TA2 Wish List

[hissrad]

Maybe a way to customize your captain, like armor color? Not a big deal but it would be cool

[fallen]

TA2 absolutely!

[hissrad]

Will TA2 have an avatar for the captain? Or will they be helmeted?

[fallen]

Avatars.

[mataeus]

Mar 9, 2015 13:49:43 GMT -5 Bobsoup (not logged in) said:

Yeah! Finally version 2 of the game that got me started with TB (and still my fave).



For me, if not too late to suggest, my #1 request would be variety in mission types.

Not just kill x Xeno, make it to extraction and survive x turns.

How about: NPC that you have to escort across a map (keeping them alive).

Rescues? Another NPC type level... you have to rescue a trapped scientist investigating the Xeno and escort him back to extraction zone keeping him alive.


Assassinations. You have to kill a specific enemy and escape.

All great ideas, except for escort. No one likes escort missions, do they? They're fine in CK, as - unless you get into a fight - it's pretty much just like any other mission. But when you're dragging someone around a map trying to protect them, it's horrible!

[slayernz]

Oh oh oh oh OH .... some of my old thoughts percolating through my tiny brain
* Doors that open AND close. You need to be able to seal doors after you from time to time
- Different grade doors would be good. Some weaker ones Xenos can get through in x turns
- Door control switches that may be away from the door itself. So you could press a switch and unwittingly let 20 Xenos out of a chamber
- Strengthen door if you use a whole turn reinforcing it (think Aliens with their plasma torches, welding the door closed)

* Hunker-down bonuses where if you stay in one spot for a whole turn, you get an attack and defense bonus. This bonus stacks as you stay in one spot for longer

* Ability to sprint (go further than your normal AP). You have to do a "save" on each of the extra 1 or 2 squares, and if you fail, you take 1 point of damage due to injury
- Also sprinting reduces your ability to attack and defend. Maybe have up to 2 squares of sprint. 1 square reduces attack/defense, 2 squares means you can't attack at all, and your defense is penalized even more

* Proximity mines

* Sentry guns

* Sharp Sticks

* Decoys - you place these down, and after x turns, it begins to draw Xenos to it as though it were a nice juicy colonist

* ooooooooo just thought of one ... EVA or Zero G levels

* Ability for Neptune to move again after fire (based on a Tactics roll)

* Ability for Hydra to shoot less than 4 squares and NOT have splash damage ... OR have the damage roll forward to the full 4 squares distance more like a flamethrower rather than an incendiary grenade launch.

* Much better use of Tactics skill - ie, make it valuable because right now it's not.

* Xenos that don't just get drawn to you - but rather, can stay in certain areas protecting or attacking a particular object
- this would make for great mission options where you have to rescue or defend things - imagine having to get to an Airlock on the other side of the map because Xenos are hell-bent on destroying it, venting the air and killing the Civi's ...

* Specialization ala HoS characters. Have a bunch of skills, and you choose to allocate skills points to the abilities you want to specialize in ...
- Sniper = increased range
- Scout = extra square movement bonus
- Stealth = reduce your ability for Xenos to find you

* BRANCHING CAMPAIGNS
- You have choices in your missions, and those choices reflect in subsequent missions within the campaign.

More mission types
* Escorts are cool missions mataeus ... you have to love the challenge of keeping someone alive - eg an engineer that needs to get to a power conduit, or a civi that you find in a state room that you have to get to the awaiting shuttle
* Defend a weak point
* Last Stand
* Search for something/someone
*

NPCs
* Other squads that you might come across that will help out, but not necessarily be controllable by you
* People to rescue
* People you have to kill because they are doing something really really bad
* Scientists/Specialists that you have to protect while they do some critical thing
* Cats. everyone needs Cats. Like in Alien, Jones was awesome!

[fallen]

slayernz - great list of suggestions. I am glad to say we are planning to deliver on a lot of these suggestions

[slayernz]

Cool ... I hope the sharp sticks are there. Everyone needs sharp sticks

... and you know I've bought the game even though it hasn't released. My future-self is playing it and making me miss report deadlines. Stupid monthly reports. Why don't they make monthly reports due once a year.

[bsoup]

Mar 9, 2015 15:59:34 GMT -5 mataeus said:

All great ideas, except for escort. No one likes escort missions, do they? They're fine in CK, as - unless you get into a fight - it's pretty much just like any other mission. But when you're dragging someone around a map trying to protect them, it's horrible!

I like escort missions. On games like xcom and syndicate they were some of the best missions!

It gives a different layer of strategy.


Another mission type I'd like to see.

Rebel Templars (or perhaps an evil Templar-like enemy). A powerful enemy with similar tech to your own. Give them their own special colour to differentiate them.

That might work for assassination levels (because you can't fight too many templar and survive). Get in. Kill rebel leader/heretic. Get out.

[bsoup]

Slayenz, your cat idea is crucial. With cats this will be game of the year. Without them, merely a really great game.

[bobsoup]

Here's another idea.

Temporary team members. For certain missions you get a "guest star".

Perhaps a Templar with extra good stats in an early mission.

Going along with my "rebel templar" suggestion... an example mission could be:


Templar X could guess star in one campaign. He has gone undercover and discovered a rebel Templars group in a base beneath a moon.

He guides you through some xeno infested caves to the rebel base on the bottom layer.

(If he dies mission over... his biometrics needed to pass security).


Once you get to bottom level he comes clean and admits he isn't undercover, he is a rebel himself and tries to convert you. It then becomes an assassination mission. You have to kill X and the rebel leader and escape.

In the meantime streams of rebel trainees are attacking you making your escape difficult.





Or another campaign where a scholar has been kidnapped. You have to break in, rescue him and escape back to your spaceship.


... just things like that, where you have temporary squad members who are vital just to that story, you don't get to keep them.

(Although sometimes perhaps the reward is you get to keep them for completing campaign).

It would be great if the "guest stars" had special class/ability/weapons that you couldn't get any other way. Making them special.

[bobsoup]

Oh... and someone mentioned random levels.

I love this idea because there is only so much content you can produce.

I stopped playing TA after completing every level several times.

Random levels would have meant I could have kept on playing indefinitely.

Doesn't have to be completely random... it could be predefined "chunks" which connect at consistent locations. Then you could predesign a dozen or so chunks and randomly pick which chunks get put on a map.

From a dozen chunks randomly joined together with 5 or 6 other random chunks the average user would probably never See two identical maps twice.

Or instead of random maps... another way to extend longevity of game:

Another idea. A way to allow users to create and upload their own campaigns. (Let other users rank them too).

If you could do this the game would never run out. I'm sure given time, users could create hundreds of maps.

[fallen]

Great suggestions, thanks to all for sharing!

bobsoup - you'll definitely be encountering story characters who join you for certain levels and you get to control. Escort missions are on the table. Cats are on the table

[ntsheep]

Harsh language, plus cats

[bobsoup]

Mar 10, 2015 13:02:13 GMT -5 ntsheep said:

Harsh language, plus cats

As long as the harsh language isn't directed at the cats.