Zero-K needs amphib vehicles!

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Skasi

9 years ago
(edited 9 years ago)

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What's the barrel of oil on the front for?

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Extra fuel. Submarine very deep.

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It's probably just a double barreled tank.

SEE TOPIC! DISCUSS!

To clarify:
Early versions of CA had amphib vehicles/tanks. Using vehicle pathing means mappers will have an easier time creating borders between different areas than with amphib kbots.

Currently amphibs are only blocked by the steepest of cliffs. Compared to hovers, ships and other kbots they have much more access to different parts of the map. This means amphibs are very hard to balance to be viable on both land and sea without being extremely powerful on mixed maps.

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Sprung

9 years ago

Ramps leading to water on most maps are typically kbot pathable, but not veh, in the underwater part which allows hovers (who don't care about the underwater part) but would not allow amph-veh. Oceanfloor on the other hand is almost universally flat which makes any distinctions void (and rightly so, because it's difficult to see the shape of terrain underwater).

The idea is pretty interesting but maps need to happen first.

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Orfelius

9 years ago

Perhaps there could be one super heavy tanky turtle amphib that can go land only on some maps that have only slight coast slopes.

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banana_Ai

9 years ago

And amphib heavypanks
And amphib sheldbots
And amphib gunships
And amphib amphibs

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Pxtl

9 years ago

Skasi, the amphibs were switched to bots away from being vehicles precisely because there were no maps that had vehicle-pathable shores. BA cheats by giving amphib vehicles bot pathing.

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kaen

9 years ago
(edited 9 years ago)

Scallop/shield walker seems like an amphib tank.

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SnuggleBass

9 years ago

I would love to see a tortoise strider class.

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AutoWar

9 years ago

make dante amphibious! while in water the heatrays get replaced by waterjets, the missiles get replaced by torpedoes!

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mojjj

9 years ago
(edited 9 years ago)

i thought the barrel is for doing a barrel roll. and who knows for sure thats oli?

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[GBC]1v0ry_k1ng

9 years ago

make all units amphibious, just very slow and unable to attack underwater. Water maps = no more tears!

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FFC

9 years ago

K lets give ships wheels too

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Flipstip

9 years ago
(edited 9 years ago)

Yeah and ravens should be able to dive underwater.
Or better: new unit in plane fac: penguin, only plane that cannot fly. It is an ambiphious bot that is silly on land but is very fast in water, has a powerful melee attack.
On that note: why can ducks not fly?

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mojjj

9 years ago

we can remove terrain all together. and movetype. and distance. and the map. and graphics. and computers. just close your eyes and simulate the game in your mind. in a dream. take a nap. there are no limits. people can fly.

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