Why is there no way for crabs to evade transports -.-

Crab pathfinding is already broken beyond usability and transports just make fun of it.

I don't think it's strictly bad that you can transport armored crabs. It is annoying that crab has no chance to react since it takes 5 seconds to start moving.

Curl/Fortify d-gun sounds fine to me.

I don't know about "pathfinding" but general behaviour on attack walk with curling and other factors have always made the unit ultra jank.

I think a D-gun is a good idea, and would go as far as to say that a "fix" for halberd's abuseability could just be a shorter duration form of armor. Agree to slightly higher base HP pools for the tradeoff.

quote: Curl/Fortify d-gun sounds fine to me.

Deploy.

Now i want the Rover fac to be able to become a huge rover and move places :P

I don't think there's much that can be done to fix it pathfinder wise. It taking multiple seconds to start moving due to a hard to see animation (uncurl), combined with hill pathfinding being bad due to the 2D pathfinder resolution leads to bad results on its own. I.e. on a steep hill, you can give a crab a command to move up a fair bit, but it will not count as a move command since the new order is still on the same 8x8 elmo grid position as the crab is currently on. Due to the uncurl time, it's not clear whether the move order was valid or not.

Forget about moving rover factory, it's time for jumping jumpbot factory :P

quote: Apparently the pick-up command forces the crab to "cooperate" and cancel its uncurl animation.

I doubt this, but will have a look. Crab could also have shorter uncurl, but the geometry of the model makes it a bit hard to make this too short.