As I understand it, there is going to be several factions, with their own lore about who they are, where they come from, and their story, but keeping all the units the same? I mean, visually they will all use the same units, is that right? As good for unit balance this is, I'm wondering if having just very slightly different visually looking units would be a better way to go? Not talking about having some sort of hovercraft as the tank, just having the units look just ever so slightly different, so you can tell those units belong to that particular faction, instead of just by its colour, as we're able to edit the colours anyway, there wont be any other way to determin whos playing with who and at that point, it just sorta becomes pointless in having different lore. Just changing the cannons on the tanks, slightly smaller or larger for example, the AA unit rocket launchers slightly a different shape? just something visually, all be it very small difference so that you feel like your playing a different faction. Not talking about adding any sort of flying sorcerers or anything, just ever-so-slightly different with nothing changing in the units HP's or damage output, speed, so there is no balancing to do....
Art isn't free. Even your 'minor differences' cost a lot of money (relatively speaking) and time that Uber just doesn't have. So, no. You idea is impossible at the current budget and timeframe. Maybe later, but not now and certainly not for December.
One of the biggest money-draining aspects of game development is doing the art. So we probably can't expect visually different looking units and buildings for each faction. But I'm 100% sure that there will be mods post-release that will do just that. Greetings
right ok. Didn't think the tiny changes would be all that much work to be a massive cost and yah i know about the art definitely isn't cheap, and im clearly no artist lol... thought the minor changes would be doable, wasn't expecting that to be done at launch or anything like that, I actually like the idea of ever faction have the same units, was just thinking of ways to distinguish from one-another without compromising anything....
