Transport Difficulties: More Detail?

The transport in SupCom2 always made more sense to me then the FA ones.

Why deliberately design a transport that can have its cargo killed.

Because ghetto gunships, and surely Chris Taylor's crazy imagination knowing no bounds. SupCom2 was to my mind a much more budget conscious project.

Very true.

From what I remember, it was the code of all that interaction, not so much the animation for it.

Yes, because transports that magikally drop all the units instantly, allow them to fire, and reload and moving to a new location was great!</sarcasm>

For me it was never the aesthetics of the SupCom1/FA transports that I liked, it was the Mechanics that I liked, it wasn't like Starcraftian transports where you could just easily fly them through a base dropping units from them.

Mike

True enough, the landing stuff I got, but shooting off the cargo to me just suggested a bad design for the transport.

The instant nature of it was cheesy.

But I will still hold up that they made transports easier then the FA ones, even....if they screwed the rest of them up.......Grah!

But then, what makes a good transport? The starcraft ones are better by design, they are faster and more responsive, but the FA ones felt better.

So would a mix be better?

Well the original intent as seen in the UEF transports was that they were collapsible so that they would actually....FIT in the factory, especially given that in SupCom the build area in the Factories didn't really get bigger as they were upgraded.

Mike

That is true.

I still don't really like it.

Ok let's put it this way, we aren't getting supcom1 transports because they're much too expensive for Uber to dedicate dev time to. So I would personally prefer the cheaper version that still allows for multi unit transports. Theres no reason a transport with Starcraft aesthetics can't have the mechanics of supcom1 as long as you're willing to forego ghetto gunships. It's simply a matter of adding a delay.

Transports aren't singular units. When a transport's cargo soaks up gunfire, it increases the overall durability of the drop. A higher drop durability dramatically increases the success rate of an ENTIRE attack.

Any weapon that can hit and kill a heavy battle-tank can kill the transport straight up.

Its silly and I don't like the mechanic.

Two hits is still more than one. And if you don't like paper thin armor, the problem is with paper thin armor, not the transport.

All the more reason to not bother trying to armor up your transports in my opinion.

Mike

Fair enough.

Yes. As far as I recall from what the devs said, it's the code to "attach" a unit to another moving unit. They have explicitly said that "magical box transports" are much easier to implement

The problem is that they want to do Supcom style transports. Which do look awesome.

Still disappointed that GPG never implemented the double-decker transports they used in their opening cutscene.