[IDEA] For air, orbital and team control improvements. Off-line single player.

I just brought this game last week after watching it eagerly from kickstart and it has lived up to expectations. It is the best game in a long time.

I like this game the way it is at this point of time. However, if more units where added I think air could use a missile bomber that launched guided cruses missiles with about the same range as the stingray(stingray for the air). Carpet bombers would also be nice with large blast radius. Lastly, a radar command plane would be good, acts like a mobile radar. Kinda like a AWACS I guess.

For orbital I think maybe frigates, and other large spaceships but that might be over doing it. I think a anti nuke laser platform would be good though.

For team control of shared units I think a unit should be highlighted with the team members colour so you know he is using it.

An off-line single player option would be good, sometimes I loose connection to the server halfway through a match. Or maybe a save button for single player matches?

A missile bomber with that kinda range would be OP.

We already have carpet bombers. The Hornets carpet bomb.

You should try the radar satellites. They have tremendous radar range.

Star Wars style space combat is a confirmed no. This game is supposed to be about ground warfare.

Highlighting selected units is already the game.

Save buttons and offline play is going to be in the game upon release.

You should check out the FAQ and do a search. Much of what you've talked about has already been covered on the forums before.

Welcome to the forums!

the reason this is currently not possible is because the game is still in a prerelease developmentstate in which all games are played online ... offlineplay, LAN ingamesavingoptions as well as pausing a running game will be possible once the game is released ... i imagine you will be able to pause a running onlinegame with hostset restriction and save your gamestate aswell once the game is ready ...

I think he was talking about highlighting the units that are selected by your team member, not by yourself.
And this, afaik, is not already in the game but could, in deed, be a nice feature. It would probably need a some time coding it as it would require network communication to do that, which also adds a bit more load on the server. Especially as users might change selection very very often.

Also, you should check out the official unit suggestion thread. Loooooots of suggestions over there and I'm sure Uber would love to have your suggestion added to the list.

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/its-time-to-talk-unit-ideas.52165/

I'm pretty sure it is in the game. The selections aren't obvious and I think you have to change a setting.

Why IS this, anyway?
I mean, apart from the inevitable piracy problem it'd cause, are there any other legal reasons/technical limitations?

If you know exactly how to enable it I am interested.
The only setting I am aware about selection is the following :

But it does not highlight the units that a selected by a team member, only my selection.

They already have missiles with those ranges, the stingray and the catapult. I know air becomes limited in later stages of the game, I was just trying to come up with a way to increase its usefulness end game. Maybe not to those ranges but somewhere between the stingray and the vehicle artillery.

And for space, well, they have orbital units already, and it seems very basic. I just thought they could improve on it a bit.

i dont think there are any technical limitations, but the way the game is developed ... so aside from maybe possible initial tecnical issues with saving or pausing onlinegames we might/do not know off the biggest reason would simply be priority i imagine ...

But the things with those ranges are stationary or very slow.

Putting something with that much range on an aircraft would be OP due to the speed and mobility that comes with aircraft.

We're all just beta gamma testers, and the best way to get good feedback is to keep everyone locked into the same version of the game. Releasing the server would cause people to submit bug reports for things that have already been fixed. Online-only also means that Uber doesn't have to look very far for server crash logs.