Updated Commander Spawn Animation in the PTE Build

This is also in the current PTE. Spawned just out of sight of the AI twice so far ;^)

"Let's get 9 people spawning in on the same spot."

My favorite method of testing effects to change the ping effect. It's particularly satisfying to set it to the asteroid smash.

Looks waaaaaaaaay better than when there was just a random explosion. I approve.

Very happy with this! Now all we need is a rocket unit for the orbital factory so that you can move to another planet mid-game with that effect. Like in the original kickstarter video.

Is much funnier to change explosions to various effects. Planet smash for every shot is so tough to look at

Don't keep your god waiting.

Didn't get around to it last night - getting some stuff set up for the charity tournament plus had a phone call from an old friend I've not spoken to in ages which ended up consuming three hours.

Tonight, I promise.

It looks nice!

Just I don't understand the red beam that leaves the surface, but that's a detail.

Also, what falls on the ground looks like a drop pod. Perhaps it will be used for more than that.

A beacon of some sort I'd say.

But does it set fire to trees; the question on everyones mind.

Also it would be nice if it left a large scorch decal on the surface.

Yeah, that's what I thought. A beacon saying, "Commander, land here."

The explosion kills the trees in the explosion radius, but I don't think it sets fire to trees outside of that radius.

Yeah, a scorch decal would be awesome. Like, a really big black one. Bigger than anything else other than the Halley. Maybe even a small crater would be awesome.

So something is on the surface, already? What is that? An explorer? A probe?

Auto commander selection is great! Now my only wish is that you can start queuing up build commands while waiting for others to select/commander to drop in.

Eh. That could give an unfair advantage for people with faster load times.

No one should be able to do anything until after the countdown ends.

Thanks for thinking of me Brian!

A better UI feature should not be dismissed because of fear of performance differences creating an edge, otherwise we should lock the framerate at 5 to ensure good computers with high framerates never have an advantage.

This isn't a UI feature. This is letting some people start playing the game before the match starts.

Everyone should start the game at the same time.

I guess that's where we disagree. It's a UI feature as all it lets you do is queue commands, it doesn't start actions any earlier.

It's an unfair advantage based solely on the wildly varying internet connection a player may have.