I don't think Darlos was the one who figured it out, but I can't find the topic where it was posted.

You need to tone down the armor on these guys, I was playing a skrimish with the pelians attacking me, and jeus I had a KMF specops guy (with the "Hammer" sniper") empty 5 clips point blank into one of your robots who took practically no damage at all, plus with almost any other weapon I use, all the bullets just seam to bounce of these guys armor.

someone suggested in to darlos, he didnt just magically come about it. its in some thread somewhere, blah blah. just so you dont credit the wrong man

Oh, right.
Also, it works pretty well, but it's not like a 100% success rate.

@Zatharon: Well, yes, they are very tough, but that's kind of the whole point. They're supposed to be like walking/flying humanoid tanks, that eat bullets for breakfast. Sufficient shots in the head by weapons like the Hammer and Decapitator will pop it though. Also, Abolisher and Exterminator often kills them instantly, and Vaporizer can easily cause heavy damage. If none of those are available, SUMO smash. Or just run. So if anything, they'd just need to take like, 0.1 damage per entry wound, else they'd be too squishy.

Also, i can announce a new coming weapon... The Conflagrator. It uses some chemicals to create a strongly exothermal reaction to fire a slowly moving jet of superheated air and such. While it doesn't react with the atmosphere itself, it does react explosively to any physical contact, resulting in severe burns etc.
Oh yes, and i've been fiddling a little with the MARS' walkpaths, to make it a little less... Idiotic. So far not any real results, but i'll get there eventually.

I understand what your saying about them and fully support it, it's just that these guys COMPLETELY smash ANY other faction and are almost completely resistant to all weapons (except for ones in this mod) which would be fine and dandy even if with the included Activities.ini they spawned less frequently, I really like the mod, it's just I get a tad frustrated when my base and all my units get torn to shreds in .5 seconds because 5 heavy soldiers just beamed in around the base all armed with miniguns.

Everyone's factions are being worked on independently, so you can't really expect them to be perfectly (for you) balanced with everyone else. Maybe someday when there are enough established faction mods, we can all think about standardizing some stuff but I highly doubt that'll happen. Just get used to editing them until they are vulnerable enough for you, that's all you can do right now.
Me, I like to try building different strong bases and trying (in vain) to defend them with vanilla content against these guys and other mod factions. It's a nice challenge. I think it's impossible, though.

Under: There is a nice weakness to all units. I've found one that is very common- getting CRUSHED under a larger unit. This applies to all units, including super robots (I've used a dropship to pummel them into the ground.) They are more vulnerable then you think. Still, it would help if you converted some of their materials to vanilla content. IE, the weapons are REALLY tough

You're basically saying that there isn't any content in Cortex Command to begin with, and that it is all user created.

no he isnt, he's saying not all modders can be assed balancing their mods. that or balance is not the point of the mod (think AAL and DSTeck).
in any case, revolver and autocannons work fine

^^^
Precisely.

Right now the balance between vanilla vs. most mod factions = colonial marines vs. aliens/predator

IMHO

darklones are very balanced though. heck, you can kill one with one clip of uzi bullets.
in any case, ever thought about making some bunkermodule traps for these guys? or just epic defences.

A bottomless moat is always good Although, I noticed that the AI is pretty good about jumping over simple pits nowadays.
I always try to intelligently design bases (funnels and such), but since I can only control one guy at a time, this rarely produces lasting results. One of the main issues is the AI for the defenders.
I really wish the sentry AI was better - as it is they get overwhelmed by attackers pretty much 90% of the time, unless they get a lot of time to get a bead on them (only possible in the most advantageous situations).
Turrets are nice and effective but I feel something's missing by relying too much on them. It feels kind of empty in a sense. (It is cutting you out of the equation somewhat)
Hopefully we'll eventually get some effort in making things not just pretty and powerful, but also plausible in the context of CC's concept (unique but generally evenly matched forces (otherwise there wouldn't really be a struggle) - this is my interpretation).

I see what you mean. But unfortunately, i can't do anything about the spawn rate. You could just turn down the difficulty though, as that makes the interval between spawns longer. Or else i could make the gentlemen less terminator and more tuffguy. >.> (Though some of DSTechs weapons seem to take them down like flies)

@Geti: Currently not, but one never knows...! :0

I think you can:


These control the spawn rate, not sure how though.

I believe it keeps a timer going, and every time is passes an interval where it is divisible by that # (or it just counts down and resets) an enemy spawns.