Thoughts on the new commander(s)?

Though im still having a lot of issues with my graphics card (need to contact support as no matter what anyone suggests either here or on another forum something always doesnt download) I was able to get mid way through a couple games and I noticed that when I clicked to switch my commander over to the new raptor there also seems to be a four legged one as well.
I dont know how long that one has been there but im in love with it, new favorite for sure.
I played with the raptor one as well and its cool but I dont quite like how it still kind of hops around like a bunny. I find it harder to take it seriously as it merrily prances around the planet.

what do you guys think of the new raptor commander? Hoping for anymore to be added? Does anyone know what the 4 legged one is called?

personally im hoping for new units soon, I know they said they'll come but im getting a tiny bit concerned since the 'due date' is slowly coming and theres so much left

I like the new commanders.

I was expecting the commanders to be mostly the same, just look a little different – like the first two commanders.

But now we've got a chicken leg commander and a four legged commander. I like it.

My favorite commander is still the Delta Commander though.

The real test in that regard will be once they release more commanders using the Chicken and Spider skeletons. It's one thing for 2 commanders using different skeletons to look different, but as we've seen with the Alpha/Delta it's not that great when they are both using the same skeleton.

Mike

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I don't know, although I agree with you that the concept for the alpha was far better than the finished product, I do think they've done a good job of making them highly distinctive and easily recogniseable at a glance.
I see great scope for very distinctive comms even with only the 4 current chassi (plural of chassis?), and we know at least 1 more is coming. Especially if the whole 'torso' part of the quadraped comm is easily modifiable.

chassis singular, chassis plural

*sigh*
I expected as much.
Chassi's more fun though so I'm going to stick with it

I kind of miss the Cybran commander is it just me or do the pa comms look alot less detailed compared to supcom? Hoping they get alot more detailed in retail

That's just the thing, its not, so far as we know you have to use the rig exactly as it is, sure you can do some funky things with the mesh itself but you're still rather limited. I've talked about it a lot in the Alpha Commander Thread in the Backers Lounge.

Not by much, the UEF ACU with ALL the hidden enhancement/upgrade stuff is 3400 Tris(3020 without upgrades), off hand I think I recall the Alpha/Delta being in or around 3000 tris, a lot of the 'detail' on the ACUs came from the Textures.

Mike

That's the same with most games tbh. The more detail you can get away with in the textures as opposed to the actual polygonal model itself, the easier on performance it is.

I hope that all the different commanders will actually have different bonus's/advantages between them, if their all the time it just becomes cosmetic, I'd like them to have different abilities to mix it up. On the note of commanders, I hope we'll be able to manually change the colours for them, cept just clicking to cycle through a pred-determined set of colours for the commanders, if i wanted a yellow strip with an orange colour, I'd like to be able to do that heh////

I think all the commanders are going to be the same just look different..I remember uber mentioned their will be a pool of 4 different abilities that's it.

I'd like the alpha commanders shoulder pads to go up at least..

wait:
AT-ST like Command(Raptor)
The Classic Command(Delta/Alpha)
4-Legs Command
...
what is the another variant?

Hover commander lol

Ultra high mobility/sniper
Spider
Hover
Tank
Flying (would be craaaazy!)

Why are people talking about special abilities? All commanders will be the same – they'll just look different.

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Mike

Hm. That's new. Originally they said they'd only be visual changes. I like this new direction.

Ultimately though, people will find which ever commander is best and only use it.

I just asked about the Com chassis, they start to talk about ability.