Ability suggestion thread:

[Sidewinder]

1. I didn't know that the Russians had this feature, sorry.

2. Make it cost 100 munitions? Just an idea.

Although, my suggestions are quite late, so even if they were approved I doubt they would make it in.


EDIT: I suppose a single accurate V2 rocket for one of their doctrines isn't possible?

[cephalos]

I have a suggestion for the Ostheer;

Allow their infantry to ride on the sides of their tanks. Lower their defense rating while on the sides, but maybe increase the speed of the tanks a bit while it's carrying passengers to make it an actually viable option to transport troops in such a fashion. And while they are on the side, allow them to heal slowly, as if giving them their bodies a rest while traveling to the front, or retreating from it.

Also, suicide upgrades. Make it so their light vehicles can be packed with explosives so when their going to die anyways or something you can send it in and try and get an extra couple of kills out of it. Similar to the Goliath, except it can still perform it's basic functions, however if it could have transported troops, it no longer can due to the absence of space used for carrying explosives.

Thoughts?

I LOLed hard when I saw prop. #2 

[Sidewinder]

Well, it may not be a very good suggestion, but at least it made a few people laugh, lol.

Suppose a troop carrier disguised as an enemy vehicle? You build it, stick some troops in it, and can use a impersonate ability to resemble a targeted enemy vehicle? Useful for getting around MG Nests, and flanking the enemy undetected.

Also, how about a tunnel of sorts? Build it at position 'A' and it transports units to position 'B'. The drawback is that it can be used by your opposition. Just make it have camoflauge netting or something.

Or perhaps dummy targets? Like fake Howitzer emplacements or dummy Hummels or something?

[neosdark]

If you like Dummy targets and Trickery play some RUSE.


The Tunnel idea was suggested a long time ago (I know cause I used it in my Ostheer design) and I don't believe it had too many supporters.

[Sommarkatze]

Its the ostheer. Not the Vietcong bro ;P

[Blackbishop]

If you like Dummy targets and Trickery play some RUSE.


The Tunnel idea was suggested a long time ago (I know cause I used it in my Ostheer design) and I don't believe it had too many supporters.

We already planned to implement it as part of the Army Fortress Troops but looks like was too difficult to do.

[neosdark]

The tunnel?

Would be cool, but sort of hard to do, cause my idea was to build one bunker and upgrade with this ability, and then another one with the exact same upgrade. When troops go into it, they are moved to the other bunker in a period of time determined by the Distance between the two bunkers. It seems complicated, so I doubt we could implement it in any case

[Tico_1990]

Well, it may not be a very good suggestion, but at least it made a few people laugh, lol.

Suppose a troop carrier disguised as an enemy vehicle? You build it, stick some troops in it, and can use a impersonate ability to resemble a targeted enemy vehicle? Useful for getting around MG Nests, and flanking the enemy undetected.

Also, how about a tunnel of sorts? Build it at position 'A' and it transports units to position 'B'. The drawback is that it can be used by your opposition. Just make it have camoflauge netting or something.

You my friend have played way to much C&C Generals, nice ideas though

[Sidewinder]

Haha, I have never played C&C, except the one on the N64 (which was amazing btw, when I was like, 10).

Those are my suggestions, I don't know. Just trying to make some stuff that's unique and interesting. Providing more options of play and tactics.

[DrRockzo1986]

Haha, I have never played C&C, except the one on the N64 (which was amazing btw, when I was like, 10).

Holy crap I didnt think anybody other than me played that one

[Sidewinder]

I spent days on that game, literally days. I unlocked all those stupidly hard missions, where you have to rescue some Nod guys trapped inside a fence with all sorts of vehicles driving around like Mammoth Tanks. Then the one where you use that commando guy to destory the sam sites to call in a jet to drop in a Construction Yard.

*sigh* Good times...

[Blackbishop]

Hey guys, remember that you are in the Ostheer's ability suggestion topic .

[Otto Halfhand]

The tunnel/tesserac idea is too SciFi for EF. Off map movement would be a nice touch or even selectable Call-in locations. I suspect the modifications necessary to the GUI console would require hard-coded changes though. 

[Blackbishop]

I don't think would be SciFi as the same principle was applied on the battlefield ... we used to call it "Earthbunker".

[Tankbuster]

How about units surrendering in the mod. That would be awesome.