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A late new year update, 2018 brought Essence nearly to completion. As of now, all of their infantry are done, with only few units and maybe 2 buildings left. Most likely, I'll be now moving to Paladin infantry and Vintarid buildings.
But first, a summary of what was done in 2018.


Aphrodite Patrol Craft


The Aphrodite Patrol Craft is an AI-controlled, low-altitude agile aircraft, meant to serve same roles in an army as a typical attack helicopter.


Magnetic Turbine


An easily accessible source of energy for any Essence military base. They can be overloaded if the situation requires, releasing an electromagnetic pulse that disables electronic devices in vicinity.


Kerberos Powersuit, Revenant and Prowler


Kerberos Powersuit: With dimensional portals available to transport troops and vehicles, it's logical they would also be used to transport ammo and payload to the battlefield. This powersuit puts that into practice.
Revenant: The dimensional portal technology doesn't come without drawbacks. When one of the side effects is being fused with your powersuit and going insane, dying in a violent eruption might be more preferable.
Prowler: The suit uses a miniaturized nuclear reactor to allow movement, including high-speed flight. The power can be diverted into a metallic wire that turns into plasma as it's flung at an enemy target.


Elysium Access Point and Gateway


Elysium Access Point: One of the main reasons to gather so much Crystalline, these structures sustain portals to a place called Elysium, where EssentialTech is building something unprecedented.
Gateway: Various kinds of Gateways exist, some used to access Elysium itself, others to transport ordinance between different bases.


Barracks, Assembly Plant and Portal Catapult


Barracks: These quick to field and highly customizable containers are widely used in military operations involving EssentialTech, either as barracks, equipment storage, field hospitals, or for civilain housing.
Assembly Plant: An EssentialTech drone manufacture line, modified to assemble heavy vehicles such as tanks.
Portal Catapult: Portal technology allows Essence to accelerate or decelerate an aircraft as it passes through another dimension. This eliminates the need for large runways.


Auroral Resonator and Amplifier Node


Auroral Resonator: The pinnacle of EM wave weaponization, it can manipulate current weather conditions into their extremes. Or, ironically, prevent other means of affecting it.
Amplifier Node: The radio waves it generates cause a fatal resonance in the alien flyers, destroying them when conventional weaponry remained ineffective.


Crystalline Containment Cell and Armory


Crystalline Containment Cell: This building was designed as storage for various chemicals and toxic materials. With additional modifications, it can keep the stored Crystalline isolated from the surroundings until it is properly utilized, making nearby personnel safe.
Armory: A small assembly plant inside each Armory allows Essence outposts to construct defenses and stall the attackers until reinforcements arrive.


That's it for now. Have a Happy New Year!

I have question on Hunter Seeker

Does it's behavior deference when target infantry?

It will instantly kill infantry but not explode, it will explode when target vehicle or structure.

My theory is that it's a special suicide unit, which deals the damage maxum equal to its HP. So if it targets a soldier with less HP than it's max., it will not die, and repeat the searching with the remaining (MaxHP - TargetedSoldierCurrentHP) HP. 

If the unit has less than 200 health, Hunter Seeker will kill it and fly to the next target, on which it will detonate. Otherwise, it will detonate immediately.

Here is the first inspiration of Yunru
And here is where she got her "big gun" from

You know, these generic gfx would also fit for the Observer "side", so it's not like you have to get rid of them once you have proper side gfx.

Hold type select button -> click on an object -> selects everything of that kind.

Handepsilon, tone down on feeding those Duplicants, or they'll eat us all. You're getting duplicated posts way too often.
 

I feel like this must have been considered in development at some point. So I'm ready for someone to shut me down on why this idea wouldn't work

Tsurugi was supposed to use this, but it doesn't, and right now the likelihood of any older unit getting something like that is low.

I am now confused on the prospect of assigning a gender to Uragan if it was revealed it was a borne from Irkalla.

He doesn't have a gender.
HE SIMPLY. IS.

Also I want to request a map much like Bay of Pigs but for 4 players in skirmish.

Dragon Harbour.

I'm amazed that having fun with stuffs that are not available officially is now equated to cheating. Yeah, just because one was "cheating" in a game with you, let's prevent all others from accessing the files regardless of them playing with you or not.

All hail competitive MP master race?

You'll be even more amazed when i tell you that, out of all people not touching the multiplayer, you are the main reason why the competitive crowd complains about "no-multiplayer" people.
You are also completely missing the point on those changes (like, the target is in front of you and you're shooting back). It doesn't even affect you in any way (you can still play with modified inis with friends if you want), yet you still find a reason to whine.

After that its basebuilding mission. With a timer after which russiansfree units for you to capture arrive.

Sorry, i couldn't resist.

So, if he disagrees with you, you won't take him seriously? What's next, everyone that disagree with you will be called trolls? I guess that's where we're going here...
 

They're not the same though: Syincornuts get really close to things in order to do their job where they are susceptible to friendly damage. Siegfried's just Siefired and he does whatever the heck he wants.

With that logic, i want Brutes, Dogs and Spooks to be immune to all poison weapons, because they keep dying to my own Duneriders and Viruses whenever i engage the enemy. Also Desolators shouldn't affect my own infantry when deployed. Because why am i supposed to be forced to watch where my own units are going and what are they killing.
btw, if all your Megalodons are blocked by 1 Magetron... next time don't clump them, but spread them before engaging

What people see:

We need actual KI logo to put on a billboard instead of all that anime stuff.

What we see:

We need [more] anime stuff.

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The answer is very simple:
thank Cesare for this.

It was him to start using that banner in Battlefield (and it was his screenshot in the first place).

>complaining about logic in game that have mind control, weather control, rad cannons, confusion beams and magnetic hovercrafts

No. Just no. Please don't say stuff like this.

This kind of argument is what gave us RA3. "Hey, we have mind control, weather manipulation, antigravity and electric bolts as weapons. It's all silly anyway, so let's give our ships tracks, spider legs, and make the Apocalypse look like a dancing toy car! Nobody will notice the difference!"

Their MBT is medium in every regard

That's Rhino, not Cavalier.
Cavalier is a reversed Lasher: good in prolonged battles instead of short tank vs tank skirmishes.
While it might not be as good in large army battles (especially vs Lashers, which excel at that), they are much better vs structures and for base killing. Simply because their increased rate of attack is almost always guaranteed to trigger vs structures.