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[Atomic_Noodles]

Yes. I have Commissars & Propaganda Towers who provide area-wide buffs. The Commisar does so by deploy weapon as for the propaganda tower they're area firing weapons that shoot the ground where they're at.

[DoMiNaNt_HuNtEr]

Can you make mixtech, crate war and meteor shower as skirmish options instead of game modes? So that we can enjoy them in other modes such as fortress and petrowar.

 

THIS! It'd be awesome, but I'm not sure if its possible.

[SlySluavity]

To toss an idea for the gameplay interface, it'd be nice for you to browse creation tabs by selecting your owned buildings. For instance, clicking a Barracks would bring up the Infantry tab; War Factory or Shipyard for Unit tab, or any of the main buildings or defenses for the Structure and Armory tab, respectively.

 

This is really more of a convenience thing, and it'd incentivise people to select military buildings outside of primary selections -- it'd also find appeal with conventional RTS audiences. It wouldn't be too drastic, since people can already alternate tabs with hotkeys. Of course, this option would also be toggleable.

Edited by UrbaneVirtuoso, 22 April 2015 - 03:56 AM.

[Atomic_Noodles]

That idea while really a great one really isn't possible on this game. The only problem IMO is there's also the Buildings as clicking on the Con Yard you'd have to choose whether it would present the Economy/Armory Tab.

[SlySluavity]

Thanks. If the technical limits are very real, it'd be a shame for Ares to not explore this concept.

 

The Armory selection does present an initial issue for the mechanic, yet players would still have hotkeys and/or manual tabbing to make use of -- having it otherwise would just be flawed design choice.

 

As far as Con Yard selection goes, I'm not too sure whether clicking only that or any of the Structure tab buildings to present their category would suffice... probably the latter as it's more accessible.

Edited by UrbaneVirtuoso, 22 April 2015 - 05:42 PM.

[Toveena]

Referring to SC2's Dark templar, HQ can make use of a melee perma-stealth warrior

purpose=stealth melee assault , equivalent to stealthed + slightly weakened brutes in term of hp

weapon damage=100, range=1.5, ROF=40, warhead=150%,125%,100%,70%,65%,60%,50%,50%,40%,200%,100%

(Melee psi-blade attack, effective vs. all targets, like brutes with slightly higher damage output , much more glass-cannon tilted, this way it does not overlap brute, brute still serves as front-line warrior meatshield)

(While this shadow warrior is designed for back stabbing, Also does not take over Mavler's role since malver has superior range and attack speed)

cost=900, armor=flak, hp=220, speed=6, prerequisite=gen-plug+barrack, does not detect stealth on its own.

Edited by Toveena, 25 April 2015 - 04:06 AM.

[MrFreeze777]

Pacific Front is the only subfaction that doesn't have a non-fixed winged aircraft at all (like Warhawks for USA or Thors Gunships for EA), also the Allies don't have any sub-faction specific infantry other than heroes. So here is a suggestion for a new infantry unit:

 

Hiryu 

Subfaction: Pacific Front (Replaces Rocketeer)
Cost: 600
Speed: 36
Hitpoints: 150

Armor Class: Flak
Prerequisite: Allied Barracks, Air Force Command HQ
Purpose: Anti-Infantry, Anti-Aircraft
Weapons: Type-42K HMG(x2)

Range: 6

 

The Hiryu Rocketeers have an improved rocketeer design that is much stronger and faster than their American and European counterpart. Although the armor and jet pack speed from the Hiryu design is still vastly inferior than Norio's flight suit design, it is still much easier to mass produce. The Hiryus flight suit armor also looks very similar to Norio's 'Garuda' power armor due to having a light silver color rather than a dark gray color that the generic Rocketeers have, making it hard for enemy anti-air to focus fire on Norio when he is grouped with Hiryu Rocketeers. The only way to distinguish Norio from Hiryus is the wings which the Hiryus lack and both Norio and Hiryu designs having a slightly different appearance.

Edited by MrFreeze777, 26 April 2015 - 05:32 AM.

[Malekron]

How many ideas in this entire thread are even considered? Are some suggestions tested out during play tests or are they left alone never to be even considered?

[Meyerm]

They've discovered the ruse and realised this is just to make players feel important!

 

 

On a serious note though, not sure. There were some ideas I had that were already planned, such as making the allied base uncapturable in Bleed Red (finished the whole mission that way before I was even handed the soviet base). I would like to hear though what ideas pitched by community members (not devs or testers) that werer actually taken up on.

[HavikRyan]

Anyone else feel like the difficulty of easy AI in skirmish is still too invasive / strong?
I have been playing YR for years and i am thrilled to finally discover MentalOmega (introduced to me by my brother) however i am unsatisfied with the AI difficulties. Perhaps addind different builds for the AI? Or go with the original YR easy difficulty. Its very hard to expand and learn this mod when im getting invaded before i have a tech centre up and they destroy my conyard.

Please make adjustments to your 'easy' difficulty. And perhaps add other builds to AI. i.e. Defensive build. Mass wave. Stealth attack. Timed. Etc.

 

[AngelFaux]

Anyone else feel like the difficulty of easy AI in skirmish is still too invasive / strong?
I have been playing YR for years and i am thrilled to finally discover MentalOmega (introduced to me by my brother) however i am unsatisfied with the AI difficulties. Perhaps addind different builds for the AI? Or go with the original YR easy difficulty. Its very hard to expand and learn this mod when im getting invaded before i have a tech centre up and they destroy my conyard.

Please make adjustments to your 'easy' difficulty. And perhaps add other builds to AI. i.e. Defensive build. Mass wave. Stealth attack. Timed. Etc.

 

You can't just use the same tactics you used in YR. For the meantime you can try to make new tactics depending on what subfaction you're using.. If you want to learn about subfactions and units' abilities and purposes you can always start a skirmish without AI and build freely without worrying about attackers.

Because... well... each subfaction has their own unique tactics and units arsenal, you can't treat them the same as in vanilla YR.

You can also make use of AI teammates in skirmishes and play in Teams game mode if you have difficulty engaging the enemies. (China, EA, and PF are reliable in this case)

 

But yeah I guess they will make 'easy' easier in act 2.

[Meyerm]

Regardless of difficulty, AI kirov rushes are still too powerful as I've mentioned in the past. If you're expecting it, it's easy to defend against, but it's always GG for a rival AI when kirovs come. Is coding AI to react a certain way when certain units enter the field, like massing AA when kirovs are built, possible?

[Fnatic RaidCall]

Would be amazing to add b2 spirit bomber and spectre gunship with those amazing explosions just like in generals 2.5 mods :3 

[Speeder]

Expect a Spectre Gunship lookalike.

[Malekron]

A spectre gunship for who?

[Meyerm]

In before a vague nothing answer from the devs.

Edited by Meyerm, 08 June 2015 - 08:13 PM.

[mevitar]

For someone.
That was your daily dose of your vague answers from the devs. Stay tuned for future updates, for more non-answer answers and certain uncertainity.

[Malekron]

Maybe Allied Spies can bribe enemy units to change sides for a counter point to Epsilon's MC and Latin Confederation's Abduction

 

==Sonic Marine==

Unique: USA

Cost: 1000

Weapon: Sonic Rifle

Abilities: On attack weapon prevents unit from firing, attack does ambient damage

Role: Anti Infantry, Anti Structure Support

Requires: Barracks, Allied Tech Lab

[Malekron]

Maybe a smarter AI opponent ie not using EMP pulse on infantry, using mutate on weakened infantry, Allies using seal and engi copter insertions, etc 

[Meyerm]

I think AA is AI's biggest weakness. They should react more to air attacks, like having AA units hunt kirovs across the map the same way wolfhounds hunt infantry.