"Bionic Augmentation Commander Of Networking" ... WTF ?

I have just played a very boring galactic war game:

I started with the recently achieved "Bionic Augmentation Commander Of Networking" loadout. I did not know its exact specs. I jumped into the "action" ... just to find the enemy commander and myself in a two planet system. I was on one planet. He was one the other.

And I did not have a possibilty to build a orbital launcher because I could not build any fabber. So I had to wait until the enemy commander decided to build a teleporter for his troops which I could use with my commander. Because the AI was somehow thinking it should play on very easy difficulty, it took ages for my opponent to build that teleporter.

TLDR; Some loadouts needs a little revision.

Pretty sure the BACON commander is supposed to be a bit of a joke.

try not to assault a system with 2+ planets ^^ the loadout is all about how you use your commander and proxy defensive laser towers

I'm waiting for the Experimental Giant Geosynchronous Satellite in GW now too.

Really? Its easily the most broken loadout as far as I'm concerned. Start on a epic or uber galaxy and you can fix that loadout problem with ease. And if you say, find the commander combat upgrade, you become a death machine that can walk around almost any world in under 10-15 seconds.

BACON puts all of your eggs in one basket (hmm, Egs and Bacon).
It is applied conversation of Ninjutsu.

And as usual you need to focus on the free planets and single-planet systems first to fix the weakpoints. The same thing you do with every other loadout.

We used to spam the dev Twitch chats with demands for bacon commanders, so they delivered.

So you hit them with canned Pork Meat untill they gave you Cured Pork Meat?

I thought the system you played on was random?

You get a clear preview of how many planets are in the system. Once you figure it out you can even see that one will be a gas giant or it will be "spawnable planet with non-spawn moon". There is a very discrete number of system layouts. The faction leader systems are totally fixed.

Edit: You can also quit the game via Alt+F4 to have anotehr go at the starting planet lottery.

In the case someone wants to fix this specific loadout: Here is my way of fixing the BACON commander.

I have added the ability to build the orbital launcher and the small radar to the commander's build options.
File:

gwc_start_combatcdr.js​

Folder:

c:\_Games\Steam\SteamApps\common\Planetary Annihilation\media\ui\main\game\galactic_war\cards\​

Code:

                    _.forEach(weaps, modWeap);
//-------------------------
// Begin of edit
                    var units = [
                        '/pa/units/land/radar/radar.json',
                        '/pa/units/orbital/orbital_launcher/orbital_launcher.json'
                    ];
                    var mods = [];
                    var modUnit = function (unit) {
                        mods.push({
                            file: unit,
                            path: 'unit_types',
                            op: 'push',
                            value: 'UNITTYPE_CmdBuild',
                        });
                    };
                    _.forEach(units, modUnit);

// End of edit
//-------------------------
                    inventory.addMods(mods);

You only have to find "inventory.addMods(mods);" and than this section (without the first and the last line) needs to be added above it.

That kills the challenge though

Have you read my opening post ?
"[...]to find the enemy commander and myself in a two planet system. I was on one planet. He was one the other. And I did not have a possibilty to build a orbital launcher because I could not build any fabber.[...]"

What kind of challenge is it to wait a long time before the opponent AI thinks about building a teleporter? By the way, the "Artillery Commander", a similar loadout, has the ability to build the orbital launcher and the radar ... next to his defence constructing options. But I guess an orbital launcher or a radar are not called artillery tech, are they?

My tip is: Uber simply forgot to add the launcher to the BACON.

Nope, the BACON commander is just supposed to be a joke. An inside joke, really.

LOL The BACON commander is completely OP. i edited mine to have 100 upgrade slots. in my Uber galactic war, he got so many personal upgrades that he became unplayable.... something happens when he gets too many speed upgrades... you tell him to go somewhere... and he just runs around in circles clipping through everything. its like he has so much momentum that he cant stop.

Im working (failing) on making a 1 man army commander (cross between artillery and bacon) that can build any building but no units other then a Astrus and a T1 orbital radar. i want him to have the build power of 10 t2 fabbers with a 50-75% cost reduction on all structures, all while having the personal buffs of the current bacon.

i think i figured out how to make him build everything, but im having a hard time also buffing him. i am not a programmer, so the Javascript is not easy for me.

i think it would be rather fun taking on several absurd ai with such a commander, you'd be outnumbered n to 1 but i bet i could still win.

I did read your opening post, contrary to your obvious assumption. & no, they didn't forget.

I had the armor, damage and speed upgrades on my bacon commander, and I had built up a 6 slot databank so I could get around at will. I took to just walking him through enemy bases, and since he had something like 400% health, he completely ignored commander explosions.

yea lol its pretty funny, if you rush the ai they don't stand a chance.

This loadout is wierdly balanced and underpowered yet overpowered.

So is the Zolton Cruiser Type B in Faster Than Light. No shield system but start with a Zolton Shield? That means you have 5 shots, then your pretty much insta-dead. You have to rely on finishing any engagement while taking less than 5 shots. Ridiculous.