One way that could make these guys more interesting is giving them pros and cons. Like a medic can be tough and fast on foot and even wields a medigun(Lua probably ^_^) but he's so light that an SMG can send him flying like a leaf. Another dude might have more armor on him than god could allow, making him really tough, but he wouldn't be able to fly.

And some basic unit differences can be used to give them some variety in 3 categories: Toughness, Mobility and Weight.

Weight makes him more sturdy and the ability to carry heavier weapons that have alot of recoil ect.

Mobility means jetpacks and how fast can the unit move generally.
(You can set the walking/climbing/crawling speeds in the actor's code. Usually near the bottom. Remember to increace the PushForce variable too especially if you make the actor heavier.)

And toughness is the general defence how much can he eat bullets into his belly or how much kinetic force he can withstand before getting obliterated and ect. Some units can be made to withstand better mass-based weapons by having higher GibImpulseLimits and joint strengths, but being weak against your ordinary piercing bullets. Useful if an enemy has a powerful weapon tat fires heavy blunt objects like cannonballs or something like that. Bricks.

Also giving some units a predefined funcion like an engineer that runs around your base fixing holes with a concrete sprayer or a miner guy that is too weak for combat, but excels in digging gold and so forth.

Yeah, I hope Lua enables things like that. I was thinking about having the medic throw around medipacks for others to pick up and having the Marine sergeant drop boxes which contain weapons, like some 1st person shooters have.
Recon having a laser-point-device-thingy (how do you call those again?) to enable artillery strikes once per 15 minutes and Special Ops having unlimited blastpacks which he can use every 10 minutes.

Gawd knows what things would be possible and I will be sure to give each character a special something.

But... that's for the future. (And for now my focus lies elsewhere anyway. E.g. maps.)

Thanks for being constructive.

I don't really like the actors, but the guns and such are quite useful.
The thing I use most are the landmines, love those.

You can do all of that in the current build.

Yes, but not in the way I would like to see it happen.

Took some time inbetween map making to make some changes to this mod.
Hope you like them.

Just noticed I left the cheats on too. Well, you can disable them in the index.ini yourself.

Oh goody! I love UniTech! DL'ed. BTW, what do you think of my new avatar?

It's a very good one, I'm jealous.

It makes me want to eat gummy bears for some reason.

Gotcha, feelings are contagious, now I want gummi candy, too.

It looks like a design for the Ultimate Gummi, jiggly, shiny, tasty...

X Parasites are made of gummi? Now I know why they restore health...
ref

I know what you're saying without the referance. Metroid Fusion is awsome, and a little scary...

Red X's are the best cause they taste like cherry.

Anyways, enough with X parasites and gummy bears.
DL'ing now.

EDIT:

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@RBG: A fair warning, isn't it? Have they visited you yet?


Does anyone else feel the sniper rifles are a bit underpowered?
They used to do fine versus coalition but all these new soldiers are quite resilient.
I think next update will beef these up a bit.

Lol, I hadn't checked your code Gotcha. And yes, I felt it was a bit underpowered. IMO, you should increase its damage, but reduce the round count to, say, 10.