If PA is a spiritual successor to TA....

Are there plans to make 2 commanders inspired by the Total Annihilation Arm and Core Commanders?

I think those would be da boooomb!

Probably some of the most top selling commanders probably XD

TA Units have already been converted. It is difficult getting them to port in-game, but technically theoretically possible.

Someone already fed all the TA units through some plugs, they oneday hope to get a working TA PA port, complete with factions and commanders.

Who knows how orbital would work, maybe they can whip up some cannonically sound yet legacy units.

I was more thinking along the lines of a pair of Uber designed commanders that were inspired by the Arm and Core Commanders.

TA doesn't belong to uber so there's probably a whole bunch of legal reasons this can't be done by them. But what if a mod would do something like this? ...


https://forums.uberent.com/threads/wip-total-automated-annihilation.48319/

Inspired by, not copy-pasted.

I can imagine it now. Grab the new Kaw and Aam Commanders from the Uber store!

i rather thought about the GIST and the LEG ...

Or the HAND(Arm) and HEART (Core) Commanders XD

Now...I wonder who was silly enough to vote no? O-o

Remember there are quite a few players here who joined the Genre with SupCom, and even some to who's PA is their first entrant into this type of RTS.

To the uninitiated TA at first glance looks old and so it's assumed not worth playing (I had this when trying to persuade some friends at Uni to play it, "uh that looks old and **** lets play a 'good game' instead").

TA was a fantastic game, due to it's at the time revolutionary mechanics and depth through subtlety (although personally I prefer TA:Spring Balanced Annihilation as TA in it's 'best' form as that greatly improves the UI compared to vanilla TA). The unit models themselves though are really dated compared to SupCom and PA, I still love them, but I think that's more nostalgia of when I first played TA back in the 90's and was just bowled over by it!

To truly appreciate a TA commander in PA, we'd need to get all of it's special abilities back as well (so needs adding capture, the D-Gun and most importantly Cloak). The D-Gun could probably be implemented as a special revision to the Uber cannon, however Capture and Cloak aren't currently available options in the game so are going to be more difficult to implement.

Why would TA INSPIRED commanders need their own set of abilities to? Doesnt make sense to me....

I was thinking not "Oh Look, they made their own TA Commanders", More like "Hey, That looks similar to those TA Commanders! Talk about the good memories!"

Yeah true, tbh I'd like to have PA commanders than can capture and cloak, TA inspired or otherwise

That would be nice, but I think it might be safe to say that people would be obsessed with buying PA versions of the Arm and Core inspired commanders XD

if the commanders don't get Unseen like many Battlemechs from Battletech...

YES, would be very cool

pff, I can see Battlemechs being in a mod, but not as actual commanders XD

wow, 26 votes and climbing :O I hope you see this Uber >-<

EDIT 1: 30 votes :O That could be 30 potential customers, so far, for 2 different commanders.

Helllloooooo XD

I mean if they don't get some law problem, is ok!

Well, They dont own the rights to battletech at all, so there would be problems...

Still...I do hope Uber makes a pair of TA inspired commanders <3

I know I would get the arm one. I love the arm :3

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Id get both, just to remind me of the good times I have with TA <3

Did the poll really get 5 'No's? Who would say no to such neat commanders? O-o

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