Balthazar's Mod Requestathon

[Balthazar]

I short introduction before I begin, so you know who I am and what I am capable of; I am Balthazar, creator of BrewLAN (source code).

Now, I may live to regret what I am about to say, but I am bored and will entertain, at least, the first 3 mod requests, and will give them at least 3 hours each by the end of the coming weekend, and then post the results. Now, this may be a total shitshow, but the worst thing that can happen is 9 hours of toil and nothing. So let's see where this ends up.

[Exotic_Retard]

Now, I may live to regret what I am about to say, .

please do!
i have a list!

even one of these features would be a lovely undertaking!

1. t2/3 artillery - add a barrage mode to it

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t2 - 3-5 shots in clip -3-500mass per shot
an extra weapon with special shots - that load like a missile silo and can be fired rapidly if needed.

t3 sera - 3-5 shots in clip - 1000mass per shot

the interesting one is the sera t3 arty which launches a lightning storm, but it uses all its ammo in one shot. the more ammo used, the stronger/longer lasting it will be.
it should be stopped by shields though

2. improve novaxes with jamming - "drops" fake units that dont move

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add special jamming code to the novax that makes it drop radar signatures everywhere it goes, for maximum confusion!
to explain the signatures should not move like they do now. (or move but like real units would, with pathfinding and so on, arranging into formations, ect)
while we are at it might as well copy that feature onto all other units with jamming, since current jamming is a bit poor.

4. have a look at making super tall shit like the chicken visible to surface intel while underwater.

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currently stuff thats on the water is in the seabed layer, which means we cant see it on radar, but it can shoot us if its weapons are above water!
it would be great if we had some way of telling if its above water or not and letting us see it somehow.

5. Reduce damage to submerged units

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submarines are cool and all, but its always a little strange how a weapon hitting the waters surface deals full damage to them all the time. it would be great if we could somehow reduce the aoe for underwater targets (so you dont hit subs deep underwater with a 1.5 aoe weapon) or to reduce the damage they take while underwater, or both!

6. seraphim lightning tank meltdown feature

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so the t3 maa for seraphim, the lightning tank (added during faf patches) is a nice little aa unit, but seraphim in general are a little lacking in interestingness, and since they command the power of lightning, it would be very awesome to have a "reactor meltdown" feature where the lightning tank overloads and releases a lightning storm!

the less hp it has left, the weaker the storm, and it would need to stay still for a second or two to create the storm, destroying itself in the process

7. aeon unit and structure animations

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as the observant players in supcom have noticed, the aeon have a bunch of unpacking units and structures. they are awesome!
the issue is that not all of them have this amazing feature, and i think that every unit and structure deserves some sort of pack/unpack animation!

if you havent seen the animations yet, just create a sandbox and spawn a hydro, its amaaaazing!

we can then add lots of cool things like increasing the hp of the unit while disabling its functions (i believe that the 4DC mod does something similar)

if any of these could become real, i will love you forever!

(also if you need more ideas theres a lot more where that came from, me and a buddy have a mod planned that needs a lot of new units and mechanics)

[Gorton]

I agree with these ideas, also you're missing point 3 exotic

[Blackrobe]

Finally joined the party hey Balth

Hmm....wonders what he could first time request. Ok, how about this: buildable hero ACU's with custom textures. (buildable via Quantum Gate)

[nine2]

I want a disposable use-once transport dropship that unloads instantly with no pause (thus doesnt get shut down) but kinda crash lands and deals a random amount of damage to the units.

However if you built it as a mod i wouldn't use it unless it got integrated.

[biass]

Make the scathis launch fire beetles.

[Balthazar]

5. Reduce damage to submerged units

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submarines are cool and all, but its always a little strange how a weapon hitting the waters surface deals full damage to them all the time. it would be great if we could somehow reduce the aoe for underwater targets (so you dont hit subs deep underwater with a 1.5 aoe weapon) or to reduce the damage they take while underwater, or both!

Started with this one, because I already had a similar code I could repurpose for it. 40 minutes in I have what could be finished mod if I was lazy and just applied a flat multiplier, but I am now about to go and cook and eat some cheese on toast whilst I read this article (Calculating the Effect of Surface or Underwater Explosions on Submerged Equipment and Structures) because I'm going to do this with something resembling realism.

Edit: LOL NOPE TL;DR
Here it is: https://github.com/The-Balthazar/Requestathon

WaterGuard: The damage units in the sub or seabed layers take is equal to damage divided distance from the top of the unit, as taken from MeshextentsY or SizeY or 0, to the center of the explosion; to a minimum of 1.

[Balthazar]

Make the scathis launch fire beetles.

Terrible person!
Have your crazy OP artillery: https://github.com/The-Balthazar/Requestathon

ScathingBeetles: The Scathis projectiles look like Fire Beetles, and said projectiles behave like the normal projectiles unless they hit terrain or a prop, in which case they spawn a Fire Beetle with 40-80% health and orders to attack the target location. It's sickeningly effective. It's like a more powerful version of my drop-pod artillery.

[Ithilis_Quo]

I as the author of 4/6 retard idea very likely pleased for
Baragge shots <3

And have one less complicate and much more important stuff and that is

- make repair funcion cost only energy and no mass. But do it in way that will not be able abuse it to construct unfinshed building/units by repairing them (and avoid pay mass)

This will open the new door to beautiful room.
Please Please Please...

(and then that Baragge funcion ligtning tank, Aeon animation... ... I think that we should be freinds i can make realy good coctails and can Cook perfect pasta! And have about 4Page of new ideas where more as half im not able to write by myself)

[Aulex]

Allow mobile factories to build while moving