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@waffelzNoob said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
i also think they're a little too "silly" to keep
To BlackYps point, can you elaborate on what you mean by "they're"?
The current tombstones, my designs, the entire concept? Would you prefer the wrecks avenue?
@Caliber said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
Its just a UI feature so people can choose if they want them or not in an in game setting
This is not a UI feature.
Made some quick mockups of faction tombstones. UEF I'm pretty happy with, Aeon might need a few more features, Cybran I think I need to scrap and start over 
No ideas for sera yet but it'd probably some weird floaty stuff.
Tomorrow I'll try to test the ACU wrecks and get some screenshots of those.
I'm just trying to understand what exactly people like or dislike about the feature because we have:
It's not an all or nothing situation where we have to take or leave the whole package
@ZetRoy said in SUGGESTION: AEON T2 Shield Generator Fix:
I do not see any excuses why the shield cannot be upgraded, maybe the developers did not have enough time to add this functionality or forgot.
As far as I remember the current state is "we agree to add it as long as someone makes the upgrade animation."
Nobody has made the upgrade animation.
Do we even need a wreck? There is a large black crater already. Isn't the utility of the feature the map marker and the message?
Could the people that want it as an option (I read that as "yes, but not in my games") please state why? This helps for a productive discussion to better understand what the controversial parts of the feature are
@TheWeakie said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
It could be added as a ranked sim mod
Oh sorry forgot about this one.
I made last year's April Fools stuff into mods. They're very difficult to fill games with because so many people have modded games filtered out. Also I tried to get them ranked but was unable to, that's up to Creative Team.
Some short thoughts and clarifications.
@Razana said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
because it gives that little bit of utility
Would you like more explicit death messages, like "was TMLed by Razana" or keep the more silly current tone?
@Strydxr said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
I'd like for them to be an option
@BlackYps mentioned in Discord that making them a lobby option would make them only appear in custom games. Not necessarily a bad thing just something to keep in mind.
@IndexLibrorum said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
Does it make sense to have a ACU wreck instead of a stone tombstone
Fairly easily done, my concern with ACU wrecks is it might imply to people they have a mass value and they should fight over the reclaim.
@Razana said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
I reckon making tombstones that fit each faction's design language is doable (UEF: Blocky, Cybran: Angular, Aeon: Round/Curved, Seraphim; Asymmetric). It is more work though and I have 0
I considered this when making the initial model/texture but ultimately I waited too long to get started on April Fools stuff and decided to make one Tombstone better instead of 4 (even more) poorly made ones.
@Razana said in Add the Tombstones from the 2025 April Fool's Update as a Permanent Feature:
Do we have ACU wrecks in the game files by default?
Yes, I'd need to check if they exist for every ACU but even if not I'm pretty sure they're just ACU meshes shaded like wrecks.
Oh! You know what would be cool? ACU wrecks that have the ACU kneeling like the GC while building. Doesn't solve the "looks like reclaim" issue but maybe that's less of a problem than I'm making it out to be.
@CM_Nicholas said in Another Novax conversation:
Maybe something could be done about the damage, but if your nerfing damage you have to give it something else, someone mentioned more aoe, but then would that give it shield spill at that point which would arguably be even better than it is now, or then you have to think "oh shit, they can hit two pgens at the same time" which will kill your grid faster, makes targeting engies much more worth, etc, etc...
Shield spill is applied to all damage against a shield, of any kind. The only exception that I can think of is the tech 3 mobile shield buster of Aeon - I'm not sure if that spills.
@CM_Nicholas said in Another Novax conversation:
I think novaxes are relatively fine as they are, Maybe a slight balance change, but you have to remember a novax is 36k mass iirc, 2 of them costing about the same price of a t3 arty +/- 2k mass, but the damage output is nowhere near t3 arty, yeh arty doesn't have the precision of a novax, but a novax doesn't have the damage of an arty, it takes 2-3 artys of novaxes to be able to penetrate anything heavily shielded, and at that point you could have a Game Ender up.
In my point of view, the current 'goal' of a novax is not to bust a shield. It's either to grab all the unprotected but high value targets. Or to assist a Mavor to destroy the shields when they are depleted.
It also highly depends on what map you play. A Novax has little to no value on a map such as Dual Gap. It's much stronger on a map like Seton's Clutch where resources are more scattered.
