[Corpus] Unit Design

[Kahruvel]

Howdy, folks. The addition of the Elites gives a few new opportunities for unit pools, and I've given them some serious thought since the new introductions. A few lore-friendly suggestions about the infantry, and I'm just going to dive right in.

 

Corpus

 

General

∙ Mixed Loadouts: Allow each unit to have different weapon types. Make weapon type percent chance on unit spawn.

 

Prod Crewman

∙ Remove this unit. Pool the Prova into the Crewman unit's loadout list.

 

Sniper Crewman

∙ Remove this unit. Pool the Lanka into the Elite Crewman unit's loadout list.

 

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Crewman

∙ Mixed Loadout: Dera (Very High), Prova (Low), Spectra (Low).

 

Corpus Elite Crewman

∙ Rename to Corpus Marine. These units are specialized in combat, and should be deployed on alarm status to respond to boarding parties.

∙ Scale XP: 5%-7% more than Crewman, due to shield and better armament.

∙ Mixed Loadout: Flux Rifle (High), Lanka (Low).

 

Corpus Tech

∙ Rescale this unit to match Crewman size so they intermix with squads, to make it easier for them to go overlooked and sneak up on Tenno.

∙ Scale XP: 15% more than Crewman, due to shield, drone, and better armament.

 

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Shockwave Moa

∙ Fire laser cannons while moving to a target. These are currently paper XP piñatas; they should be feared shock troopers.

 

Mine Osprey

∙ If targets are advancing, no difference in functionality.

∙ Launch mine orbs toward targets like a grenade when they are holding position.

∙ These don't need to be too accurate, they just need to force players to make calculated tactical decisions.

 

And that's it. Nothing flashy, nothing too big!

[taiiat]

personally, i don't think the Prova should be a specific unit, it should be a backup weapon for all corpus. those melee guys running towards you are just XP bags. they'll never get to you unless you're blind. they're suicidal and just a waste of enemy count. 

 

marines would have Lankas' most of the time? o.0

i don't even remember how dangerous sniper crewman are frankly, but since i don't remember they're probably not that great. 

i just don't want it to be like crewman with Flux rifles, lol. and touching on those, i don't like their accuracy. it's like 100% all the time. that's... too high. nobody is 100% accurate. and i think i've seen the beams going right through other crewman and hitting me. dafuq?

 

i can understand changing the size of Corpus Techs a bit, but i think they should still be a bit larger than the normal crewman, not the same size, if we resize them at all. 

i mean, Heavy Gunners are pretty obvious units and Bombards / Napalms are a little more subtle, but still larger than their trash mob counterparts.

 

i'm also not sure i see the logic behind having Spectra as a lower tier weapon for Corpus than Dera. frankly, Corpus with Dera aren't all that accurate. they don't hit Tenno even 50% of the time, unless we're camping harder than a boyscout.