5 NEW UNITS and NEW REPLAY FEATURES Incoming! Mechabellum Creator Interview Reaction 

Like a big melee unit? We already have the rhino

@@SIMULACRA37 true it probably won't happen :) would just be a cool nudge towards Bearlike

@@Defaign Mechanical bear could be another type of an artilery

Would be awesome to maybe see skins go that way. Replace the Rhino with a bear looking unit...would maybe create some issues around recognizing enemy units though

Maybe a tech on the War Factory where it just starts LAUNCHING bears like cannon balls, then they deploy like Droidika upon landing 😂

Welp, I think they can address the issue by adding a fang tech, that's exclusive as an option between scorch/ grenade launchers? Meaning, you can go HP burn.... or just aoe... but not both. They don't have to add new units, when they can solve the issue by slightly adding/ altering an existing unit, that would imo be improved with additional viability. If Fangs get GL's, then crawlers should be able to jump like ticks irl.... boom, chaff balanced (jk, though it would be funny seeing underground crawlers surfacing and yeeting themselves). If you pair that with Acid crawlers (idk if still in game, i havent seen anyone use it in ages), you have these suicide saboteurs. Ah, though, for fairness, I would suggest that jumping crawlers should be targetable by units and missile intercept. Mechabellum has a lot of potential for growth, and not all of it requires adding new niche units. A repair retrofit for the wraith, for example. Take away its guns, and give it healing rays that heal x% hp per unit. The weapon count upgrade would then make the wraith heal more units simultaneously. At the same time, they could introduce something like "heal block", making it so that, idk, scorch for example negates any active healing, but in return, does no added damage against units being actively healed. A Sabertooth with a "command module" or something, that works as the opposite of the wraith degen beam, but only applies to chaff units on your side... There are options... many and always. I'm not opposed to adding new units, though I would like some uniqueness/ quirks. A unit that patrols a certain area/ distance, but is insanely tanky/ has high damage, and has a count limit of 1? For example something like a lvl 5 fortress that can be upgraded into a "Defender" variant, reducing its speed, making it patrol a specified route (via beacons), which are visible to you and your oponent. You can obviously change it, but the Defender only patrols between the beacons/ waypoints, and can not attack buildings. Naturally, it would have a weakness, be it vs. air, or getting melted from long range. This isn't exactly adding a new unit, as much as it is changing an existing unit on the battlefield into a new one... think of it as a "Heroic" tech that could be applied/ selected as a specialization on a unit. There should be restrictions/ prerequisite techs required for certain Heroic Techs in this case, although, that would limit builds, so I'd say a max of 2 required techs. *Sorry for the essay, I was having a blast in my head thinking of possibilities.

@@jasonrouse8215 Making grenade launchers a Fang tech means they couldn't make new techs FOR the grenade launchers (for instance, Cluster Munitions: +splash radius, -damage). The healing Wraith has an inverse problem to the Assault Mode Marksman in that it would be so useful that no one would bother using Wraiths for any other purpose because having a floating artillery platform isn't worth NOT having a multi-targeting healbot. Also, having a unit switch from targeting enemies to targeting allies would probably make a mess of the unit AI The heroic unit idea would be neat, but it would probably be really hard to implement as the game is now. The closest thing we have is item cards (laser sights and stuff), which is an entirely different system from what you're talking about and not something easily retooled. However the command module thing would fit quite nicely as an item you can equip to a single Giant unit If we're talking about interesting new tech options for existing units, here's one: Stormcaller Advanced Targeting; instead of bombarding the general neighborhood of a target, the missiles now lock on to individual targets, ground or air, and track them much more precisely, however they now have a significantly reduced splash radius (or just lose splash altogether). much less useful against large blobs of slow units, but it can now hit faster moving targets that would have moved on by the time a normal barrage would have landed, and they can double as SAM batteries. Main issue would be getting the air targeting to play nice with the already-present incendiary ammo tech

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Bahaha, I LOVE option 3. That absolutey must be a thing 😂

Welcome to the club man 😅Mecha is the RTS retirement home (in the best way possible ofc)

arclight is bipedal as well.

I remember posting somewhere an idea where crawlers turn themselves into suicide missiles to attack air units.

Would be fun to have them be mines. Upgrade that plants them in the ground, explodes on ground or air unit contact. They instantly bury if you don't give them a movement order, otherwise they bury at the end of the order

@@MrProthall That's interesting...turning crawlers into defensive units. What a fascinating idea.

me and a friend actually had the idea for a crawler tech where they would jump up and attach themselves to air units, pulling them down to the gorund when enough crawlers had attached themselves to them so any land attack unit could kill it.

The hover mode should make it immune to terrain effects like fire and oil, but not actually give it the flying keyword, so they are still ground units.

@@singularleaf3895 maybe... Could be.... I could see that with testing from the devs of course lol

I see your point, but as its mechabellum, it wouldn't be as overpowered as your making it out. if you're running a fly tech on units, you are doing 2 things. First, you're telling your opponent to build stuff thst can hit air as your chaff clear. I.e, mustangs with explosive ammo, arclights with AA, sandworms with AA if you're insane, wraiths, or maybe mech range fangs. Sure, if you build fire badger stormcaller as you AoE, fly eould counter it, but you can see the opponent's tech, so just don't. And, you're mentioning that in magic flying units can't be blocked. In mechabellum, flying units Can't block. So if someone has a load of units with a "fly" tech, grab mobile beacon, grab Rhinos, and if they hit the fly button you hit the tower rush button, letting the rest of your units clear up there tower debuffed flying units. Would the tech be balanced? No idea. But it'd be nowhere near as bad as you're making out, so long as the players are anyway competent.

I'm not understanding how it's different from missile interceptor. You hit that button it invalidates all of their missiles and every unit that fires them. Same thing emp vs techs in general.

@@Chromodar often you can distil a game into its base elements. A new tech might try to look different but functionally works similarly as the base game as developed. If that keeps people interested in a game and allows players to reengage with the devs; then its tech worth having (until its pay to win). I’m all for having the developers work on new content and for the community to like. For there are far grosser and lazier ways developers use to ‘make money’.

Alot of players do actually like drops. I for one am one of the ones who thinks it's pretty interesting. Sometimes you just sell the unit, sure, sometimes it gives your opponent the exact thing they need, but often it just adds an X factor to make you think. Alot of people forget that you know exactly what four options your opponent gets, so if one counters your build, you know which one they'll get and can preempt it. Even if you get something else, you've closed that hole.