Simple features/bugfixes/polish that you would like to see in the future

are plasma mg and cannon bugged???

if not, fix them to make them useful, should be easy as pie.

right now they only ruin the game for anyone that could/would research them.
please fix....its as a great support weapon concept (when it functions right)

This is the kind of thing comms could actually opt to research after mediums instead of going heavies and then outfit APC's with them to support med's(maybe they have less map control and are more poor). Helps slippery slope....

Hell, you could even make it a three slot MG if thats simple, so that ONLY apc's can use the MG and make the plasma cannon super heavy so no one can mount two.....there are ways to get this re-added to the game.

realistically it should cause little to NO heat to fire-ee. Just balance it with ammo clip size and reload time. DONE. K thanks bye.

 

Water bucket weapon, although if the map has no water plasma will be overpowered

 

its a support assault mechanism
its a defensive base protection time-buyer
it adds a "new" element to a fairly stale research game

cv would be immune to HoT (heat over time) specified in CV armor script ( i take it CV still has unique armor?)

counter could be reactive/absorbant if you give it a HoT resist as the name would imply...reacting/absorbing the heat

afaik, we have resists built-in, might need to add/rename one more (unless there is a currently unused/broken one in code)

outside the box anyone?

also, if it's easy, which this is starting to become NOT, alter HoT to only affect firing and not mobility (this would take some serious consideration due to its game impact, but it feels more fun)

 

DIstance counters to move, attack, guard, etc orders.

 

Already been said but god damn it add hotkeys for squad commands.
Really annoying that people don't understand what F-S-Space means most of the time.

Also maybe a different camera angle for NF Jeep so the rollbars are not blocking your sight. It's already difficult enough to handle that thing.

BE Rocket-/Mortarlaunchers modeling isn't exactly fair either, nor does it have any advantages against the NF one. Maybe make the BE Rocket-/Mortarlaunchers ... BLAST SHIELD (Candles makes things sound OP) ... immune to concussion effects?

 

Blast shield is the proper term, and actually it is properly sized, considering the firing mechanism of the rocket. It would make more sense from a realistic perspective to give the NF a large blast shield, but from a gameplay perspective it should be eliminated entirely.

 

Jephir actually just already added this about 2 weeks ago.

 

side dish, but is the rollbar jeep accessible to be re-modelled w/o rollbars for major visual increase in fun?
if so, i'd heart a crack at it.

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There's a thread about that somewhere already, but I couldn't get it to work for my game.

 

You can't do it with steampires because custom content is broke, but if you open the gcfs and copy all the files into a folder in your sourcemods folder, you can then use custom content and just run empires the old fashioned way.

 

The removed version did look a bit silly, Bumgravy's where he only removed it from the front looked better.

But I'm more than open to getting that looked at, but it's not modelling, it's texturing. Afaik Bumgravy spent ages working on the texture to work out which part was the rollbar, then just alphaed over it, as well as that stupid bulb thing on the front.

 

to the alphatexture-mobile!

 

http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=10946

from the above posted link...

 

Yeah, it's better in terms of visibility than Bumgravy's but it LOOKS worse. Just like I had a BE RPG with no blast shield at all, just a floating crosshair. It's better in terms of visibility but I certainly wouldn't make that official.

 

Add a sound effect for bio poisoning, like a cough or heavy panting.