Naval Transports
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Cool idea, already made in a version of Future Battlefield Pack mod. For a D day battle, adds a lot of options for 4 to 8 units added.
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Naval transports would be good for being tanky (air transports die easily) and having higher capacity. However, I feel like having a purely naval transport would be very hard to load and unload effectively depending on the map. The two transports above are hover or amphibious. I don't think a purely aquatic boat would be easy to load.
put the xbox units in the game pls u_u
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Just build hover and amphibious tanks? While I get that it could be cool it's totally unnecessary.
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@zeldafanboy Three that already exists in Future Battlepack Pack mod are amphibious, and IMHO , they are better suited to fight along to follow the general lines of each race. UEF is a transport warship with tracks. I can suggest that CDRMV put a small mod with these for test.
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Whats the plan for an Aeon transport if any.
Also where are these built? T1 Naval factory? Or T2?
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@zeldafanboy Hi,
First essay models appeared as t2 and t3 mobile sea factories for AEON .
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 UEF T2
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Just why honestly why come up with this idea.
Use air transports or make hover its what they were designed for
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@kalethequick said in Naval Transports:
@in_omnia_paratus said in Naval Transports:
why
Because it's fun.
Which is no excuse for adding them to the base game. Even more when they are by no means necessary.
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It is literally just asking for more bugs
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@in_omnia_paratus
Bugs always are and will part of any modification. If this kind of thinking would prevail, FAF never FAF would exist! -
To be clear, Naval Transports fundamentally do not work with the game code. A transport always pathfinds to the transportee (that a lie not always. If your close units will pathfind to transport) but that means a naval transport ends uo being suoer micro heavy. A Hover/Amphibious transport in theory worm
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@dragun101 Sorry, Ive tested long range landings of Cybran, Sera and UEF without any trouble. I will do again and will send pics.
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…what? The transporter will generally go the transportee. While transports hold positions.
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It still a useless unit.
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@dragun101 I beg your pardon, but Ive tested yesterday the 3 models disponible of t2 naval transports through a complicated patch map and all is ok, without any micro management.
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Can you make it into a mod?
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@veteranashe The mod exist.Its only to talk with the author .
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The Naval Transports, which can be seen on the Screenshots above are part of my Mod: FBP New Techs.
The Mod itself is still in development but it is available on my Github Repository as an Early Access.I already know that Naval Transports are not really supported by the Game itself.
There are a few Issues which makes them a little bit tricky to made.
For Example if you want to unload your Landunits from these Naval Transports.
It can happen that a few Units will be located below the Land / Ground Layer of the Map and will be destroyed. It is not perfect at all, but overall these Naval Transports exist.
Even the Landtransport from Brewlan has this Issue sometimes and is still a really cool useful Unit
But for the Issue itself there is no way to fix this as far as I know.I have several other Concepts in my archives for Naval, Hover or Landunits, which I want to try out in the future.
Maybe these ones will work better in general. But since my main Development Progress is currently focused on FBP Orbital (a new upcoming Space related Mod with Spaceships, Spacestations and more) these Naval Transports are the only ones.Of course Air Transports are very useful in several aspects of the Game.
But even in Real life there are many other Variations of Transports. The main reason why I have add Naval Transports is to add more Variety to the Game.
Basically Air and Naval Transports have thier own Advantages and Disadvantages and are useful on different Situations. The next point was the topic of the addition of Naval Transports into the Game is old and starts after the Release of Supreme Commander. And the last thing is why not it is still the decision of the player to use them or not.
