Thank you for all of these ideas! Some of them are quite interesting, I can't give my thoughts for every one of them, but here's a select few:
- Pulse/Discharge(s)/Beam Thermal Lasers that take power from the engine overdrive and some variant with little IEM capabilities. Adding some with limited ammo if powerplant can't support long assault
This would be cool and incentivize having a better powerplant, I'll experiment with this idea.
- Plasmathrower (Flamethrower with some pen.)
Cool!
- Plasma Cutter/Lance
This I have actually almost implemented. I have a plasma slash that acts as a close range melee which cuts up enemies, but a "lance" which you could charge with would be a cool upgrade/alternative to it.
IA operated Landmates or Drones Bay
I'm thinking maybe AI controlled crab-bombs that find their way towards enemies might be fun. Perhaps they could be tossed like grenades.
- ECM to counter clocking
ECM / APS systems are planned for acting as a shield, they'll intercept or redirect missiles away when they get close to the player. Tougher enemies will also have that capability.
- Adding Satellites doing Helldiver thing (Orbital Attacks or sending Turrets/Energy Shield/Heal/Ammo) and Air Support
There will be cruise missiles and artillery strikes by using grenades as the target designators.
- Grouped exo-armor ennemies
This would be difficult to do at the small scale of the game, but maybe you'll see a few hardsuits show up in cutscenes. A subtle tribute to Masamune Shirow's Landmates would be nice.
- New Tanks ?
- Area Objectives to destroy like Depot with some Turrets guarding
- More monsters like in Mech Engineer, insectoïdes, worms, mutans...
- AZERTY compatibility and controller Support
Soon!
- Boss, Mini Boss, Invincible Boss mission to avoid
Cool idea, I could see a big organic enemy being one to avoid.
- New Mechs with or without wheels (Bipeds, Tripeds, Quadripeds, Hexapods, Octopods)
Also planned for a long time. Definitely want big walker tanks.
- PVE Coop and PVP Multiplayer ?
I'll need help for this, but maybe. It would be tons of fun.
Thank you again for this big list! There's some cool things I hadn't thought of in there. I'll definitely save this and consider adding some of them.