bring back the D-gun

for those unfamiliar with the term...

back in the days of total annihilation, and it's hard core contingency... core contingency...

the ACU's had a special offensive ability with no real name to it's function other than pressing the D button, and spewing out a mass of your economy's energy reserve, and destroying any units in it's path.

with how true this has been to the old days, i thought that this may be a good suggestion for the new game.

whenever hotkeys really get firmly planted into the game as per unit usage, and what-not, i would REALLY love to see this offensively effective ability return

Its called the Uber Cannon now I think. But it is a confirmed feature and has been for a while.

Careful, you're mixing your Terms.

Ta had Commanders armed with the powerful D-Gun.

Supreme Commander had Armored Command Units equipped with Overcharge.

Planetary Annihilation will have Commanders armed with the ubiquitous Uber-Cannon.

Mike

He wants the "D"

But srsly they will get the über-cannons

Yes, a resounding YES, please do so!

Another fond memory I have of TA is using my ARM commander's D-gun to fend off a core assault by my brother.

He had let loose an army of Kbots and Cans against my position. With his artillery pieces shelling my base and destroying my missile tower forest, I moved my commander into position to deal with his expected assault. My commander's D-gun fired off numerous bolts into the ranks of the invaders, disintegrating whole platoons in a blink of an eye.

In the end, my commander had to retreat with a sliver of health left. But before doing so, he managed to kill 80+ enemy combatants.

Great times.

I hope Uber and PA can recreate that same TA emotional experience that has lasted with me even to this day.

isn´t the ubercannon already in there..sort of?
or is the current firingweapon supposed to be weakened later?

god damn, i was waiting for someone to make the joke of me wanting the "D" :lol:

and i thought i had heard about the news on the ubercannon, but i mean something more true to the D-gun itself.

i remember once upon a time getting a strong energy economy, and just having a commander solo run through a base rapidly hot-keying that weapon over and over and OVER again.

i killed my dad a few times like that. lol

seriously though, this game is bringing tons of childhood memories back.
just need this, and a krogath, and i'm done.

For all we know it still functions the same, nothing is set in stone yet.

Mike

Krogoth! Those were the days....

From the TA wiki:

Dealing with the Krogoth

Spiders are able to paralyze Krogoths, but getting near to one without getting destroyed is a challenge in itself.

A more reliable (but risky) tactic is to get a cloaked Commander near enough to a Krogoth and then D-Gun it - as the D-Gun deals the most damage in the game (and exceeds all health values of OTA units), it will instantly destroy the Krogoth at hand.

yeah im in for the D-gun from TA that rips through units like a lawm mower

It already in the game, it's called ubercharge and is activated by clicking the attack command in the command bar and then selecting the target of the attack. I immagine that later during the beta it will get it's own button.

You don't even have to click on attack in the command bar. You just have to right click on an enemy.

But I want this effect:

D-gunshot: ----##################unit####unit#####unit####unit######unit#######

In TA you could destroy 10 units with a single D-gunshot. That was amazing! It felt so good.....

No one said the Uber Cannon was finished and locked in. Also keep in mind with the number of commanders Uber wants to do there is the potential for having more than one type of Uber Cannon.

Mike