Spiderlight

More, more glorious spider units! Will be see this unit one day (as a drone mothership rather than as a riot with a hovering weapon)?

That model, with the green circuit boards, was designed to be a capture spider. Short ranged and with fairly low DPS it would have about the speed of a Venom and burrowing capacity, it would be for capturing stunned enemies.

Early on you can use it to capture enemy cons or mexes if they're undefended though, or use it in combo with an early Venom as a kind of raider force. They would have limited utility vs enemy raiders (Just the Venoms capacity to run away, mostly).

I am also working on a Drone spider. It would have just one drone. It will fill the arty gap in the factory, raining fire down from the hills, but be counterable without having to actually reach it. Funnelweb is OP just because it's OP on stats.

We'll see how the factory goes viability wise with Redback for now though.

That all sounds really neat. I'd rather see capture on the Con purely out of nostalgia for old CA though (and the lack of any "magic" on the Spider con), but either way this new stuff for the Spider factory all looks like great fun.

These units matter for FFA. Carrier is a major antinuke source in any game with even a puddle (Hunters). It's drones don't do that much there but they do matter (Say, killing cloaked units or penetrating raids).

The Funnelweb is still a serious candidate for lategame spam unit in FFA though. So yeah, it would matter if we got back into a regular FFA cycle.

Cant we gain controll of drones? If u could select drones and told tehm to attack somethign it would be nicer, and less buggy as it is now. And just to limit its opness, give drones a range. A ''circle'' in which they have to stay (with center on mother units). They cant be told to live this circle, but if they are forced to do so (by e.g. teleproting mother unit away) they just die.

Afaik non-carrier drones don't land.

Either way, landing has been completely annexed from engine control, so this is flippable.

If a drone spider ever becomes reality, i'd totally love it to be able to "recover" the drone so that it -
1) gets repaired (possibly faster than spawning a new one)
2) becomes untargetable by AA (but also otherwise inactive).

Would be also super cool if it could do that to gnats and blastwings, but that's probably too much and completely useless.

Seems like it would be pretty simple to map the current UI to drone-command.

1) Keep the drone on hold-fire.

2) Give the base-station has a fake artillery weapon.

3) Whatever the base-station's fake weapon is firing upon is fed as an "attack" order to the drone.

4) If the fake weapon is not "firing" on anything? The drone comes home to hide within the base-station.

Then you can use "hold-fire" to withdraw the drone, or attack-ground to send it out scouting, etc.

quote: 2) Give the base-station has a fake artillery weapon.

But this can be abused. In huge games, where u have many units to controll, and u simply put few of them to defend others, to make whole army movement much easier, its realy easy to force enemys units to rush into ur DDMs.

On one side u have Grizzly + 10 ducks which are guarding it. On the other u have DDM + dummy arty with drones. U tell ur dummy to attack grizzly, and in this moment ducks rushes to ''defend'' grizz (and attack drone spawner), however nothing is really attacking it yet (drones need few seconds to come). If ure not watching this part of the front at this moment, u'll get all ur ducks owned.

quote: "laser"

vernoms are obstacles. i already knew that.