardaSon21]

Too bad Robot General doesn't have any units named "Hoplite" or "Spartan". How can I have fun with something called "Leonidas" if it doesn't have its personal bodyguard of 300 badasses?

[Pendaelose]

it was a little detail so I wasn't going to announce it, but most of the heavy mechs were going to get new names in the same theme.

[Thats me!]

awesome!
does that *awesome*thingy replace fanfir?

[olli]

Nope. It's a Doomsday unit. Build limit of one. Only avaliable to the Macro tree, along with the Fanfir.

It is an addition, not a replacement.