Space "weapons"

To give the commander a sense of being more involved in the fighting.. how about having the ability to use orbital space weapons.


BE - Ion Cannon (require plasma weaponry). Ion cannon delivers a concentrated beam of destruction that will destroy anything. the diameter of the beam would be about the width of an infantry. the beam will be inaccurate but the commander can choose which coordinate on map to use it on. it can only kill one target if it hits the target


NF - Kinetic Projectile (require advance magnet research). A mass that is dropped from orbit and using gravity as the destructive force. Use the squad artillery animation. wider area damage than ion cannon, but will only damage buildings and tanks for 90% damage and kill infantry. the area of damage would probably be area of a BE repair pad. will also be inaccurate like ion cannon.

Both system requires about 5,000 resources to research and 5,000 resources to activate.. with a cooldown time of 3minutes.

pro:
give commanders something to do, other than placing buildings and researching, and occasional "attack" orders.
incentive to keep command vehicle moving and/or hidden from enemy
it can end stalemate games, but not too OP since the weapon would be inaccurate.

con:
can end matches really quick by luck

 

how is it a super weapon if there are restrictions? being very inaccurate and can only kill or heavily damage 1-3 targets IF it even hits. Those coordinates are pretty big on some of the maps.

game needs more probability and "luck".

 

luck just leads to crazy rage for the unlucky team

 

Something that can maybe damage three things, IF it hits, doesnt sound likes its worth the 5k to research it and the 5k to use it one time

 

Even if you don't agree with his orbital weapon idea, can't we all agree that the commander needs some kind of offensive capability since targets are gone?

 

autobuilding turrets

or better built turrets dropped by aircraft

 

QFT
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how bout fricken airdrop ammo crates.

 

particles are already made implementation pending

 

/Thread and /everythread that's gonna be made in the suggestions forum for the next 2 months.

 

Extra commander stuff is on the to-do list. At some point.

 

ove: ove:

 

...far down the list.

 

well it has to be some idea that doesn't require new models and has to recycle some old stuff into new stuff.

 

Commander-dropped ammoboxes is one such idea that everyone seems to like.
Also, thank you Trickster for bringing us this joyous gospel.
More commander stuff is awwwwright.

 

I agree fully

 

well give us targets back till you figure out what the fuck you are doing!

 

I dont fully understand this "Commander has got nothing to do these days when we removed his most menial function."

If I chose to play actively as a commander, which includes driving around building stuff there is barely enough time to make ends meet.

Although I welcome more tactical options for the commander, I would hate if such commander functions were added that they cause people to accuse the commander for failing simply because he didnt spam them quickly and constantly enough upon everyone.