Kind of a cool idea

[CenturionSlayer]

Hey everyone, I was watching a game on Seraphim Glaciers when I had this cool idea.

Ya know how when we stormed the beaches during WW2 we had a sort of naval transport for land units? What if in FAF we implemented some sort of naval unit transport to shuttle land units? This opens the door to playing like Cybran on a map like SG where the map heavily favors factions like Aeon or Phim with more floating units. It does not, however, completely kill factional diversity in that regard because presumably the units could not fire while being transported.

This is a fairly basic concept that could be implemented into the regular game but I could see it being adapted in a unit pack like Blops but to be honest nobody ever plays blops on naval maps because UEF is so OP

What do you guys think? be nice!

[Ze_PilOt]

Simple concept but impossible implementation. This has been tried for years, but the engine doesn't allow that without severe workaround that kind of work (or not).

[CenturionSlayer]

this is what I feared, it would take a lot of effort for something that wouldn't be a large part of the game. Oh well :/

[Ze_PilOt]

It has been done, but it's more a "short range teleportation & transport device" than a transport

[Cuddles]

Can you just make a aircraft the flies really low to the ground and fake a hover transport?

[Bliss]

yeah !! a sort of second air transport model ... with low ground fly which is not hit by air but by land units only... Initially i had thought about a high fly / land hover swithc button but that could be abused .... i see two kind of air transports more balanced

[Cuddles]

I was watching Pacific Rim again last night. GC hooked up to some transports flying in I would shit myself if i see that coming.


edit: But back on topic, low flying transport makes sense. Didn't the Russians build some kind of crazy plane that was to big to fly properly and was supposed to be used exactly for this over the oceans?

[FunkOff]

Lol dont confuse real life with supcom

[vongratz]

Soviets/russians made the Ekranoplans - Wing in Ground WIG effect planes.Something like hovering aircrafts with very high speed.

A real world idea very utilizable in FAF, if would be possible.

[billytadams]

Hey everyone, I was watching a game on Seraphim Glaciers when I had this cool idea.

This is a fairly basic concept that could be implemented into the regular game but I could see it being adapted in a unit pack like Blops but to be honest nobody ever plays blops on naval maps because UEF is so OP

What do you guys think? be nice!

This can be a simple basic concept but it's not possible because presumably the units could not fire while being transported. Many people tried it but could not success. I personally consider two kind of air transports more balanced.