[Setekh]

They'd have to be slow, if we wanted the player to able to have a chance at taking them down.

Of course, we might not...  

[aldo_14]

Shoot a wide area bomb  

Could make a troop dropship for these (use the fighterbay), if the models ever released....  

Oh, and have no/a wver small explosion for the wee guys - instead just have them turn instanly to 'dead' debris.... that might look better.

[This message has been edited by aldo_14 (edited 08-22-2001).]

[StarGunner]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Shoot a wide area bomb    

Could make a troop dropship for these (use the fighterbay), if the models ever released....    

Oh, and have no/a wver small explosion for the wee guys - instead just have them turn instanly to 'dead' debris.... that might look better.

[This message has been edited by aldo_14 (edited 08-22-2001).]

I would make the debris with a little red on them.

[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by aldo_14:
Shoot a wide area bomb    

Damn, yeah! Of course, when there are marines, there will be specialised anti-marine weapons...  

[Nico]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
Damn, yeah! Of course, when there are marines, there will be specialised anti-marine weapons...  

frag missile   (ever played Descent3?)
But marines would not be fun to fight. I'd rather see the player to cover them while they try to hijack a cruiser or something like this.

[Setekh]

I'm trying to think of where marines would be best placed. Surgical strikes, I was thinking - though they'd have to be in decent numbers, as one well placed laser shot should be sufficient to take one out. Imagine flying as one, knowing that your first hit would be your last - talk about adrenaline rush!  

[Alikchi]

*Has a sudden vision of 30 marines attempting to disable a Deimos, when a pirana bursts among them, fragging three quarters of them  *

[Nico]

I think command would just never use that...
I know command is dumb, but there's limits  
you can disable engines in a must safer way with a wing of bombersn rather than sending suicidal marines who would be willing to risk their life in the middle of a battle, just to do something any bomber is able to do more quickly and efficiently. If you want to hijack a cruiser, after all, you disable the turrets and send in a transport. A marine will never go through the flak and laser defense. If command really wanted to have small stealth unit like this, I hope they'd use remote controlled robots, things like that, coz these missions have a zero percent chance to survive ratio  

['Captain' Nick Brown]

 

Originally posted by venom2506:
I think command would just never use that...
I know command is dumb, but there's limits    
you can disable engines in a must safer way with a wing of bombersn rather than sending suicidal marines who would be willing to risk their life in the middle of a battle, just to do something any bomber is able to do more quickly and efficiently. If you want to hijack a cruiser, after all, you disable the turrets and send in a transport. A marine will never go through the flak and laser defense. If command really wanted to have small stealth unit like this, I hope they'd use remote controlled robots, things like that, coz these missions have a zero percent chance to survive ratio    

Exactly. That's why I suggested the ejection pilot model. That would be cool.

The mine laying marine might still be a good idea though. <edit> (You know... A marine that will stick a small explosive device onto the critical system on the hull of a capship.) </edit>


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[Stryke 9]

Stop playing StarCraft. It's bad for the mind.  

And it wouldn't really look like statues, if it was more like a dude in a spacesuit and one of those little rocket thingies that astronauts use to get around... I have a DXF if anyone wants it.

What I wanna see, a LC Crusher with Sonic Cannons (For those of you who don't play TMP, This is a sorta... whatsisname... catmaran type spaceship, and a Sonic cannon is very like a FS2 shockwave, but from a gun).

[Stryke 9]

Oh. Somebody did one already. Oh well, I can pimp my copy anyway- it's stock, but I like it a lot, and it only needs a few minor changes to be a fully modern GTVA engineer/trooper.

 

SEE why I like RDS???

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[Stryke 9]

And it's a plausible idea. Engineers would do the job much better and harder to hit than a wing of bombers, and what do you do when you wanna commandeer a ship? Gotta fighter for that? Elysiums are just kamikaze tin cans for that sorta work, while troopers would be harder to get at (naturally cloaked, ever seen a metal person?) and you could send out dozens for less than a ship would cost-same reason armies still have infantry when we can just fight with tanks.

[^Graff]

One fun thing would be to have a massacre of a fleet that is so desperate that all of the marines exit the ship and attack on the off chance that one of them could possibly kill someone, like in Peal Harbor or the opening scene from Starlancer.

[Red5]

 Is some one making a mod for the marines right now??

[Anaz]

I can try to make them, but what if they were in a squad around a big gun & power source, like it would be a bunch of guys around a kayser with it's own reactor and engine, the gun could be set as a non-rotating turret, and be able to be blown off. That wasn't a very good idea, but I could model little guys with little guns. I can't texture though!

[YodaSean]

Where can I get the Mr. T mod?

[Thorn]

The funniest thing in any sim game that Ive ever seen was in Falcon 4.0. If the pilot of the plane you just shot down bailed out, you can run into him and you hear this little "AHH!!"

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[Setekh]

 

Originally posted by Stryke 9:
Stop playing StarCraft. It's bad for the mind.  

SC 0wnz j00.  

[Red5]

 Does some one have Poser?? or something to make people?? Lets make them and set the tbl explosion sound to that aaaaaaaaaaahhhh

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[Stryke 9]

 

Originally posted by Setekh:
SC 0wnz j00.  

And E2150 owns SC, and I own E2150! In yer face!

And... that's disgusting, dudes.