I would like to see this happen (an entire AirMech Faction by AirMech designers) because I've allways loved transformers and they have been rarely used in RTS until AirMech came out. By the way i encourage PA players to play it because it's a very nice combination of TA/C&C background and units are just awsome. So this leads to a few questions : 1) Is PA engine able to deal with such animated units ? I guess it is since we have pretty nice animations for factories as far as i could see from last livestreams. 2) Do you think AirMech Designers would be ok to work on this with you (apart from business perspectives) 3) Is it something we can reasonably expect considering Uber & Airmech Teams seem to have good relationships ? I of course see this possibly later after PA release. I understand this would probably require lots of stuff (Unit design, balancing) and i would see this as a possible good old days expansion. Now i don't know how many people would be interested in having such kind of faction.
This is only the third time it's come up... Uber is friends with the guys from Airmech, they're both open to things, but it's all up in the air in terms of crossovers.
For sure, I'm sure we'll figure out something cool to do with our friends at Uber at the appropriate time. Maybe once the unit names and designs become final we could add some of them in AirMech. If balanced right (similar to existing units) they could be exclusive to PA players, or if they were available to everyone they could have unique stats to be as close to the actual PA units as possible.
If we're going to have some sort of Airmech/PA crossover, I'd personally like it to have a tiny bit of lore, possibly including some sort of simultaneous dimension gateway machine engineered and activated by both parties at the same time. And, through this small window, the two dimensions exchange a few technologies accidentally. The Airmech universe would get the inner workings of a still functioning commander as a pilot and, after scavenging some airmech wreckage, builds itself a new airmech to house itself.The PA universe would just incorporate the airmech transformation technology into a new commander/units. Possibly some flair for Airmech. But that's just my way of shoe stringing together a crossover.
