Welcome, and if you want, try suggesting ways to improve it. If Darlos thinks it's a good idea, he might use it. We al live in hope

With those non-lethal rotor "thrusters", this could work really well for it.
As for landing a dropship, that sounds pretty risky.
I'm talking about the DS's happy little autoscuttle trigger.
Hope you can bypass that.

I like this one. Try making 2, the wormhole generator for really heavy loads, and the dropship for normal stuff, but costs less.

very nice update to the mod, i am thoroughly enjoying the turret dropships (the shield turrets really add more strategy to the game) and the flying saucer (though i do miss the original dropship).

i was toying around with the flying drone and was thinking about how awesome it would be to have an actor attached to the drone in lieu of the turret. angelic symbolism came to mind. not sure if this is now possible with LUA, but it sure would be nifty. maybe an ability to shut off the hover feature.

P.S. hello!

I think whatever the dropship is holding shouldn't count as weight on the ship itself since the men are being dropped off through a wormhole.

Exactly. So it wouldn't suffer the weight of say, 10 shoguns if you needed them!

I like the new drop ship but I prefered the old one.

Could you put it back as a gunship, for example ?

Its going to be put back, but Darlos said it was still gonna be the dropship, just with side doors.

Okay guys, here's the future plans for dropships, so the speculation can be satisfied:

Yatagarasu: This will be the drop ship with side doors that just carries stuff normally. Maybe it'd be cool to slap an MG or something on it too, though that might be a tad overpowered as far as balancing is concerned. Though keep in mind that the MG turret has TWO machine guns, so one on a drop ship would fire half as fast.

Flying worm hole: I think this will be renamed to "Kimon" with its own designation number. The way it should work is that, yes, its cargo doesn't actually weigh down the ship itself. Also, when it is destroyed, its current cargo is safely warped away and you get refunded for it anyway (though you still lose the money for the ship itself). I tried to make this work in the last release, but alas Lua doesn't seem too great at handling inventories right now. So now its just kinda around for looks.

the flying is getting better on the drone and kimon, but it should be a lot more "flighty" on the yosei, like when its idling it should at least move up and down a bit, or even just rotate around a little. it just feels way too deliberate for something with one rotor , imo.
new ice is awesome, but could use a few more randomised sprites. use framecount to the brilliant use you have been on the HUD please
the yatagarasu could use some of the akateko (sp?) carbines on them rather than full on MGs, which would be more balanced.

I agree, it feels like it mastered the art of antigravity and has about 10 gyroscopes implanted in it.

After trying the newest update, I'm amazed.
The whole structure of this mod allows for easy yet effective and fun strategic gameplay. Having turrets delivered virtually anywhere to hold off positions and flying those drones around the map as scouts or make them stay at a single place like surveilance cameras or just trooper buddies is very exciting and fun.

The updated heavy guys are really nice too, although the many different types and specific weapons for each type can get tedious sometimes when you keep track of them and their weapons that are only compactible with a certain soldier. The weapons, however, are very nice and equally powerful to balance the compability issues between the heavies.

Although it could be cool if the pyro shogun could resist its own fire somehow, atleast partially since crisping yourself is rather easy and fast. And I would dare say the flamer's burning effect is a little too fast and too powerful.


Other than that this is the best tactical and strategic faction mod available right now.

Corrected. But if the pyro shogun has pyro armor, it really does make sense that it wouldn't burn him, or at least not nearly as much.

You could make a cool bomb deployable from one of you D87 Higo's, with a 30 second timer while it assembles or something. That would be sweet.

Numgun, you warm my heart. I'm gonna keep this theme rolling.


Right now, it resists being actually ignited. I need to cut the direct damage way down too, though. I still want pyros to do at least a little damage to other pyros though.


Or it'd be silly. A bomb would be designed to just, you know, explode immediately. Massive demolitions isn't really the aim of my mod anyway. No nukes here.