Re: New route - Extraterrestrial
Dude i think this has alot of potential but you need a direction with it like azzer brought up.
Personally when i think of aliens (in particular predator) the first thing is strong weapons. The next is stealth (cloaking) and the next is how expensive there equiptment would be.
I would disagree with the guys who said its overpowered and say you need to AMP the power up a notch but make it way more expensive to counter it like the robo route
I would make it a mix between Robo and spec oops since we have 2 cheap routes (prot,thug) 3 medium ones (so,fantasy,military) and only one expensive one (robo) i think the last slot could be this one
here are some ideas. Predator was cloaked right and always hit first, therefor id make the predator side of the route very offensive based with big damage and stealth, bbig costing units, and not so much defense since arny kicked the **** out of a few with his bare hands lol. eg
Name: Predator($230,000) <0------Needs to be expensive since his good gear is more expensive than a bloody molotov
Unit Type: Alien
Unit Class: LET (Stealth) <-------needs to be stealth for sure
Attack type: Kills(All)
Targets: LET INN <-----------Especially effective against the military like in the movie, weak against marines. has to target innocents since he specialised in skinning everyone and anyone
Stats: */***/*****/*** <--------Weak under armour but uber damage from advanced weapons
ETA: 4 (1) <-------- go cloaking good stealth
Initiative: 175 <--------- killing machines in good cloaking should always fire first i agree
Route(s):Extraterrestrial
The price could probably be even more expensive but do you see where the concept could lead? very offensive and it offers the player a chance to stealth attack in a different way to the standard spec ops. weak defensivly especially against marines and robo
The other brance aliens you need to concentrate on the close fighting and mind control abilities
eg alien motherships that convert and big close fighting creatures like in the movie, claw slashing beasts of increadible speed and strength that only fire close
more defensive like puppet masters, the mother ship could be a heavy armour, expensive cloning unit. beam em up, clone em down sort of thing or even mind control!
for example
Name: Alien Mothership($2,500,000)
Unit Type: UFO
Unit Class: Converts (all)
Attack type: LET
Targets: INN LET
Stats: ***/******/******/******
ETA: 6
Initiative: 425
Route(s): Extraterrestrial
thus offering a powerful but very expensive cloning unit since there is none in the game, eliminates the need to flak puppets and the such and added with a close firing Alien unit for defense offers a good bribeing route for solo and ally combined
any thoughts?