I really am loving the different coloured armor on the units, i've taken to creating a small base or crashed ship etc, then having one of each to defend it. I've ended up giving them names and stuff while i'm playing, it's really sad when one of them which has had it's gun destroyed jumps out of a window, punches a guys face off before being overwhelmed by firepower/squished by a drop ship/burnt to death by the flamethrower wielding guy

Darlos said he's tried Cryo nades before. It apparently didn't work well.

I vote for orbital spy laser satellites! Make it like a single, 5 second, really thin blast, meant for an untraceable assassination, and not a usual satellite meant for mass destruction. Like a sniper that can fire at any point on the map but only on the surface.

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That's kinda what I've been working to avoid actually. Plus you have to realize that grenades are pretty safe for the person firing them, so you don't really NEED EMP armor to fire EMP grenades effectively, unless you're just stupidly point-blanking them. The armor is more to outfit your team so other DarkStorm units with "status effect" weapons have less to worry about as far as hitting their own team mates goes. Basically, a squad with a flamethrower guy should all be wearing the red armor, even if they all individually aren't using flame-based weapons.

I could have worked harder and made something that worked, but I just found it to be kinda silly. Really, the level of epicness it would have to reach before it got particularly useful wouldn't justifiably come out of a 40mm grenade. So, no Cryo grenades. I'd have to make something more like a cryo super-bomb.

... that's not me saying that will make a cryo super-bomb.

woah when did the election start

Never. It's just an idea. I've changed a tad since you last saw the old, troll-ish me.

But yeah. Doable? It would be awesome.

I really love the stuff you've made, Darlos, but can I dare ask 3 questions?
1) Isn't the coil gun too strong? I used it several times and it felt really pwny.
2) Are defensive thingies going to return? Running around with p.d. oni was fun, until it broke. And this brings the last question...
3) Are they supposed to gib that easy? I actually had more of them dead from exploding then from bullets... Especially as AI controlled.
Don't get me wrong, i love the mod and am not going to give advice, a am just to intrested to remain silent

I found the coil gun, while highly destructive of terrain and actors, didn't really do much damage to dropships, rockets or other craft. It would penetrate straight through, and kill anyone standing on the other side, but it would only do about 10 damage to the ship.

Which would happen in real life, as long as the projectile didn't hit anything vital.

Edit: in the ship.

Isn't a coil gun penetration and speed-damage based? That would mean that it pierces a hole the size of the round in anything it hits, but would make a clean hole. So, a small amount of damage to the dropship makes sense, in that definition.

I just meant that in comparison with other DSTech weapons it was really strong. While other guns give you excellent, but somewhat limited firepower for high price, this one lets you snipe the whole level for same gold as gatling. It is decent in terms of physics, yes. More decent than vanilla maybe. But I felt it kinda standing out of the whole line. Also, for me it made long range lazer kinda useless, it does the same but better.(unlike assault lazer-rifle for example)

Ermm...Deskup? This isn't DSTech. This is Darkstorm. But yeah, the Coil Gun could use a nerf, I think.

Until then, don't use it. The assault lazer is dead fun.

Sorry people, my fault now should find and dl DS to get the idea. Meh, how did I manage to mix them I wonder...
The lazer is fun, but it mostly is fun vs unarmored ppl, like ronin, and i want to fight heavy guys.(Playing Weegees last map at my friend's place in fact)

The coil gun is so effective not so much because of the bullet itself (which is just one particle, so you just get a single entrance and exit wound) but the fact that I lua'd in a lot of extra impact force on anything it hits. This pretty much guarantees lots of asploding heads, and anything that survives is going to get knocked back hard, which is kinda the effect I was going for.

If bullets passing through armor would actually damage the stuff UNDER the armor, I could scale back the impact force and have that as it's main selling point instead (since it pretty much pierces all the way through anything). But right now its just blastastic.

Also, the long range laser causes three wounds per hit, so if you just want to kill stuff through wounding at a range then it's the way to go.

I will fall to the ground and cry if you nerf the coil gun darlos, please don't. Also, Methinks you should make variations on the drone guy, like giving it a flamer or an assault laser variants instead of just a normal AR.