Nuke Explodes at the Start of Every Match - Galactic War

I Googled and searched the forum but I can't find anything about this, please direct me if there is.

So I haven't played since before the Galactic War patch and i started one several days ago. At the beginning of every match a nuke drops on my commander and explodes while doing no damage. I played like twenty games over the course of the past several days and it happened every time. Is this a freakish new feature or is something crazy going on with my game?

That's the entry animation.

It looks really weird right now but I'm hoping they make a second pass on that so the commander actually falls out of the sky and crash lands every time.

Yeah that does look pretty funky, but hey, I was relying on it to clear all the trees around a tree start so I didn't have to reclaim them just to build Mexes.

It's the work in progress entry animation. It's in the skirmish/multiplayer as well.

The commander needs to not spawn until the explosion and it'll make more sense.

Uber has also stated that the animation isn't finished yet.

That's probably what happens when you teleport an unit without the destination gate: nuke explosion.

Idea: how about teleporting some heavily armed subcommander unit the same way ingame (for some insane energy cost)?
The incoming subcom destroy enemy forces at the landing point and immediately build a gate to bring the invasion army.
It would add a (more "direct")way of invading a planet without needing an astraeus or an orbital fabbers building a gate on target planet.

I'm not sure how they code their games but given that the animation falls from the sky, surely they could just apply the same code to the commander and have him follow the same path, but slightly infront of the explosions animation. Once the commander has reached a certain x, y or z value, then it can enter a game mode phase.

Just a thought.

I hope they replace the sound, too.

We're removing it in the next build because, yeah, it's kinda weird for an initial impression.

You're weird, but we're not removing you.

Finally!! No more heart killing giant boom at the start.

Well it was supposed to be the commander that falls down and makes a huge explosion. Thats what people think that would be awesome.

I like it

Gotcha, I guess the idea is the commander falls out of the sky in a fireball. Just saying, I'm not really sure reentry should cause half a continent to explode, haha. I think the decision to remove it until it gets figured out is a good one. Thanks for the info!

But...trees are annoying :C

BANNED.

What an idiot Even Im smart enough not to insult staff XD

If he didnt like the game, He didnt have to play it XD

(I didn't really ban him. lol.)

BAN THEM ALL!!!!

Ho knows, i was geting yellow lasere all over one time all over the planet, like a ball shooting lasertreads. Like pure yellow lasere...that... was awesome.