Hey Dev team,

Another question... Will there be collision damage? One of my favorite moves during the Netmech era was the Death From Above. I was wondering if this will still be possible on your Mod. It was definitely an elite skill.

Will there be different camera angles that we will be able to select like on Mech2?

Dave

I would agree death from above is an elite skill.  One I'm still trying to master on mercs.

Aurora Paradox

I was having some thoughts on this...and actually we can add a component that will cause the mech to take ALOT of damage from sim2 collision on top of it. Problem with this though is that an kamikaze aerospace if its lined up just right can take down almost any mech.

Shouldn't it, though?

Well, then discourage it by making the planes cost a ton of money. I mean, if an aerospace fighter costs big bucks, just using it like a missile isn't going to be worth it. So, make the damage realistic, but make the price of the vehicle high, and it won't be a viable tactic anyway. I'd prefer this because, though kamikaze shouldn't normally be a good tactic, sometimes, like when you're about to die anyway, it actually is logically your best course of action.  I think it would improve gameplay if you could use it in those situations. If you nerf the tactic by reducing the damage, you're no longer able to use it when you should, intuitively, use it (when you're going to go down in a ball of fire anyway). On the other hand, if you leave the damage alone and increase the cost of the fighter, you can still kamikaze in those situations where you actually should, but you can't win a match by doing only suicide runs.

Am I making sense?

Then what are they for?

Agreed. I do like the death from above though. It really isn't that easy at all (taken your target will avoid getting hit by it by all means possible) so if you do manage to finish a complete death from above cycle you should be rewarded by a blowing up 'mech. Well .. downed 'mech anyway since you wont see the reactor going up.

There is a balance involved. Some aerospace, like the Xerxes are slow and stout. They're for harrasing ground targets sweeping VTOLS out of the sky and basically area a close air support vehicle. There are fast fighters such as the Sulla which is more or less an air dominance fighter. It's roll is to sweep the sky mostly though it can take pot shots at ground targets it moves to fast and packs to small of a punch to be potant. There will also be intermediate one which are a mix of those attributes. As for the death from above attack, I can't promise anything, but we'll try. At the moment we're having trouble manipulating such things as they are controlled by a different part of the engine which we don't have code for. I do think we'll come up with something though.